1 00:03:19,501 --> 00:03:20,335 Guys! 2 00:03:32,335 --> 00:03:34,626 I hope you brought your checkbook. 3 00:03:34,626 --> 00:03:38,626 4 00:03:56,835 --> 00:03:59,710 (WOMEN) The air brakes are paying for the latest obsession of George. 5 00:03:59,710 --> 00:04:06,085 By changing the size of the pipes, you can move the 20 km gas. 6 00:04:06,085 --> 00:04:07,793 It's like shooting with a pistol. 7 00:04:07,793 --> 00:04:10,501 It's a good or bad thing, Mrs. Westinghouse? 8 00:04:11,876 --> 00:04:14,460 - How's your daughter, Gladys? - Oh, very well, thank you. 9 00:04:14,460 --> 00:04:16,335 She knew a financier. 10 00:04:16,668 --> 00:04:20,210 - The dress is decorating delicious. - It took two years ... 11 00:04:20,210 --> 00:04:24,418 I read in The World that the electrical system of Mr. Edison 12 00:04:24,418 --> 00:04:29,210 It is considerably cheaper gas. This keeps you awake at night? 13 00:04:29,210 --> 00:04:31,460 There is always more to see. 14 00:04:32,251 --> 00:04:33,960 Mr. and Mrs. Worthington, 15 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:36,626 Mr. Manesberg, Doctor and Mrs. Burton, 16 00:04:36,626 --> 00:04:38,626 Rev. Vincent, Signor McCoy, 17 00:04:38,626 --> 00:04:41,126 Mr. Faulk, Miss Faulk, enjoy the evening. 18 00:04:53,918 --> 00:04:57,168 Edison says that in a few months will illuminate the world. 19 00:04:57,460 --> 00:05:01,835 It's amazing, but it will take ten years to put it into practice. 20 00:05:02,585 --> 00:05:05,626 The newspapers I describe it as if it were something different. 21 00:05:06,668 --> 00:05:08,251 A miracle. 22 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:12,085 As if we begin to Ievitare the ground. 23 00:05:13,335 --> 00:05:15,751 I'd love to meet him. You can think about you? 24 00:05:15,751 --> 00:05:17,460 - It's been several years. - A dinner. 25 00:05:17,460 --> 00:05:19,543 Quiet. Elegant. Pragmatics. 26 00:05:19,543 --> 00:05:23,460 Edison hates tie their shoes, let alone participate in a social event. 27 00:05:23,460 --> 00:05:24,626 Maybe you're right. 28 00:05:24,626 --> 00:05:26,126 But I myself try it. 29 00:05:29,376 --> 00:05:31,126 Something fascinating? 30 00:05:31,668 --> 00:05:35,501 Mr. Pennoyer found a deal for a building in Newport. 31 00:05:35,501 --> 00:05:37,293 The mother of Mrs. Abernathy died, 32 00:05:37,293 --> 00:05:40,585 and, apparently, Edison believes that it will never be night. 33 00:05:43,918 --> 00:05:46,335 - Are you happy to know the President? - Yup. 34 00:05:46,335 --> 00:05:48,251 Do not say anything on the JP Morgan nose. 35 00:05:48,251 --> 00:05:49,835 - What's her nose? - Anything. 36 00:05:49,835 --> 00:05:52,460 - What's her nose? - It's huge. 37 00:05:52,460 --> 00:05:53,585 Huge. 38 00:05:53,585 --> 00:05:56,210 It's like they took a hammer and had they thrown in his face. 39 00:05:56,210 --> 00:05:59,126 - I thought you already got the money. - Only half. 40 00:05:59,126 --> 00:06:02,043 - Morgan know you'll be there too? - It will invest, as always. 41 00:06:03,043 --> 00:06:04,710 - you expect dinner with Westinghouse. - Thing? 42 00:06:04,710 --> 00:06:06,710 Dinner with Westinghouse. On the way back. 43 00:06:06,710 --> 00:06:08,043 (CHILD) Why stables are red? 44 00:06:08,043 --> 00:06:11,501 - Maybe see them better when it snows. - Why does the red paint costs less. 45 00:06:11,501 --> 00:06:13,960 Morgan wants to learn about the convenience of your system. 46 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:15,460 (CHILD) have the money. 47 00:06:15,460 --> 00:06:17,376 Enough for two buildings in Manhattan? 48 00:06:17,376 --> 00:06:19,460 - Yes. - Great! 49 00:06:33,251 --> 00:06:35,293 This was to be my lunch. 50 00:06:35,293 --> 00:06:37,460 The President has asked to see the person phonograph. 51 00:06:37,460 --> 00:06:39,251 I had no idea you were there too. 52 00:06:39,501 --> 00:06:40,585 Mrs. Edison. 53 00:06:40,585 --> 00:06:42,210 Mr. Morgan. Meet our children. 54 00:06:42,210 --> 00:06:44,793 Dot and Dash. Delicious. I know what you are doing. 55 00:06:45,293 --> 00:06:48,001 How much do you need? How much money do you want to take me away? 56 00:06:48,001 --> 00:06:50,376 Oh, as much as possible. 57 00:06:51,293 --> 00:06:54,251 Samuel lnsull. personal secretary of Mr. Edison. 58 00:06:55,293 --> 00:06:56,710 Mr. Morgan, Mr. Edison. 59 00:06:56,710 --> 00:06:58,710 Which? He is Mr. Edison. 60 00:06:58,710 --> 00:07:00,418 Lunch is served. 61 00:07:07,793 --> 00:07:11,585 READS A POEM IN RIMA 62 00:07:15,710 --> 00:07:17,918 This is the sound of your voice. 63 00:07:18,626 --> 00:07:23,376 THE VOICE IS REPRODUCED 64 00:07:26,043 --> 00:07:27,585 This really is my voice? 65 00:07:28,543 --> 00:07:30,335 LAUGHING 66 00:07:30,335 --> 00:07:32,293 I heard that you refused five million dollars. 67 00:07:32,293 --> 00:07:34,335 Thank you for the offer, Mr. President, 68 00:07:34,335 --> 00:07:38,001 but it is the kind of science that pursued which I find regrettable. 69 00:07:38,001 --> 00:07:39,085 There is always money in weapons. 70 00:07:39,085 --> 00:07:42,626 The only device that will not construct is what takes the life of a man. 71 00:07:42,626 --> 00:07:43,835 It's barbaric. 72 00:07:44,376 --> 00:07:45,543 Ma ... 73 00:07:46,585 --> 00:07:47,668 ...look this. 74 00:07:48,001 --> 00:07:51,043 A square kilometer of Manhattan, the First District. 75 00:07:51,043 --> 00:07:52,251 And I will enlighten you. 76 00:07:52,251 --> 00:07:54,210 - There you are successful. - A star in a jar. 77 00:07:54,210 --> 00:07:55,876 A warm glow. 78 00:07:55,876 --> 00:07:57,460 Nothing stinks. Nothing harmful. 79 00:07:57,460 --> 00:08:00,626 Thirteen hours of light for each sphere, and it is more economic gas. 80 00:08:00,626 --> 00:08:03,085 And it is also safer. We use the cables with direct current. 81 00:08:03,543 --> 00:08:07,085 And those same cables will bring energy and heat. 82 00:08:07,668 --> 00:08:10,626 I need two buildings to install six dynamo of my building. 83 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:12,751 He does not even reach my house. 84 00:08:12,751 --> 00:08:13,876 Morgan... 85 00:08:13,876 --> 00:08:17,168 I will make you so rich that you look back on this time 86 00:08:17,168 --> 00:08:20,376 and you may wonder why I was so disgustingly poor. 87 00:08:22,210 --> 00:08:25,376 It's all here. It will happen on Wall Street. In case you I lost it, 88 00:08:25,376 --> 00:08:28,335 will end up directly in the New York Times. Advertising for free. 89 00:08:28,335 --> 00:08:30,543 - One hundred and fifty. - Half a million. 90 00:08:30,543 --> 00:08:35,751 $ 500,000 and the next century will be bright, safe and yours. 91 00:08:35,751 --> 00:08:39,001 It seems fantastic, Pierpont. If I had your luck ... 92 00:08:39,001 --> 00:08:40,251 With all due respect, you do not have it. 93 00:08:45,085 --> 00:08:46,710 - What's this? - Is not that nice. 94 00:08:47,126 --> 00:08:48,585 Morse Code. 95 00:08:49,960 --> 00:08:52,376 What did the kid? 96 00:08:52,376 --> 00:08:54,918 - My pleasure, Mr. President. - What did the kid? 97 00:08:57,126 --> 00:08:58,585 You know what you've done? 98 00:08:59,876 --> 00:09:01,835 Get more saying no. 99 00:09:03,918 --> 00:09:06,501 System by the Manhattan offices and a professional look. 100 00:09:06,876 --> 00:09:07,876 What does it mean? 101 00:09:07,876 --> 00:09:09,126 I do not know. Carpets ... 102 00:09:10,501 --> 00:09:12,168 And I do not know. Carpets. 103 00:09:13,126 --> 00:09:14,210 And the name? 104 00:09:16,168 --> 00:09:19,793 Edison Electric obviously. Lord, why not build ammunition? 105 00:09:19,793 --> 00:09:21,543 Cirjque million. It's hard to say no. 106 00:09:21,543 --> 00:09:22,376 At the. 107 00:09:23,251 --> 00:09:24,918 If it is done by Edison, it will work. 108 00:09:24,918 --> 00:09:27,626 And if it works, I would prefer not to kill anyone. 109 00:09:29,126 --> 00:09:30,418 Quite right. 110 00:09:59,168 --> 00:10:03,501 Thomas Edison has a negative opinion of graduates looking for a job, 111 00:10:03,501 --> 00:10:06,293 because they fail to answer his exam questions. 112 00:10:07,168 --> 00:10:08,876 (WESTINGHOUSE) "Who composed Il Trovatore?" 113 00:10:09,043 --> 00:10:10,418 (WIFE) Verdi. 114 00:10:10,418 --> 00:10:12,126 (WESTINGHOUSE) "What is the speed of sound?" 115 00:10:12,126 --> 00:10:13,293 (WIFE) A trick question. 116 00:10:13,293 --> 00:10:16,376 Sound travels at a speed steadily declining. 117 00:10:16,376 --> 00:10:22,168 (WIFE) But I think the highest speed recorded is 343 mls. 118 00:10:22,168 --> 00:10:23,793 How do you know all this? 119 00:10:23,793 --> 00:10:25,668 I read it this morning. 120 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:31,376 This is something different. 121 00:10:33,168 --> 00:10:34,710 Me I feel. 122 00:10:35,751 --> 00:10:38,251 You never invited guests before. 123 00:10:39,251 --> 00:10:40,710 Really? 124 00:10:51,293 --> 00:10:52,918 Among eight minutes we will be the junction station, sir. 125 00:10:53,835 --> 00:10:55,501 Dinner with Westinghouse. 126 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,418 Let's go home. They are tired. I shook too many hands today. 127 00:11:03,043 --> 00:11:04,543 Good evening, F tank. 128 00:11:04,876 --> 00:11:06,418 George! 129 00:11:07,501 --> 00:11:08,585 Sorry? 130 00:11:09,293 --> 00:11:11,168 I will not stop. 131 00:11:13,085 --> 00:11:14,085 Agree. 132 00:11:26,085 --> 00:11:27,960 Maybe the brakes are broken. 133 00:11:30,043 --> 00:11:31,043 I doubt it. 134 00:11:57,793 --> 00:11:59,085 It's kind emergency in New York. 135 00:12:21,501 --> 00:12:23,126 Do not be disturbed by him. 136 00:12:24,126 --> 00:12:25,918 It did well. 137 00:12:27,085 --> 00:12:29,876 Before he became a magician, I did live in my basement. 138 00:12:30,626 --> 00:12:33,668 My wife I was sitting at the table only if it were washed first. 139 00:12:33,668 --> 00:12:36,460 Then, I gave him an ultimatum and he was left to eat alone. 140 00:12:36,460 --> 00:12:38,168 How does it work? 141 00:12:39,668 --> 00:12:41,126 You want to know the secret? 142 00:12:41,126 --> 00:12:45,168 Design your own reality and look for the needle in the haystack. 143 00:12:46,376 --> 00:12:48,585 And how do you know that there's a needle to look for? 144 00:12:48,585 --> 00:12:51,251 I do not know. And neither do you. 145 00:12:51,251 --> 00:12:53,668 But it is so determined to be the second person to find it, 146 00:12:53,668 --> 00:12:56,501 that I look stem to stem. 147 00:12:56,501 --> 00:12:59,876 I'll tell you one good thing about him. It could be the richest on Earth, 148 00:12:59,876 --> 00:13:02,335 but it does not care about the money. 149 00:13:04,668 --> 00:13:06,876 And what does it matter? 150 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:12,001 Sea)'- 151 00:13:12,168 --> 00:13:13,085 Speaks. 152 00:13:13,085 --> 00:13:15,418 - I want to test the resistance. - Where's my clip? 153 00:13:15,418 --> 00:13:17,418 - On your bureau. - What is a bureau? 154 00:13:17,418 --> 00:13:18,460 It's what's underneath your clip. 155 00:13:19,168 --> 00:13:22,293 Will I be able to make you promise to build me a fence? 156 00:13:22,293 --> 00:13:24,835 The ground is frozen. He must thaw. 157 00:13:27,418 --> 00:13:28,460 (CHILD) I ve been missing! 158 00:13:30,126 --> 00:13:33,001 (CHILD) It's a puppy! It is m 159 00:13:37,918 --> 00:13:39,001 Tom, come and see. 160 00:13:42,668 --> 00:13:43,751 Tor"! 161 00:13:43,751 --> 00:13:44,835 PHONE RINGING 162 00:13:44,835 --> 00:13:45,710 Tor"! 163 00:13:47,501 --> 00:13:48,793 You want half a million dollars? 164 00:13:48,793 --> 00:13:52,501 Made something with your name that I can sell to General Sherman. 165 00:13:52,501 --> 00:13:54,751 Counter Offer. And if I gave you what you want, 166 00:13:54,751 --> 00:13:57,001 but you gave me everything I want? 167 00:13:59,835 --> 00:14:04,126 We will become great, great, great! 168 00:14:04,126 --> 00:14:06,835 - Larger than an elephant? - Nobody stops an elephant! 169 00:15:49,876 --> 00:15:51,043 It will work. 170 00:16:03,793 --> 00:16:06,710 I must be sincere. It may not work. 171 00:16:08,501 --> 00:16:11,668 Common sense says that if you fail miserably, 172 00:16:11,835 --> 00:16:13,876 you better not do it in front of a crowd of people. 173 00:16:17,168 --> 00:16:19,668 Tonight, things could change. 174 00:16:20,085 --> 00:16:21,501 And I hope so. 175 00:16:22,668 --> 00:16:24,168 If so... 176 00:16:25,585 --> 00:16:27,168 ... change there ... 177 00:16:28,418 --> 00:16:29,251 ... and there. 178 00:16:31,960 --> 00:16:34,376 Me and my boys have caught in a jar 179 00:16:34,376 --> 00:16:38,043 what before only he shone in the night sky. 180 00:16:39,376 --> 00:16:42,668 How about removing the cover and see what happens? 181 00:16:44,626 --> 00:16:45,460 You are ready? 182 00:16:46,460 --> 00:16:47,918 Three, two ... 183 00:16:48,501 --> 00:16:49,376 ... ear. 184 00:16:55,085 --> 00:16:57,460 OVATION THE PUBLIC 185 00:17:47,543 --> 00:17:51,710 It has only 30 meters of copper to 87 customers. 186 00:17:51,710 --> 00:17:53,543 Do not ever bring in revenue. 187 00:17:54,376 --> 00:17:57,501 It is a peri-rich hobby. Something to brag about. 188 00:17:57,501 --> 00:17:59,043 It should not have to be. 189 00:18:01,626 --> 00:18:04,043 I recorded the patents for the Siemens dynamo 190 00:18:04,043 --> 00:18:05,418 and the transformer Gaulard-Gibbs. 191 00:18:05,418 --> 00:18:08,126 Transformer? It looks more like a metal suitcase. 192 00:18:08,126 --> 00:18:09,543 How much cost? 193 00:18:10,460 --> 00:18:13,335 Edison has chosen the wrong horse. 194 00:18:14,210 --> 00:18:16,585 Its current is like a tube with a knot inside, 195 00:18:16,585 --> 00:18:18,793 It needs to sell a generator per kilometer. 196 00:18:18,793 --> 00:18:20,668 You want to build an AC system. 197 00:18:20,668 --> 00:18:22,251 It is too powerful for engines. 198 00:18:22,251 --> 00:18:25,168 Take off your doubts from head for a minute and tell me ... 199 00:18:25,168 --> 00:18:29,418 How far do you think you can cover with one AC dynamo? 200 00:18:29,418 --> 00:18:31,085 - Some thousands. - The meters? 201 00:18:31,085 --> 00:18:32,710 Of kilometers. 202 00:18:32,710 --> 00:18:35,168 And how many houses can we reach? 203 00:18:35,168 --> 00:18:37,626 I guess all of them. And the bulbs? 204 00:18:37,626 --> 00:18:39,876 Hiram agreed to sell me his license. 205 00:18:39,876 --> 00:18:41,960 If you scrub Edison, do it right. 206 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,793 - They have a grayish color. - I just want to do a demonstration. 207 00:18:44,793 --> 00:18:45,918 For Edison. 208 00:18:45,918 --> 00:18:48,418 I will choose a small town, somewhere in the countryside. 209 00:18:48,418 --> 00:18:51,293 And you understand that you can toggle. 210 00:18:52,001 --> 00:18:54,168 We become members. Our system, its bulbs. 211 00:18:54,710 --> 00:18:58,585 My opinion, based only on physical and reality, 212 00:18:58,585 --> 00:19:00,751 It is that you are only interesting chatter. 213 00:19:00,751 --> 00:19:03,710 - But I do not think are possible. - Why? 214 00:19:03,710 --> 00:19:05,001 Because otherwise I would have already done. 215 00:19:35,460 --> 00:19:39,043 My office in Paris believe that you are the only man able to compete with me. 216 00:19:39,418 --> 00:19:40,918 How would you like to work with me? 217 00:19:41,418 --> 00:19:42,501 Very very much. 218 00:19:42,501 --> 00:19:44,585 I will expand into 12 cities, 219 00:19:44,585 --> 00:19:46,501 - with DC systems ... - Continue? 220 00:19:49,376 --> 00:19:51,210 The alternating current is much more efficient. 221 00:19:52,710 --> 00:19:54,085 higher voltage. 222 00:19:54,085 --> 00:19:55,751 greater distance. Less than copper wires. 223 00:19:55,751 --> 00:19:58,918 It is lethal, and it would be too powerful for an engine. 224 00:19:58,918 --> 00:20:02,585 I will give $ 100 a month, until you show you more or less worthy. 225 00:20:03,626 --> 00:20:05,293 - One hundred dollars? - If you solve me five dilemmas, 226 00:20:05,293 --> 00:20:08,335 I will pay $ 50,000 and then I'll fire you. 227 00:20:09,043 --> 00:20:11,251 Mr. Tesla Welcome to the Edison Electric. 228 00:20:11,251 --> 00:20:13,210 We make a small invention every ten days 229 00:20:13,210 --> 00:20:15,335 and a major invention every six months. 230 00:20:19,043 --> 00:20:21,376 I suspect that despite her husband's laboratory 231 00:20:21,376 --> 00:20:23,043 is a few hundred meters from your house, 232 00:20:23,043 --> 00:20:25,335 it is as if it were hundreds of kilometers away. 233 00:20:25,335 --> 00:20:26,293 No, a million. 234 00:20:27,710 --> 00:20:31,126 I looked for a way to stop his head. But keep thinking. 235 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:34,168 It's something I can not control. 236 00:20:34,168 --> 00:20:36,168 I can only return to the center. 237 00:20:36,168 --> 00:20:39,585 I know that Mr. Edison has been called the worst husband of America, 238 00:20:39,585 --> 00:20:42,418 since she spent their wedding night in the lab. 239 00:20:42,418 --> 00:20:43,835 I too have heard that story. 240 00:20:48,251 --> 00:20:52,501 Well, our wedding night, Tom and I we sull'Albany parties. 241 00:20:55,001 --> 00:20:55,835 The ship. 242 00:20:56,585 --> 00:20:59,751 We spent a week at Niagara Falls. 243 00:21:00,126 --> 00:21:02,335 I thought that one night of happiness would have sufficed 244 00:21:02,335 --> 00:21:04,460 to illuminate a lifetime. 245 00:21:05,335 --> 00:21:09,168 It was a fascinating inventor and I worked for him. 246 00:21:09,168 --> 00:21:10,293 I was a ... 247 00:21:12,001 --> 00:21:13,585 I was a ... 248 00:21:20,043 --> 00:21:21,085 I was a ... 249 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:23,668 Yup? 250 00:21:28,335 --> 00:21:29,418 Excuse me. 251 00:21:30,376 --> 00:21:32,751 Azionavo the ... 252 00:21:37,376 --> 00:21:40,876 - Telegraph? - Are you. Are you. 253 00:21:40,876 --> 00:21:41,710 Telegraph. 254 00:21:44,501 --> 00:21:45,793 Excuse me. 255 00:21:49,835 --> 00:21:51,793 Your husband has some hobby? 256 00:22:02,585 --> 00:22:05,210 You promised them Coney Island. 257 00:22:05,210 --> 00:22:07,085 At least a walk. 258 00:22:07,543 --> 00:22:10,585 We will make three walks tomorrow, I promise. 259 00:22:13,210 --> 00:22:15,293 Here, why do not you take a picture? 260 00:22:51,251 --> 00:22:54,501 It neuralgia, caused by eye strain. 261 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:57,210 A good pair of glasses will suffice. 262 00:22:57,210 --> 00:23:01,960 - Oh, no. Will I look awful. - No it is not true. It's impossible. 263 00:23:02,210 --> 00:23:05,876 Are you sure? That's all? It has terrible headaches. 264 00:23:05,876 --> 00:23:09,085 I'll leave one of laudanum phial until your eyes do not improve. 265 00:23:09,085 --> 00:23:10,335 Thanks. 266 00:23:11,210 --> 00:23:12,085 Would you mind ... 267 00:23:12,668 --> 00:23:16,043 Would you mind putting off paying for the visit? 268 00:23:19,085 --> 00:23:21,376 My son wants your autograph. 269 00:23:48,876 --> 00:23:51,126 Damn, it is rudimentary. 270 00:23:52,626 --> 00:23:54,501 How much cost? 271 00:23:54,501 --> 00:23:55,460 Not me, I want to say. 272 00:23:55,460 --> 00:23:57,210 What we need is here. 273 00:23:57,918 --> 00:24:02,001 The Edison current can travel more than a kilometer and runs out. 274 00:24:02,001 --> 00:24:04,918 (WESTINGHOUSE) should build too many of DC motors 275 00:24:04,918 --> 00:24:06,001 only to power a city. 276 00:24:06,001 --> 00:24:09,376 (WESTINGHOUSE) This country will look like a checkerboard of power plants. 277 00:24:09,376 --> 00:24:11,376 (WESTINGHOUSE) But with only one alternating current dynamo, 278 00:24:11,376 --> 00:24:16,293 we can increase the tension and get as far as eye can see. 279 00:24:16,293 --> 00:24:20,501 (Westinghouse) We tie up cables on poles. Less copper, more electricity. 280 00:24:20,501 --> 00:24:22,626 (WESTINGHOUSE) is cheaper by 75 percent. 281 00:24:22,626 --> 00:24:26,918 (WESTINGHOUSE) The only thing that matters here is the distance. 282 00:25:13,918 --> 00:25:17,793 Frank, this belongs to you, what belongs to me. 283 00:25:17,793 --> 00:25:20,251 - I would be honored if you get up ... - I could not. 284 00:25:20,251 --> 00:25:21,335 Do not be ridiculous. 285 00:25:21,335 --> 00:25:23,251 - This moment belongs to you. - But you've spent hours ... 286 00:25:23,251 --> 00:25:25,668 George, it's your idea. You were the architect. 287 00:25:26,751 --> 00:25:28,543 Let's go for a ride? 288 00:25:37,501 --> 00:25:40,501 (WESTINGHOUSE) "Al mago di Menlo Park. 289 00:25:41,418 --> 00:25:44,210 (WESTINGHOUSE) Since it appears that your brakes have problems, 290 00:25:44,210 --> 00:25:46,918 I would be honored to send my car 291 00:25:46,918 --> 00:25:50,793 to bring you in Great Barrington, Massachusetts ... 292 00:25:52,293 --> 00:25:56,793 ... where I sent with the current success within a kilometer. 293 00:26:01,710 --> 00:26:04,001 How did the light bulbs? 294 00:26:05,710 --> 00:26:09,085 That deafening silence from the most brilliant minds of America. 295 00:26:09,085 --> 00:26:10,210 (MAN) Use the project of Hiram. 296 00:26:10,210 --> 00:26:14,126 That Hiram stole from me! 297 00:26:15,793 --> 00:26:17,210 - report it. - We already did. 298 00:26:17,210 --> 00:26:18,585 The court upheld its patent. 299 00:26:18,585 --> 00:26:20,335 I'm talking about Westinghouse. Find some foothold. 300 00:26:20,335 --> 00:26:22,585 Barrington Go and look for yourself. 301 00:26:22,585 --> 00:26:24,001 Some of you are slightly annoyed 302 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:27,626 by the fact that there are 15 years of work by stealing from under his nose? 303 00:26:27,626 --> 00:26:29,126 (EDISON) Not yet! 304 00:26:29,126 --> 00:26:31,210 (EDISON) I built a system, 305 00:26:31,210 --> 00:26:35,835 and he goes to buy patents to legally steal what's mine. 306 00:26:36,668 --> 00:26:40,668 If the bulbs, then inchiodatelo the dynamo. 307 00:26:40,668 --> 00:26:41,543 We can not. 308 00:26:43,460 --> 00:26:45,168 Not even using DC power, sir. 309 00:26:47,543 --> 00:26:49,710 Use the AC? 310 00:26:53,710 --> 00:26:57,710 WHISTLE AND CONFUSED VOICES 311 00:27:04,626 --> 00:27:05,543 Mary? 312 00:27:06,043 --> 00:27:08,293 Yes, I think we need more tea. 313 00:27:09,210 --> 00:27:10,043 Patricia? 314 00:27:27,293 --> 00:27:28,710 (MAN) George Westinghouse? 315 00:27:29,585 --> 00:27:30,793 Can I help you? 316 00:27:30,793 --> 00:27:32,626 Check in from Thomas Edison. 317 00:27:33,168 --> 00:27:35,918 He wants me to buy a generator per kilometer. 318 00:27:36,835 --> 00:27:40,960 Then, I read in the Globe that your electricity 319 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,543 it would be more economic than that of Edison of 66%. 320 00:27:45,418 --> 00:27:49,876 Well, it is only a proposal and is not "my electricity." 321 00:27:50,501 --> 00:27:52,251 It is "electricity." 322 00:27:52,251 --> 00:27:54,793 I think it makes more sense that the taxpayers of Columbus 323 00:27:54,793 --> 00:27:57,126 choose Westinghouse Electric. 324 00:27:58,293 --> 00:28:01,710 I do not want to compete. I just want to patent my system. 325 00:28:01,710 --> 00:28:03,085 He has the best bulbs. 326 00:28:03,085 --> 00:28:06,126 Why not compete? By now I know. Edison I know, I assure you, 327 00:28:06,126 --> 00:28:09,751 It does not care to do things right. He just wants to do them. 328 00:28:09,751 --> 00:28:11,543 (WESTINGHOUSE) does not answer. 329 00:28:11,543 --> 00:28:13,793 (EDISON) Westinghouse will never have a complete system, 330 00:28:13,793 --> 00:28:16,460 - not azionerebbe a sewing machine. - But I can fix it. 331 00:28:16,460 --> 00:28:19,668 Instead of converting the currents to make them work with a switch, 332 00:28:19,668 --> 00:28:23,876 I would pass the alternating current through two or more energy circuits. 333 00:28:23,876 --> 00:28:26,710 It should work on switches with current dynamo. 334 00:28:26,710 --> 00:28:27,710 Well, I did. 335 00:28:27,710 --> 00:28:30,876 I did what you asked me, but you're making a mistake. 336 00:28:30,876 --> 00:28:31,793 Thing? 337 00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:34,251 The direct current can work pearls town when ... 338 00:28:34,251 --> 00:28:35,501 When buildings are close together, 339 00:28:35,501 --> 00:28:37,501 but most of your country are empty spaces. 340 00:28:37,501 --> 00:28:39,126 Only the high voltage can cover the distance. 341 00:28:39,126 --> 00:28:40,418 Do not think long-term. 342 00:28:41,085 --> 00:28:44,460 This technology is within your reach. Can I build a good engine. 343 00:28:44,710 --> 00:28:45,835 Have you tried it? 344 00:28:46,210 --> 00:28:47,126 At the. 345 00:28:48,251 --> 00:28:49,835 In my head, it is almost complete. 346 00:28:49,835 --> 00:28:52,585 The men claim to have a head full of sonnets and symphonies, 347 00:28:52,585 --> 00:28:55,668 but their problem is that they can not write them. 348 00:28:55,668 --> 00:28:56,835 - Let me try. - No. 349 00:28:56,835 --> 00:28:59,418 I can not start over again! 350 00:28:59,418 --> 00:29:01,835 I had orders from Michigan. Journalists are waiting for me. 351 00:29:01,835 --> 00:29:03,626 Do that for which you were hired. 352 00:29:03,626 --> 00:29:05,793 Therefore, do not you keep your word on pay? 353 00:29:05,793 --> 00:29:08,085 - What are you talking about? - You said $ 50,000. 354 00:29:08,085 --> 00:29:11,751 - It is not satisfied with my work? - There'll pay $ 50,000. 355 00:29:11,751 --> 00:29:12,876 I was joking. 356 00:29:16,085 --> 00:29:20,085 Coconut fibers, fishing line, cork, celluloid, 357 00:29:20,085 --> 00:29:23,376 flax, platinum, iron, nickel, copper, steel. 358 00:29:23,376 --> 00:29:25,793 We've scoured the earth for years and years, 359 00:29:25,793 --> 00:29:28,835 trying thousands, ten thousand different combinations. 360 00:29:28,835 --> 00:29:33,293 Then, Westinghouse sees what I did and enjoys doing the thief. 361 00:29:33,626 --> 00:29:37,126 Every industry has its vultures, you just have to keep them away. 362 00:29:37,126 --> 00:29:39,043 So that's how it works. 363 00:29:39,043 --> 00:29:40,751 Cartographers entering mistakes in their work 364 00:29:40,751 --> 00:29:42,918 to see if someone copies them. 365 00:29:42,918 --> 00:29:45,835 I do not have that luxury. I can not invent ways to trick someone. 366 00:29:45,835 --> 00:29:47,293 Otherwise we would end all in the dark. 367 00:29:48,418 --> 00:29:51,376 Keep in mind all of its violations. 368 00:29:52,210 --> 00:29:54,501 Thank you, Mr. Edison. And thanks for this. 369 00:30:01,210 --> 00:30:03,418 I mentioned the fact that his system is lethal? 370 00:30:04,251 --> 00:30:08,626 If you reach out and touch a doorknob or a rail, 371 00:30:08,626 --> 00:30:09,668 become the circuit. 372 00:30:10,460 --> 00:30:12,710 In other words? 373 00:30:14,793 --> 00:30:16,126 Well, you die. 374 00:30:17,668 --> 00:30:21,918 With the current, you can touch anything at any time 375 00:30:21,918 --> 00:30:24,251 bare hands. You secure. Works. 376 00:30:24,251 --> 00:30:25,793 It bears the name of Edison, so it is more beautiful. 377 00:30:27,168 --> 00:30:31,168 Our government wants to convince me to invent a weapon, 378 00:30:31,168 --> 00:30:34,335 but I will not use the brain to invent something that hurts people. 379 00:30:34,335 --> 00:30:36,751 For these things, you can go to Pittsburgh. 380 00:30:36,751 --> 00:30:38,668 Is he saying that Westinghouse wants to hurt people? 381 00:30:38,668 --> 00:30:41,418 No, I can not say. 382 00:30:41,418 --> 00:30:42,585 But you will. 383 00:30:54,210 --> 00:30:56,043 This is what I think of you. 384 00:30:57,751 --> 00:31:00,585 It gives a statement to the press today. 385 00:31:00,585 --> 00:31:01,668 Contradict his allegations. 386 00:31:01,668 --> 00:31:05,085 I do not intend to have anything to do. We have the best system. 387 00:31:05,085 --> 00:31:06,251 This is what counts. 388 00:31:12,043 --> 00:31:17,960 The Westinghouse Electric Company was founded at a quarter past nine. 389 00:31:18,460 --> 00:31:20,960 Hello. George Westinghouse. We had an appointment? 390 00:31:21,168 --> 00:31:22,001 North Dakota. 391 00:31:22,918 --> 00:31:23,751 New Orleans. 392 00:31:24,293 --> 00:31:25,126 Fort Worth. 393 00:31:25,668 --> 00:31:26,501 Sioux City. 394 00:31:26,876 --> 00:31:28,918 You want the good news or the good news? 395 00:31:33,876 --> 00:31:37,501 (MAN) We waste time to frame him for what's in the bulb, 396 00:31:37,501 --> 00:31:40,043 what we should focus on is what's on the other side. 397 00:31:40,043 --> 00:31:41,001 (MAN) The screw coupler. 398 00:31:41,001 --> 00:31:42,710 - It's mine. - (MAN) Exactly. 399 00:31:44,001 --> 00:31:45,376 He's suing. 400 00:31:46,210 --> 00:31:50,460 QWESTNGHOUSE) is a huge cause. It is Edison and Morgan. 401 00:31:50,460 --> 00:31:54,960 (WESTNGHOUSE) My advice is: know an alternative way to beat gravity? 402 00:31:57,626 --> 00:32:00,918 (MAN) Westinghouse has designed a cap to bypass your screw attack. 403 00:32:00,918 --> 00:32:03,126 (MAN) It's only a matter of time before it runs everywhere. 404 00:32:04,043 --> 00:32:08,085 To be honest, I can not wait to apply it in the sawmill. 405 00:32:08,085 --> 00:32:10,751 At the moment, we only offer the light. 406 00:32:10,751 --> 00:32:14,126 With time, we will devote ourselves to mechanical tools. 407 00:32:14,126 --> 00:32:15,335 When? 408 00:32:15,335 --> 00:32:17,210 I do not care how much it costs the light. 409 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:21,876 I use the gas. I want to productivity. I do not understand. 410 00:32:21,876 --> 00:32:25,168 Edison said that electricity can already be used in factories. 411 00:32:26,585 --> 00:32:28,085 Its can. 412 00:32:31,793 --> 00:32:34,001 I want to see this needle move. 413 00:32:34,001 --> 00:32:36,376 I can not lower the voltage without blowing up everything. 414 00:32:36,376 --> 00:32:38,585 Power. You'll even have made some progress. 415 00:32:38,585 --> 00:32:39,668 It is not ready. 416 00:33:02,835 --> 00:33:03,710 Turn it off! 417 00:33:12,001 --> 00:33:13,751 There must be a solution. 418 00:33:19,418 --> 00:33:22,085 La Nikola Tesla Electric Light Company. 419 00:33:22,085 --> 00:33:23,168 How does it look? 420 00:33:23,543 --> 00:33:26,251 - When you can produce arc lamps? - Arc lamps? 421 00:33:26,251 --> 00:33:29,835 I thought there occupassimo of incandescent lamps, motors and distribution. 422 00:33:29,835 --> 00:33:31,335 Let us think Edison. 423 00:33:31,335 --> 00:33:34,085 I'm working on advanced methods to overcome it. 424 00:33:34,085 --> 00:33:36,210 To beat Edison? How soon? 425 00:33:36,210 --> 00:33:40,168 In a few years. I need a lab, engineers and supplies. 426 00:33:40,168 --> 00:33:41,918 Of course, there are the costs. 427 00:33:41,918 --> 00:33:44,501 And where did you get the money for the expensive silk? 428 00:33:44,501 --> 00:33:46,876 How I spend my earnings is my business. 429 00:33:46,876 --> 00:33:51,043 Mr. Tesla, if you need money right away, you can sell your patent. 430 00:33:51,876 --> 00:33:53,543 And what would I get? 431 00:33:53,543 --> 00:33:57,668 Shares. And, if you have success, you will sell for a fortune. 432 00:33:57,668 --> 00:33:59,376 For a fortune. 433 00:33:59,376 --> 00:34:01,168 Yes, I know what a figure of speech. 434 00:34:01,168 --> 00:34:03,418 We assume two-thirds of the risk. 435 00:34:03,418 --> 00:34:05,751 It is a good price for the only thing you can sell. 436 00:34:09,251 --> 00:34:12,585 (EDISON) Cerebral congestion? And what does it mean? 437 00:34:12,585 --> 00:34:18,168 (MEDICAL) There is an occlusion, hidden, and is expanding. 438 00:34:18,626 --> 00:34:23,543 (MEDICAL) it will leave at first sight, then it will be his vocabulary to diminish. 439 00:34:23,543 --> 00:34:25,001 I can not lose it. 440 00:34:27,668 --> 00:34:31,043 I'll do a movable alphabet. I'll give you a dictionary. 441 00:34:31,043 --> 00:34:33,793 (MEDICAL) gradually will lose mobility. 442 00:34:33,793 --> 00:34:35,960 The build an elevator. 443 00:34:36,293 --> 00:34:41,335 (MEDICAL) Mr. Edison, what he needs your wife, 444 00:34:41,335 --> 00:34:43,460 can not be constructed by man. 445 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,585 What he needs my wife, do you think, 446 00:34:46,585 --> 00:34:48,710 It is a simple pair of glasses. 447 00:34:50,085 --> 00:34:52,293 (MEDICAL) The nature takes its course. 448 00:34:55,168 --> 00:34:56,501 I ... 449 00:34:57,543 --> 00:35:02,585 I have to leave for New York tonight. I can not cancel. 450 00:35:04,335 --> 00:35:07,710 (DOCTOR) I'll take care of her while you're away. But... 451 00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:11,335 ... do not you linger. 452 00:35:25,335 --> 00:35:27,001 Ohio has selected Westinghouse. 453 00:35:27,001 --> 00:35:29,126 - Columbus. Zanesville. - Zanesville? 454 00:35:29,126 --> 00:35:31,335 - Lasciategliela. - It's not funny. 455 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,085 We do not know if it is a constant 456 00:35:35,085 --> 00:35:37,918 until it happens again, and I really hope it does not happen. 457 00:35:38,626 --> 00:35:41,876 What is he doing that you're doing wrong? 458 00:35:41,876 --> 00:35:43,960 It is building successful machines 459 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,043 that will mean the death of human beings. 460 00:35:47,043 --> 00:35:49,085 - Where are these dead? - Where are these dead? 461 00:35:49,085 --> 00:35:52,585 We change and you have to take responsibility for all the killings. 462 00:35:52,585 --> 00:35:56,501 I think the people are not dying because it is not as dangerous as you'd like. 463 00:35:58,376 --> 00:36:01,501 All right, beat us on costs. But it's a temporary advantage. 464 00:36:01,501 --> 00:36:03,751 Give me time and I will make our economy so that ... 465 00:36:04,376 --> 00:36:05,835 ... only the rich will use candles. 466 00:36:05,835 --> 00:36:08,960 And until then, entire cities delivered to Westinghouse. I'm not a bank. 467 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:10,585 It is precisely what you are. 468 00:36:11,001 --> 00:36:12,835 We could have had this conversation by phone, 469 00:36:12,835 --> 00:36:14,418 instead of making me waste my time. 470 00:36:14,418 --> 00:36:17,460 When I want to see someone, come here. Face to face. And the way it works. 471 00:36:17,460 --> 00:36:19,585 No, here's how it works. 472 00:36:19,585 --> 00:36:23,251 I build miracles and you continue to give me those damn money I want. 473 00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,335 What's up? I did run away to another city? 474 00:36:28,126 --> 00:36:29,793 Okay, what have I missed? 475 00:38:27,543 --> 00:38:29,626 (MARY) On your bureau. 476 00:38:29,626 --> 00:38:30,543 (EDISON) Talk. 477 00:38:30,543 --> 00:38:33,960 (MARY) Will I be able to make you promise to build me a fence? 478 00:38:35,460 --> 00:38:37,418 (EDISON) The ground is frozen. He must thaw. 479 00:38:51,043 --> 00:38:52,793 (MARY) On your bureau. 480 00:38:52,793 --> 00:38:53,960 (EDISON) Talk. 481 00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,251 (MARY) Will I be able to make you promise to build me a fence? 482 00:39:05,335 --> 00:39:08,376 No, we take care of my engine, as agreed ... 483 00:39:08,376 --> 00:39:09,210 Look, do not ... 484 00:39:09,543 --> 00:39:11,001 We do not want these things. 485 00:39:11,001 --> 00:39:12,751 The lamps that you have built are no longer selling. 486 00:39:12,751 --> 00:39:15,001 We can not compete with Edison and Westinghouse. 487 00:39:15,001 --> 00:39:18,085 So, take my patents and I wish you a great misfortune. 488 00:39:18,085 --> 00:39:21,126 - "Your" patents? - Yes. My patents. 489 00:39:21,126 --> 00:39:24,126 CHIMES OF BELLS 490 00:39:30,126 --> 00:39:31,835 Can I get you anything, sir? 491 00:39:33,001 --> 00:39:34,418 A time machine. 492 00:39:35,126 --> 00:39:38,460 If I find anything, I come back to this moment and give it to him. 493 00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:41,668 Have you re-read the proposal? 494 00:39:41,668 --> 00:39:45,293 I will not use my last resources to illuminate a fair. 495 00:39:45,293 --> 00:39:47,126 It is much more than a trade show, sir. 496 00:39:47,126 --> 00:39:49,085 A third of this country will come to Chicago 497 00:39:49,085 --> 00:39:52,043 to try and see the City of Lights. 498 00:39:52,585 --> 00:39:57,001 Shop windows, streetlights, signs that say that the race is over and we won. 499 00:39:57,793 --> 00:40:01,418 Why waste the last dollars to travel to show the electricity, 500 00:40:01,418 --> 00:40:05,251 when you come all in one place to see it? 501 00:40:05,251 --> 00:40:07,001 Because in a year, they will demolish everything. 502 00:40:07,001 --> 00:40:09,376 But only after you have seen 30 million people, it is. 503 00:40:16,626 --> 00:40:18,585 Westinghouse will present an offer. 504 00:40:33,251 --> 00:40:35,960 (EDISON) Nice hat. It seems expensive. 505 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,126 I had it from before I started to work for you, Mr. Edison. 506 00:40:38,126 --> 00:40:39,835 I do not think you're working for me. 507 00:40:39,835 --> 00:40:43,626 - Continue to use my bulbs. - His patents are in order. 508 00:40:44,126 --> 00:40:45,335 You want my advice? 509 00:40:45,835 --> 00:40:49,085 You say that the current Westinghouse kill people. Therefore ... 510 00:40:49,085 --> 00:40:52,043 in the absence of evidence, lest they given you? 511 00:41:01,001 --> 00:41:04,543 We're doing this because we will have a complete system, 512 00:41:04,543 --> 00:41:07,418 It will work and will have the name of Edison. 513 00:41:07,751 --> 00:41:09,418 Poor bastard. 514 00:41:10,210 --> 00:41:12,418 Well, I myself will be shot down. 515 00:41:12,668 --> 00:41:14,543 You do not feel any pain, right? 516 00:41:14,543 --> 00:41:16,876 At 3,000 volts will be over before it started. 517 00:41:16,876 --> 00:41:18,376 So there's nothing to worry about. 518 00:41:19,418 --> 00:41:22,585 But they are journalists, so you might animate them a bit '. 519 00:41:27,001 --> 00:41:28,835 Welcome to Menlo Park. 520 00:41:29,793 --> 00:41:32,251 Thank you for coming on this cold morning. 521 00:41:32,251 --> 00:41:33,710 It's a pleasure to see you again. 522 00:41:34,793 --> 00:41:36,918 - My name Southwick Brown. - It is a pleasure. 523 00:41:36,918 --> 00:41:39,668 You should further afield '. 524 00:41:39,668 --> 00:41:44,293 Gus is connected to the same current that uses Westinghouse, 525 00:41:44,293 --> 00:41:47,960 but there is still no word for death by electricity. 526 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,043 I asked the writer dictionaries and suggested I "electro-tell" 527 00:41:52,043 --> 00:41:54,293 "elettro-cremare" and "dina-morte". 528 00:41:54,293 --> 00:41:58,168 But, as Joe Guillotin gave his name to his invention, 529 00:41:58,543 --> 00:42:04,126 because remove the about the rightful inventor of death by electricity? 530 00:42:04,543 --> 00:42:08,876 I ask you to show respect while Westinghouse this horse. 531 00:42:38,210 --> 00:42:41,710 Mr. Edison, Southwick Brown. Commission of Capital Punishment. 532 00:42:41,710 --> 00:42:44,835 You have surely heard about the clumsy hangings in the North East. 533 00:42:44,835 --> 00:42:49,335 (BROWN) The prisoners suffocated or die violently beheaded. 534 00:42:49,335 --> 00:42:51,168 (BROWN) This is an inhuman spectacle. 535 00:42:51,168 --> 00:42:55,251 (BROWN) But the death of the horse was so serene, you could say ... 536 00:42:57,251 --> 00:42:58,085 ... poetic. 537 00:43:01,960 --> 00:43:05,460 The Governor of New York, on my personal recommendation, 538 00:43:05,460 --> 00:43:07,626 He would like to consider a deadly device 539 00:43:07,626 --> 00:43:10,126 that uses electricity on a living being. 540 00:43:10,626 --> 00:43:14,543 It would be an honor for us to entrust the task. 541 00:43:15,335 --> 00:43:17,835 - If there's nothing else, it was a pleasure. - I apologize? 542 00:43:17,835 --> 00:43:22,376 Killing a human being under the guise of justice, it is absurd. 543 00:43:22,376 --> 00:43:24,960 There is a big difference between a horse and a person. 544 00:43:24,960 --> 00:43:28,001 God gives us life in a compassionate way. 545 00:43:28,585 --> 00:43:30,876 Why refuse the opportunity 546 00:43:30,876 --> 00:43:35,085 of being the first man to take it away in the same way? 547 00:44:34,626 --> 00:44:36,126 William. 548 00:44:38,293 --> 00:44:40,793 I killed my wife. 549 00:44:52,126 --> 00:44:54,251 (MARY) Down with this handle. 550 00:44:55,001 --> 00:44:57,335 (MARY) Maybe you need to do something else. 551 00:44:57,876 --> 00:45:00,460 (MARY) If I'm doing it wrong, you'll never know that I was toying 552 00:45:00,460 --> 00:45:04,835 with your phonograph or gramophone, in any way I shall name. 553 00:45:05,501 --> 00:45:07,460 (MARY) What is this thing? 554 00:45:08,293 --> 00:45:11,835 (MARY) here today at the Mary Tom tomorrow. 555 00:45:11,835 --> 00:45:16,335 (MARY) Or, as you said, today's Tom listens to Mary yesterday. 556 00:45:18,876 --> 00:45:21,418 (MARY) I wonder what else you can do. 557 00:45:29,335 --> 00:45:32,418 Mr. Tesla, my son and his friends idiots 558 00:45:32,418 --> 00:45:34,876 they told me they do not intend to carry out the arc lamps. It's true? 559 00:45:35,668 --> 00:45:38,293 Do not look at him, look at me. They are the primary shareholder. 560 00:45:38,293 --> 00:45:40,876 No, I have already finished the project of arc lamps. 561 00:45:40,876 --> 00:45:45,001 Finished? You covered one city. Broadway, New Jersey. 562 00:45:45,001 --> 00:45:47,168 For God's sake, think big. Philadelphia. 563 00:45:47,168 --> 00:45:50,710 You made arc lamps for cities. And your only job. 564 00:45:50,710 --> 00:45:51,710 At the. 565 00:45:51,710 --> 00:45:53,960 My AC motor. All right? We had an agreement ... 566 00:45:53,960 --> 00:45:57,543 - No, I have never signed agreements. - You said in this office ... 567 00:45:58,168 --> 00:46:00,251 Lane, you can wait outside for a second? 568 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,460 Sorry. Do not you realize you're about to be fired? 569 00:46:11,585 --> 00:46:13,001 At the. 570 00:46:13,001 --> 00:46:15,501 Please let me achieve what I have in mind. 571 00:46:15,501 --> 00:46:18,751 I will make the largest electricity supplier in the world. 572 00:46:18,751 --> 00:46:20,543 More than Edison. 573 00:46:20,543 --> 00:46:22,918 They are very close, a few more months. 574 00:46:27,710 --> 00:46:30,501 You arrive here as if you came from Neptune, 575 00:46:30,501 --> 00:46:33,918 as if you had a great vision of the future ... 576 00:46:33,918 --> 00:46:36,835 - I do not touch. - Are you just an immigrant. 577 00:46:38,168 --> 00:46:40,585 A head full of ideas, looking for funding. 578 00:46:40,585 --> 00:46:43,251 You are Edison, Edison is one. That's why he is successful. 579 00:46:43,251 --> 00:46:46,293 There are millions like you. Great ideas. 580 00:46:46,293 --> 00:46:48,710 But you do not see the real forces that move things 581 00:46:48,710 --> 00:46:52,376 and is not the direct or alternating current. 582 00:46:52,376 --> 00:46:53,710 It's the money. 583 00:46:54,293 --> 00:46:56,710 And it is the only engine that interests me. 584 00:46:59,626 --> 00:47:03,668 These patents belong to the Tesla Electric Light Company. 585 00:47:03,668 --> 00:47:07,126 This is now the Union Electric and Manufacturing Company 586 00:47:07,126 --> 00:47:09,626 and I own all there is in this office. 587 00:47:09,793 --> 00:47:13,376 Patents, 'projects, engineers. And all mine. 588 00:47:14,418 --> 00:47:17,460 There will be nothing that will be named Tesla. 589 00:47:18,501 --> 00:47:23,043 Take your ideas and go back where you came from. 590 00:47:35,126 --> 00:47:37,210 It is appropriating a city after another. 591 00:47:38,085 --> 00:47:41,710 Cats, dogs, sheep, 11 horses. What else needs to see people? 592 00:47:41,710 --> 00:47:44,043 But no one is really dying for alternating current. 593 00:47:44,043 --> 00:47:47,543 Excluding your cats, dogs, sheep and 11 horses. 594 00:47:48,418 --> 00:47:51,168 - I know I just be your secretary. - Speak and just. 595 00:47:52,126 --> 00:47:54,210 Bring the phonograph on the market. You will get the gains. 596 00:47:54,210 --> 00:47:57,126 - has yet to be perfected. - Do it, sir. 597 00:47:57,918 --> 00:48:01,251 - Bell is robbing you. - The graphophone? He just changed the name. 598 00:48:01,251 --> 00:48:03,043 Tell me where I can find a shop to buy yours, 599 00:48:03,043 --> 00:48:05,876 and I did not hand over the entire market. Do you have a real deal. 600 00:48:06,835 --> 00:48:09,251 Half a million dollars. Lord, take the money. 601 00:48:09,251 --> 00:48:10,085 You need it. 602 00:48:11,793 --> 00:48:15,418 If Bell has robbed you with the phone, will redo the graphophone. 603 00:48:15,418 --> 00:48:17,668 Have you confused about? 604 00:48:17,668 --> 00:48:19,585 Would you like Chicago? 605 00:48:24,043 --> 00:48:25,168 Okay, I'm ready. 606 00:48:46,626 --> 00:48:47,626 A dollar in marble? 607 00:48:48,876 --> 00:48:50,126 What do you for? 608 00:48:50,501 --> 00:48:51,918 The inventor. 609 00:48:52,460 --> 00:48:53,960 It solves problems for idiots. 610 00:48:55,126 --> 00:48:58,126 Imagine a dictation without the help of a stenographer. 611 00:49:00,085 --> 00:49:02,876 Phonographic books that speak to blind people. 612 00:49:02,876 --> 00:49:05,418 Playing music, talking toys. 613 00:49:06,376 --> 00:49:08,710 Watches that communicate the hour. 614 00:49:08,710 --> 00:49:11,501 Preservation of nearly disappeared languages. 615 00:49:11,501 --> 00:49:13,168 The teaching of speech. 616 00:49:13,168 --> 00:49:15,835 - Have you cheated. - Yes No. 617 00:49:16,543 --> 00:49:18,460 I did not come all this way to lose. 618 00:49:18,460 --> 00:49:22,043 Being able to catch the last words of your loved ones. 619 00:49:22,043 --> 00:49:29,001 (WOMEN) Edison phonograph, the machine that speaks, sings and enchants. 620 00:49:29,001 --> 00:49:32,460 (WOMEN) A perfect machine, silent. 621 00:49:37,543 --> 00:49:41,751 Or you can not or are not the engineer who thought I was. 622 00:49:43,793 --> 00:49:47,793 Travel the country to roast cats. 623 00:49:47,793 --> 00:49:49,835 George, is playing dirty. You can too. 624 00:49:53,460 --> 00:49:59,168 When I was young, my father tried to whip me with a branch. 625 00:50:00,251 --> 00:50:02,335 But after the first lash, he broke. 626 00:50:02,793 --> 00:50:04,626 In three small pieces. 627 00:50:05,751 --> 00:50:09,251 He he remained there, watching that broken branch on the ground. 628 00:50:10,251 --> 00:50:14,293 Then, I noticed that there was a leather strap hanging on the wall. 629 00:50:14,293 --> 00:50:18,043 So, I pointed and said, "Look, 630 00:50:18,043 --> 00:50:19,960 that would be better. " 631 00:50:21,335 --> 00:50:22,668 He stopped. 632 00:50:27,210 --> 00:50:31,793 I know the punches, but I have no patience peri shoddy work. 633 00:50:34,376 --> 00:50:38,335 You'll get an engine running next to your location in Chicago, 634 00:50:38,335 --> 00:50:41,543 in spite of hell, the flood or the Wizard of Menlo Park. 635 00:50:47,876 --> 00:50:48,793 Good night. 636 00:50:49,293 --> 00:50:50,126 Good night. 637 00:51:46,668 --> 00:51:49,793 OVERLYING ITEMS 638 00:52:19,668 --> 00:52:21,835 We will remember Pope Franklin 639 00:52:22,751 --> 00:52:25,668 for his courageous commitment to push us into the future. 640 00:52:26,376 --> 00:52:30,835 It was not only an outstanding example of faith in the progress of science ... 641 00:52:35,251 --> 00:52:36,376 099 'I try ... 642 00:52:38,793 --> 00:52:43,460 ... pain and anger, because what has happened, could have been avoided. 643 00:52:45,585 --> 00:52:49,001 Listen, I like you've never heard before. 644 00:52:49,501 --> 00:52:50,876 I can state with certainty 645 00:52:52,668 --> 00:52:54,751 that if Westinghouse continue its activities ... 646 00:52:56,376 --> 00:52:59,001 ... other people will die. 647 00:53:18,418 --> 00:53:20,168 My condolences. 648 00:53:22,460 --> 00:53:24,876 I know it was more than just an employee. 649 00:53:30,126 --> 00:53:31,918 What was his name, Franklin Popes? 650 00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:35,960 Pope. Without the 651 00:53:36,626 --> 00:53:37,793 What a pity. 652 00:53:39,126 --> 00:53:40,376 But I'm here to help. 653 00:53:41,043 --> 00:53:42,460 I know that... 654 00:53:43,126 --> 00:53:45,126 ... I would like Edison did silence. 655 00:53:47,835 --> 00:53:51,376 Let me join your company. Let me fix this mess. 656 00:53:55,418 --> 00:53:59,293 Do you believe that the Westinghouse Electric worth $ 5 million? 657 00:53:59,293 --> 00:54:02,668 The value is determined by the highest amount you are willing to pay. 658 00:54:02,668 --> 00:54:06,418 But eight hundred men I will lose salary. 659 00:54:06,418 --> 00:54:08,085 He will keep his employees. 660 00:54:08,585 --> 00:54:11,793 But the five-day working week. 661 00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:16,793 It seems to be inclined. 662 00:54:27,835 --> 00:54:29,918 What power will you use? 663 00:54:30,793 --> 00:54:33,168 What will choose Edison guess. 664 00:54:43,043 --> 00:54:44,376 What nonsense. 665 00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:46,918 Do you believe me to be absurd. 666 00:54:48,085 --> 00:54:49,710 Yes, indeed. 667 00:54:50,126 --> 00:54:51,835 We are overloaded, Marguerite. 668 00:54:53,460 --> 00:54:55,293 There's no shame in selling. 669 00:54:59,168 --> 00:55:02,335 I always tried to become Edison's associate, 670 00:55:03,251 --> 00:55:04,918 and now I have the opportunity to do so. 671 00:55:06,710 --> 00:55:11,001 We have an engine, we train on a mountain. It's impossible. 672 00:55:11,001 --> 00:55:13,751 I thought that the word "impossible" does not exist in your vocabulary. 673 00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:21,960 Melt Westinghouse Electric. 674 00:55:22,460 --> 00:55:26,501 The revenues will be used to save the other bankrupt companies 675 00:55:26,501 --> 00:55:30,543 and it will be the time to repair the errors of Edison. 676 00:55:30,543 --> 00:55:34,585 You are not a captain changing course, depending on the sea. 677 00:55:34,585 --> 00:55:36,460 We have a broken! 678 00:55:36,835 --> 00:55:38,626 We are drowning. 679 00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:41,960 All this is costing us a fortune. 680 00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:44,460 - it does not care about the money! - A fortune! 681 00:55:45,835 --> 00:55:48,960 I was living in your parents' house, while you bussavi at every door. 682 00:55:49,793 --> 00:55:52,793 Do you want people to think that you're on the side of what you hate? 683 00:55:52,793 --> 00:55:55,001 And you use your last name as a verb? 684 00:55:55,001 --> 00:55:58,210 And how you think you can fix that, my dear? 685 00:55:59,710 --> 00:56:00,876 I've got you. 686 00:56:01,376 --> 00:56:03,126 And avevo Fran k. 687 00:56:04,376 --> 00:56:05,460 That's all. 688 00:56:06,668 --> 00:56:08,293 I loved that man. 689 00:56:10,126 --> 00:56:15,085 It's just a sensible business decision. 690 00:56:15,793 --> 00:56:17,001 George. 691 00:56:17,001 --> 00:56:18,376 That's all. 692 00:56:22,210 --> 00:56:24,001 That's all. 693 00:56:30,460 --> 00:56:33,418 Say what you will of George Westinghouse, is a good man. 694 00:56:40,335 --> 00:56:42,418 Demise 695 00:57:09,460 --> 00:57:12,668 You have entered the federal territory. 696 00:57:14,668 --> 00:57:16,043 The point is that ... 697 00:57:16,585 --> 00:57:17,710 You are mistaken. 698 00:57:18,251 --> 00:57:19,335 According to my map ... 699 00:57:31,668 --> 00:57:36,376 I mourn the passing of my colleague, but bad luck will not win. 700 00:57:38,543 --> 00:57:43,085 I noticed that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything 701 00:57:43,085 --> 00:57:46,043 because it is scared to come forgotten. 702 00:57:47,043 --> 00:57:50,626 If you want to be remembered, it is simple, shoot the President. 703 00:57:50,918 --> 00:57:53,751 But if you prefer to leave, as I call it, a legacy, 704 00:57:54,251 --> 00:57:57,585 leave the world a better place than you found. 705 00:57:58,210 --> 00:58:05,460 Thomas Alva Edison is a charlatan who exploits the fears of ordinary people, 706 00:58:05,460 --> 00:58:07,876 because I possess the best system. 707 00:58:09,043 --> 00:58:14,335 And since I own the best system, the Westinghouse Electric resist. 708 00:58:14,335 --> 00:58:15,168 Good day. 709 00:58:16,418 --> 00:58:20,168 (MAN) Westinghouse took the lead. He will not go. 710 00:58:20,168 --> 00:58:23,918 (MEN) I appreciate your lights, Mr. Edison, but I'm also a client. 711 00:58:24,293 --> 00:58:27,168 (MAN) And if someone knocks on my door with something that I need, 712 00:58:27,168 --> 00:58:30,335 and that is better than what I have at the moment, at a lower price, 713 00:58:30,335 --> 00:58:33,585 I'd be a fool not to invite him for tea. 714 00:58:33,585 --> 00:58:36,251 - It's an ultimatum? - (MAN) More threatening. 715 00:58:36,543 --> 00:58:38,668 If you feel that fear is the best strategy, 716 00:58:38,668 --> 00:58:40,876 then you'd better hurry and try harder. 717 00:58:42,460 --> 00:58:43,918 Time is up. 718 00:58:47,001 --> 00:58:50,835 (WOMEN) He built a box with a crank 719 00:58:50,835 --> 00:58:53,918 and a lever to preserve his wife's voice. 720 00:58:53,918 --> 00:58:57,418 (WOMEN) What wrong choice, because she can haunt him forever. 721 00:59:01,418 --> 00:59:03,960 I could not stop it even if I wanted. 722 00:59:05,251 --> 00:59:11,043 And I will not, because I think it is a fantastic idea. 723 00:59:12,126 --> 00:59:16,043 It will be the power to kill the man in Buffalo. 724 00:59:16,626 --> 00:59:18,335 We do not know the voltage. 725 00:59:18,918 --> 00:59:22,001 Too much and take fire. Too little and it would still be alive. 726 00:59:23,501 --> 00:59:25,751 We only need your advice, Mr. Edison. 727 00:59:25,751 --> 00:59:30,960 What is human? Where to put the electrodes and, in return, 728 00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,418 I promise something you know you want. 729 00:59:36,001 --> 00:59:40,376 I'll put the name of Westinghouse in plain sight 730 00:59:40,376 --> 00:59:44,793 as the official electricity used to kill humans. 731 00:59:46,793 --> 00:59:51,335 We might even expose the chair at the Chicago World Fair. 732 00:59:52,418 --> 00:59:53,918 The future! 733 01:00:02,085 --> 01:00:04,251 My name will never be associated. 734 01:00:04,251 --> 01:00:06,335 I have not provided any consultation, 735 01:00:06,335 --> 01:00:10,210 Westinghouse will have suggested as the best way for the killings. 736 01:00:11,210 --> 01:00:12,960 Guaranteed your assistance? 737 01:00:14,835 --> 01:00:17,293 If you do me any questions, I will answer. 738 01:00:20,751 --> 01:00:22,585 Bruciate correspondence. 739 01:00:23,835 --> 01:00:25,585 Absolutely. 740 01:00:28,793 --> 01:00:31,835 These are our seats and our blue wing chair. 741 01:00:32,251 --> 01:00:34,585 I've sold three just last week series. 742 01:00:37,501 --> 01:00:39,668 This is the classic wooden chair. 743 01:00:41,085 --> 01:00:44,668 And these are chairs in oriental style. They are very popular. 744 01:00:51,376 --> 01:00:52,876 An austere style. 745 01:00:55,585 --> 01:00:58,293 You want four, six, eight, twelve? 746 01:00:58,585 --> 01:01:00,460 Only one. 747 01:01:02,043 --> 01:01:05,501 (EDISON) Mr Brown, the plant consists of a stationary engine, 748 01:01:05,501 --> 01:01:09,210 a Westinghouse alternating current dynamo capable of generating 3,000 volts. 749 01:01:09,210 --> 01:01:11,293 (EDISON) A wooden chair with headrest, 750 01:01:11,293 --> 01:01:12,710 of the belts and adjustable electrodes. 751 01:01:13,085 --> 01:01:15,376 (EDISON) Burn. TAE 752 01:01:23,501 --> 01:01:26,168 (EDISON) The voltmeter, I'amperometro, and the control framework 753 01:01:26,168 --> 01:01:29,376 They must be located in the execution chamber for monitoring. 754 01:01:29,376 --> 01:01:30,835 (EDISON) Burn. TAE 755 01:01:30,835 --> 01:01:33,085 (EDISON) The Dynamos hall is connected via electrical signals. 756 01:01:33,085 --> 01:01:34,376 (EDISON) Burn. TAE 757 01:01:34,376 --> 01:01:38,168 (EDISON) The most efficient machines are manufactured by Westinghouse. 758 01:01:38,168 --> 01:01:41,543 (EDISON) authorize the payment of $ 3,600 for your work. 759 01:01:42,085 --> 01:01:43,793 (EDISON) Burn. TAE 760 01:01:43,793 --> 01:01:47,293 (EDISON) The only question that might discourage Westinghouse 761 01:01:47,293 --> 01:01:48,835 in relation to capital punishment 762 01:01:48,835 --> 01:01:51,418 It refers to the fact that the meat might burn to the contact points 763 01:01:51,418 --> 01:01:52,835 and the amount of current to be applied 764 01:01:52,835 --> 01:01:55,418 without such an occurrence, it is not yet known. 765 01:01:55,918 --> 01:01:59,001 (EDISON) Burn. TAE 766 01:02:08,960 --> 01:02:10,918 For someone trying to compete at the World Fair, 767 01:02:10,918 --> 01:02:12,710 this deadly car is not a good presentation. 768 01:02:12,710 --> 01:02:17,168 Yes I know. Edison's just trying to infangarmi, as usual. 769 01:02:17,168 --> 01:02:18,960 - Can you prove it? - No. 770 01:02:18,960 --> 01:02:21,376 But maybe I could stop him. 771 01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:22,918 Are you talking to me? 772 01:02:24,751 --> 01:02:27,793 If you want my advice, do not assumetemi. Save money. 773 01:02:28,751 --> 01:02:32,085 But I know a man who can say 774 01:02:32,085 --> 01:02:35,418 Edison has a bond with the chair of death. 775 01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,835 No, I mean stop it through legal channels. 776 01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:42,668 - You want Edison ports in court? - No. 777 01:02:42,668 --> 01:02:45,085 The chair itself. The eighth amendment. 778 01:02:45,085 --> 01:02:50,293 So, I should provide a murderess who admitted killing his wife 779 01:02:50,293 --> 01:02:52,251 maintaining a ...? 780 01:02:52,251 --> 01:02:56,793 It is to show what kind of man is Thomas Edison. 781 01:02:58,835 --> 01:03:01,043 Just keep my name out. 782 01:03:01,043 --> 01:03:02,668 Your wife knows you are paying for this? 783 01:03:03,126 --> 01:03:04,335 It was his idea. 784 01:03:07,876 --> 01:03:12,085 (MAN) What makes electricity not cruel and inhuman? 785 01:03:12,085 --> 01:03:13,835 (MAN) The speed of the current is so high, 786 01:03:13,835 --> 01:03:17,126 that the brain is paralyzed instantly. 787 01:03:17,126 --> 01:03:21,585 The subject dies before the nerves can communicate I shock. 788 01:03:21,585 --> 01:03:24,668 - As I know it is not proven? - I tested it ... 789 01:03:25,501 --> 01:03:27,876 ... on a gorilla in the London Zoo. 790 01:03:27,876 --> 01:03:31,501 It has links with some electricity company? 791 01:03:31,501 --> 01:03:32,585 No, sir. 792 01:03:33,168 --> 01:03:36,710 The State calls Thomas Alva Edison. 793 01:03:37,085 --> 01:03:42,251 Could you explain the difference between your current 794 01:03:42,251 --> 01:03:45,918 and Mr. Westinghouse alternating electricity? 795 01:03:45,918 --> 01:03:49,835 The continuous current flows, such as water, through a conduit, 796 01:03:49,835 --> 01:03:52,126 and the alternating current flowing in both directions. 797 01:03:52,126 --> 01:03:54,043 Water. It does not seem so dangerous. 798 01:03:54,043 --> 01:03:55,918 Not until they drowned. 799 01:03:56,418 --> 01:03:58,876 Why not use the power Mr. Westinghouse? 800 01:03:58,876 --> 01:04:01,293 - I do not like. - Do you believe it is dangerous. 801 01:04:01,293 --> 01:04:02,418 Yes, it is. 802 01:04:02,668 --> 01:04:07,460 Imagine that you were using the current Mr. Westinghouse, 803 01:04:08,418 --> 01:04:11,126 one that will be used on Mr. Kemmler, 804 01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:15,210 and imagine using it for five or six minutes. 805 01:04:16,085 --> 01:04:18,460 It was in 1500, 806 01:04:18,460 --> 01:04:21,168 what would it take before you feel the heat? 807 01:04:21,168 --> 01:04:26,501 Well, the temperature may rise to four or five degrees above normal 808 01:04:26,501 --> 01:04:29,376 and continue until it would not mummified. 809 01:04:29,876 --> 01:04:31,668 And this would not cause great suffering? 810 01:04:32,168 --> 01:04:34,168 - No. - How do I know? 811 01:04:34,168 --> 01:04:37,043 Because I have personally seen this electricity be used 812 01:04:37,043 --> 01:04:38,876 to kill a horse of 400 kilos. 813 01:04:38,876 --> 01:04:40,918 - And the horse he felt pain? - If so, he did not say. 814 01:04:43,876 --> 01:04:48,751 Mr. Edison, there is great admiration between you and Mr. Westinghouse. 815 01:04:48,751 --> 01:04:51,585 (EDISON) Do not disregard Mr. Westinghouse. 816 01:04:51,585 --> 01:04:53,668 You two are competing, right? 817 01:04:53,668 --> 01:04:55,626 It's not about that. 818 01:04:56,835 --> 01:04:59,126 I was asked, as an objective scientist, 819 01:04:59,126 --> 01:05:02,043 my opinion on whether death for electricity 820 01:05:02,043 --> 01:05:05,168 It is a violation of the eighth amendment and whether it is cruel and inadequate. 821 01:05:05,168 --> 01:05:08,585 In my view, the only humane method of execution 822 01:05:08,585 --> 01:05:10,501 is the alternating current Westinghouse. 823 01:05:10,501 --> 01:05:13,001 Mr. Edison knows that any more than 30 amps ... 824 01:05:13,001 --> 01:05:16,626 Milliampere. If you have to interrupt me, do it with the correct name. 825 01:05:19,126 --> 01:05:21,710 - Thank you, Your Honor. - The honor is mine. 826 01:05:22,210 --> 01:05:24,668 Okay, I have everything I need. 827 01:05:35,501 --> 01:05:37,585 What do you want, furfantelli? 828 01:05:37,793 --> 01:05:39,085 - Mr. Edison. - What's up? 829 01:05:39,085 --> 01:05:39,918 Mr. Edison. 830 01:05:44,335 --> 01:05:45,251 Look'. 831 01:05:45,251 --> 01:05:47,376 I left before I had the opportunity. 832 01:05:47,376 --> 01:05:48,751 Mr. Edison, can I get your autograph? 833 01:05:49,668 --> 01:05:50,835 Yes sure. 834 01:05:51,251 --> 01:05:53,376 William, will you? 835 01:06:03,835 --> 01:06:07,335 I must warn you, there's only one thing that beats justice. 836 01:06:07,335 --> 01:06:08,251 Money? 837 01:06:08,501 --> 01:06:09,751 Fame. 838 01:06:30,668 --> 01:06:33,376 Army revolver is a New Model? 839 01:06:34,001 --> 01:06:36,001 What a fantastic car. 840 01:06:37,043 --> 01:06:39,376 - You know how it works? - You want me to shoot you? 841 01:06:39,376 --> 01:06:43,085 I did not mean how to shoot, but how it works. 842 01:06:43,085 --> 01:06:46,335 It is a good airplane should look at it. 843 01:06:46,335 --> 01:06:48,543 They designed the cylinder, 844 01:06:48,543 --> 01:06:52,335 so that the dog is not standing on a chamber empty. 845 01:06:52,335 --> 01:06:55,293 Or I could shoot you six times instead of five. 846 01:06:55,293 --> 01:06:56,293 I guess so. 847 01:06:59,418 --> 01:07:01,835 <They both lied in court. 848 01:07:02,335 --> 01:07:04,585 <But if you want to shoot, 849 01:07:04,585 --> 01:07:06,126 this is the last opportunity to do so. 850 01:07:06,126 --> 01:07:09,793 Sometimes, you have to act outside of the rules to do the right thing. 851 01:07:11,168 --> 01:07:13,460 It would be nice if we did not do it. 852 01:07:14,876 --> 01:07:16,501 Really? 853 01:07:17,293 --> 01:07:19,460 This does not make you like him. 854 01:07:22,918 --> 01:07:24,710 What do we do? 855 01:07:58,876 --> 01:08:02,918 MUSIC FROM A PIANO 856 01:08:21,168 --> 01:08:22,418 PHONE RINGS 857 01:08:22,418 --> 01:08:25,293 I have a bad ear, but it was extraordinary. 858 01:08:25,293 --> 01:08:26,293 Priest... 859 01:08:30,001 --> 01:08:30,960 Ready? 860 01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:33,876 (WESTINGHOUSE) The plant consists of a stationary engine, 861 01:08:33,876 --> 01:08:39,293 a Westinghouse alternating current dynamo capable of generating 3,000 volts. 862 01:08:39,293 --> 01:08:41,210 A wooden chair with headrest. 863 01:08:41,210 --> 01:08:44,418 - (EDISON) Where you have taken? - (WESTINGHOUSE) I will send to the newspapers. 864 01:08:44,418 --> 01:08:47,335 (EDISON) Those letters were stolen. You can not make them public. 865 01:08:47,335 --> 01:08:49,585 - (WESTINGHOUSE) Why not? - Because it's private correspondence. 866 01:08:49,585 --> 01:08:53,626 Mr. Edison, say something against me or against my company, 867 01:08:53,626 --> 01:08:56,085 and I'll ask you to tell the truth. 868 01:08:57,251 --> 01:09:00,043 It would be the right thing to do. 869 01:09:01,543 --> 01:09:02,585 Or do I? 870 01:09:04,335 --> 01:09:08,501 - (EDISON) Why do not you burned? - (MAN) They come from Thomas Edison. 871 01:09:09,085 --> 01:09:11,001 (MEN) I do not understand that this chair 872 01:09:11,001 --> 01:09:14,210 It is something to be proud of and for which to be remembered. 873 01:09:14,210 --> 01:09:16,418 I do not know how much electricity is necessary. 874 01:09:16,418 --> 01:09:20,085 - You said 1,500 volts. - I said: "I think 1,500 volts." 875 01:09:20,085 --> 01:09:22,793 But if all the water evaporates in the body, it could catch fire. 876 01:09:22,793 --> 01:09:25,710 - We lower the amount. - So, I arrostirete to death. 877 01:09:25,710 --> 01:09:29,543 You have to listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. 878 01:09:29,543 --> 01:09:32,210 You said that it is inevitable that someone will eventually do so. 879 01:09:32,210 --> 01:09:35,293 But the fact that someone else I do, does not mean you have to be you. 880 01:09:36,168 --> 01:09:40,626 The State thanks you for your comments and his help. 881 01:10:00,251 --> 01:10:01,251 What's up? 882 01:10:04,293 --> 01:10:06,085 - What should I tell you? - Say that. 883 01:10:06,960 --> 01:10:09,751 You said that a car would not built to kill people. 884 01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:23,085 I realize impossible things and rob me. So I am referring again. 885 01:10:23,085 --> 01:10:27,001 And I refer, again and again. 886 01:10:29,251 --> 01:10:31,335 This is not like the rest. 887 01:10:32,626 --> 01:10:34,376 This is everything else. 888 01:10:35,668 --> 01:10:38,876 The way of the future will not be made of brick, 889 01:10:38,876 --> 01:10:40,126 but copper. 890 01:10:41,585 --> 01:10:45,626 Automation, transportation, communication, and the man who controls the current one, 891 01:10:45,626 --> 01:10:47,710 controls the future. 892 01:10:48,876 --> 01:10:50,960 But you know that Westinghouse is right. 893 01:10:52,335 --> 01:10:54,543 Lord, do not really believe that some accident 894 01:10:54,543 --> 01:10:57,751 can exclude the applicability of its current. You do not want to miss. 895 01:10:57,751 --> 01:11:01,168 I have only amplified what no one else took seriously. 896 01:11:01,168 --> 01:11:03,376 No, you are passed over with a 12-ton train. 897 01:11:03,376 --> 01:11:07,126 It is he who should realize the brakes, whose fault is it? 898 01:11:10,168 --> 01:11:15,001 - Change tonight and so will win. - His current kills people. 899 01:11:15,001 --> 01:11:16,293 Just because you said! 900 01:11:16,293 --> 01:11:19,043 Can I stop complaining vultures in my garden 901 01:11:19,043 --> 01:11:22,710 or build a wall so high that no one will dare to climb over. 902 01:11:22,710 --> 01:11:24,543 You're the smartest man I know. 903 01:11:24,543 --> 01:11:29,626 Apart from miracles created from nothing, I was impressed by your principles. 904 01:11:32,085 --> 01:11:35,585 you have not invented the incandescent lamp, but the people I believe. 905 01:11:43,126 --> 01:11:47,793 Welcome to the reality of how things are made. 906 01:11:47,793 --> 01:11:50,626 We give all our contribution. This is how the inventions. 907 01:11:51,001 --> 01:11:53,043 Salt. The wheat. 908 01:11:53,043 --> 01:11:54,793 The heat. The heart. 909 01:11:54,793 --> 01:11:59,043 But one man creates the bread. 910 01:12:00,293 --> 01:12:01,960 And it is one that combines all this 911 01:12:02,918 --> 01:12:05,585 and I makes it so good as to make him turn people 912 01:12:05,585 --> 01:12:10,418 and pay expensive to buy it. 913 01:12:10,418 --> 01:12:13,668 Mr. Edison, I want your success. Really. 914 01:12:15,626 --> 01:12:17,043 But it has to change tonight, 915 01:12:17,043 --> 01:12:20,501 or die as PT Barnum rather than as Isaac Newton. 916 01:12:45,501 --> 01:12:48,001 Although there may be unknown, 917 01:12:48,001 --> 01:12:51,960 her studies demonstrate an understanding of electrical issues 918 01:12:51,960 --> 01:12:55,751 unprecedented known to me, with all due respect to the present. 919 01:12:56,251 --> 01:13:00,418 Gentlemen and lady, Nikola Tesla. 920 01:13:03,168 --> 01:13:05,335 Step to the fundamental question, 921 01:13:06,126 --> 01:13:08,335 Yes or no, 922 01:13:08,335 --> 01:13:11,751 the alternating current may actuate an engine? 923 01:13:12,751 --> 01:13:13,585 Yup. 924 01:13:15,835 --> 01:13:18,001 (TESLA) It is possible to construct an alternate system 925 01:13:18,001 --> 01:13:21,168 Edison doing what it can do to a third of the cost. 926 01:13:21,168 --> 01:13:23,001 In the second drawing of my system, 927 01:13:23,001 --> 01:13:25,751 the rotors are located in a more forward position ... 928 01:13:25,751 --> 01:13:28,460 The second drawing shows the magnetic condition corresponding ... 929 01:13:28,460 --> 01:13:30,710 One can get a synchronous motor ... 930 01:13:31,501 --> 01:13:35,918 The induction is always maintained at the maximum activity. 931 01:13:35,918 --> 01:13:39,376 Mr. Tesla, you built the engine to test his theories? 932 01:13:39,376 --> 01:13:41,293 But they are not theories. 933 01:13:41,293 --> 01:13:42,543 No, I have not built. 934 01:13:42,543 --> 01:13:44,418 But this would prove his beliefs. 935 01:13:44,418 --> 01:13:47,251 But they are not beliefs, and it is completely unnecessary for me 936 01:13:47,251 --> 01:13:49,376 operate the engine in my mind or in a store, 937 01:13:49,376 --> 01:13:51,210 because I've built in my imagination. 938 01:13:51,210 --> 01:13:53,543 - And it's perfect. - Are you serious? 939 01:13:53,543 --> 01:13:54,460 Almost always. 940 01:13:59,543 --> 01:14:01,793 KNOCKING AT THE DOOR 941 01:14:04,168 --> 01:14:06,335 Hail, sleep George Westinghouse. 942 01:14:16,626 --> 01:14:18,543 George Westinghouse. 943 01:14:18,543 --> 01:14:21,168 An engine that compresses the air in a reservoir 944 01:14:21,168 --> 01:14:23,876 that is brought through a duct to both the train brakes, 945 01:14:24,376 --> 01:14:26,960 allowing them to operate simultaneously. 946 01:14:28,376 --> 01:14:31,335 - An intelligent design. - Thanks. 947 01:14:39,543 --> 01:14:40,376 Nail. 948 01:14:56,751 --> 01:14:59,418 I think the room is tilted by two degrees. 949 01:15:03,376 --> 01:15:07,960 I appreciate that you have found the time to meet. 950 01:15:07,960 --> 01:15:10,210 Going somewhere? 951 01:15:24,418 --> 01:15:27,168 - What's this? - They are the Niagara Falls. 952 01:15:27,751 --> 01:15:29,460 Since the university, 953 01:15:29,460 --> 01:15:33,376 I imagined a great wheel that provided light. 954 01:15:35,085 --> 01:15:38,668 Did you know that just came here I worked for Mr. Edison? 955 01:15:38,668 --> 01:15:40,335 - No. - Has? 956 01:15:40,335 --> 01:15:41,251 Right. 957 01:15:42,710 --> 01:15:45,751 I have adjusted two of its dc generators in one night 958 01:15:45,751 --> 01:15:47,876 and he called me "a damn good man." 959 01:15:48,835 --> 01:15:50,751 So why I not treated as I deserved? 960 01:15:51,335 --> 01:15:54,335 I left. I tried to start my business, but I was deceived. 961 01:15:54,335 --> 01:15:56,960 Who was I? An immigrant any. 962 01:15:57,626 --> 01:16:00,626 So, I took the only job I could find. I dug a ditch. 963 01:16:01,501 --> 01:16:05,251 The others laughed at my clothes, but at the end of the day I had $ 2. 964 01:16:08,043 --> 01:16:10,626 To whom belonged that ditch? 965 01:16:11,543 --> 01:16:13,876 Alla Edison Electric. 966 01:16:14,835 --> 01:16:16,585 It was like digging its own grave. 967 01:16:18,418 --> 01:16:21,001 If Edison were to do it, so we will leave behind, 968 01:16:21,001 --> 01:16:22,376 We will not be able to take it back more. 969 01:16:22,376 --> 01:16:26,418 The Fair must alternate. There has to be my engine. 970 01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:31,085 I saw how people consider a Chicago landmark, the City of Light. 971 01:16:31,918 --> 01:16:35,335 All cities sooner or later will have the light, 972 01:16:35,335 --> 01:16:38,168 but also exploit the energy of Niagara, 973 01:16:38,168 --> 01:16:39,960 It is to see the future. 974 01:16:39,960 --> 01:16:40,793 The waterfalls? 975 01:16:41,501 --> 01:16:45,251 - I'm here to talk about Chicago. - Think over Chicago. 976 01:16:45,251 --> 01:16:48,835 Energy is as essential as food, water and air. 977 01:16:48,835 --> 01:16:53,043 We can not say that only those who have money can eat or breathe. 978 01:16:53,876 --> 01:16:55,626 Yes, the Falls illuminate the East Coast. 979 01:16:55,626 --> 01:16:58,585 You can get very lucky and I long for a walking stick 980 01:16:58,585 --> 01:17:00,251 I saw on the 63th and Madison. 981 01:17:00,251 --> 01:17:03,251 But Niagara is proof that, one day, we can separate the energy from the profit. 982 01:17:03,251 --> 01:17:05,251 That's how you really wins. 983 01:17:06,418 --> 01:17:09,001 - As I know you will not deceive me? - Well ... 984 01:17:10,043 --> 01:17:11,376 I do not know. 985 01:17:13,543 --> 01:17:16,251 But the point is, Mr. Tesla, I need your engine. 986 01:17:16,251 --> 01:17:19,710 I may illuminate the Fair, but I can not drive a car. 987 01:17:20,168 --> 01:17:21,876 If we come to an agreement today, 988 01:17:21,876 --> 01:17:25,251 my business will die right here, in your hotel room. 989 01:17:27,501 --> 01:17:31,876 But so it will die also your dream to harness the energy of Niagara. 990 01:17:35,793 --> 01:17:38,335 Therefore, we have a deal? 991 01:17:39,626 --> 01:17:41,085 Five thousand. 992 01:17:48,543 --> 01:17:50,376 Mille. 993 01:18:05,751 --> 01:18:08,543 I give you two dollars and 50 cents ... 994 01:18:12,376 --> 01:18:13,835 ... for the horse. 995 01:18:15,251 --> 01:18:19,793 I'm not a genius, but should be millions. 996 01:18:22,001 --> 01:18:24,460 May I invite you to dinner at Delmonico? 997 01:18:26,001 --> 01:18:27,918 All right, Mr. Tesla, it's time to go. 998 01:18:27,918 --> 01:18:29,626 No, I will not leave your room tilted. 999 01:18:29,626 --> 01:18:31,293 It does not pay for more than a month. 1000 01:18:31,293 --> 01:18:34,585 How much should I pay to keep him here all year? 1001 01:18:39,543 --> 01:18:43,085 I have to lay off 300 people by the gas. 1002 01:18:45,876 --> 01:18:48,001 There is no other way. 1003 01:18:48,793 --> 01:18:51,626 We pay their salaries and we move them to electricity. 1004 01:18:52,126 --> 01:18:53,793 We can not keep doing this. 1005 01:18:54,626 --> 01:18:57,626 If we win in Chicago, we will not need it. 1006 01:18:58,918 --> 01:19:01,335 You have the truth on your side. 1007 01:19:02,918 --> 01:19:07,043 And whatever happens, you'll know you've played correctly. 1008 01:19:19,168 --> 01:19:23,793 I stole the letters that connect to the chair Edison death. 1009 01:19:24,585 --> 01:19:27,043 I delivered newspapers to nail. 1010 01:19:29,418 --> 01:19:31,293 I know I've disappointed you. 1011 01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:03,793 What is this? 1012 01:20:03,793 --> 01:20:05,335 A 25-meter high tower 1013 01:20:05,335 --> 01:20:09,085 Edison bulbs covered by 16,000 and on top of a three-meter high lighthouse. 1014 01:20:09,085 --> 01:20:11,418 It is to show the world that we are the winners. 1015 01:20:11,418 --> 01:20:13,918 Otherwise, how would people know that we won? 1016 01:20:13,918 --> 01:20:14,876 It is an idol. 1017 01:20:16,376 --> 01:20:18,418 Is a signature. 1018 01:20:19,460 --> 01:20:22,793 And you will receive something that no one ever had before by Thomas Edison. 1019 01:20:22,793 --> 01:20:25,460 - Really? Thing? - My apologies. 1020 01:20:25,460 --> 01:20:29,001 I admit I spent more than expected, 1021 01:20:29,001 --> 01:20:32,210 but now, more than ever, it is important to go beyond. 1022 01:20:32,210 --> 01:20:35,293 Whatever proposal will Westinghouse for the Fair, we have ... 1023 01:20:35,293 --> 01:20:37,668 - You have to offer more. - I must. 1024 01:20:39,043 --> 01:20:40,543 Devo. 1025 01:20:42,626 --> 01:20:43,835 Who is Nikola Tesla? 1026 01:20:47,001 --> 01:20:48,085 He who does? 1027 01:20:48,085 --> 01:20:49,960 He gave a lecture at Columbia. 1028 01:20:50,585 --> 01:20:54,751 It is said that Serbia is building a multi-phase motor for Westinghouse. 1029 01:20:55,335 --> 01:20:57,168 Light and energy. 1030 01:20:57,168 --> 01:20:59,460 If you can get both, now you can do it too. 1031 01:20:59,460 --> 01:21:02,126 No one knows what it will take to build a working model ... 1032 01:21:02,126 --> 01:21:04,668 Until this morning, you have given ... 1033 01:21:05,251 --> 01:21:10,251 ... nine other cities to Westinghouse. Therefore, this is what happens. 1034 01:21:11,001 --> 01:21:15,501 Edison Electric will build with some emerging company. 1035 01:21:16,126 --> 01:21:17,793 You're out. 1036 01:21:18,710 --> 01:21:19,668 And you know why? 1037 01:21:20,668 --> 01:21:24,126 Ve I will say if you want this moment to be even more unpleasant. 1038 01:21:24,335 --> 01:21:26,626 You receive the shares, 1039 01:21:26,626 --> 01:21:29,043 and you will keep your place in the Council. 1040 01:21:35,293 --> 01:21:38,418 - Who will do the presentation? You? - Good God, no. 1041 01:21:38,418 --> 01:21:39,460 And me I say now? 1042 01:21:39,460 --> 01:21:41,793 I was here. I thought meritaste to hear you say in your face. 1043 01:21:41,793 --> 01:21:42,793 No it is not true. 1044 01:21:42,793 --> 01:21:47,210 You wanted me just wasting time and get me to sign autographs peri children. 1045 01:21:48,293 --> 01:21:50,460 - How you gonna call? - And what worries you? 1046 01:21:50,460 --> 01:21:52,001 Edison Electric. It must be called so. 1047 01:21:52,001 --> 01:21:55,793 Edison and electricity are synonyms, Morgan. The bulbs ... 1048 01:21:55,793 --> 01:21:58,793 I will connect a failed name fledgling company. 1049 01:21:58,793 --> 01:22:01,001 Now that leaked the letters, you lose credibility. 1050 01:22:01,001 --> 01:22:02,418 - So what will? - The name? 1051 01:22:02,418 --> 01:22:04,126 Yes, the damn name! 1052 01:22:04,126 --> 01:22:06,751 The contract says only "General Electric", but I will invent something. 1053 01:22:06,751 --> 01:22:08,085 Even I can be creative. 1054 01:22:17,710 --> 01:22:18,751 Mr. Insull? 1055 01:22:20,876 --> 01:22:22,210 Just a minute. 1056 01:23:01,585 --> 01:23:04,460 He said that will keep your name, just not to overhang complaint 1057 01:23:04,460 --> 01:23:06,918 or who do not speak negatively to the merger printing. 1058 01:23:06,918 --> 01:23:08,126 What gave you? 1059 01:23:09,210 --> 01:23:11,335 - Tell me. - The vice presidency, but I refused. 1060 01:23:11,335 --> 01:23:12,585 - You should accept. - Why? 1061 01:23:12,585 --> 01:23:14,460 Alternating current, what is the voltage transmission? 1062 01:23:14,460 --> 01:23:15,751 It was 230,000. 1063 01:23:15,751 --> 01:23:17,585 What is it made the filament in a light bulb 12,000 hours? 1064 01:23:17,585 --> 01:23:19,001 Carbon Japanese Bamboo. 1065 01:23:19,001 --> 01:23:20,168 - What do you eat for breakfast? - Pie. 1066 01:23:20,168 --> 01:23:23,710 Of what surprised you? Of course the servants. You are me, but in human form. 1067 01:23:32,793 --> 01:23:34,251 Look around. 1068 01:23:34,751 --> 01:23:35,835 Who is missing? 1069 01:23:38,626 --> 01:23:41,210 Edison General Electric Company, pray. 1070 01:23:41,210 --> 01:23:43,251 General Electric? 1071 01:23:43,251 --> 01:23:45,460 - Edison General Electric Company. - Yes. 1072 01:23:46,501 --> 01:23:47,835 Excuse me. 1073 01:24:01,126 --> 01:24:02,168 He has 12 years. 1074 01:24:02,751 --> 01:24:05,960 Mr. Insull? They are members of the Commission. 1075 01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:08,710 Listen carefully. Concentrate on the quality of light. 1076 01:24:08,710 --> 01:24:10,876 I do not care what the court says. 1077 01:24:10,876 --> 01:24:12,335 Westinghouse stole my bulbs. 1078 01:24:12,335 --> 01:24:15,376 The good news for you is that it has done a terrible job. 1079 01:24:15,376 --> 01:24:18,376 They are outdoor lamps, and last about two hours. 1080 01:24:18,376 --> 01:24:20,376 Therefore, at the timing to replace them. 1081 01:24:21,418 --> 01:24:23,251 He speaks of the superiority of our, 1082 01:24:23,251 --> 01:24:25,460 as if there was no competition. 1083 01:24:25,460 --> 01:24:30,293 Use term as "standard", "purest", and "the most beautiful light", and so on. 1084 01:24:30,293 --> 01:24:32,960 Find out what kind of men they are. There are only two types: 1085 01:24:32,960 --> 01:24:36,460 those who believe they are practical, but they are dreamers. 1086 01:24:36,460 --> 01:24:38,543 They are the ones who take risks. 1087 01:24:38,543 --> 01:24:41,085 The other, smile at you and thank you for I show, 1088 01:24:41,085 --> 01:24:42,710 but vote with their wallets. 1089 01:24:43,001 --> 01:24:45,751 Unless Westinghouse did not play all that he has, 1090 01:24:45,751 --> 01:24:48,668 Morgan will put you in good stead with the lenders. 1091 01:24:48,668 --> 01:24:51,335 Your only job is to look the dreamers in the eye 1092 01:24:51,335 --> 01:24:52,335 and promise them the magic. 1093 01:24:53,376 --> 01:24:57,418 Now tell me everything you remember about the series and parallel circuits 1094 01:24:57,418 --> 01:25:00,668 without using the words I just said. 1095 01:25:00,668 --> 01:25:03,335 Even though I'm young, I'm an expert in these matters, 1096 01:25:03,335 --> 01:25:06,376 at the level of the same Edison. 1097 01:25:06,710 --> 01:25:09,501 If you had to choose Westinghouse, then ... 1098 01:25:09,501 --> 01:25:10,918 So yes. 1099 01:25:10,918 --> 01:25:15,376 There is a possibility of endangering the lives of 28 million people. 1100 01:25:16,293 --> 01:25:19,543 If Westinghouse did even the smallest mistake ... 1101 01:25:20,043 --> 01:25:22,585 unintentionally, of course. 1102 01:25:22,585 --> 01:25:25,418 A political visit, a wife, a child of seven years 1103 01:25:25,418 --> 01:25:29,251 It could lean against a lamppost and died instantly. 1104 01:25:29,251 --> 01:25:30,126 That's all. 1105 01:25:30,751 --> 01:25:34,251 Electricity Mr. Westinghouse is fatal. 1106 01:25:34,251 --> 01:25:36,835 Thank you, Mr. Insull. 1107 01:25:36,835 --> 01:25:38,501 Just to be clear, sir, 1108 01:25:38,501 --> 01:25:41,668 each electric current over 200 milliamperes can be deadly. 1109 01:25:41,668 --> 01:25:42,501 Even yours? 1110 01:25:51,126 --> 01:25:55,001 Mr. Westinghouse, they are members of the Commission Buildings and Grounds: 1111 01:25:55,001 --> 01:25:59,001 Charles Schwab, Craig Cannon, the mayor Cregier, of course. 1112 01:25:59,001 --> 01:25:59,918 Certainly. 1113 01:25:59,918 --> 01:26:04,251 Victor Lawson of the Chicago Daily News, and the Honorable Judge Tree. 1114 01:26:05,126 --> 01:26:06,376 Io sono Daniel Burnham. 1115 01:26:06,376 --> 01:26:10,960 We ask you to limit your remarks to an hour. 1116 01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:12,293 It will not be necessary. 1117 01:26:13,126 --> 01:26:15,251 - Here's to you. Lord. - Thanks. 1118 01:26:20,543 --> 01:26:21,376 My proposal. 1119 01:26:22,293 --> 01:26:24,960 - These are all your figures? - Yes, sir. 1120 01:26:24,960 --> 01:26:26,626 Independent estimates. 1121 01:26:26,626 --> 01:26:30,043 Before considering the merits, 1122 01:26:30,043 --> 01:26:33,210 we would like to start with some general question. 1123 01:26:33,210 --> 01:26:38,126 Why should we assign to you the contract for the World's Fair? 1124 01:26:38,126 --> 01:26:43,876 I think because our system works better and ... 1125 01:26:46,418 --> 01:26:49,376 ... because our system is much cheaper. 1126 01:26:54,376 --> 01:26:58,668 Mr. Schwab, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Cannon, Cregier mayor, 1127 01:26:58,668 --> 01:27:02,085 Mr. Lawson, judge Tree and Mr. Burnham ... 1128 01:27:02,793 --> 01:27:05,751 ... thanks for your time and for your consideration. 1129 01:27:19,001 --> 01:27:22,585 Financially, it is clear. We take the best offer. 1130 01:27:22,585 --> 01:27:25,543 - Westinghouse is dangerous. - Potentially dangerous. 1131 01:27:25,543 --> 01:27:27,460 It even included in its documents. 1132 01:27:27,460 --> 01:27:30,585 The alternating current will be used to kill the man in Buffalo. 1133 01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:44,751 Both lights come on, right? 1134 01:27:44,751 --> 01:27:48,376 Westinghouse saves us money, Thomas Edison sells tickets. 1135 01:27:51,251 --> 01:27:56,751 What I would not give to leaf through it. And the book of the future, right? 1136 01:28:00,668 --> 01:28:02,418 We need a clear majority, gentlemen. 1137 01:28:02,418 --> 01:28:04,418 - You do not hai'delle shares of GE? - It is immaterial. 1138 01:28:06,668 --> 01:28:09,501 No one has ever done what you have done for me. 1139 01:28:09,501 --> 01:28:13,210 The value of something is not determined by how much you are willing to pay, 1140 01:28:13,210 --> 01:28:16,293 but the value is given by what it represents. 1141 01:28:16,293 --> 01:28:19,168 When we vote again, Burnham, you can call the winner tonight. 1142 01:28:24,668 --> 01:28:27,668 It is true that you are born during a lightning storm? 1143 01:28:27,668 --> 01:28:28,668 It's true. 1144 01:28:31,918 --> 01:28:34,793 Agree. Tell me one thing contained in that book. 1145 01:28:36,793 --> 01:28:39,835 You and Edison you focused on the two ends of the system, 1146 01:28:39,835 --> 01:28:41,918 dynamos and light bulbs. 1147 01:28:41,918 --> 01:28:45,585 - But what about what's in between? - The cables? 1148 01:28:46,460 --> 01:28:47,418 We need it? 1149 01:29:04,710 --> 01:29:08,335 (WESTNGHOUSE) The problem is that the Remington has many advantages ... 1150 01:29:12,835 --> 01:29:16,210 ... but unfortunately the gunpowder was wet. 1151 01:29:48,501 --> 01:29:49,751 What's this? 1152 01:29:52,793 --> 01:29:56,793 This will be to the eye what the phonograph ears pearls. 1153 01:30:02,168 --> 01:30:03,293 Dot? 1154 01:30:19,960 --> 01:30:21,543 Yet. 1155 01:30:24,335 --> 01:30:25,168 Yet. 1156 01:31:37,710 --> 01:31:40,876 OVATION 1157 01:31:58,460 --> 01:32:00,251 Any last words? 1158 01:32:02,585 --> 01:32:04,793 I think to go to a better place. 1159 01:32:07,126 --> 01:32:08,876 Farewell, William. 1160 01:32:17,043 --> 01:32:23,043 We live in a higher civilization. From this day. 1161 01:33:41,335 --> 01:33:45,085 "A terrible sight, much worse than hanging." 1162 01:33:45,085 --> 01:33:49,168 Westinghouse says: "They would have done better with an ax". 1163 01:33:49,168 --> 01:33:50,585 "A sizzling noise. 1164 01:33:50,585 --> 01:33:53,751 A cloud of smoke filled the room with the smell of burnt hair. " 1165 01:33:55,043 --> 01:33:56,918 Well, at least it was a murderess. 1166 01:33:59,251 --> 01:34:01,376 At least no longer use to kill anyone. 1167 01:34:09,251 --> 01:34:13,751 Soon everyone will have electric light and no one will remember what happened. 1168 01:34:15,293 --> 01:34:20,626 I have books so full of ideas to take over 12 lives to achieve them. 1169 01:34:22,043 --> 01:34:24,751 So, we let him have the Fair and the Falls. 1170 01:34:29,835 --> 01:34:31,376 Well, for what it's worth ... 1171 01:34:32,043 --> 01:34:34,085 ... I prefer to have worked for you and for Westinghouse. 1172 01:34:35,710 --> 01:34:36,751 And why? 1173 01:34:37,751 --> 01:34:39,960 Well, I would not have had so much fun, right? 1174 01:35:41,085 --> 01:35:43,335 Have you seen much of the Fair? 1175 01:35:43,335 --> 01:35:46,585 - A lesson in Muybridge, Little Egypt. - The dancer? 1176 01:35:46,585 --> 01:35:48,001 - Did you see? - No. 1177 01:35:48,876 --> 01:35:50,376 It was really ... 1178 01:35:51,126 --> 01:35:52,001 If you have time. 1179 01:35:59,043 --> 01:36:01,751 You do not believe that the fence is a unique creation? 1180 01:36:03,335 --> 01:36:06,626 Your neighbor pulls on one and suddenly become two. 1181 01:36:07,376 --> 01:36:09,085 You also have a fence. 1182 01:36:10,335 --> 01:36:11,585 There is only one problem. 1183 01:36:11,585 --> 01:36:14,251 A person on one side of the fence he designed. 1184 01:36:14,251 --> 01:36:18,876 A person on the one hand built it, a person has paid for it, 1185 01:36:18,876 --> 01:36:23,210 yet the other person receives a beautiful fence and without paying. 1186 01:36:25,126 --> 01:36:27,126 I did not steal your ideas. 1187 01:36:27,960 --> 01:36:29,251 Mr. Edison? 1188 01:36:30,418 --> 01:36:31,501 Right. 1189 01:36:33,751 --> 01:36:34,751 Thanks. 1190 01:36:35,668 --> 01:36:39,210 - I was wondering one thing. - I am sure there are many. 1191 01:36:39,210 --> 01:36:42,335 I wanted to invite you to dinner ... again, 1192 01:36:42,876 --> 01:36:45,210 but I imagine a moment is like the other. 1193 01:36:45,210 --> 01:36:47,126 You want to know what was in the light bulb for 13 hours? 1194 01:36:47,126 --> 01:36:49,168 - I know how it works. - Yeah, I know that I know. 1195 01:36:49,168 --> 01:36:51,376 Just I wanted to know how it felt. 1196 01:36:52,835 --> 01:36:54,335 - Such as? - The bulb. 1197 01:36:55,460 --> 01:36:56,626 When you have learned. 1198 01:36:57,501 --> 01:36:59,626 What was the feeling at that time? 1199 01:37:07,918 --> 01:37:10,001 I could not tell you. In the sense... 1200 01:37:11,418 --> 01:37:16,210 It is impossible to describe the feeling because it was impossible. 1201 01:37:17,168 --> 01:37:20,543 Years of work. Ten thousand different types of filaments. 1202 01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:24,501 When the wire entered the bulb, as always, we bet it. 1203 01:37:24,501 --> 01:37:27,168 And the crackling generator, as the ball began to glow ... 1204 01:37:27,168 --> 01:37:30,085 We were expecting just another failure. 1205 01:37:31,918 --> 01:37:33,876 Then, something happened. 1206 01:37:37,418 --> 01:37:40,668 Our best-stranded lasted only ten minutes 1207 01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:46,376 and this time we were at 20. The people began to murmur. 1208 01:37:46,835 --> 01:37:50,501 Then, 30, 40 minutes, one hour, two hours. 1209 01:37:50,501 --> 01:37:52,793 And people began to scream. 1210 01:37:52,793 --> 01:37:55,960 Remember that we had never gone more than ten minutes. 1211 01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:59,460 The boys climbed on the walls, tore their hair ... 1212 01:38:01,335 --> 01:38:03,085 Because it was impossible. 1213 01:38:04,126 --> 01:38:08,168 Seven hours. Eight hours. Nine... 1214 01:38:08,876 --> 01:38:11,251 We were silent when we got to ten. 1215 01:38:12,960 --> 01:38:17,085 We were sitting watching the illuminated spirit, drunk with magic, 1216 01:38:17,085 --> 01:38:18,710 We stared as the ... 1217 01:38:18,710 --> 01:38:22,210 I do not know, as if Baby Jesus sounded Mozart. 1218 01:38:25,918 --> 01:38:28,960 After 13 hours, the glass broke and I I knew. 1219 01:38:31,085 --> 01:38:33,168 The world was no longer I myself. 1220 01:38:35,460 --> 01:38:38,543 I'm working on something new, so new that ... 1221 01:38:39,751 --> 01:38:43,668 ... people forget the connection between my name and electricity. 1222 01:38:44,043 --> 01:38:46,418 I wonder if you know what it is. 1223 01:38:52,126 --> 01:38:54,460 I believe that the solution is ... 1224 01:38:54,751 --> 01:38:56,793 ... split the cost of the fence. 1225 01:38:59,293 --> 01:39:03,418 Or not at all to build a fence. 1226 01:39:05,126 --> 01:39:07,251 Your garden would be twice as large. 1227 01:39:07,876 --> 01:39:10,293 Is not it, Tom? 1228 01:39:17,626 --> 01:39:18,835 If nothing else, it was a pleasure. 1229 01:39:21,376 --> 01:39:23,460 Enjoy the Fair, George. 1230 01:39:41,418 --> 01:39:45,168 (TESLA) We build monuments to talk about the future, to say that we were here. 1231 01:39:46,668 --> 01:39:48,418 (TESLA) What we experienced. 1232 01:39:49,585 --> 01:39:53,418 (TESLA) The real legacy is not that we build up to the sky 1233 01:39:53,418 --> 01:39:55,918 or carve in stone. 1234 01:39:56,460 --> 01:39:58,168 (TESLA) The rock will crumble. 1235 01:39:58,751 --> 01:40:00,918 (TESLA) The paper will disintegrate. 1236 01:40:01,460 --> 01:40:03,626 (TESLA) and the bones become dust. 1237 01:40:05,001 --> 01:40:08,251 Only that which does not exist in the physical realm 1238 01:40:08,251 --> 01:40:11,168 and that can reach both directions, will be eternal. 1239 01:40:12,335 --> 01:40:14,168 Our ideas. 1240 01:40:15,751 --> 01:40:17,835 These are what we leave behind. 1241 01:40:19,168 --> 01:40:21,918 And they are those that can move us forward.