Wow that was most interesting. I really did not know about this man...and now I do I feel anger for his unnecessary struggles. Yet inspired by how much one man can do when he follows his passion. Nikola Tesla, Thank you.

Yeah, very interesting man, definitely way before his time.


Find more on him:



Wikipedia - Tesla



Mahalo - Tesla

I disagree that he is not well known. I think most educated people at least know of him as they would know of any important inventor. . . but i agree that he did great things for human-kind and suffered alot of undue B.S. as the hands of the evil miser J.P Morgan

When people ask me, "Who are my Hero's?" Tesla is always top of my list! I have known about Him and his work since I was a teenager, what constantly amazes me is, I keep finding more and more about him all the time! I am now 46 years old and have in the last 6 months found out about things like His Turbine and His 1 way valve for Pulse-Jets (with no moving parts!)In the last 5 years I found out He designed made the first electronic circuit not only that it was a remote controlled Submarine no less! In comparison Edison didn't realise what he had when he invented the Diode-Valve and he shelved it!!! (p.s. Edison didn't invent the light-bulb he was just the first to market it! It was invented by a Scottish Pharmecist named Swann! look it up if you don't believe me!) Without Tesla our modern life wouldn't exist he is at the root of everything to do with our modern lifestyle and, to add insult to injury, He never got credit for any of it! Other parasites seemed to get all the credit! When the the history of the Modern Age is written I hope He get's the credit He is Entitled to!

yeah right he invented robotics...
c'mon. spare me the propaganda. the problem with gifted inventors is that many are socially unstable, like your (Serbian) hero Tesla.

im not putting down his work or anything, i just dislike the emphatic and dramatic tone of the video. kinda makes me cry a bit (for Kosovo).

What do Serbia and Kosovo have anything to do with this?

Tesla is my hero too.


I am very angry that money grubbing people put a damper on our technological advances.



Would global warming even be a factor in our lives today had Tesla's inventions been utilized?



I want the gifts Tesla was so willing to give.

Tesla was the man!

TESLA was CROATIAN you anonymous american stupid f*ck

I first heard about tesla in the early 1980's


j.p morgan is probably living in hell



if you ever get a chancen to see "the man who fell to earth" with david bowie in it,

the movie might hav been inspired by tesla, I think tesla was a little bit autistic, luckly for all of humanity

@Tomislav
you remind me of JP Morgan, wonder why?

great stuff.Must we never forget the man Tesla

Are you nuts, almost everyone has at least heard of Tesla.

There were alot of things invented by these 'socially unstable' people, but it's those kind of people-free thinkers-that gave us the world that we live in today. We owe alot to them. Unfortunately the greed of people like J.P. Morgan and others, the world that we live in today is controled by these people (cartels) and the benefits will only benefit the power elite and not society as a whole.

There were alot of things invented by these 'socially unstable' people, but it's those kind of people-free thinkers-that gave us the world that we live in today. We owe alot to them. Unfortunately the greed of people like J.P. Morgan and others, the world that we live in today is controled by these people (cartels) and the benefits will only benefit the power elite and not society as a whole.

All of you play your part in people like Tesla falling from their rightful place in life and history. When you see the quiet child in school, you hurt him. When you see someone alone, you mock them. You make the difficult even harder. You cast doubt in the minds of great men, making their insecurities the focus of your analysis instead of praising them for their achievements. We too have desires. We want to be loved and we want someone to trust. But when we open our minds in full hope of acceptance, the world casts us off as an oddity and a nuisance to everyday life.


Hug the next mad scientist you see. He probably really needs it.

Tesla is the father of all our modern electrical machines, generators and transmission systems. He was cheated out of the patent on radio. Edison did his best to discredit him. Every "Edison" power station and system in the world is a lie.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/wireless-060... like to tip my hat to them also!

Tesla was a great mind and suffered from many of the disorders that come with that greatness, nowaday's we would have medicated him into subpar narmalicy and let it go, I wonder what the g=men did with all the notes they took, I thought he did not keep many notes but kept most of the stuff he developed in his head, I built a tesla coil from his drawings but never fine tuned it, scared the hell out of me and a few others though, great mind great man sad story of how we exploit then abandon the people who further us the most.

FYI:
Serbia and Croatia both claim credit to Tesla. I just came from the Tesla museum in Belgrade, Serbia, and the 100 dinar is Tesla as is a long history of their money and streets. The borders have been anything but stable and Tesla was pretty apolitical. So call it Serbo-Croating and get back to geek speak, please.

@anon - thanks for that, that's seemed to be an unintended interruption in the discussion.

In the spirit of the season let us forgive the sad person who shouted that "you anonymous american stupid, etc."


With regard the Serb/Croat question it is not ignorant or peculiarly Aemerican to call him either one of these because both claim him. Visit the Tesla museum in Belgrade--and yes, I am from America and have been there and done that--then hang around the sidewalk cafes and restaurants of Belgrade [a great city] and you quickly learn such distinctions are not so simple.



Telsa's family's ethnic background was definitely Serb but Tesla lived in a realm far beyond such distinctions.

Most people most likely will recognize "Tesla" because of the Tesla coil. Personally I knew what a Tesla coil was before I knew who Tesla was. It is very sad that he is not taught in most history books.

Tesla is a great man. I know that he is Serbian, a great inventor, and he IS NOT MAD, just... maybe hes brain just overloaded. I'm 14 and sometimes I feel overloaded too. He known how to focus hes minds in one target. I did it onse, the target was peripetuum mobile, so now I know how it should look like, but I'll construct it later. I support ANONYMOUS in every his word, I know about Tesla all my life, my grand father told me about him. Druze, samo edna poraka do Srbite, Kosovo, sega e kako organ zafaten od nekoja neizleciva bolest, ako ne se otstraniti, ce se prosiriti, pozdrav od Makedonija.

upss... hes*= his.... sorry

Tesla as i think we all know wa a geat man,his abiltiy to construct ideas in his head, deconstruct and then create, showed he was working and using his mind differently than most, it was as if he knew everything there was to know about electricty nd energy, HOW?? STUDY?? LEARNING?? or did he just know!! the history of electricy and harnessing the energy on earth didnt start with him, this knowledge was being taught and discovered in ancient babylon, and even as far back as the sumerians many thousands of years ago, `the bagdad battery, even the sacred ark of the covenant, the monoatomic gold that you can only create by using electricity was being used by the gret egyptians, y was that taken away from us today? the teslas of the ancients are not remembered, erased from history, and they would have done this to tesla if it was for people seeing an injustist being done...he could have given free energy to the world, but FREE??? ARE YOU CRAZY, cant make any money if its free can you!!! so they take his technology, and start making death beams, and stuff used in the militarty, for weapons and the defense for the weapons they made, it goes on and on, much like this text, but its got to be said, GIVE THE TECHNOLOGY BACK TO THE PEOPLE!!!! CHEERS,,,,,