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Nikola who?

edit: having watch the full video, i'm an ass.

*long (I know its a few second short of 10minutes but...it close enough) I di not realise why so much of his work was shrouded in such mystery

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Wow crazy, I've never even heard of the man before, but its nice to know the man has some recognition in several other countries, a quick wiki search shows the man's face on several dinar bills.

wow great find!
I hate when i post a comment the f*#king video restarts..
oh well, rewind!!

The greatest person to ever grace this earth

Without him the world as we know it would not exist he brought power to everyone and ideas no one at the time was ready for

Now the war of the currents still lives and Tesla is winning again with the ban of Edison's incandescent light bulb favoring the fluorescent invent by Tesla as well.

People must know of Nikola Tesla

"The (unfortunately, largely forgotten and still extremely under-appreciated) Serbian inventor, genius, and true scientist Dr. Nikola Tesla invented the fluorescent light bulb (as well as Neon lighting and several other lighting inventions). At the time, his invention was largely ignored. In fact his fluorescent light bulbs were vastly superior than the ones we have now: they were far more energy efficient due to the lack of ballast transformers and capacitors, they needed no starter capacitor, and lasted literally forever as there was no filament necessary and nothing was consumed. Tesla is however better known for his monumental invention of AC current generators, motors and energy transmission systems - which to this day still power the entire civilized world in exactly the same way. As with almost all Tesla's inventions, his fluorescent bulb was brilliant in its simplicity, durability and efficiency, as well as easy to produce. Tesla also invented numerous improvements on the common (and extremely inefficient) incandescent light bulb for which Edison commonly is credited, although even that is disputed - Edison clearly could not stand in the shadow of the likes of Tesla and Edison is known to have shrewdly taken credit for many inventions he in fact did not produce himself."

Kinda makes you think doesnt it?

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big ups to my man tesla

Edison was a fucking jerk who had nothing on Tesla. It makes me so mad to have read the history of both persons and found out that Tesla was about 100 times more smart and before of his time than Edison. I still have no clue of what happened media wise to get Edison all the attention. This makes me think we really need the Internet more then we think.

"...he was seen as a threat to the world energy economy capitalists and most of his inventions were classified for national securtiy by the US govenment stooges, spooks, and bootlickers."

I've heard of his name, and know of some of his work, his battle with Edison is well know, and Edison electrocuting animals to 'demonstrate' how dangerous AC currant was - is one I remember.

Thanks for posting this, there is still lots I don't know about Tesla, but this is what a liek about the sift, you find awesome videos like this

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