Part of why Simon's channels are so good is that Simon not only employs excellent writers, he also respects you guys and makes sure to give you the credit you deserve. Hats off to you, Katie!
@pixelapocrypha
Жыл бұрын
As someone who would love to be a writer one day it really makes my day that he always gives a shoutout to his writers.
@charliehunter9257
6 ай бұрын
@@pixelapocrypha He doesn't pay them. He keeps them locked in his basement and tosses them stale beer and Kinder Eggs to live off of. This is known. All jokes aside, the team behind the Simon Whistler Empire is amazing. He is one of the best presenters to grace youtube, and in addition to being a great reader and speaker, he has a knack for finding wonderful writers.
@StevenLockey
Жыл бұрын
Think we need a script on how Princess Diana died, just to see how much Simon can resist constantly going on about the royals 🤣
@DeathByBlonde1
Жыл бұрын
I am so here for this… tons of “allegedly” throughout the entire video.
@tubensalat1453
Жыл бұрын
@@DeathByBlonde1 And "in my opinion".
@kaluca
Жыл бұрын
omg yesss
@killielila
Жыл бұрын
oooh even just a book review of that book n the stuff going on now
@nicci6751
Жыл бұрын
Seriously? Dianna, Princess of Wales died from injuries sustained in a car accident. The driver was under the influence and Dianna didn't have a seat belt on..End of. The culpability of the chasing paparazzi cannot be diminished either. As for the Ginger Whinger and his wife Yoko Moan-oh, who really gives one walking, talking, crawling, running and/ or flying f*ck?
@jajssblue
Жыл бұрын
Sounds like we need a DTU on Thomas Edison and what he actually did and didn't invent. And the other BS he got up to.
@rodziegman
Жыл бұрын
No thanks, history has been rewritten around him already, and the actual truth will never be known, just like with tesla, fyi, he was an idiot and had zero common sense. Oh, yeah, and aliens.
@multipletanksyndrome
Жыл бұрын
He was like a domain squatter, except with patents.
@InquisMalleus
Жыл бұрын
His best invention was how to steal credit for other people's work. Like an old school Elon Musk. He had an "invention factory" where he hired scientists and developers to do their thing where they got paid money and he patented it all. He took all the credit, and the majority of the money. He promised a minor invention every week and a major one every other month. Considering he, at one point, had his name on nearly 1000 patents, that DTU would be a series that would be hundreds of parts - just on that. Then his work on creating the first industry cartel, creating monopolies, and so much more, another few hundred episodes.
@willmfrank
Жыл бұрын
@@multipletanksyndrome If Edison were alive today, he wouldn't be called an "inventor." He would be called a "Manager of a Product Development Company." ...Among other things...🤨
@MorganHorse
Жыл бұрын
@@willmfrank and he’d have an army of simps like Musk
@SquirrelArmyStudios2015
Жыл бұрын
I asked for this after the shocking omission of his work from the previous moving pictures video. Good to see his story finally being told!
@AdamOBrien29
Жыл бұрын
And as we know 'you don't fuck with squirrels'
@cris_j
Жыл бұрын
Always a joy to hear Simon declare his modus operandi while telling the criminal underworld how to stop getting caught!
@cris_j
Жыл бұрын
@Decoding_the_unknown SCAM!
@garbagesoupcan
Жыл бұрын
Oh man this is one of my favourites and I haven't heard the story in ages, I'm so ready for Fact Boy's big brain take on this. The past really was the worst I guess.
@MichaelEilers
Жыл бұрын
If you ever get a chance to see a well preserved Daguerreotype, do it, they are incredible. It’s a shame we went to cheaper celluloid so quickly.
@audreymuzingo933
Жыл бұрын
They're fairly common at antique stores and flea markets where I live in Mobile, Alabama. I even found several small ones in a storage unit that I won at auction, sold them on Ebay, kind of regret that I didn't keep at least one (would have been beautiful framed on the wall). But I could say the same of hundreds of items over the years, that's just the life of a full-time treasure hunter. At the end of the day, the math logic is pretty simple. If I have something I really like and might like to keep, I find out how much I could likely sell it for, then the question is, 'Would I PAY that much to buy it for myself right now?' and the answer is almost always 'No.' Exceptions include a few pieces of jewelry, a couple ceramics, several unusual coins that are surprisingly "worthless", an antique pair of cowboy spurs I knew my oddball teen kid would love (and indeed she wears them often), and a flawless fossil of a baby Hyphalosaurus (think: squirrel-sized Loch Ness monster). But the nice thing is, just because I might not pay for something now doesn't mean I have to sell it now, so sometimes I will just keep and enjoy an item for a while, like this $5-600 Victorian jewelry set I just found; I'll wear it to a Mardi Gras ball next month, then sling it to whatever rich gal wants to possess it forever, ha. Sorry this went way OT, I'm stalling to do some photography that will involve trying to find my USB microscope (for error coins). Can't even imagine doing all the labor it took to produce Daguerrotypes, and how careful you'd have to be, lest you waste materials. Not like now when you can shoot limitless digital files and edit them.
@RealElongatedMuskrat
Жыл бұрын
@@audreymuzingo933 from one treasure hunter to another, howdy partner. Thank you for your comment, I love hearing about others' finds.
@audreymuzingo933
Жыл бұрын
@@RealElongatedMuskrat Oh, aye? What kind of hunting do you do? Besides thrift/flea market/garage/estate sale/storage units, I have gotten into metal detecting. Haven't found anything that great (Mobile is America's 14th oldest city, a port, and a Civil War site, so probably some incredible treasures in the ground, but trouble is it's also the #1 rainiest city in America, so anything that's not a noble metal just becomes part of the soil before long). Before I got into manmade/fossil treasures, I was netting pretty little fish and other organisms you can find locally here, selling them online and shipping them all over the U.S. One of these days I will try a sort of combination of those things: "magnet fishing" (search on KZitem if you don't know what that is). You got any good yarns to tell?
@MCsCreations
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating. I knew that Edson was shady, but... At this point? Impressive.
@Amarianee
Жыл бұрын
"Shady" is generous. He was cutthroat. I really don't think Edison having at least _something_ to do with the death, is nearly as farfetched as Simon thinks it is.
@jaredevildog6343
Жыл бұрын
I can't be the only one that wishes the sound on Simon's channels could be more consistent. I always have my phone's volume up and his voice constantly fluctuates .
@Pomshka
Жыл бұрын
I thought it was just my crappy phone!! I had the volume all the way up and then it suddenly went super quiet!
@--enyo--
Жыл бұрын
Eh, honestly you have to adjust for every channel, and it’s actually comparatively consistent between Simon’s channels so not something I ever noticed much.
@carminethewolf
Жыл бұрын
"Never write down your crimes - what are you doing, that's insane!" - I think that's a large part of the issue here!
@inspirationaltrash3134
Жыл бұрын
You should look into Dear David. It's got your two favorite things. Twitter and ghosts.
@rodziegman
Жыл бұрын
Theory 6: he decided to set up his camera to get a view from the train and fell off while filming. People probably just stole his other luggage.
@leochen7472
Жыл бұрын
But if that is true, then there should be at least some passengers that will notice this happen.
@ignitionfrn2223
Жыл бұрын
2:35 - Chapter 1 - Some background 10:55 - Chapter 2 - Thomas Edison 17:10 - Chapter 3 - The theories 17:30 - Chapter 3.1 - His family made him go in hiding for being gay 19:00 - Chapter 3.2 - He killed himself 20:25 - Chapter 3.3 - Killed by edison 24:40 - Chapter 3.4 - The brother did it 27:30 - Chapter 3.5 - A random attack 28:15 - Conclusion
@AdamOBrien29
Жыл бұрын
It's the remix to ignition hot and fresh out the kitchen
@nathannewman3968
Жыл бұрын
How do we know there wasn't a clerical error regarding the corpse's height? The dead body referenced definitely could have been la Prince.
@porcupine_cake
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing!
@ComedorDelrico
Жыл бұрын
It did look a LOT like him.
@SmartStart24
Жыл бұрын
I find the story of Louis LePrince sooo interesting. He was really a brilliant and creative man and it’s truly unfortunate he was taken too soon and didn’t receive his flowers while he was here! Oh and Thomas Edison was a sociopath 😛
@kev3d
Жыл бұрын
A "sociopath" who...funded research and development into useful and desirable technology?
@SmartStart24
Жыл бұрын
@@kev3d Yes, as many do lol
@semaj_5022
Жыл бұрын
@kev3d Oh yeah. Plenty of sociopaths have made major contributions to the world. They just have zero qualms about stepping on others to make their goals a reality. That's why high-level corporate folks(CEOs, COOs, Presidents, etc.) and rulers/leaders have a higher rate of sociopathy than the general public.
@EscapingMidnight24
Жыл бұрын
@@kev3dhe also electrocuted an elephant and other animals and filmed it to try and scare people out of using his rivals technology. Sounds pretty sociopathic to me
@mernokimuvek
Жыл бұрын
@@kev3d He didnt fund reserch and development. He was a thief who stole others ideas and even electrocuted innocent animals to scare people from alternating current promoted by Tesla and Westinghouse.
@arizonatsunami
Жыл бұрын
I know I say this each time but I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR SO LONG!!!!
@frederikvansteen3971
Жыл бұрын
Thank you, learned something. Always thought that Muybridges running horse was the first motion picture.
@erraticonteuse
Жыл бұрын
Muybridge's horse photos weren't intended to be viewed in motion, though. He was just trying to get one picture that proved all four of a horse's hooves left the ground during a gallop, and the only way to do that was to take dozens of photos of a horse galloping. The fact that the whole series *can* be viewed in motion is certainly cool, but calling it a motion picture is like calling the hand-drawn flipbooks and zootropes that preceded it by centuries "cartoons". They both work on our eyes and brains the same way, but Muybridge's rig (dozens of still cameras lined up with their shutters on a tripwire) could never have produced anything like a movie.
@annaschwirian7548
Жыл бұрын
I honestly lean towards the eddison theory. Eddison was a very shady guy who used a lot of people. Just look at what he did to tesla. Eddison was known to hire "thinkers" and then take there ideas and work for himself. Later bad mouthing them . To me this isn't a far stretch from hiring someone to make a competitor disappear.
@dominickskinner407
Жыл бұрын
I'd love to see a video on the list of the disappeared, those who went missing during the troubles and weren't found. All with varying degrees of connection to the conflict
@AngeliqueStP
Жыл бұрын
On the topic of famous disappearances... may we have one on JUDGE CRATER? Please and thank you. He is kind of the 'Jimmy-Hoffa-case-before-Jimmy-Hoffa' i.e. THE most infamous disappearance of his time.
@audreymuzingo933
Жыл бұрын
Okay but HOW MUCH DIFFERENT was the height of the body found in the river? The (lying down) length and (standing up) height of a body can be surprisingly different, despite technically being the same statement of fact; what can cause a big disparity is gravity and an individual's posture. Also it used to be commonplace for a person's stated height to include shoe heels, an inch or two for men, two or more for women.
@katywatson4940
Жыл бұрын
I don’t think the height was officially given but as Le Prince was noticeably taller than average, it probably would have been noted if it was him.
@audreymuzingo933
Жыл бұрын
@@katywatson4940 Yeah I reckon so. Still would have been nice to hear if that detail was stated, also if they figured out who the man really was. Poor dude's biggest claim to fame is being "not LePrince". 😢
@pgbrown12084
Жыл бұрын
Aw man! No alien conspiracy!? Unhinged Simon is my favorite Simon...
@willmfrank
Жыл бұрын
"NO! It's NOT aliens! It's NEVER aliens! What is WRONG with you?!" 😁😆
@AdamOBrien29
Жыл бұрын
Watch early business blaze vids
@baalzeebub4230
Жыл бұрын
Lizard men forced the aliens to give us the plans to the movie camera, don’t you know?
@cricutcraftscrime
Жыл бұрын
Omg Jen. I normally listen only, but that edit when he was talking about writing down "I killed Jeff today" was *chef's kiss*
@sekaramochi
Жыл бұрын
Sorry but this may sound bad, but I love listening to your voice to fall asleep too, you comment in my dreams like a sweet Freddie Kruger no blades, just enjoyment and enlightenment ♥️
@Apr0x1m0
Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the INSANE amount of money Tesla couldve made charging per kw produced, but decided to give his AC power to the world to better mankind.
@antbrigade__
Жыл бұрын
kinda hoped musk would go down the cazy philandropist route as did tesla...
@myself2noone
2 ай бұрын
Tesla didn't invent AC power. He did make an AC generator, but someone else had to make it actually work.
@WatashiMachineFullCycle
Жыл бұрын
Oh dang just finished casual criminalist and now we're here let's go
@pakde8002
Жыл бұрын
The body found in the river wasn't the same height but things tend to shrink in water, especially cold water. Just saying.
@JamesFromTexas
Жыл бұрын
It's kind of like how Elon Musk doesn't invent very much, he just pays for everything. ETA: He's Edison reincarnate.
@isaackolman2861
Жыл бұрын
Very true, I don't think he invents much, he just hires the right people to invent the ideas he dreams up, not much different than Edison. it just seems like he's not quite as douchey as Edison when it comes to patents.
@charlesmuench2021
Жыл бұрын
@isaackolman2861 he doesn't even dream it up. He just buys other people's ideas and pays people (with tax payer money) to invent them. He then claims credit for everything. Dude is a leech.
@AngeliqueStP
Жыл бұрын
@@charlesmuench2021 Bingo.
@Amarianee
Жыл бұрын
Eh, I stand by Steve Jobs being the modern day Edison. I can agree that, now that he's gone, Musk fits the bill, but even he pays more for what he takes credit for than either of the former two.
@anthonyperno1348
Жыл бұрын
I have no problem comparing Musk to say a 'Carnegie,' but I bristle that he fancies himself a 'Tesla.' Musk is a master entrepreneur, but he has broken no new ground, both his car and his rocket are existing technologies mastered. That is no small achievement and being compared to Carnegie no small compliment, but he is not the great 'thinker' or innovator Tesla was.
@BruceBoyde
Жыл бұрын
Oh man, fact boy watched Pig? That movie was a really unexpectedly great film. Totally agree with the sentiment that sometimes I'm perfectly happy to watch action movie garbage that's just fun too.
@robincowley5823
Жыл бұрын
I've always wondered about the 'jumping from the train suicide'/'done in by Edison's boys and thrown off the train' angles from the very simple 'where's the body?' perspective.' Of course, it's always possible to time it in such a way as to go over a bridge and into a river, but at speed that's actually pretty difficult, and even if someone managed to jump whilst the train was on a bridge, there's a strong possibility of hitting a river bank rather than mid stream, and even mid stream it's unlikely a body won't be snagged, washed ashore, spotted downstream, etc. So, possible, but most times I'd expect.a body to be found.
@ComedorDelrico
Жыл бұрын
I don't think trains were very fast back then. I suppose whether or not that's a likely scenario would depend on how wide the river was.
@elphiegleason3899
Жыл бұрын
It’s great when you get home and Fact Boy has uploaded
@skunkymule6993
Жыл бұрын
I absolutly love this channel😍 could you maybe look into the "marfa lights?"
@jrmckim
Жыл бұрын
That's a good suggestion 👌🏻
@davidt3563
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure if we could go pluck Le Prince from time and show him a few movies and his influence on our culture he would be ecstatic. Once we taught him the high five he would have high fived everyone in the theater.
@awolfkissedbyfire
Жыл бұрын
Look I think the missing luggage could be a red herring itself, if the patents weren't in it. I mean it wouldn't be much for it to be stolen by someone else on the train, it happened a lot in the day. However, the patents being with the luggage is an interesting note, unless the person who stole it had no idea what they were or didn't care and destroyed them, I would think they would resurface.
@DrD0000M
Жыл бұрын
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages." "My main purpose in life is to make enough money to create ever more inventions.... The dove is my emblem.... I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it.... I am proud of the fact that I have never invented weapons to kill...." -Thomas A. Edison
@Vaeldarg
Жыл бұрын
"Now, time has come to connect the wires required to get to destroying these animals' lives with electricity. Then later, I must wire that electric chair with my DC power so I can say it was done with Tesla's AC power." -also Thomas A. Edison, probably.
@myself2noone
2 ай бұрын
@@VaeldargHe provably never said anything like that. Edison was gone from the company that bore his name long before they were ever contracted to kill any animals.
@patrickmonks9761
Жыл бұрын
Excellent!!!
@jeremiahlarkins618
Жыл бұрын
How would you make a post that meets KZitem’s speech standards, but is still heavily laden with red flag phrases that would get you on every single watch list that exists?
@briankelley987
Жыл бұрын
New meaning to "The Great Train Robbery"
@granvilledauds8276
Жыл бұрын
I think Louis' brother killed him on the request of Edison. Then got a random person to get rid of the body. All the while Louis was thinking of going into hiding, because he was gay. There you go. All the theories bundled together and it makes as much sense as either one on it's own.
@sayharris1361
Жыл бұрын
Thanks Simon I didn't learn about Louis Le Prince at the Rhode Island school of design. I’ve always thought the Thomas Edison was a bit of a shyster.😂😅😂
@canaan5337
Жыл бұрын
Edison was the Steve Jobs or Elon Musk of his day. He employed people much smarter than himself to do all of the actual work of figuring out how to create the brilliant cutting edge technology that was fairly obviously needed, and then, of course, took all of the credit for creating it for himself, as if he had invented it all alone with no help from anyone.
@Aztesticals
Жыл бұрын
Oh we definitely need a full Edison video for Simon to see the shear vitriol that existed in that "scientists" head. He was smart. And di invent some stuff. But his willingness to litteraly fire employees, take all of their work that they had done independently, hold onto it for a while, and then re write and draw up everything in his style before destroying the original inventors work. Then patented it under his own name. This was also done with the help of several of these lawyers. It is possible that upwards of 80% of all Edison patents were the result of spying on other inventors, stealing work he had no involvement in or even the actual knowledge to have come up with himself if not for stealing. Or outright just patenting stuff patented in other countries in the usa before the usa was even aware of the patent from the other nation due to Edison having colleges in many other industrial nations who would be able to get him exact details on soon to be patented inventions. Allowing Edison to patent either before or at near the same time as the other inventor. And by being in the usa having the ability to almost always outcompete or bully the other into acquiescence
@--enyo--
Жыл бұрын
Could whoever wrote the Ourang Medan episode with it’s frankly awesome source deep diving cover Gloria Ramirez ‘the toxic woman’s death? I feel like it’s one of those ones that got very exaggerated and rumours were repeated so much they became fact in the public record.
@czb117
Жыл бұрын
This one wrapped up so fast towards the end. I guess that can't be helped when there's not much evidence to go on.
@jaymogrified
Жыл бұрын
The thing I keep sticking on is the fact that Louis specifically had to disappear in order to ensure that he could never be crowned as the inventor. I.e., because there was no body, he couldn’t be declared dead and therefore the family couldn’t legally do anything with his existing patents and he just happened to disappear right before he was going to show his invention in New York…that’s just so incredibly convenient for Edison 😒
@TheAntiburglar
Жыл бұрын
The moral of any story involving Edison is that he was a massive bellend :p
@maledictionwolf
Жыл бұрын
16:40 the music sting here is *chefs kiss*
@kriz2432
Жыл бұрын
What did you do Simon... 😳 WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!?! 😱(Allegedly, lol.) 🤣
@aaronsavage1234
Жыл бұрын
Have you done an episode about Nicola Tesla? I wonder what he’d make of the modern era? I wonder what inventions he’d come up with our current tech.
@itarry4
Жыл бұрын
It's such a shame we'll never know. Just knowing what he might have done if Edison hadn't stood in his way would be fascinating, how different would the world be if he'd won the power wars, as in reality he should have.
@Benspooky
Жыл бұрын
He didn't steal all of them he invented the electric chair
@Robbi496
Жыл бұрын
WRONG That was George Westinghouse!
@markwelsh5005
Жыл бұрын
The only thing Edison invented was dirty tricks. He was a scumbag.
@mernokimuvek
Жыл бұрын
@@Robbi496 No ,Westinghouse didnt invent the lectric char. He promoted the use of alternating current and was against executions.
@Zyo117
Жыл бұрын
Edison's MPPC which got dissolved in an antitrust case sound pretty similar to the Motion Picture Association of America. You know, the ones who sue people for various reasons 😂
@kandreasworld4374
Жыл бұрын
Random act of violence doesn't make a lot of sense either. A crook would look for an easy mark, not a guy over six foot tall. He would have been rather imposing. And as you said before, people would have noticed him, making him a bad choice as well. And then his body would have been found almost immediately and someone would have cashed in on his property. None of that happened.
@ku8721
Жыл бұрын
THANK YOU!!! For giving the Edison Companys credit! So many people think Edison stole most inventions (which to be fair he DID do a little of that!) but most of "his" inventions were made by people who worked for him... like Nicola Tesla! If you PAY someone to design something then it is completely your property and then you can't "steal" it!!! Also Edison screwed Tesla over many times and I'm NOT saying he was a good guy but he doesn't deserve the hate he gets.
@anthonyperno1348
Жыл бұрын
They say extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence. Simon won't place Edison in his top three possibilities, yet it is Edison IMO who has the greatest motive, the best means, and the most damning circumstances. But simply because Edison is legendary any accusation made takes on the demand of being extraordinary. Meanwhile an accusation against the unknown brother Albert isn't set to such a high standard. Do famous people get away with malice more often because we are afraid of making accusations against legendary people. When one does, the general public is often quick to think tinfoil hat.
@freedabee1684
Жыл бұрын
liked this one a lot very well done
@scibanana3542
Жыл бұрын
I'm streaming this on KZitem and listening to audio through my headphones, but instead of watching with my eyes I'm playing geoguesser.
@LibraLevin
Жыл бұрын
Could you please do a video on Peter Artedi allegedly being murdered by Carl Linnaeus? Please? I’d love you emotionally ❤️
@VormirBlas
Жыл бұрын
You should do Hale Boggs and Nick Begich’s disappearance.
@JoeySchmidt74
Жыл бұрын
Before I watch this, I have a book on this called; The Missing Reel by Christopher Rawlence.
@codypickell9299
Жыл бұрын
Edison was most definitely not above offing people. If he couldn't destroy your reputation, or your company, it was just a little bit of money to get it done back then.
@did4h2k
Жыл бұрын
its good that more and more people listen to this as a podcast, that way they never find out your camera was quite out of focus ;)
@--enyo--
Жыл бұрын
I listen as a podcast but come over to KZitem if I want to leave a comment. 🤣
@TioRiCinema
11 ай бұрын
11:10 not really, Eadward Muybridge was able to do 8 frames a second with 16 lenses. Le prince used the same idea at first, but this used to create a paralax effect and flickering by taking shots from different angles, and 'the man at the corner' is the first really single lens camera with flexible movie roll, and it was 8 frames per second, same for his son playig accordeon, but with the improvement of the ISO on celluloid film rolls, he was able to shoot a movie with 12 or 16 fps, and 12fps seemed to be the standard from 1888-1895 (before Mélies)
@victoriarglez
Жыл бұрын
I'm working on my thesis that is about film music and while researching the hisotry of film I realized that the invention of the "movie camera" is very messy and, while well documented, not fully coherent. The Lumiere's invented the first "moving picture" device (at least in the official records, leaving out Louis Le Prince) and years later Dickson made the kinetoscope which could also record audio that could be played at the same time as the images where shown (the first audiovisual sych device... sort of) which was created at Eddison's Labs. I managed to find a digital version of a magazine where they officially announced the kinetoscope to the public, it has some sort of introduction text written by Eddison where he recognizes Dicksons work and then the article explains all the details of the device. At 12:19 the image shown is that of a kinetophone (or phonokinetoscope) which is what they created for people to watch the works done with the kinetoscope (and since it included a wax audio cinlinder "sychronized" to the moving pictures, that's why the person photographed has earphones on). Of course, if this technology would've been well recieved by everyone, this wouldn't have been much of an issues when it came to pattents, since Le Prince's invention didn't include the audio aspect of the technology (although the photo-taking process might've made him entitled to royalties), regardless, the audio was simply discarded since the audio would often get "out of synch" and it just wasn't pleasent to the ears, so the rest is history, I guess. Very interesting video though!
@Ms.Pronounced_Name
8 ай бұрын
My prediction prior to watching: The Reptoids ate him, but Simon refuses to believe in the Reptoid menace.
@ellen4956
Жыл бұрын
Thomas Edison didn't invent lightbulbs. There were a lot of people working on the concept of a lightbulb as early as 1835 in England. The lightbulb was first patented in the U.S. by William Sawyer and Albon Man and by Joseph Swan in England. Edison infringed on those copyrights. But he merged his company with the others, making General Electric and Thomas-Houston in the U.S. and Ediswan in England. It would not be surprising at all if he killed Le Prince, a little known rival at the time, since Edison personally electrocuted dozens of dogs, an elephant, cattle and a horse in demonstrations at fairs and in his lab. In one of these cruel demonstrations Edison ran electric current to a sheet of tin, poured water on it and got a dog to try to drink from it which killed it instantly. He killed many dogs this way in an effort to discredit AC electricity which his rivals Tesla and Westinghouse promoted. Edison and Harold Brown developed the electric chair. Today AC is used almost everywhere, so Edison's killing spree did not achieve his goals.
@vkbluerose
Жыл бұрын
Hey Simon, can you do a video on the sounds under the Euphrates river?
@jamesnonn8794
Жыл бұрын
F*****g hell your commentary is gold 😂
@jennyl7275
Жыл бұрын
Suggestion: Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, Arizona
@AutoReport1
Жыл бұрын
Argued with his brother over the house, cracked his head, never got on the train.
@crazyeyez1502
Жыл бұрын
30min and one second run time? Odd
@victoriaeads6126
Жыл бұрын
Edison, from what I know, was to late 19th/early 20th century inventing much like what record companies were to musicians (especially Black and Brown musicians) in the mid 20th century. He had some credit due him, but much of it was using contracts to take credit for the inventions of others and take primary control of the patents. Since the patents were the real money makers, he was essentially taking most of the royalties from inventions his employees created. Lockheed doesn't pretend that one guy is the god who designs all the planes.
@nikkicat254
Жыл бұрын
I would think that the first person to be able to show a film on a screen, for more then just one person to watch, might be the one to have done something to La Prince! While I admit that I don't know much of the history of film making, I do know enough about Edison to suspect him above anyone of being involved in his disappearance! I mean I have heard of so many stories about different people who created something, that Edison claimed that he did, when in fact he really didn't create anything himself, he was an opportunist, plain and simple, he was also a Nazi sympathizer, just like Henry Ford! In fact, from what I have just found elsewhere, La Prince disappeared in 1890, Edison supposedly begun experimenting with using a strips of celluloid film to capture moving images in 1890 too, he claimed his workers did, well one William Kennedy Dickson, which was mentioned here, and then in 1891 they presented this work to the public! Coincidence? I highly think NOT!
@bungarraoz254
Жыл бұрын
Same thing happened to Rudolph Diesel, "jumped" overboard his ship.
@foxesofautumn
Жыл бұрын
It’s possible Edison sent his heavies to deal with LLP, just rough him up maybe, and they went too far by accident.
@ducksan3519
Жыл бұрын
You should do a vid on Bohemian Grove.
@sniperblast
Жыл бұрын
Any updates on those Casual Criminalist notebooks?
@Hykje
Жыл бұрын
Le Prince's motion picture camera may have been groundbreaking but film critics found his movies to be shallow and lacking character development.
@SLorraineE
Жыл бұрын
I feel the same way about movies, Simon. I'm watching this to be entertained, not to be scared or sad or whatever. If it isn't exciting, fun, or heartwarming, I'm not interested
@charlesjmouse
Жыл бұрын
William Friese-Greene Eddison and Tesla, "I invented the lightbulb!" Meanwhile in the UK... Joseph Swan, "Nope. Been there, got the t-shirt, and a luscious beard to boot."
@se7enity648
Жыл бұрын
Does your casual criminalist notebook exist yet?
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot
Жыл бұрын
I lean towards le Prince's brother...... in a dispute over their mother's house? & then the brother sold LlP's stuff to Edison, or an intermediary? It doesn't necessarily have to be intentional . Could have been accidental, during an argument/fight. In other cases of disappearance , the last person known to see the missing person alive would be the prime suspect, especially if there was the possibility of a financial issue. How many times on Casual Criminalist has it come up that the "he got on a train/she went to her mother's house/he's away on business"-type story was BS ? Dr Crippen, for ex.
@MichaelMikeTheRussianBot
Жыл бұрын
#SCAM :P
@austinreuber4247
Жыл бұрын
Simons ADD is strong in this one lol
@patrickbrumm4120
Жыл бұрын
Hey Simon! How about an episode on The Mysterious Fates of the Bog Bodies? It includes missing nipples.
@j.pershing2197
Жыл бұрын
How many channels does Simon narrate?
@Eliza-rj7hq
Жыл бұрын
I’d love to see a fact boy reading on the “Black knight satellite” !! Aliens, your favourite
@randallcraft4071
Жыл бұрын
That plaque doesn't look like the other UK ones I've seen that looks like the US ones cause dang it's full
@audreymuzingo933
Жыл бұрын
Ugh! Simon, there's only one 'L' in the word lengthy. It's "length-ee" not "length-lee." And don't anyone call me an oration notsee. Simon literally has ONE job, Script Orator.
@christinebenson518
Жыл бұрын
How dare you! He also needs to hit a record button, make sure lights and cameras are on. He also needs to take food and water down to the writers and editors allegedly chained to the radiator. I really can't judge how another says words because I say strawberry as shhtrawberry.
@audreymuzingo933
Жыл бұрын
@@christinebenson518 Aww but shhtrawberry is CUTE!
@bdank42069
Жыл бұрын
You guys should do one on bohemian grove
@donsandsii4642
Жыл бұрын
Comming soon Simon in IMAX 3D?
@ronsimpsonll9739
Жыл бұрын
Tesla. The greatest mind of our lifetime. Never asked for anything. Just gave it all...
@aarontaylor4967
Жыл бұрын
Metz. That is the name of my favourite alcopop in about 1994. Didn't realise it was also a place until now.
@syntaxerror9994
Жыл бұрын
How come this podcast isn't on Audible?
@chipknapp9003
Жыл бұрын
You should do an episode on sky trumpets.
@cricutcraftscrime
Жыл бұрын
Love when creators remind me to like. I'm a horrible creator cuz I don't remind people hahaha
@justanotherfella4585
Жыл бұрын
At last…There was a beautiful podcast that lit this story. BBC
@christopherkarr1872
8 ай бұрын
Were I Danny, I might use my eyeballs to listen. Low frequency oscillations can easily be felt in the eyeballs if your senses aren't respectively overwhelmed by sight.
@safiremorningstar
Жыл бұрын
Edison was for all practical purposes one of the first big conglomerate mafiosos. If you look further into Edison find that he along with two others tried to prevent possibility light bulbs lasting longer to do that they had to come up with a mutual beneficial conglomeration to shorten the length of the light bulb.
@lindaboggess7634
Жыл бұрын
Check into Edison vs Tesla (I am not talking about Elon)!
@robertcarter9535
Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure the first moving picture was running horse done by some guy from California I can’t remember his name… But Simon you’ve done a video on this guy… What about the Runninghorse moving picture… Wasn’t that the first video?
@salty6pence672
Жыл бұрын
NO EDISON worked at the patent office and somehow his patents'' were just slightly modified versions of other patents. BORROWED? STOLEN You decide.
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