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

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

so basically tony stark without the billions?

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."

anyone else wants to see a movie about Tesla

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

Gotta say, he had a cool name.

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

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.

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.

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

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."

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

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

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.

tesla will never be forgotten!

I am building Tesla's death ray right now.

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

I am Serb and my name is NIkola and all teachers in primary school call me Nikola Tesla because i new physics in my fingers ..there was no physics problem in primary school i could not calculate even with out paper. BUT then at age off 15 i found that i like girls and alcohol more and you know that goes LOL..but still love scinece and physics

The Tony Stark of centuries old.

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

this guy is my hero

Teslas father was Serbian ortodox priest and mother was Serbian 2. And thay lived in country called Austrian Empire . Croatia didn't exsist in that time my friend! And of course he didn't put his work on paper. He knew how people will love to use others work and make lots of money from that. Like history learned us all!

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%.

Him and Einstein should have gotten together.

tesla coils can be used to play music like a boss

Nice quick summary, and pretty accurate. Loved it :) It has in fact been added to... Flagged As Awesome!

Nikola Tesla was truly a genius.

Nikola Tesla is my historical crush❗❗ 😂📖🏆🎓📚 I have been researching Tesla and all his works since I was in elementary school 🆘

Tesla was a complete genius. He is for sure one of my favorites.

As a Serb, greatly proud of our Serbian and one of the world's greatest minds to ever live, without whom the world would be maybe centuries behind, I am very grateful SciShow did this video. But, I couldn't help but notice the undermining tone and attitude that was underlying the whole video. He was too generous with the word 'crazy' that almost felt like 'idiotic' at some point. He acts as one of those people who due to not understanding some of his ideas, renders him crazy, which shouldn happen since the speaker is a man of science as well, in some way and therefore should have greater understanding and acceptance of people ahead of their age. He also failed to stress out the altruistic and humane nature of Tesla. He actually ridicules it. Tesla's humility and absence of pride for someone of that success is something that should be largely appreciated, since is soo rare amongst people of that description, like Edison. Thank you for doing this video but Tesla is unbelievably much more than you mentioned in this video, both as ingenious inventor and Human above all.

Tesla is one of the most popular scientist here in Serbia,and we was tought in school a lot about him and his inventions, and i have to say thank you SciShow for bringing the truth about man who wanted to share his great mind and his corruptles soul with the rest of the world. This man needs to be respected for his legacy.

The comments are an abyss, don't fall in... Scroll back up, damnit!

Happy 158th birthday Nikola Tesla!

That was an awesome video!! Yo Mr. Hank can you or John do one on M.K Ataturk?? He was real smart with what he tried to do... his school systems and the the things his built and accomplished are brilliant!

Thank you for the nice introduction to Tesla but there's so much more Scishow only scratched the surface here. All of Tesla's biographies are worth deep dives.

I am a proud Serb because of him

Back then it was not Croatia, it was Austro-Hungarian empire and Tesla was born of Serbian parents who lived in one of the provinces of the empire. Father - priest - only orthodox priests marry (no his dad was not one of those catholic priests who have a family in secret).

Can you do episodes on great minds of antiquity? I always find Archimedes and other ancient mathematicians/scientists intriguing because they had to start with nothing. Great channel!

Your intro caused me to spew beer onto my work bench. Great job!

The greatest invention of Tesla was his cloning machine that he made for wolverine

Tesla was such a awesome guy with great ideas, I dream of being great like him.

Great piece. Small quibble: For AC, what makes the high voltage is step-up and step-down transformers at either end.

Hank, you are awesome.

hey SciShow, please do a #GreatMinds for 'Srinivas Ramanujan'...(he was a mathematician..) and for Bernhard Riemann too.....(same again a mathematician..)

I have Nikola Tesla's death beam papers, and am making the machine right now.

Learning my examples for the SAT in the coolest possible way. Thx scishow

His inventions is just the beginning. Get into 369 and his process of thinking. Mind blowing I promise!

Dont get me wrong i respect croatians.but TESLA WAS A SERB born in Croatia,in a part of croatia where mostly serbs were living.

A man that smart will seem crazy to others.

Thank you for this episode, it is really interesting!!

In 1:29, the background picture shows town of Rijeka, Croatia (not Tesla's hometown Smiljan, Croatia). Glad to see my hometown the way it used to look :)

Por favor inclua legenda para tradução no vídeo. Obrigada!

"Keep getting smarter with us..." Knowledge doesn't make you smart. It's what you do with that knowledge, something called wisdom. And that is wholly dependent upon the individual.

Best episode ever

very very very Thanks for doing a episode on Great mind Nikola-tesla

He's my favorite crazy genius of all time. :)

Wow I love the snarky, sarcastic overtones of this entire video. I thought this was a tribute video, not a Perez Hilton style satiric rant.

Great video - you have a way about you that makes history interesting and fun .

Tesla is a hero of mine. Have stayed at the New Yorker hotel in Manhattan where tesla lived and worked. Took up two rooms, one for living quarters and one for his lab. They have plaques on the doors in the hotel which I took photos of. Was awesome experience just to be there.

That boy said some very incorrect informations about Mr.Tesla and some rather shallow remarks about this truly great mind.. I mean I understand teens today like to watch some laid back. cool, funny and dynamic vids while learning something they are interested in but making false or even ironic statements which Tesla never said and was never part of just to be Funny/cool is Tabloid journalism rather then smart or "cool". I will not go trough all of them but just to mention couple which I would be ashamed of to say about Tesla in any context: - Tesla did NOT report recieving ANY messages from ET's EVER but the journalists (much like you probably) greedy for sensationalism took his statement out of context in which he was speaking about mere feedback radio signal from Mars which he 'echoed', the journalists added ET's and all the shabang. - Morgan did not pull the (financial) plug because it was more expensive then Tesla first told him it would be but because he was cunning enough to realise he wont be able to put a meter on energy available to everybody anywhere in infinite amounts, which was the ultimate idea of the "bonus" or additional purpose of Long Island project. - Tesla was NOT living in fancy hotels nor he was living any kind of posh life.style until very late, he was digging ditches, working Labour and bearly surviving for big chunk of time till Westingouse agreed to invest in his first lab. - and so on and so on... You're doing nice job, interesting subjects, but please guys eitehr INFORM yourself a bit deeper then wikipedia or if you already are then please dont try to adorn something already amazing and interesting enough just for the sake of sensation and "fun"...

Another amazing mind that came from normal parents. How does all these great intelligence came to be?

Please do a Alfred Nobel great minds!! I love this show!

Thanks for the great information on Tesla

If only the guy would write down some of his notes, humanity as a whole centuries later would be much more intelligent.

Tesla is such a genius that I wholeheartedly believe a lot of the so called "crazy" claims he made

It takes a young person to appreciate and share Tesla, who has been a model for serious artists for ages..

Someone should make a movie about Tesla. It would be epic!

tesla spoke eight languages well i speak four of the same ones he spoke bosnian,croatian,serbian,montenegran

Please talk more about Tesla's patents!

He was born in Smiljani, his father was an orthodox priest. Croatians were catholic which prooves that he was a Serb. Not much people know that because Croatians keep saying that he is one of them. Tesla's ashes are know in Belgrade(capital of Serbia). You may have also heard of Mihajlo Pupin, also a Serbian genius. Look it up.

it would be cool if you guys did a episode about the Tesla turbine and how efficient it is

OMG, AC vs. DC+ AC/DC (the band) Mind. Blown. Bam.

Do a video of tesla and einsteins dispute over the existence of an ether!

I was surprised you guys covered Tesla; in fact I am pleased about that. 😊

It is one of the best episodes on this channel.

Tesla was a Serbian ...

If he didnt get nervous breakdown we would have free electricity today !

Simplente un genio con una mente superdesarrollada para su epoca, el video esta increible. Congratulations

thank u very much for doing a video on Nikola tesla... who is long lost and forgotten despite of his marvelous inventionss and help to the mankind..the greatest of greatest Nikola tesla..

Tesla wanted to make FREE energy but Edision capitalised on it.

U cant say that his talk was crazy talk , he could build a project in his head and test if it will work before he build it...so who knows what would happen if Morgan didnt cut off Tesla :)

I know it's a bit late Hank,but thanks for doing this Tesla tale. How about one on Crop Circles,that would be interesting as well as fascinating. So here is your 1st factoid to start you off: The term 'Crop circles' was first used by Colin Andrews who is one of three experts who investigate the phenomena.

this video greatly improved my energy weapons skill by like 50 points haha great upload sci show

i thing i could run a little LED light without direct power source by basicly using the current the flows trough the air. would anyone be happy if i do a youtube video on this?

The Forgotten Hero.

Great episode. Do one on Richard Feynman PLEASE! :D

Tesla also lived in celibate his whole life... for reasons that dissatisfy me as a woman, as I want to think that I could do more than just inspire. Here's a quote: "I had always thought of woman as possessing those delicate qualities of mind and soul that made her in these respects far superior to man. I had put her on a lofty pedestal, figuratively speaking, and ranked her in certain important attributes considerably higher than man. I worshiped at the feet of the creature I had raised to this height, and, like every true worshiper, I felt myself unworthy of the object of my worship. But all this was in the past. Now the soft-voiced gentle woman of my reverent worship has all but vanished. In her place has come the woman who thinks that her chief success in life lies in making herself as much as possible like man--in dress, voice and actions, in sports and achievements of every kind."

Come on! Pop that spot man! Use a pin or something...I don't need HD for this...

Can you and John please stop cursing in these videos? I'd love to use them in my classroom, but even one "bad word" means I can't :(

Awesome episode!

It'd be great if you did a video about Ludwig Boltzmann on Great Minds. Thanks!

the greatest genius.

Wich genius has not been called crazy? He was too far ahead of mankind to be truly understood by the people of his time. And probably in our time as well. The more i have learned about him the more i admire this man, for he was a true scientist that wanted to make all people's lives easier. He was respsonsible and not out to make money, an example for all.

Surprised that over three years after this episode was posted no-one has corrected "... continuously stepping up its voltage ...". The point about AC is that it can be sent through transformers, to step the voltage up for transmission over long distances and step it down again near the place where the energy is to be used.

Please do an episode about Buckminster Fuller!

I would got out on a limb and say the US govt has his documents ( ALL ) of them. The took them an applied his knowledge to thing we will never know about. Unless that one day gets leaked. Also the easiest way to dismiss and or descredit someone is to call them crazy...when in fact they are a GENIUS

Damn, the lack of charisma is too real in 2012.

Great video. How about a video on Norbert Wiener

love the videos. Im a 7th and 8th grade science teacher please make so that I can show videos in class !!!!!