The Incredible Inventions of Nikola Tesla: Great Minds of Science

Introducing Nikola Tesla: A Great Mind of Science. In this episode of SciShow, Hank brings us the tale of the bizarre and eccentric genius who spent his life contributing in some way to pretty much every cool invention you can think of. Nikola Tesla spoke eight languages and, at the time of his death, held over 700 patents. He also is being investigated by the US government for claiming to have invented a 60 million volt death ray. Learn all about his wild achievements in this new episode of SciShow!

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[QuantumBraced]

It's amazing how little Tesla is recognized for his enormous contributions.

[pstudios]

Not giving Tesla unlimited money and resources was the single worst mistake of the modern era.

[dpeters]

anyone else wants to see a movie about Tesla

[Altorin]

so basically tony stark without the billions?

[sirisemirisirisa]

Tesla: I can give you free energy
USA: free hahahaha free hahahaha

[andreasmith]

When Einstein was asked "What is it like to be the smartest man in the world?" He replied "I don't know, I've never met Tesla."

[ZoggFromBetelgeuse]

What, Tesla reported receiving messages from extraterrestrials? I told him explicitly not to speak about our correspondence. But I guess he couldn't help bragging about, even if he knew that Earthlings would make fun of him.

[fruitnori]

I have a feeling that Tesla wasn't crazy and could have made the death beam if given enough funding. 

[furicuri]

Tesla coils are awesome. Great to defend your base with it.

[Elfos]

It's a shame what happened to the guy, he could have accomplished so much more with his life. His story is both inspirational and tragic. When I hear stories like this and stories of how close many widely regarded masterpieces were to not being published, it makes me wonder how many other geniuses there are out there that never got the recognition they deserved, and how their potential accomplishments were held back. 

[theone]

Nikola Tesla was born in Austrian-Hungarya...today that part of land is Coratia..but that doesn't make him a Croat...he was a Serb

[Nathan_Bunga]

I am building Tesla's death ray right now.

[mariacargille]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for doing an episode on Nikola Tesla! I only heard Tesla's name for the first time about a year ago. He sounded interesting, so I did some research that shocked me beyond words. How could I never have heard of someone so amazing, whose inventions I used every single day? Since then, I've been trying to tell my school about Tesla. Three projects across various subjects, an extra credit poster, and a five page paper about Tesla later, my friends know a bit about him. The Forgotten Genius is not so forgotten any more; he is being rediscovered by the very world he helped shape.
Several Tesla Quotes:
"I don't care that they stole my idea. I care that they don't have any of their own."
"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present if theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine." 
"I will not be known by today, but one day men will look back and say I gave power to the modern world."
Also, to give you an idea of how smart Tesla was, look at this:
Einstein was once asked how it felt to be the smartest man alive. His reply was, "I don't know, you'll have to ask Nikola Tesla."  

[guy]

He was not crazy he was beyond our understanding. He knew and saw things that we could never comprehend.

[syindacite]

A man who gave so much, and a proud serbian!

[uncleanunicorn]

Him and Einstein should have gotten together.

[beempboomp]

I'd give anything to go back in time and say "your work didn't go unapreciated, you kind of changed the world man"

[petergambier]

Also, an interesting fact about Tesla was that he actually had a dream when he was 17
in Serbia that he would one day harness the power of Niagra falls to power an exhibition.
This came true when he used the power for the worlds first electricity expo show, and just
before the show, for which he won the contract, the Edison company, the makers of the
lightbulbs he was going to use, refused to let him use their bulbs, so he had to invent
his own, he did just in time and the show went on to be a roaring success.

[MoiraMcGill]

Failed to mentioned how he was raided by the government several times and they're who caused the fire. All to stop him from supplying free energy to the world (and for several other reasons I'm sure, it's how genius is treated and it's sad).
He also came up with the idea of manipulating weather via frequencies. Government then earnestly began trying to do the same, but in much more harmful ways that ended up lowering overal ozone by 4%.

[bakintoast]

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