This French inventor stepped onto a train… and disappeared from history
Unsolved has merch! Check it out here:
Watch on Amazon Instant Video:
Watch on Hulu:
Check out our BuzzFeed Original Series channel on Roku:
GET MORE BUZZFEED:
BuzzFeedBlue
Sports, video games, Unsolved & more epic daily videos!
MUSIC
Licensed via Audio Network
SFX Provided By AudioBlocks
(
STILLS
Old Film Light Leaks Loop – with Audio (Full HD)
TheMediaSuitcase/Getty Images
Black and white drawing of a toolbox
ivan-96/Getty Images
Chemistry worktable
duncan1890/Getty Images
Theater hall with red seat and wide blank white screen
razihusin/Getty Images
Group of multi-ethnic business people
Rawpixel/Getty Images
People in 19th century style dress
4×6/Getty Images
Archival papers
bibikoff/Getty Images
Multiple silhouettes of business people
4×6/Getty Images
Close-up portrait of mature woman with short blond hair
Vladimir Godnik/Getty Images
Set of various paint splatters
itchySan/Getty Images
Finger Print Distressed
ScottTalent/Getty Images
Vintage light bulbs
choness/Getty Images
England, Lancashire, Blackpool
Adrian Pope/Getty Images
vintage map of the world 1831
javarman3/Getty Images
London Pub with Jack the Ripper Theme
Alen MacWeeney/Getty Images
Boy Looking at Paintings in Museum
Randy Faris/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images
Torso of a murdered victim that washed up on a beach in Miami, Florida
Nathan Benn / Contributor/Getty Images
Crinan Canal at Lochgilphead, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, 19th Century
duncan1890/Getty Images
Cropped Hand Holding Binoculars Against Lake
Fokke Baarssen / EyeEm/Getty Images
Edison’s First Motion Picture Camera
Historical / Contributor/Getty Images
Laterna magica, Paris 1871, wood engraving, published in 1877
ZU_09/Getty Images
Close-Up Of Train On Railroad Track
Michal Hulimka / EyeEm/Getty Images
Contours of Public Professions People
OsAdiemus/Getty Images
Classic wild west steam train
vostal/Getty Images
Mature man wearing a denim shirt
Image Source/Getty Images
Magic Lantern
manx_in_the_world/Getty Images
The Majestic Eiffel Tower in Paris
Paulo Amorim/Getty Images
Newspaper stack abstract background series
_ultraforma_/Getty Images
photo accessories
ivan-96/Getty Images
Portrait of adult businessman wearing trendy suit and sitting studio
Pinkypills/Getty Images
Phantasmagoria after Moreau in France
Grafissimo/Getty Images
vintage portrait
andipantz/Getty Images
money icons universal set
rashadashurov/Getty Images
Set of trains icons isolated on white background. Design elements for logo, label, emblem, sign, brand mark.
ioanmasay/Getty Images
Serious priviate eye in film noir style
Alina555/Getty Images
Confident agent in trench coat, film noir
cyano66/Getty Images
Inventor Of Cinematography
Hulton Archive / Stringer/Getty Images
Diesel locomotive
Barbulat/Getty Images
Multiple images of man stepping up and reaching high
4×6/Getty Images
Antique photo of paintings: Man portrait
ilbusca/Getty Images
Shadow of a man on patterened sidewalk
AlexLinch/Getty Images
Gun and automatic weapon vector icons. Military combat firearms pictograms
MicrovOne/Getty Images
Man shooting himself in the head with a gun
4×6/Getty Images
Legal law concept image
BCFC/Getty Images
four photographs of nature
vetkit/Getty Images
Credits:
EXTERNAL CREDITS
Rick Weller- GFX Artist
this comment section: thomas edison roast party
why do they shadow some faces but not others?
God damn…I used to respect Thomas Edison (granted, I didn't know a great deal about him other than he was an inventor) but wow…what a tool. He shouldn't get credit for anything!
i fucking new it
5:30 I CAUGHT THAT SCOTT JOPLIN BIT! THE ENTERTAINER! I SEE YOU!
hate to rain on ur parade but the 16th of september 1890 was a tuesday
"Well, if this were true, then why have I never heard of him?"
Nikola Tesla: *looks at camera*
Here is where I will point out that Thomas Edison was alleged to have ties to organized crime.
I will also point out that organized crime in his state of residence, New York, was unbridled during this period.
Id imagine he took out some shady personal loans, the loan sharks found out what he was doing with the funds, and decided to give their pal Edison notice.
Edison even has a shifty smug look in his young man picture.
I lost respect for Thomas Edison when I learned the truth. He took credit for other people's work. Very much what Donald Trump does. :-[ :-
I had to write an essay on this guy two weeks ago. This is why people need to watch more YouTube.
I had to write an essay on this for my state testing
I'm going insane listening to Ryan pronounce "patents" as "paddens".
"I just thought this was a great opportunity for you, as a fellow LOTR tree-"
"They're called ENTS."
lmao
I wonder if he's still alive today… Oh wait-
I miss true crime😭
why does it seem like edison just stole everything..
Louise belcher would be proud!^~^
It was the magic buffers
Change my mind
Edison seems to have taken credit for a lot of things other inventors had already created
Phew thank god he’s dead cause when I was four I invented a marble slide. He woulda stole that too. btw I’m setting up a kickstarter to fund my marble slides patent pls support me.
Thomas Edison is the real-life Gilderoy Lockhart
why did he carry valuable documents on a train ALONE?
why not bring a bodyguard?
also killing someone 6ft 4in on a train would be difficult to hide and getting him off unseen would be a nightmare
so he was probably forced off at gun point and taken to some lonely place and killed
i heard edison got a telegram and all it said was "ITS DONE"!
Edison was because of the cinematograph the equivelant of a billionaire
it was massively popular
today we televise what edison did openly and its called…
DRAGONS DEN!
Can you imagine how many women and other minorities must have gone through a similar experience if this happened to a white man?
So this is what inspired Chanyeol's character arc in Memories of Alhambra. Love learning new things every day.
Dang this guys died on my birthday 😐
Or well disappeared??
Okay but a debt of $84,000 is less than most people’s college loans….
Poor Louis. He deserves all the credit he can get….same goes for the other inventors whose inventions were stolen by another cough Edison cough
Thomas Edison is a b*tch and if I could call upon any dead person from the past I would call upon him and slap his face.
But that’s just the tea sis…
September 16, 1890 was a Tuesday, not Monday.
I feel like the fact that so many people vanished before the invention of dna testing, effective policing, cctv etc isn't all that shocking. So much evidence would have just been completely lost.
I think thomas edison stole the panents from louis le prince
Only if Ryan and Shane were my history teachers… I wouldn't have to work 2x harder for the history paper I flunked…. 2times.
my heart breaks for louis le prince… god how awful </3
So it means that… Thomas Edison could be the one who stole the discovery of light bulb too💡, right?
@18:50 mark… lol The pronunciation of executor.
Why is nobody talking about how on every map they show, Switzerland is a sea or a massive lake….
911 was done by whoever has DEW. Nikola Tesla knew about the dielectric, he told us about heat from air. Lightning isn't electricity it's the dielectric, it happens in counterspace, 2 planes didn't destroy 7 whole buildings, directed energy did, molecules shook apart, acres of porcelain bathrooms turned to dust in 8 seconds.
Einstein's patents = 0
Tesla's patents = 700
If you put Einstein above Nikola Tesla you got cucked. Atomism was debunked centuries ago by Platonists, Maths isn't Physics. Maths is just a language, like Music, very pretty, very elegant but that's all, QT & TR are hilarious Faith is required lol that's NOT HOW TO SCIENCE. A quantum can be anything, anything at all, anything you don't know the measurement of, any unknown, unknowable, and FYI, light doesn't travel, light does NOT speed up after slowing down for glass, yes, your physics teacher lied to you. He was paid to teach you corporate bs.
Damn these comments
i can hear a silent icecream jingle and I thought i was going crazy.
Edison took out a hit. I’m sure of it
Thomas Edison was a fraud in everything he did
If I have a time machine good for one use that can take me to any time and then back to the present I would go back, punch Edison as hard as my tiny fist could and call him a thief, then yeet out of there
F*ck you edison!! Nobody in the whole world likes you!!