The Dark Side of Thomas Edison
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Күн бұрынHow the famous inventor lied, cheated, and scammed his way to the top
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Inventor Thomas Edison
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Mina Edison Portrait
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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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1950s B/W hands holding savings US Savings bonds / United States
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1934 MS electric chair / Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Color television is patented
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Virus, Bacterium, Cell, Flu epidemic and Novel Coronavirus, Sars, Mers, H1N1, Covid-19 nCoV spreading microscopic view , Global deadly viral infection, Corona pandemic crisis close up, Microscopic view of influenza virus
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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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Business Challenge Competition Winner and Loser Concept. Man in Hoodie Playing Chess. Black Figures Win Checkmate.
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Decorative table lamp with a classic edison light bulb
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@balu9873 Жыл бұрын
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
@stackstheripper3056 Жыл бұрын
Like J.P. Morgan and Edison who profited off their inventions. It's was all about Money, as usual.
@NWO2023 6 ай бұрын
Haha stop it. The telephone, television and train comes from Britain.
@freshwaterhorror Жыл бұрын
You can tell Edison was evil just by how he styled his eyebrows
@wosop6667 Жыл бұрын
Idiot
@900bz Жыл бұрын
Never trust the eyebrows bro
@glaplayer627 Жыл бұрын
Lol mine are curling up too but not as much as his
@okbrother159 Жыл бұрын
😆😆😆
@lilswtangel92 Жыл бұрын
Perhaps it was naturally curled??
@anthonyd9844 Жыл бұрын
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..
@Wisdom.Phoenix Жыл бұрын
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"
@raidenshogun5189 Жыл бұрын
People are really vocal about something they don't know they're misinformed and they're still proud of it.
@glassopint5848 Жыл бұрын
True
@sergeantmasson3669 Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@wilhelmq6102 Жыл бұрын
If only? If they were already invented 100+ years ago, why can’t we just use them now??????
@TheN8ism Жыл бұрын
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.
@Only1Noodle Жыл бұрын
As much as Edison was a Dbag, that's still unconfirmed.
@somerandomdude4588 Жыл бұрын
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
@jack011dawson9 Жыл бұрын
@@Only1Noodle doesn’t take away from the fact Edison still stole his idea, and took all credit for it.
@TheN8ism Жыл бұрын
@@somerandomdude4588 well everyone that knew him witnessed(didn’t?) that he disappeared and just wasn’t seen again.
@AspireGMD Жыл бұрын
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.
@malinanjana Жыл бұрын
Tesla deserved more
@kingofravens215 Жыл бұрын
He was truly a visionary who was robbed of the chance to change the world
@gonhunter3994 Жыл бұрын
Infinitely more!
@intodaysepisode... Жыл бұрын
So much more! 😔
@viiyaxyz Жыл бұрын
And Louise de prince
@Krystalmyth Жыл бұрын
@@viiyaxyz His dream became a reality in the end.
@someone8240 Жыл бұрын
Edison: whippety wine, your invention is MINE!
@eyeseehere Жыл бұрын
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
@andreacamp936 Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the Drunk History episode. U must watch it, it's hilarious.
@isabellebise8440 Жыл бұрын
As someone who lives in West Orange Nj her entire life and has been to the Edison museum..... DUCK YOU EDISON!!!!!
@JulioIsKilluminati Жыл бұрын
Buzzfeed just exposing everybody left and right. I love it.
@certifiedyaminspector-dadd6224 Жыл бұрын
It's not exactly breaking news 😂
@j.stretcher Жыл бұрын
this is common knowledge lmao
@AspireGMD Жыл бұрын
They need to expose themselves lmao.
@sriv2167 Жыл бұрын
Louis le Prince deserved better. All I need to say.
@ToadsIGuess Жыл бұрын
So we aren't gonna mention Louis Le Prince?
@katietinajero4197 Жыл бұрын
I was thinking this too😭
@James45429 Жыл бұрын
No bcuz the vid's about Edison not the camera lol
@Krystalmyth Жыл бұрын
@@James45429 I think Edison getting a man killed is a pretty important detail when talking about the dark truth~ xD
@Only1Noodle Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@sergeantmasson3669 Жыл бұрын
@@Only1Noodle What is a fact that Edison had animals killed while trying to discredit Tesla. One being a very healthy elephant.
@mich8468 Жыл бұрын
bob’s burgers really hit the nail in the head with this one
@iswhosheis Жыл бұрын
They'll say AWWWWW Topsy at my AUUUUUTOPSY!
@shantiltaylor105 Жыл бұрын
Louise really exposed him on that episode!
@middylou Жыл бұрын
I was coming here to say allll of this!!
@Neekachu11 Жыл бұрын
@@iswhosheis BUT no-one will be, MORE SHOCKED THAN ME
@Vagito1000 Жыл бұрын
Befor i watch this video, i already know that he is a liar and a thief
@contentweaverz2438 Жыл бұрын
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.
@dontevenlook Жыл бұрын
And can we have that in comprehensible English? Ramblings of an idiot.
@EternaResplandiente 8 ай бұрын
Louis Le Prince was the real visionary. I believe Edison send goons to kill and disappear him.
@viiyaxyz Жыл бұрын
He was clever I'll give him that. Enough to fool people, win cases, and steal ideas.
@invisi6l339 5 ай бұрын
yep. an immoral mastermind
@Themiscyrax Жыл бұрын
"They'll say aw Topsy, at my autopsy.." 🐘💡
@blackerguy999 Жыл бұрын
If Edison 'invented' the 3 point seatbelt. He would patent it too.
@TechOrigami Жыл бұрын
You mean to say there was a lighter side to his personality?
@EyreAffair Жыл бұрын
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".
@sergeantmasson3669 Жыл бұрын
Amber Goldsmith, Tesla was a genius. Edison damn sure was NOT.
@cristoffL 7 ай бұрын
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.
@rahulsathyakumar1306 Жыл бұрын
It's funny how people criticise him for his crooked business tactics. By today's definition, he is an 'Entrepreneur'
@s_ame1135 Жыл бұрын
So we stopped criticizing crooked entrepreneurs nowadays?
@aak1992 Жыл бұрын
@@s_ame1135 yeah, society has. “Slay queen, side hustlin entrepreneur” is how people respond to that nowadays
@s_ame1135 Жыл бұрын
@@aak1992 give me one example of "slay queen" that's as crooked and famous as Thomas Edison?
@pyromain 8 ай бұрын
@@s_ame1135 well uh, does the theranos lady count?
@dilipaweeratunga 2 ай бұрын
A 'crooked' one
@BM-1822 Жыл бұрын
He stole Nikola's ideas
@BetweenTheLyons Жыл бұрын
"The Dark Side" [Insert Lightbulb Joke]
@tobypuromaizono4444 Жыл бұрын
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?
@SlightlySori Жыл бұрын
Bobs burgers enlightened me to this year's ago
@joanncaporaletti4950 Жыл бұрын
Thomas Edison didn’t just have a dark side….EVERY side of him was dark!
@Harold710 Жыл бұрын
American code before real Morse code was created. My grandfather used American code while working for the Pennsylvania railroad around 1900.
@ayom5600 Жыл бұрын
Sir Narrator you look as awesome as you voice leads one to believe.
@myrdraal2001 Жыл бұрын
"Dark Side?!?" That implies that this crappy guy had a good side. From everything I've heard he really didn't.
@suzannegood6228 Жыл бұрын
I think you sped up the voice just a little too much. Otherwise it was great, as usual.
@larsvassenjansen1651 11 ай бұрын
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.
@neilneilrebel Жыл бұрын
Ello from the Philippines!
@tetrodotoxin9782 10 күн бұрын
This dude is not an inventor. His a businessman. Taking credits from others😅
@ntrenjoyer777 Жыл бұрын
The sentiment of having to light up your lamp in order to read your book at night. Damn you Edison
@Brain_Sync Жыл бұрын
...and real unsung hero behind many groundbreaking inventions (Nikola Tesla)...
@CheeseBallsNBeanDip Жыл бұрын
Edison *only* had a dark side
@ricardocantoral7672 5 ай бұрын
Westinghouse had a quality that Edison lacked, humility.
@picture-perfect 4 ай бұрын
Lewis Howard Latimer invented the light bulb as we know it.
@cjclubseltzer 6 ай бұрын
“There’s no original idea around.”Spoken like a true patent thief
@simpofmongmongie4345 Жыл бұрын
The vulture
@specteveeePE Жыл бұрын
i miss buzzfeed unsolved :/
@ef1876 Жыл бұрын
Have you checked out ghost files yet?
@paige8916 Жыл бұрын
It's still BuzzFeed Unsolved. If you just miss Ryan and Shane, then go check out Watcher.
@theghostwitch113 Жыл бұрын
I was just talking about this fake fool.
@loganuubex389 Жыл бұрын
Here's something almost unknown. He was born in Mexico and he stole many ideas from Mexican Inventor Francisco Javier Estrada Murguía.
@antoniobanderas9769 11 ай бұрын
Why Thomas Alba got strong & broken English accent and some people said he sound better when he spoke Español.
@donnaharvey6293 Жыл бұрын
Good to hear this but why are you talking so fast didn't enjoy it as much as the videos you have posted
@StuMarston 2 ай бұрын
He never recycled either
@MM-du7je Жыл бұрын
Yo
@__Vizion-_- Жыл бұрын
I think he was dark both sides
@BEEFU5 Жыл бұрын
Was Thomas Edison not friends with Benjamin Franklin?? My brotha died in 1931 there's no way
@CowSaysMooMoo Жыл бұрын
Black Ma-RYE-a you dope...not Black Ma-REE-a
@samaralyn9646 Жыл бұрын
why are we so bad to eachother
@ef1876 Жыл бұрын
“Inventor”
@kittymarch4203 Жыл бұрын
of course he was born in ohio
@overagain5 Жыл бұрын
bro I go to a school by his name...
@HONEYWHERESMYSUPERSUIT. Жыл бұрын
Move out of there
@overagain5 Жыл бұрын
@@HONEYWHERESMYSUPERSUIT. trust me, I want to...
@Native722 6 ай бұрын
Nikola Tesla
@9ninrninr947 Жыл бұрын
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.
@Only1Noodle Жыл бұрын
If you mention Topsy, just FYI, Edison wasn't there when Topsy was electrocuted.
@sergeantmasson3669 Жыл бұрын
Only1Noodle, Edison hired other people to do it for him, PUTZ.
@Emma-di3bc Жыл бұрын
My dad works for Edison gotta show this to him lol
@johnpeter1917 Жыл бұрын
Works for Edison?
@jaybird46 Жыл бұрын
@@johnpeter1917 more like Edison's company - General Electric probably
@SpookyDogVomit Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the seizure
@antoniocastilloiii3465 7 ай бұрын
Tesla Forever
@philsophkenny Жыл бұрын
🤔
@elenamarchi2061 8 ай бұрын
era diventato sordo e si era inventato un'incredibile!
@scottieman2 Жыл бұрын
I'm okay with Tom.
@starkjet2197 Жыл бұрын
Topsey the elephant
@melsterifficmama1808 Жыл бұрын
Good video, but the narrator talks a bit too quickly. This comment is coming from someone who routinely speeds up slow talking videos.
@goldenrules5697 21 күн бұрын
Edison 👍
@amirnaim3675 Жыл бұрын
The darkside of Thomas Edison is his armpit. You're welcome
@CAC6363 Жыл бұрын
Thomas Edison stole parents he didn’t do sht
@subnoizesoldier2 6 ай бұрын
So he’s pretty much a thief that’s what I get out of it. 🧐😒
@Ichigo6921 Жыл бұрын
Down in Ohio swag in ohio😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅
@mkultra1074 Жыл бұрын
Ohio, no wonder
@ScotianBlooded Жыл бұрын
Without him we may not be watching this right now
@juliusmickevicius5975 Жыл бұрын
only in ohio
@9ninrninr947 Жыл бұрын
Hows Buzzfeed going to be racist today?
@ebonyk8400 Жыл бұрын
This isn't the same without Shane and Ryan 💔
@coolasnubben463 Жыл бұрын
just go to watcher and watch ghost files
@g.ecoleman5910 Жыл бұрын
No one cares anymore, go to watcher then.
@aodigital9421 Жыл бұрын
Dude, this isn't even an unsolved ep, shut up.
@greygrunge01 Жыл бұрын
Get over it
@chernobyl49 Жыл бұрын
Only in Ohio
@ikerina Жыл бұрын
Everyone steals. No one is innocent
@mohsinAli-hq1nd Жыл бұрын
thomas edison. synonym with deception.
@user-cp5tl5yq2o 8 ай бұрын
Bahut gandi hai Edison is ❤❤😂😂😂
@YTChannel344 Жыл бұрын
He was a con-artist.
@gonhunter3994 Жыл бұрын
*Ruthless thief
@nonsenseyt_ 7 ай бұрын
He took their ideas, analyzed them to see why they were unsuccessful, and then worked on improving them.
@mikeyschwarzenegger2430 11 ай бұрын
edison look like fat baster from monster in ep 1
@spark556 Жыл бұрын
Stole all ideas from Tesla
@arghadeb9180 Жыл бұрын
He is American hero.. the best n perfect example just like Steve Jobs n mark suckkerberg
@robloxgamedev2795 Жыл бұрын
mark suckkerberg bruh:)))
@georgepalau4078 4 ай бұрын
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.
@snowytm. Жыл бұрын
Petition to bring back Ryan and Shane
@snowytm. Жыл бұрын
@@Pzykovsky channel name 🥺🥺
@Pzykovsky Жыл бұрын
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.
@Pzykovsky Жыл бұрын
@@snowytm. Watcher
@monekysunglsa6682 Жыл бұрын
@@snowytm. the watcher
@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын
It is never going to happen.
@daviddazer2425 Жыл бұрын
Wow! So much misinformation in one video! Please learn how to pronounce Milan, Black Maria, and Mina.
@amirmousawi9156 5 ай бұрын
All lies.
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