The Dark Side of Thomas Edison
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- How the famous inventor lied, cheated, and scammed his way to the top
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Inventor Thomas Edison
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Edison's electro-motograph.
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Nikola Tesla
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T.A. Edison Reading Bronze Tablet
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Nikola Tesla sitting in his Colorado Springs laboratory
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Portrait of Edmund Morris
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Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Edison Being Honored
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Portrait of George Westinghouse
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George Westinghouse
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Vitascope.
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An Advance Machine Company Vitascope Picture Machine
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Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American physicist and inventor experimenting with electric lamps, even on his wedding day. Engraving, Paris, 1883.
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Execution by electric chair. Kemmler, the first man executed by electric chair, Auburn Prison, USA, 6 August 1890. Alternating Current used: three surges were needed for the execution. Westinghouse apparatus used. From La Nature, Paris, 6 September 1890 .
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MONTAGE Telegram advertisement featuring telephone lines over a map, telegrams shimmying through metal coil, piles of telegrams with overlaying white signatures, end of frayed telephone line, and a man and woman chewing on the end of pens / United Kingdom
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1934 MS electric chair / Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Color television is patented
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Henry Ford and Clara Bryant Ford playing with toddler in garden, Michigan, USA
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Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John Burroughs and others eating in tent during camping trip, USA
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A light bulb turns on and off.
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Robert Hooke
Louis le Prince
Nikola Tesla
Rosalind Franklin
Legendary inventors and scientists who never got their due...Never forget their contributions,and also don't forget those
wronged them
Like J.P. Morgan and Edison who profited off their inventions. It's was all about Money, as usual.
Haha stop it. The telephone, television and train comes from Britain.
You can tell Edison was evil just by how he styled his eyebrows
Idiot
Never trust the eyebrows bro
Lol mine are curling up too but not as much as his
😆😆😆
Perhaps it was naturally curled??
Tesla was the real visionary. Had his ideas been adapted, we could have wireless electricity, cheap high speed transportation and energy with low impact on the environment. If only..
That is backwards thinking, he's not a movie genius that can just do anything. Also, all those things are already in existence, what do you mean by "if only"
People are really vocal about something they don't know they're misinformed and they're still proud of it.
True
@@Wisdom.Phoenix REALLY? Where is any wireless electricity? Edison DID NOT invent movies, nor phonographs either. Edison mostly took credit for other people's work/inventions. He did NOT invent the lightbulb. He invented a better light bulb filament and NOT the light bulb itself. Tesla was a genius. Edison, not even close to genius.
If only? If they were already invented 100+ years ago, why can’t we just use them now??????
You forgot killer in the description. Funny how Louise Le Prince boarded a train to debut his motion picture single lense camera in the United States and mysteriously never made it to his destination. The man who was to give the presentation that would have bankrupted Edison suddenly fell off the face of the earth while Edison took credit for pieces of his invention in the years to come.
As much as Edison was a Dbag, that's still unconfirmed.
You forget to mention that only 2 people saw him even get on the train. It’s a theory, that is possible, though, likely? Eh.. not really
@@Only1Noodle doesn’t take away from the fact Edison still stole his idea, and took all credit for it.
@@somerandomdude4588 well everyone that knew him witnessed(didn’t?) that he disappeared and just wasn’t seen again.
I feel like you shouldn't just declare someone as a murder just because it somewhat makes sense in a hypothetical situation in your head, lol.
Tesla deserved more
He was truly a visionary who was robbed of the chance to change the world
Infinitely more!
So much more! 😔
And Louise de prince
@@viiyaxyz His dream became a reality in the end.
Edison: whippety wine, your invention is MINE!
At least we can credit him with being so controlling and unlikeable that people (small business) went west just to get away from him. Including a lot of cool animation studios
This reminds me of the Drunk History episode. U must watch it, it's hilarious.
As someone who lives in West Orange Nj her entire life and has been to the Edison museum..... DUCK YOU EDISON!!!!!
Buzzfeed just exposing everybody left and right. I love it.
It's not exactly breaking news 😂
this is common knowledge lmao
They need to expose themselves lmao.
Louis le Prince deserved better. All I need to say.
So we aren't gonna mention Louis Le Prince?
I was thinking this too😭
No bcuz the vid's about Edison not the camera lol
@@James45429 I think Edison getting a man killed is a pretty important detail when talking about the dark truth~ xD
@@Krystalmyth that's still unconfirmed, don't get me wrong I want to believe that as well, but it's basically a "I can neither confirm nor deny" thing.
@@Only1Noodle What is a fact that Edison had animals killed while trying to discredit Tesla. One being a very healthy elephant.
bob’s burgers really hit the nail in the head with this one
They'll say AWWWWW Topsy at my AUUUUUTOPSY!
Louise really exposed him on that episode!
I was coming here to say allll of this!!
@@iswhosheis BUT no-one will be, MORE SHOCKED THAN ME
Befor i watch this video, i already know that he is a liar and a thief
I read in a textbook that Edison was a great grit to great guy and was fond of performing experiments. He sat on a eggs to hatch them and got a beating. The thing about his ear was that he was beaten by a train owner because he spilled some chemicals in one of the bogies of a train. I distinctly remember being under the impression that he was from a poor background. Now that I think back it seems inauthentic and exaggerated.
And can we have that in comprehensible English? Ramblings of an idiot.
Louis Le Prince was the real visionary. I believe Edison send goons to kill and disappear him.
He was clever I'll give him that. Enough to fool people, win cases, and steal ideas.
yep. an immoral mastermind
If Edison 'invented' the 3 point seatbelt. He would patent it too.
"They'll say aw Topsy, at my autopsy.." 🐘💡
You mean to say there was a lighter side to his personality?
In before someone tries to cite "The Oatmeal" comic and myths about how "Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla were bitter rivals / enemies, and Edison cheated Tesla". (They weren't, and were actually on more cordial terms than the Internet and Tesla fans would have you believe.) I also highly recommend reading Alex Knapp's 2012 article for Forbes, "Nikola Tesla Wasn't God, And Thomas Edison Wasn't The Devil".
Amber Goldsmith, Tesla was a genius. Edison damn sure was NOT.
Don’t forget his employee who was experimented on with X-rays who had his arms amputated and later died of cancer. Inventors day indeed.
It's funny how people criticise him for his crooked business tactics. By today's definition, he is an 'Entrepreneur'
So we stopped criticizing crooked entrepreneurs nowadays?
@@s_ame1135 yeah, society has. “Slay queen, side hustlin entrepreneur” is how people respond to that nowadays
@@aak1992 give me one example of "slay queen" that's as crooked and famous as Thomas Edison?
@@s_ame1135 well uh, does the theranos lady count?
A 'crooked' one
He stole Nikola's ideas
"The Dark Side"
[Insert Lightbulb Joke]
I knew about him and that i dont think he actually invented anything and would take ownership of the invented product for market gain
Edit: i might be wrong but i don't know?
Bobs burgers enlightened me to this year's ago
Thomas Edison didn’t just have a dark side….EVERY side of him was dark!
American code before real Morse code was created. My grandfather used American code while working for the Pennsylvania railroad around 1900.
Sir Narrator you look as awesome as you voice leads one to believe.
"Dark Side?!?" That implies that this crappy guy had a good side. From everything I've heard he really didn't.
I think you sped up the voice just a little too much. Otherwise it was great, as usual.
Thomas Edison is to Nikola Tesla, as a block of granite is to a vein of pure gold.
Any comparison is an absolute insult to the memory of Tesla.
Ello from the Philippines!
This dude is not an inventor. His a businessman. Taking credits from others😅
The sentiment of having to light up your lamp in order to read your book at night. Damn you Edison
...and real unsung hero behind many groundbreaking inventions (Nikola Tesla)...
Edison *only* had a dark side
Lewis Howard Latimer invented the light bulb as we know it.
Westinghouse had a quality that Edison lacked, humility.
“There’s no original idea around.”Spoken like a true patent thief
The vulture
i miss buzzfeed unsolved :/
Have you checked out ghost files yet?
It's still BuzzFeed Unsolved. If you just miss Ryan and Shane, then go check out Watcher.
I was just talking about this fake fool.
Here's something almost unknown. He was born in Mexico and he stole many ideas from Mexican Inventor Francisco Javier Estrada Murguía.
Why Thomas Alba got strong & broken English accent and some people said he sound better when he spoke Español.
Good to hear this but why are you talking so fast didn't enjoy it as much as the videos you have posted
He never recycled either
Yo
I think he was dark both sides
Was Thomas Edison not friends with Benjamin Franklin?? My brotha died in 1931 there's no way
Black Ma-RYE-a you dope...not Black Ma-REE-a
why are we so bad to eachother
“Inventor”
of course he was born in ohio
bro I go to a school by his name...
Move out of there
@@HONEYWHERESMYSUPERSUIT. trust me, I want to...
Nikola Tesla
Hes right, ya dorks. NOT agreeing with "stealing credit", but MOST IDEAS are built off of other ideas. Thats literally how we advance as a species...But try to make that sound like a bad thing for the video.
If you mention Topsy, just FYI, Edison wasn't there when Topsy was electrocuted.
Only1Noodle, Edison hired other people to do it for him, PUTZ.
My dad works for Edison gotta show this to him lol
Works for Edison?
@@johnpeter1917 more like Edison's company - General Electric probably
Thanks for the seizure
Tesla Forever
🤔
era diventato sordo e si era inventato un'incredibile!
I'm okay with Tom.
Topsey the elephant
Good video, but the narrator talks a bit too quickly. This comment is coming from someone who routinely speeds up slow talking videos.
Edison 👍
The darkside of Thomas Edison is his armpit. You're welcome
Thomas Edison stole parents he didn’t do sht
So he’s pretty much a thief that’s what I get out of it. 🧐😒
Down in Ohio swag in ohio😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅
Ohio, no wonder
Without him we may not be watching this right now
only in ohio
Hows Buzzfeed going to be racist today?
This isn't the same without Shane and Ryan 💔
just go to watcher and watch ghost files
No one cares anymore, go to watcher then.
Dude, this isn't even an unsolved ep, shut up.
Get over it
Only in Ohio
Everyone steals. No one is innocent
thomas edison. synonym with deception.
Bahut gandi hai Edison is ❤❤😂😂😂
He was a con-artist.
*Ruthless thief
He took their ideas, analyzed them to see why they were unsuccessful, and then worked on improving them.
edison look like fat baster from monster in ep 1
Stole all ideas from Tesla
He is American hero.. the best n perfect example just like Steve Jobs n mark suckkerberg
mark suckkerberg bruh:)))
Wow! Nice smear video! Let's look for any fault on the man and try to make him look evil. Wasn't a good family man (horrors! let's cancel him!). Not to excuse him, but in reality history if full of figures that neglected their families. Marrying younger women? That was the norm in those days. Why even mention this? Just to make him out to be a creep. Heck, he even said that his inventions were really an extension of all the other work that came before him, just like Steve Jobs or any other modern inventor. Did you not hear him? Suing and copying others? How dare he! Of course, that's usually the norm in today's business; it may be dirty, but it's the reality that has brought us all these wonderful products. You may imply evil, others may see business savvy and craft. Let's see...what has the video producer done other than post a smear video? The fact that other folks invented things before him does not take away from the good lessons that we can learn from Edison.
Petition to bring back Ryan and Shane
@@Pzykovsky channel name 🥺🥺
They have launched a new channel.Its just same as the buzzfeed series but better in every way.They have already posted 4 new videos about 2 investigations.
@@snowytm. Watcher
@@snowytm. the watcher
It is never going to happen.
Wow! So much misinformation in one video! Please learn how to pronounce Milan, Black Maria, and Mina.
All lies.