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He had a black cat
named Machek when he was a boy.

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The cat followed him everywhere.

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And one day, when he
stroked the cat's back,

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he saw a miracle.

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A sheet of light
crackling under his hand.

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"Lightning in the sky,"

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his father explained,

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"is the same thing
as the spark shooting

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"from Machek's back."

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And Tesla asked himself,

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"Is nature a gigantic cat?

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"And if so,

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"who strokes its back?"

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Mind over matter,

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that's what it's
all about, isn't it?

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Eventually, we'll be
able to see in the dark.

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I found them.

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I think there are more
in the crazy drawer.

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Do you know where that is?

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The crazy drawer?

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That means is you
don't have crazy drawers

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where you're from?

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My mother had a crazy drawer.

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And yours?

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Leave my mother out of this.

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No one expected you
to come in tonight, Tom.

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Ha, no?

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Seriously?

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Well I expected it.

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When I was five years old...

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Ed, you don't have to
stop because I'm talking.

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I was five years old and
we sailed across Lake Erie

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to visit the Edison
clan there in Vienna.

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Vienna, Ontario.

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Mother and father, sisters,
Marriane and Tanney,

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my brother, Charlie,
and my Grandpa Sam.

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I learned to swim.

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When I got back to Ohio,

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I went exploring with
my good friend, George.

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George Lockwood.

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He was exactly my age.

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We went out to the
canal below my house

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and I went into the water
and George followed me

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and afterward, I went
home feeling very subdued

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and crawled into bed.

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When my mother woke
me, it was very dark

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and she asked about George.

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Everybody was looking
for him, half the town.

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Had lit lanterns, called
his name looking everywhere.

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I told her I saw George's
head disappear in the water

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and I waited for him a long time

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and I didn't know what to do.

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I was five years old.

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What made me think
of that just now.

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Go home, Tom.

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Seriously.

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I aways assumed
people can swim.

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Oh, Tesla, didn't
see you there before.

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It is true you're
from Transylvania?

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No.

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Have you ever
eaten human flesh?

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Are you married?

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No.

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Why do you ask?

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We like to give
the new men a hard time.

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I can swim.

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What's that?

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What you said before,

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I can swim.

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Can you?

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Well good.

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We'll see.

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Pity the
poor immigrant,

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as the song goes.

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Tesla came to America
with an open heart

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filled with
expectation and hope.

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I told you about my brother.

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It was this time of year.

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I was seven,

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he was 12.

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He didn't die instantly
when he was thrown

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from the horse.

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My mother woke me,

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brought me to the body,

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told me to kiss him on the lips.

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His very cold lips.

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He was the brilliant one.

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I could never measure up.

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Dear Szigeti,

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I'm finding my way at
Edison's Machine Works,

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where there's always too much
to do and not enough time,

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never enough money or men,

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constant fixes,
upgrades, emergencies.

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Edison hardly sleeps and
expects everyone around him

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to sleep even less.

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He talks to everyone, but
is incapable of listening.

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He has no interest in my motor.

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You know the proverb, nothing
grows in the shadow of an Oak.

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I had hoped that
Edison and I would,

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I don't know, work together,

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that he would understand.

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Yes.

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That we could be friends.

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Edison doesn't have
time to comb his hair.

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It's more than that.

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There was a death in the family.

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Nobody talks about it.

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His wife,

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his wife died.

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When was this?

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Tuesday.

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Alternating current
is a waste of time.

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Impractical and deadly.

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There's no future in it.

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$50,000.

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You think I owe you
$50,000 honestly?

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Tesla,

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you don't understand the
American sense of humor.

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This is pretty surely
not how it happened

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but what can I tell you?

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If you Google Nikola Tesla
you get 34 million results,

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but for images there
are mostly just

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three our four photographs
repeated over and over.

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They get flipped around.

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Some are colorized or
photoshopped with lightning

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in the background but it's
basically just four pictures.

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Beyond that, things get
murky and more imaginative.

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He was born in 1856,
far from the Gilded Age

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in Likas Milian, a
small rural village

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in what's now Croatia.

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His father is an
Orthodox Serbian priest,

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but he's closer with his
mother, a brilliant woman

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who couldn't read or write.

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He's a precocious boy, a
bit withdrawn, secretive

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with a gift for languages
and mathematics.

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Defying his father, he
studies engineering in Prague,

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but never graduates.

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In Budapest, coming
out of a depression,

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walking in a park with a
friend, he sees in a flash,

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in a vision the
motor that will be

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his first revolutionary
invention.

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Alternating current
is a waste of time.

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Impractical and deadly.

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There's no future in it.

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$50,000.

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You think I owe you $50,000?

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Tesla, you have no understanding

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of the American sense of humor.

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A man who says he
doesn't care about money

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can find himself tormented
by the lack of it.

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Whereas Edison,
Edison values money

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but spends it faster
than he makes it.

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But he's always making it

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in great quantities.

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Google Thomas Edison and you
get over 64 million results.

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Twice as many as Tesla.

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Edison's one of the most
famous, most successful men

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of his time.

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But some facts
slip out of sight.

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Tesla went to work for
Edison the same year,

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the same summer that
Mary Edison died.

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Congestion of the brain
was the official report,

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code for a Morphine overdose.

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She was 15 when
they met in the rain

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outside Edison's new workshop,

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16 when they married,
25 when she died,

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leaving Edison with
three young children

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and a lot on his mind.

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This, you might think, is
where Tesla's luck turns.

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He finds investors and sets
up the Tesla Lighting Company,

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but his partners swindle
him, leaving him penniless.

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He falls into the
abyss of poverty,

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becomes a ditch digger
digging trenches for cables,

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phone lines for Western Union.

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After a humiliating year,
a sympathetic foreman

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introduces him to Alfred S.
Brown and Charles F. Peck.

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They key is the motor
rotates by virtue of induction

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of rotating magnetic fields.

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I've eliminated the
commutator which distributes

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electricity to the rotor.

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So you've eliminated the
need for the commutator

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and brushes the sparks.

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Amazing.

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There are no sparks.

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Is that so bad?

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They're just unnecessary.

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The magnetic field
redirects the current.

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May I?

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The work you did for
Edison, what was it?

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I redesigned 24
different dynamos,

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standard machines,

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replaced longer magnets
with short coils,

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replaced older models.

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I couldn't interest him
in alternating current,

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but of course you know...

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I know, I'm an electrician.

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But he...

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The lawyer, the sensible one.

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He understands...

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This is more
than just a motor.

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It is entire system

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for generating, transmitting,
and utilizing power.

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You were making $15 a
week with Edison, correct?

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We checked.

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Edison
hires the best,

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but he practically makes
them pay for the privilege.

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We have capital.

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$50,000 for an
Annual sinking fund

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and alternating current...

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I don't
care if it's dangerous.

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It isn't.

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Edison says...

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Fire is dangerous
if you stick your hand in it.

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We'll set
you up with a lab

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and a salary.

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$250 a month.

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It's better than you
were expecting, is it?

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I understand your mother is
not very impressed with me.

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Edison met his second
wife, Mina Miller, in 1885.

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My mother regards our earthly
existence as insignificant.

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Her father
had made a fortune

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by inventing a
popular lawnmower,

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the Buckeye Reaper.

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The youngest of seven
children, she was engaged

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to marry a preacher's son.

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She says when you
leave this life,

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you enter into a brighter
and happier life,

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one that never ends.

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You know what my
mother said to me?

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Never eat anything
bigger than your head.

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I am going to ask your father

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if I can

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teach you morse code.

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So we can talk without talking.

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Instead of a single coil,

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we use four.

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Four coils around
a laminated ring.

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Two separate AC currents
feed into the paired coils

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on opposite sides.

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The currents are out of phase.

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This creates the rotating
electrical field.

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No sparks.

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I was with him in Budapest

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when he had the idea.

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He saw it in his head and then

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he draw it in the dirt.

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I did.

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That was five years ago.

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And here we are now.

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New Orleans, St. Paul,
Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn.

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Edison has 121 power
stations in the U.S.

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Plus Berlin and Milan, Paris,
Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Munich.

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Everywhere.

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When we get this across, it's
going to rewrite the book.

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It's going to
knock him sideways.

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What is this can?

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It's a prototype.

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You expect me to invest
in a spinning tin can

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of shoe polish?

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I do.

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That motor

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will do the work of the world.

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It'll set men free.

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It's perfect.

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I congratulate you.

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Its efficiency without
question is equal

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to the best direct
current motor.

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In terms of voltage potentials,
it can have no match.

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The best machine
is the one with

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the fewest parts.

271
00:18:21,999 --> 00:18:23,944
It's the solution
everyone's been searching for.

272
00:18:23,991 --> 00:18:25,475
Where have you been hiding?

273
00:18:25,508 --> 00:18:26,577
What do you mean?

274
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You're not a
member of the AIEE.

275
00:18:28,977 --> 00:18:29,940
American
Institute of...

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Or the National
Electric Light Association

277
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or the Electric
Club of New York.

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Your endorsement means
a great deal to us.

279
00:18:36,549 --> 00:18:38,339
To all
of us, Professor.

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00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:42,324
Mr. Tesla has been
keeping a low profile.

281
00:18:42,399 --> 00:18:43,344
That will change.

282
00:18:43,387 --> 00:18:44,354
I can tell ya,

283
00:18:45,499 --> 00:18:48,435
the patent office will not
accept the application.

284
00:18:48,665 --> 00:18:49,898
What do you mean?

285
00:18:50,224 --> 00:18:51,423
You think you can
jam all you've done

286
00:18:51,482 --> 00:18:53,651
into a single omnibus patent?

287
00:18:53,802 --> 00:18:55,182
You'll have to break it up

288
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into half a dozen
separate inventions.

289
00:19:00,543 --> 00:19:02,512
Well that's how I see it.

290
00:19:02,586 --> 00:19:04,779
We're at a turning point in
the history of human engin...

291
00:19:04,858 --> 00:19:05,760
Sorry I'm late.

292
00:19:05,849 --> 00:19:07,740
Ah, Evelyn.

293
00:19:10,085 --> 00:19:10,919
This is

294
00:19:12,027 --> 00:19:13,239
Mr. Tesla,

295
00:19:14,623 --> 00:19:18,620
Mr. Peck, and Mr. Brown, his
business partners and Mr...

296
00:19:18,710 --> 00:19:20,259
Antoni Szigeti.

297
00:19:20,304 --> 00:19:21,585
Tesla's assistant.

298
00:19:23,191 --> 00:19:25,471
My
niece Evelyn and?

299
00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:26,398
Anne.

300
00:19:28,432 --> 00:19:31,037
Excuse me, I'm a
creature of habit.

301
00:19:32,168 --> 00:19:33,142
Sit down.

302
00:19:33,288 --> 00:19:34,811
Look at Mr. Tesla's motor.

303
00:19:34,844 --> 00:19:36,446
It's gonna make him very famous.

304
00:19:40,136 --> 00:19:42,439
Well in that case, we
can split my sandwich.

305
00:19:51,669 --> 00:19:52,905
Do you like snow?

306
00:19:53,062 --> 00:19:54,663
Looks like we're gonna
get a lot more of it.

307
00:19:57,032 --> 00:19:58,314
Go ahead, show 'em.

308
00:19:58,405 --> 00:20:00,023
He's eliminated the
commutator and the sparks

309
00:20:00,090 --> 00:20:01,692
to go with it.

310
00:20:01,805 --> 00:20:04,574
My uncle likes machines
more than people.

311
00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:05,608
Do I?

312
00:20:05,723 --> 00:20:06,810
Possibly.

313
00:20:07,333 --> 00:20:09,774
Machines is an
extension of people,

314
00:20:09,864 --> 00:20:11,698
not as the opposite of people.

315
00:20:16,419 --> 00:20:17,587
Nothing touches.

316
00:20:17,676 --> 00:20:18,421
That's right.

317
00:20:18,455 --> 00:20:19,668
No sparks.

318
00:20:23,025 --> 00:20:25,027
The new machines
have something extra.

319
00:20:26,038 --> 00:20:27,603
When my cousin died,
I started to feel

320
00:20:27,695 --> 00:20:29,931
she was with me when
I turned on the light.

321
00:20:30,011 --> 00:20:31,021
Electric light.

322
00:20:32,234 --> 00:20:34,169
It was as though there was
something in the current

323
00:20:34,203 --> 00:20:35,769
and the light in the air that

324
00:20:37,340 --> 00:20:38,650
allowed her to linger.

325
00:21:05,702 --> 00:21:08,780
I now have the pleasure
of introducing you

326
00:21:08,860 --> 00:21:11,630
to a novel system of
electrical transformation

327
00:21:11,741 --> 00:21:14,262
and distribution of energy

328
00:21:14,322 --> 00:21:16,577
by means of alternate currents.

329
00:21:21,718 --> 00:21:23,932
My notice was rather brief,

330
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,443
so I would be very much
gratified if the little work

331
00:21:27,503 --> 00:21:30,799
I've done meets
with your approval.

332
00:21:42,417 --> 00:21:43,996
The importance of
maintaining the intensity

333
00:21:44,072 --> 00:21:46,127
of the all constant

334
00:21:46,197 --> 00:21:48,906
is that if this can be
produced, we can utilize

335
00:21:48,953 --> 00:21:50,914
instead of the
sub-divider armature

336
00:21:50,947 --> 00:21:52,715
an ordinary still pock.

337
00:21:52,749 --> 00:21:53,783
Get me out of here.

338
00:22:01,219 --> 00:22:02,892
Westinghouse.

339
00:22:02,926 --> 00:22:04,240
George Westinghouse.

340
00:22:05,232 --> 00:22:07,200
He wants the motor, of course.

341
00:22:07,297 --> 00:22:10,249
We are telling him that
another party is involved,

342
00:22:10,302 --> 00:22:13,839
a San Francisco capitalist
offering $200,000.

343
00:22:13,903 --> 00:22:18,583
Plus $2.50 per
house power, royalty

344
00:22:18,634 --> 00:22:21,383
for each motor reinstalled.

345
00:22:21,508 --> 00:22:22,578
That is strategy.

346
00:22:22,612 --> 00:22:23,517
Employ it.

347
00:22:23,579 --> 00:22:25,415
You can go along
with this, can't you?

348
00:22:27,249 --> 00:22:28,818
There's nobody else, really.

349
00:22:28,896 --> 00:22:30,686
Westinghouse is the only
one who has the cash.

350
00:22:30,741 --> 00:22:32,855
The cash and the guts.

351
00:22:33,628 --> 00:22:35,223
George Westinghouse was 16

352
00:22:35,258 --> 00:22:37,594
when he enlisted
in the Civil War.

353
00:22:37,708 --> 00:22:39,862
Served in the Navy
on the northern side

354
00:22:39,896 --> 00:22:42,130
and was promoted to Corporal.

355
00:22:42,617 --> 00:22:45,868
When he was 21, he invented
the air break for trains

356
00:22:45,902 --> 00:22:49,077
and made a fortune because
all the railroads needed it.

357
00:22:49,204 --> 00:22:51,464
He was an inventor
and businessman,

358
00:22:51,535 --> 00:22:52,709
a rare mix.

359
00:22:52,796 --> 00:22:55,044
Doesn't mind buying
other people's patents,

360
00:22:55,078 --> 00:22:56,813
working them in
to bigger schemes.

361
00:22:57,121 --> 00:22:59,114
He hates self-promotion.

362
00:22:59,147 --> 00:23:02,418
Google him and you get
just five million results.

363
00:23:03,009 --> 00:23:04,873
He met his wife,
Marguerite, on a train.

364
00:23:10,222 --> 00:23:11,990
Westinghouse buy Tesla's patents

365
00:23:12,095 --> 00:23:14,731
for over a million
dollars in today's money

366
00:23:14,764 --> 00:23:16,599
and enlists Tesla to
come to his home base

367
00:23:16,687 --> 00:23:18,009
to oversee production.

368
00:23:23,205 --> 00:23:25,479
Royalties for every
motor sold assure Tesla

369
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,078
more millions, an accumulating
fortune in years to come.

370
00:23:30,353 --> 00:23:31,187
Ah.

371
00:23:32,782 --> 00:23:35,418
You know this man, Brown?

372
00:23:35,817 --> 00:23:36,952
Works for Edison?

373
00:23:37,954 --> 00:23:39,709
Harold P. Brown?

374
00:23:40,909 --> 00:23:43,753
I know an Alfred S.
Brown, an associate.

375
00:23:44,794 --> 00:23:47,664
Sure, Brown's a pretty
common American name.

376
00:23:47,744 --> 00:23:50,313
Brown and Green,
two color names.

377
00:23:51,199 --> 00:23:53,703
I knew an Orange once, James.

378
00:23:53,798 --> 00:23:56,238
But he pronounced it Oranje.

379
00:23:56,272 --> 00:24:00,659
Anyway, Harold P. Brown has
bought some of our machines

380
00:24:00,747 --> 00:24:04,284
on the sly and has Westinghouse,
that's what he calls it,

381
00:24:04,761 --> 00:24:08,083
24 dogs purchased from children

382
00:24:08,120 --> 00:24:10,041
for 25 cents each.

383
00:24:11,054 --> 00:24:12,798
What I'm does, and
I'm sure you've heard,

384
00:24:12,834 --> 00:24:15,199
in the name of science
is he zaps the dog

385
00:24:15,293 --> 00:24:18,094
with 14 hundred volts
of direct current.

386
00:24:18,617 --> 00:24:22,188
Without fatal results and
then kills the same dog

387
00:24:22,235 --> 00:24:26,703
with 400 to 800 of
Westinghouse current.

388
00:24:35,431 --> 00:24:38,199
Sorry about the noise.

389
00:24:38,366 --> 00:24:39,410
And the heat.

390
00:24:41,384 --> 00:24:43,665
Pittsburgh has its charms but

391
00:24:43,854 --> 00:24:45,050
they can seem...

392
00:24:55,470 --> 00:24:57,404
Brown's challenged me

393
00:24:57,466 --> 00:25:00,447
to a duel.

394
00:25:01,989 --> 00:25:05,324
He wants me to bring a
machine and go to New York

395
00:25:05,402 --> 00:25:08,777
and expose myself
to electric shocks,

396
00:25:08,811 --> 00:25:10,876
alternating current, of course

397
00:25:10,939 --> 00:25:14,183
while he receives
direct current.

398
00:25:14,281 --> 00:25:17,920
We shall commence with 100 volts

399
00:25:18,068 --> 00:25:22,234
and then increase by 50
volts until one or the other

400
00:25:22,304 --> 00:25:25,394
publicly admits his error.

401
00:25:28,003 --> 00:25:29,013
I'll do it.

402
00:25:30,408 --> 00:25:32,955
Well that's very kind
of you, but even if I

403
00:25:33,018 --> 00:25:37,005
or you submitted to such
an imbecilic adventure,

404
00:25:37,130 --> 00:25:40,284
they're still gearing
up to execute Kemmler.

405
00:25:41,277 --> 00:25:42,578
Kemmler?

406
00:25:42,651 --> 00:25:44,030
The ax murderer.

407
00:25:44,509 --> 00:25:45,285
Now, to be fair,

408
00:25:45,319 --> 00:25:48,094
he used a hatchet.

409
00:25:50,584 --> 00:25:51,682
I had to do it.

410
00:25:53,017 --> 00:25:54,924
I wanted to kill her
and the sooner I hang,

411
00:25:55,027 --> 00:25:56,165
the better it'll be.

412
00:25:58,021 --> 00:26:01,442
Instead of hanging,
there's a move to electrocute

413
00:26:01,528 --> 00:26:04,857
and our friend, Edison,
is going to testify

414
00:26:04,935 --> 00:26:06,869
suggesting they put
an end to Kemmler

415
00:26:06,903 --> 00:26:09,730
using a Westinghouse machine.

416
00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:13,902
He's running scared.

417
00:26:15,430 --> 00:26:16,598
Garcal?

418
00:26:16,647 --> 00:26:17,522
Lemonade.

419
00:26:18,865 --> 00:26:20,018
You want a lemonade?

420
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:22,428
No, thank you.

421
00:26:24,942 --> 00:26:27,458
AC versus DC.

422
00:26:27,518 --> 00:26:29,446
People think it's a
difference of opinion

423
00:26:29,516 --> 00:26:31,127
but we know better.

424
00:26:31,265 --> 00:26:33,729
You know I reached
out to Edison.

425
00:26:33,825 --> 00:26:36,448
Invited him here,
suggested a merger.

426
00:26:37,572 --> 00:26:39,431
He's too busy, he wrote back.

427
00:26:40,885 --> 00:26:44,134
"Working in my lab
consumes all my time."

428
00:26:54,563 --> 00:26:55,821
It's war.

429
00:27:17,483 --> 00:27:18,384
Your name?

430
00:27:19,632 --> 00:27:22,041
Thomas Alva Edison.

431
00:27:22,114 --> 00:27:24,256
And what
is your calling or profession?

432
00:27:24,334 --> 00:27:25,382
Inventor.

433
00:27:25,441 --> 00:27:27,411
Have you devoted
a great deal of time

434
00:27:27,531 --> 00:27:29,066
to the subject of electricity?

435
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:32,343
Yes, of course.

436
00:27:32,419 --> 00:27:33,319
All right.

437
00:27:33,373 --> 00:27:35,706
And how long have you
engaged in your work

438
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:38,873
as inventor or electrician?

439
00:27:38,957 --> 00:27:40,293
26 years.

440
00:27:40,469 --> 00:27:42,189
Now, can you tell us...

441
00:27:42,251 --> 00:27:43,733
can you state

442
00:27:43,833 --> 00:27:45,935
the necessary strength of
current needed in order

443
00:27:45,968 --> 00:27:49,405
to produce death in all cases?

444
00:27:49,539 --> 00:27:51,723
Well I'm opposed to
capital punishment.

445
00:27:52,767 --> 00:27:54,510
The
question did not arise

446
00:27:54,613 --> 00:27:57,615
do we as individuals believe
in capital punishment.

447
00:27:58,295 --> 00:28:01,466
The practice has been
in existence by law

448
00:28:01,637 --> 00:28:03,886
in all ages in all nations

449
00:28:03,990 --> 00:28:06,551
and probably will for
all of time to come.

450
00:28:08,503 --> 00:28:11,794
Now, Mr. Edison, explain
the difference between

451
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:13,829
continuous or direct current

452
00:28:13,863 --> 00:28:15,179
and alternating current.

453
00:28:15,268 --> 00:28:18,580
Direct current flows
like water through a pipe.

454
00:28:19,442 --> 00:28:23,071
Alternating current is the
same as if a body of water

455
00:28:23,105 --> 00:28:26,837
were allowed to flow through
a pipe in one direction

456
00:28:26,899 --> 00:28:30,625
for a given amount of
time and then reversed

457
00:28:30,687 --> 00:28:32,280
for a given amount of time.

458
00:28:32,350 --> 00:28:34,450
Direct current is like a
river flowing peacefully

459
00:28:34,483 --> 00:28:35,685
to the sea.

460
00:28:35,718 --> 00:28:38,399
Alternating current
is like a current

461
00:28:38,495 --> 00:28:40,763
rushing violently
over a precipice.

462
00:28:43,366 --> 00:28:44,827
Now have you measured

463
00:28:44,860 --> 00:28:46,922
the electrical resistance
of human beings?

464
00:28:46,956 --> 00:28:48,464
Yes, I have.

465
00:28:48,608 --> 00:28:50,633
Can an artificial
current be generated

466
00:28:50,731 --> 00:28:53,611
and applied in such a
manner as to produce death

467
00:28:53,674 --> 00:28:55,671
in human beings in every case?

468
00:28:55,773 --> 00:28:56,672
Yes.

469
00:28:56,807 --> 00:28:58,075
Instantly?

470
00:29:00,456 --> 00:29:01,657
Instantly?

471
00:29:04,151 --> 00:29:04,985
Yes.

472
00:29:14,045 --> 00:29:14,890
Thank you.

473
00:29:15,017 --> 00:29:16,177
Mr. Cochran.

474
00:29:18,026 --> 00:29:20,441
I'm concerned, Mr.
Edison, that different men

475
00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:24,043
in your experiments demonstrate
at different resistance.

476
00:29:24,893 --> 00:29:25,562
What would the effect be...

477
00:29:25,596 --> 00:29:26,769
Excuse me, I'm sorry.

478
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,738
I can't hear you,
you'll have to speak up.

479
00:29:29,742 --> 00:29:32,980
I'm worried that the current
will have unforeseen effect.

480
00:29:33,469 --> 00:29:35,605
Now what would the
effect be on Kemmler

481
00:29:35,659 --> 00:29:38,981
if we were to apply the current
for five or six minutes?

482
00:29:39,053 --> 00:29:40,441
Now, wait a minute.

483
00:29:41,792 --> 00:29:43,090
What your saying...

484
00:29:43,144 --> 00:29:44,287
If we
applied the current

485
00:29:44,321 --> 00:29:46,727
for five or six minutes,
what will happen to Kemmler,

486
00:29:46,771 --> 00:29:48,284
will he not be carbonized?

487
00:29:49,517 --> 00:29:51,315
No, he'd be mummified.

488
00:29:52,065 --> 00:29:54,560
All the moisture in his
body would evaporate.

489
00:29:54,660 --> 00:29:56,254
But that's the hardly point.

490
00:29:56,309 --> 00:29:56,903
Mr. Edison...

491
00:29:56,966 --> 00:29:59,769
Just 1,000 volts
of one amp current

492
00:29:59,802 --> 00:30:02,277
is 10 times as much as
you need to kill any man

493
00:30:02,332 --> 00:30:05,007
with the Westinghouse
alternator.

494
00:30:05,522 --> 00:30:09,145
Westinghouse uses
2,000 more volts.

495
00:30:16,688 --> 00:30:20,490
Suppose a man touches a
wire in a wet place, well

496
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,933
that's a dead man.

497
00:30:24,984 --> 00:30:26,263
This is your belief.

498
00:30:26,378 --> 00:30:28,030
What's that?

499
00:30:28,165 --> 00:30:30,232
This is
your belief, correct?

500
00:30:30,357 --> 00:30:32,168
This is not based on knowledge?

501
00:30:32,302 --> 00:30:33,343
Oh, correct.

502
00:30:34,297 --> 00:30:35,761
I never killed anybody.

503
00:30:49,185 --> 00:30:50,654
Your friends from school?

504
00:30:51,221 --> 00:30:54,506
Colleagues in Budapest
eight years ago.

505
00:30:55,359 --> 00:30:56,926
Friends, yes.

506
00:30:56,959 --> 00:30:58,994
And then Paris.

507
00:30:59,113 --> 00:31:00,851
He's an inventor as well.

508
00:31:02,598 --> 00:31:07,571
But I seem to have a gift
for helping other inventors.

509
00:31:10,773 --> 00:31:12,366
You remind me of my cat.

510
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,987
If I were to interview my cat,

511
00:31:17,073 --> 00:31:18,830
I feel I'd have to
prepare in advance

512
00:31:18,864 --> 00:31:20,967
to ask him really
interesting questions.

513
00:31:26,822 --> 00:31:28,684
Where are you from?

514
00:31:28,735 --> 00:31:30,808
He's from a small village

515
00:31:30,852 --> 00:31:32,488
in the Austrian Empire.

516
00:31:33,156 --> 00:31:34,797
Humble beginnings.

517
00:31:34,978 --> 00:31:36,357
Like Abraham Lincoln.

518
00:31:37,230 --> 00:31:38,952
He has many fond memory.

519
00:31:40,973 --> 00:31:41,807
Yes.

520
00:31:43,573 --> 00:31:44,508
I remember

521
00:31:45,173 --> 00:31:47,009
when I was 17, summertime,

522
00:31:47,042 --> 00:31:48,978
I lived in the country.

523
00:31:49,112 --> 00:31:51,381
There was a Cholera epidemic.

524
00:31:51,483 --> 00:31:55,552
They burned trees in the streets
to ward away evil spirits

525
00:31:55,686 --> 00:31:58,726
and drank infected
water, died like dogs.

526
00:32:05,895 --> 00:32:10,029
I just realized
Mr. Tesla and Mr.?

527
00:32:10,107 --> 00:32:10,842
Szigeti.

528
00:32:10,890 --> 00:32:11,459
Yes.

529
00:32:11,493 --> 00:32:14,403
Just realized how late it
is and somebody's father

530
00:32:14,437 --> 00:32:16,705
expects her home on the hour.

531
00:32:16,871 --> 00:32:17,838
He doesn't care.

532
00:32:22,669 --> 00:32:24,671
You know who my
father is of course?

533
00:32:27,099 --> 00:32:27,933
Yes.

534
00:32:29,161 --> 00:32:31,862
Do you consider my father a
malignant force in the world?

535
00:32:34,062 --> 00:32:36,025
A person who amasses a
fortune like a pirate

536
00:32:36,089 --> 00:32:37,138
or a gangster?

537
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:42,632
Who acquires power by exploiting
workers, and resources,

538
00:32:42,735 --> 00:32:45,768
and rigging markets, and
manipulating economies,

539
00:32:45,867 --> 00:32:46,531
and so forth?

540
00:32:46,593 --> 00:32:49,304
Or is he a
captain of industry?

541
00:32:49,390 --> 00:32:51,441
Are his actions positive?

542
00:32:51,590 --> 00:32:55,445
Does he in fact expand
markets, and provide more jobs,

543
00:32:55,572 --> 00:32:58,841
and give vast sums of money
to those less fortunate?

544
00:33:00,182 --> 00:33:03,120
This young lady's in my care
and I must get her home.

545
00:33:09,454 --> 00:33:10,254
Til soon,

546
00:33:11,332 --> 00:33:12,430
Mr. Tesla.

547
00:33:17,167 --> 00:33:19,328
Yes, we may see
you again soon.

548
00:33:21,205 --> 00:33:22,137
Or sooner.

549
00:33:22,265 --> 00:33:23,324
You never can tell.

550
00:33:43,779 --> 00:33:44,884
Anne Morgan,

551
00:33:45,887 --> 00:33:48,419
daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan.

552
00:33:50,029 --> 00:33:53,034
My father preferred
to be called Pierpont.

553
00:33:53,190 --> 00:33:54,837
Pierpont Morgan.

554
00:33:54,953 --> 00:33:56,760
At that time and
for decades to come,

555
00:33:56,823 --> 00:33:59,241
one of the wealthiest
men in the world.

556
00:33:59,370 --> 00:34:00,677
He was born rich,

557
00:34:00,795 --> 00:34:03,245
entered the family
banking business early on.

558
00:34:03,367 --> 00:34:05,814
In 1861 when he was 24,

559
00:34:05,942 --> 00:34:08,657
he married his first
wife, Amelia Sturges.

560
00:34:09,359 --> 00:34:11,287
He took her to Europe
after they were married,

561
00:34:11,341 --> 00:34:13,456
she was diagnosed with
Tuberculosis and died

562
00:34:13,490 --> 00:34:15,124
four months later.

563
00:34:15,242 --> 00:34:16,268
He was shattered.

564
00:34:17,505 --> 00:34:20,726
He buried himself in
work, banking, finance,

565
00:34:20,796 --> 00:34:23,533
buying and trading
companies and corporations.

566
00:34:24,008 --> 00:34:27,784
I don't think he ever asked
who strokes the cat's back.

567
00:34:29,164 --> 00:34:32,337
He married Frances Louisa
Tracy and had four children.

568
00:34:33,101 --> 00:34:34,254
I'm the youngest.

569
00:34:41,108 --> 00:34:43,732
He hired Thomas Edison
to install electricity

570
00:34:43,810 --> 00:34:46,256
in our Madison Avenue mansion,

571
00:34:46,743 --> 00:34:48,291
the first private
residence in New York

572
00:34:48,371 --> 00:34:50,273
illuminated by Edison's light.

573
00:34:51,294 --> 00:34:52,995
While Tesla was
refining his designs

574
00:34:53,082 --> 00:34:54,859
for the perfect induction motor,

575
00:34:55,899 --> 00:34:57,473
my father was pouring millions

576
00:34:57,535 --> 00:34:59,926
into the Edison General
Electric Company.

577
00:35:04,774 --> 00:35:05,809
Hmm.

578
00:35:05,973 --> 00:35:07,542
A woman like that,

579
00:35:08,422 --> 00:35:10,480
she can make all

580
00:35:10,623 --> 00:35:11,994
your dreams

581
00:35:12,028 --> 00:35:13,133
come true.

582
00:35:16,918 --> 00:35:18,360
Well my dreams are true.

583
00:35:20,286 --> 00:35:21,120
Yeah.

584
00:35:22,255 --> 00:35:24,269
But you lack funding.

585
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:31,493
I will

586
00:35:31,979 --> 00:35:33,752
delight in working of the

587
00:35:35,676 --> 00:35:38,179
nerve to show.

588
00:35:46,922 --> 00:35:49,218
It's a compass

589
00:35:49,455 --> 00:35:51,524
for steering ships at sea.

590
00:36:01,225 --> 00:36:02,106
It's good.

591
00:36:05,727 --> 00:36:07,088
Yes, it's very good.

592
00:36:09,783 --> 00:36:10,684
But,

593
00:36:13,735 --> 00:36:15,998
Sir William Thompson's
done it already.

594
00:36:19,349 --> 00:36:21,062
Lord Calvin.

595
00:36:21,673 --> 00:36:24,953
if you want, I can
show you the journal.

596
00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:29,235
Well,

597
00:36:32,537 --> 00:36:34,138
I should have showed you sooner.

598
00:36:36,034 --> 00:36:36,868
Yes.

599
00:37:00,002 --> 00:37:02,613
Ah yes, well good luck with

600
00:37:03,704 --> 00:37:05,028
Anne Morgan.

601
00:37:29,299 --> 00:37:30,133
Gentlemen,

602
00:37:32,151 --> 00:37:34,054
this is William Kemmler.

603
00:37:41,311 --> 00:37:42,766
I wish you all good luck.

604
00:37:46,119 --> 00:37:50,539
I believe I am going
to a good place and

605
00:37:50,737 --> 00:37:51,997
I am ready to go.

606
00:38:16,985 --> 00:38:18,635
And there's no rush.

607
00:38:18,854 --> 00:38:20,396
Let's get this right.

608
00:38:20,850 --> 00:38:22,885
I don't wanna take any
chances on this thing.

609
00:38:23,513 --> 00:38:24,312
You know?

610
00:38:33,579 --> 00:38:35,615
Anne is very upset.

611
00:38:38,267 --> 00:38:40,823
She says you live in your head.

612
00:38:41,005 --> 00:38:42,191
Doesn't everyone?

613
00:38:44,029 --> 00:38:48,239
Too much in your head, I
think she feels left out.

614
00:38:52,020 --> 00:38:55,056
Sometimes it seems as
though all I do is think.

615
00:38:55,183 --> 00:38:56,978
For days or weeks on end.

616
00:38:59,241 --> 00:39:00,175
Have you seen this?

617
00:39:00,341 --> 00:39:01,177
Late edition?

618
00:39:02,110 --> 00:39:04,414
They made a thorough
botch of it.

619
00:39:04,587 --> 00:39:05,421
Gruesome.

620
00:39:06,825 --> 00:39:08,594
Like my brain's burning.

621
00:39:09,947 --> 00:39:11,409
Who could live with that?

622
00:39:16,503 --> 00:39:19,109
When I thought to
sleep out all my faults,

623
00:39:19,201 --> 00:39:22,705
I found that some had stuffed
the bed with thoughts.

624
00:39:23,647 --> 00:39:25,768
I would say thorns.

625
00:39:25,989 --> 00:39:28,012
With a click
of the lever, Kemmler's body

626
00:39:28,051 --> 00:39:30,651
straightened and seemed as
though it might be thrown across

627
00:39:30,736 --> 00:39:33,850
the chamber, were it not for
the straps which held it.

628
00:39:33,929 --> 00:39:35,532
What is that?

629
00:39:35,995 --> 00:39:37,480
Post.

630
00:39:37,695 --> 00:39:40,610
The body was as rigid
as though cast and bronze,

631
00:39:40,657 --> 00:39:43,252
save for the index
finger of the right hand,

632
00:39:43,346 --> 00:39:45,766
which closed up so tightly
that the nail penetrated

633
00:39:45,828 --> 00:39:48,844
the flesh on the first
joint and blood trickled out

634
00:39:48,878 --> 00:39:50,292
on the arm of the chair.

635
00:39:56,263 --> 00:39:58,314
There were two or three
doctors with stopwatches,

636
00:39:58,389 --> 00:40:00,131
they saw Kemmler
still breathing.

637
00:40:06,524 --> 00:40:07,525
He wasn't dead.

638
00:40:10,156 --> 00:40:11,981
They got the machine
started up again,

639
00:40:12,148 --> 00:40:14,083
gave him another thousand volts.

640
00:40:15,458 --> 00:40:16,324
Well that did it.

641
00:40:18,513 --> 00:40:20,214
What was Kemmler
convicted for?

642
00:40:23,182 --> 00:40:24,405
Killed his wife.

643
00:40:24,484 --> 00:40:25,595
Was Edison there?

644
00:40:26,188 --> 00:40:27,390
He's in Paris.

645
00:40:27,525 --> 00:40:28,960
Seven of his company
as they're merging

646
00:40:28,994 --> 00:40:31,958
with international outlets,
backed by Deutsche Bank.

647
00:40:41,417 --> 00:40:43,412
And Drexel Morgan Company.

648
00:40:43,823 --> 00:40:45,071
Morgan.

649
00:40:54,203 --> 00:40:55,425
Blame the doctors.

650
00:40:55,504 --> 00:40:57,404
They applied the current
to the top of his head.

651
00:40:57,451 --> 00:40:58,744
Hair is not conductive.

652
00:40:58,798 --> 00:41:01,798
They should put his
hand in a jar of water.

653
00:41:01,901 --> 00:41:03,436
They'll get it right next time.

654
00:41:28,617 --> 00:41:30,377
You're indulging me

655
00:41:30,451 --> 00:41:31,852
because of my father.

656
00:41:32,498 --> 00:41:33,508
No.

657
00:41:36,616 --> 00:41:37,917
I came to wonder,

658
00:41:39,142 --> 00:41:41,505
could any woman ever reach

659
00:41:41,615 --> 00:41:44,073
or touch Tesla?

660
00:41:44,255 --> 00:41:45,657
The way his mother had?

661
00:41:49,350 --> 00:41:52,281
He had a vision just
before she died.

662
00:41:52,423 --> 00:41:56,252
Easter Sunday at one a.m., 1892.

663
00:41:56,401 --> 00:41:58,688
After her funeral, he fell ill

664
00:41:58,780 --> 00:42:01,019
and spent three weeks living
like a shadow in the village

665
00:42:01,089 --> 00:42:02,258
where she was born.

666
00:42:03,117 --> 00:42:06,729
Then he rebounded, gave
a lecture in Belgrade

667
00:42:06,833 --> 00:42:07,868
and came home.

668
00:42:08,915 --> 00:42:09,978
No.

669
00:42:13,249 --> 00:42:15,983
You think of people as
machines, but you're wrong.

670
00:42:16,436 --> 00:42:17,460
- They aren't.
- I said

671
00:42:17,494 --> 00:42:19,342
the universe is a machine.

672
00:42:19,412 --> 00:42:20,409
No.

673
00:42:20,598 --> 00:42:23,064
We have an outside
and an inside.

674
00:42:23,170 --> 00:42:25,273
We have wills and souls.

675
00:42:30,406 --> 00:42:31,516
I'm fine.

676
00:42:35,785 --> 00:42:38,948
It's just sometimes
I have a rather

677
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,436
unfavorable reaction to pearls.

678
00:42:55,619 --> 00:42:57,054
Leave us alone.

679
00:43:12,685 --> 00:43:13,719
My father...

680
00:43:21,118 --> 00:43:22,420
You should meet my father.

681
00:43:23,642 --> 00:43:25,894
He's good with numbers
and objects, like you.

682
00:43:25,981 --> 00:43:27,639
I would like to meet him.

683
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,096
If he isn't too
busy helping Edison.

684
00:43:31,759 --> 00:43:33,129
Watch out for his nose.

685
00:43:33,207 --> 00:43:34,183
His what?

686
00:43:34,701 --> 00:43:35,798
His nose.

687
00:43:36,676 --> 00:43:38,278
You've heard about it, I assume?

688
00:43:40,705 --> 00:43:42,327
The richest man in
the world and he has

689
00:43:42,384 --> 00:43:43,961
a hideous skin disease.

690
00:43:44,656 --> 00:43:48,195
Inflaming and
disfiguring his nose.

691
00:43:49,897 --> 00:43:51,698
He dares you to pretend
you don't see it.

692
00:43:53,482 --> 00:43:54,524
Maybe it will happen to me,

693
00:43:54,604 --> 00:43:56,838
it's just a matter of time.

694
00:43:58,874 --> 00:44:00,843
Maybe I'd be better
off without a nose,

695
00:44:01,759 --> 00:44:02,893
like the sphinx.

696
00:44:06,608 --> 00:44:08,751
When are you going to Chicago?

697
00:44:08,885 --> 00:44:11,020
How did you know about that?

698
00:44:11,169 --> 00:44:13,489
Westinghouse is installing
hundreds of dynamos.

699
00:44:13,891 --> 00:44:15,524
250,000 light bulbs.

700
00:44:15,614 --> 00:44:16,959
I leave tomorrow.

701
00:44:17,602 --> 00:44:18,803
With your friend?

702
00:44:19,392 --> 00:44:20,429
The Hungarian?

703
00:44:21,265 --> 00:44:22,505
Szigeti?

704
00:44:22,694 --> 00:44:23,222
No.

705
00:44:23,285 --> 00:44:24,686
He lost his compass.

706
00:44:25,486 --> 00:44:28,335
He went to South America
to seek his fortune.

707
00:44:29,898 --> 00:44:31,774
But wasn't he your

708
00:44:31,877 --> 00:44:32,924
best friend?

709
00:44:44,370 --> 00:44:46,305
I can visit you in Chicago.

710
00:44:47,510 --> 00:44:49,859
That's not necessary.

711
00:44:50,043 --> 00:44:51,761
Thank you, no.

712
00:44:52,098 --> 00:44:53,102
You need me.

713
00:44:58,947 --> 00:45:01,338
Thinking, my father taught me,

714
00:45:01,536 --> 00:45:03,639
is more interesting than knowing

715
00:45:03,837 --> 00:45:06,409
but less interesting
than lucking.

716
00:45:08,066 --> 00:45:10,222
That's one way to size
up the pavilion of light

717
00:45:10,307 --> 00:45:13,277
at the World's Fair
in Chicago 1893,

718
00:45:14,445 --> 00:45:17,435
where the new Tesla Westinghouse
machines provide power

719
00:45:17,497 --> 00:45:18,724
and illumination.

720
00:45:19,589 --> 00:45:21,732
The fair consumes three
times more electricity

721
00:45:21,818 --> 00:45:23,726
than the whole city itself.

722
00:45:23,925 --> 00:45:26,107
28 million visitors
from around the world

723
00:45:26,162 --> 00:45:29,065
and they all see what
Edison has tried to deny,

724
00:45:29,275 --> 00:45:32,545
alternating current
is beautiful and safe.

725
00:45:38,054 --> 00:45:39,656
Ahh.

726
00:45:39,995 --> 00:45:40,966
Thank you for joining me.

727
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:41,834
Please.

728
00:45:44,469 --> 00:45:46,193
I took the liberty,

729
00:45:46,227 --> 00:45:47,630
ordered for us both.

730
00:45:47,716 --> 00:45:49,618
An American meal.

731
00:45:49,910 --> 00:45:50,744
Pie.

732
00:45:52,603 --> 00:45:54,275
So you've been to my exhibition,

733
00:45:54,341 --> 00:45:56,424
the tower, the Edison column.

734
00:45:58,419 --> 00:46:00,881
18,000 bulbs literally

735
00:46:00,915 --> 00:46:04,066
surrounded by 25 hundred
different types of Edison lamps.

736
00:46:04,279 --> 00:46:05,346
Go ahead, it's fresh.

737
00:46:05,466 --> 00:46:07,321
Well, I'm an American now.

738
00:46:07,375 --> 00:46:08,282
Full-fledged citizen.

739
00:46:08,328 --> 00:46:09,438
Yes, yes, of course you are.

740
00:46:09,472 --> 00:46:10,203
Of course.

741
00:46:10,286 --> 00:46:12,854
As I was saying, it's
really on display.

742
00:46:13,999 --> 00:46:17,113
Edison dynamos, flat irons,
sewing machine motors,

743
00:46:17,192 --> 00:46:19,254
dinging room fans, elevators.

744
00:46:20,020 --> 00:46:21,460
I like the dolls.

745
00:46:21,494 --> 00:46:22,045
The dolls?

746
00:46:22,079 --> 00:46:23,155
They're very amusing.

747
00:46:23,189 --> 00:46:24,798
Hmm, the talking dolls.

748
00:46:24,876 --> 00:46:26,722
We rushed it, it's not perfect.

749
00:46:27,621 --> 00:46:30,226
Kinetscope, moving pictures.

750
00:46:30,486 --> 00:46:32,227
Everybody will like that.

751
00:46:34,064 --> 00:46:36,365
But I invited you, here you are.

752
00:46:37,665 --> 00:46:39,166
Tesla, it's plain as day.

753
00:46:40,517 --> 00:46:42,861
This entire World's
Fair is lit and powered

754
00:46:42,895 --> 00:46:44,573
by alternating current.

755
00:46:44,817 --> 00:46:47,607
Westinghouse
machines, your design.

756
00:46:49,154 --> 00:46:51,547
I was wrong about
alternating current.

757
00:46:52,376 --> 00:46:54,011
I was wrong about you.

758
00:46:54,466 --> 00:46:56,854
I still have capital,
I still have investors.

759
00:46:56,959 --> 00:46:59,494
An unmatched capacity for PR.

760
00:47:00,575 --> 00:47:01,960
Let's reset the clocks.

761
00:47:02,755 --> 00:47:05,086
Bygones be bygones.

762
00:47:05,861 --> 00:47:07,770
You must have all
sorts of ideas.

763
00:47:08,559 --> 00:47:10,099
Pick a project,

764
00:47:10,358 --> 00:47:13,249
something incredible, huh?

765
00:47:15,910 --> 00:47:20,031
We can do incredible
things together, huh?

766
00:47:21,987 --> 00:47:23,521
What do you wanna do next?

767
00:47:26,844 --> 00:47:27,712
Got a light?

768
00:47:29,882 --> 00:47:31,485
Do you have a light?

769
00:47:44,687 --> 00:47:47,136
This meeting
never happened.

770
00:47:47,355 --> 00:47:50,239
Edison and Tesla didn't
talk at the World Fair.

771
00:47:50,441 --> 00:47:51,780
Edison never
admitted he was wrong

772
00:47:51,850 --> 00:47:53,696
about alternating current.

773
00:47:53,805 --> 00:47:57,113
There was no apology,
no reconciliation.

774
00:47:57,758 --> 00:47:59,583
And you can't hep but wonder,

775
00:47:59,913 --> 00:48:03,048
if only Tesla had someone
sharp and smart at his side,

776
00:48:03,588 --> 00:48:05,969
an enlightened hustler
to steer him through

777
00:48:06,003 --> 00:48:07,770
the crass, commercial world.

778
00:48:11,213 --> 00:48:12,263
If only.

779
00:48:41,025 --> 00:48:42,140
Dr. Tesla.

780
00:48:42,638 --> 00:48:43,806
He's waiting for you.

781
00:48:50,389 --> 00:48:51,190
Ah.

782
00:48:51,629 --> 00:48:53,073
I know you don't like to

783
00:48:53,762 --> 00:48:55,496
shake hands, I've taken note.

784
00:48:55,530 --> 00:48:57,574
Excuse me, watch your toes.

785
00:48:57,854 --> 00:49:00,781
I was assured this
was an out of the way

786
00:49:00,851 --> 00:49:03,679
meeting place but it's...

787
00:49:03,883 --> 00:49:05,486
I was misinformed.

788
00:49:06,463 --> 00:49:07,296
Let's

789
00:49:08,196 --> 00:49:09,030
maybe.

790
00:49:12,401 --> 00:49:13,235
Yeah.

791
00:49:19,221 --> 00:49:20,829
Edison sunk.

792
00:49:21,125 --> 00:49:22,532
He's on the ropes.

793
00:49:22,810 --> 00:49:23,966
We beat him.

794
00:49:24,218 --> 00:49:26,235
It was never about Edison.

795
00:49:26,510 --> 00:49:29,254
He was simply on the
wrong side of the street.

796
00:49:30,691 --> 00:49:33,521
My legal bills would suggest

797
00:49:35,822 --> 00:49:37,885
it's a bit more ugly than that.

798
00:49:39,787 --> 00:49:41,293
'Cause

799
00:49:41,382 --> 00:49:42,866
here's the thing,

800
00:49:50,823 --> 00:49:54,318
Westinghouse Electric is
fighting for its life.

801
00:49:55,003 --> 00:49:58,100
The economy and
the Edison merger.

802
00:49:58,176 --> 00:50:00,312
I'm sure you understand this.

803
00:50:02,303 --> 00:50:05,107
Even with the Niagara Commission

804
00:50:05,353 --> 00:50:06,775
on our side,

805
00:50:07,019 --> 00:50:09,878
JP Morgan is pulling
all the strings.

806
00:50:10,624 --> 00:50:13,630
We don't stand a chance
unless we initiate

807
00:50:13,768 --> 00:50:15,793
a similar merger on our side.

808
00:50:17,959 --> 00:50:20,412
My new Board of Directors

809
00:50:21,999 --> 00:50:22,834
says

810
00:50:24,522 --> 00:50:28,989
if I pay you the royalties
spelled out in your contract,

811
00:50:30,662 --> 00:50:31,732
we're bust.

812
00:50:32,763 --> 00:50:34,337
It's too much money.

813
00:50:34,527 --> 00:50:36,519
The whole company's in jeopardy.

814
00:50:39,350 --> 00:50:40,744
They refuse

815
00:50:40,963 --> 00:50:42,632
to go forward with the merger

816
00:50:43,593 --> 00:50:48,721
unless your contract, the
horsepower clause, is canceled.

817
00:50:54,035 --> 00:50:57,005
Would you mind if we went
somewhere a little less dusty?

818
00:51:10,092 --> 00:51:11,630
You mean that if I give this up

819
00:51:11,664 --> 00:51:13,714
and the merger goes
through, you'll retain

820
00:51:13,748 --> 00:51:15,575
control of your company

821
00:51:16,188 --> 00:51:18,393
and the polyphase
system finally?

822
00:51:18,427 --> 00:51:19,704
Yes, right.

823
00:51:19,774 --> 00:51:21,050
Finally.

824
00:51:21,341 --> 00:51:24,119
The whole country is put on AC,

825
00:51:24,371 --> 00:51:25,830
on your machines.

826
00:51:27,865 --> 00:51:29,091
Our machines.

827
00:51:29,383 --> 00:51:31,160
Your polyphase system.

828
00:51:31,755 --> 00:51:33,624
You know how I feel about this.

829
00:51:33,658 --> 00:51:34,995
And if I refuse?

830
00:51:35,378 --> 00:51:37,334
You'll have to deal
with the bankers.

831
00:51:37,506 --> 00:51:39,198
I wouldn't blame
you, but in that case

832
00:51:39,232 --> 00:51:41,166
I'd be clear out of the picture.

833
00:51:46,754 --> 00:51:48,270
A sensible
man would have said,

834
00:51:48,355 --> 00:51:51,358
"Wait a minute, let
me talk to my lawyer."

835
00:51:55,963 --> 00:51:57,198
But Tesla...

836
00:51:58,160 --> 00:51:59,153
Tear it up.

837
00:52:01,749 --> 00:52:02,767
Tear it up.

838
00:52:06,204 --> 00:52:08,886
I'd prefer if you tore it up.

839
00:52:28,084 --> 00:52:29,353
You won't regret it.

840
00:52:29,387 --> 00:52:31,622
We are going to Niagara.

841
00:52:31,656 --> 00:52:32,906
There's no stopping it.

842
00:52:32,940 --> 00:52:34,123
All right.

843
00:52:36,502 --> 00:52:37,939
It's gonna be
okay, don't worry.

844
00:52:38,003 --> 00:52:40,281
There's more than one
way to skin a cat.

845
00:52:40,315 --> 00:52:41,341
Yes, I've heard that.

846
00:52:41,375 --> 00:52:43,119
Do you think it's true?

847
00:52:43,395 --> 00:52:44,327
Of course.

848
00:52:44,361 --> 00:52:46,164
Take it from an old cat skinner.

849
00:52:57,461 --> 00:53:00,564
Sarah Bernhardt,
the divine Sarah.

850
00:53:01,301 --> 00:53:04,544
The first internationally
famous celebrity superstar.

851
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,555
Legend has it, she once
dropped her handkerchief

852
00:53:12,594 --> 00:53:13,758
at Tesla's feet.

853
00:53:14,532 --> 00:53:15,732
Or was it her scarf?

854
00:53:16,910 --> 00:53:20,477
She's in motion all her
life, traveling the globe.

855
00:53:21,404 --> 00:53:23,576
She makes her first appearance
on the American stage

856
00:53:23,632 --> 00:53:26,181
in New York in 1881.

857
00:53:26,986 --> 00:53:29,354
At two in the morning
on her way to Boston,

858
00:53:29,432 --> 00:53:31,863
she stops off in
Menlo Park, New Jersey

859
00:53:31,957 --> 00:53:35,128
to visit the wizard,
Thomas Alva Edison.

860
00:53:39,744 --> 00:53:42,014
Listen to me carefully.

861
00:53:42,671 --> 00:53:45,000
Every moment now
is precious to me.

862
00:53:46,124 --> 00:53:48,268
I was the monster
in this riddle.

863
00:53:49,003 --> 00:53:51,879
I was insane with
incestuous passion.

864
00:53:52,813 --> 00:53:56,095
Now I am drunk on an
infallible poison.

865
00:53:57,105 --> 00:54:00,986
I can feel my pulses pushing
it icily into my feet,

866
00:54:01,051 --> 00:54:03,546
hands, and the roots of my hair.

867
00:54:11,536 --> 00:54:13,407
10 years later, she's back

868
00:54:13,551 --> 00:54:16,781
for the Chicago World's
Fair and another grand tour.

869
00:54:32,124 --> 00:54:33,825
She travels in a
coffin, you know?

870
00:54:34,770 --> 00:54:36,017
Which she sleeps in.

871
00:54:37,974 --> 00:54:39,493
She sleeps

872
00:54:39,527 --> 00:54:40,884
in a coffin.

873
00:54:41,143 --> 00:54:43,586
To prepare for the
reality of death.

874
00:54:44,409 --> 00:54:45,683
I'd like a coffin.

875
00:54:46,928 --> 00:54:49,197
Her motto is quand meme,

876
00:54:50,430 --> 00:54:53,085
which translated
means all the same

877
00:54:53,139 --> 00:54:57,500
or despite everything, even so.

878
00:54:57,737 --> 00:54:58,730
No matter what?

879
00:55:00,349 --> 00:55:01,608
Do you speak French?

880
00:55:04,575 --> 00:55:06,614
I can speak a few words...

881
00:55:07,464 --> 00:55:08,964
...even form some sentences.

882
00:55:11,614 --> 00:55:14,484
I would like to see you again.

883
00:55:15,048 --> 00:55:16,183
Will you come with me?

884
00:55:17,383 --> 00:55:22,388
Quand meme.

885
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,599
Pleased to meet you. Pleased to meet you.

886
00:55:45,658 --> 00:55:48,204
Robert Underwood Johnson,
the Century Magazine.

887
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,197
I and my wife...

888
00:55:50,251 --> 00:55:50,936
Catherine.

889
00:55:51,014 --> 00:55:52,448
We have been wanting
to see you in the flesh

890
00:55:52,511 --> 00:55:54,290
for a very long time.

891
00:55:54,526 --> 00:55:57,432
A very long time. It's so delightful.

892
00:55:57,526 --> 00:55:59,094
Overwhelming.

893
00:55:59,290 --> 00:56:00,606
May I introduce?

894
00:56:00,675 --> 00:56:03,671
Do you know the
brilliant, Nikola Tesla?

895
00:56:04,187 --> 00:56:06,648
I believe this looks like a sheet of paper burning in flames.

896
00:56:10,157 --> 00:56:11,508
Are you an actor?

897
00:56:13,963 --> 00:56:15,231
He looks like an actor.

898
00:56:15,904 --> 00:56:18,265
He's the greatest inventor of all time.

899
00:56:18,327 --> 00:56:20,383
The greatest
inventor of the age.

900
00:56:20,449 --> 00:56:21,684
He is shy.

901
00:56:26,999 --> 00:56:29,902
But you insist in looking
me directly in the eye?

902
00:56:31,028 --> 00:56:32,663
Yes, he does that.

903
00:56:36,300 --> 00:56:38,041
Ah, the divine Miss Sarah,

904
00:56:38,081 --> 00:56:40,038
you couldn't have been diviner.

905
00:56:43,549 --> 00:56:44,963
Of course you already know each other.

906
00:56:47,765 --> 00:56:48,861
Hello, Robert.

907
00:56:48,895 --> 00:56:52,118
Catherine, I don't believe
you know my wife, Mina.

908
00:56:52,152 --> 00:56:54,052
When you died I had
to hold my breath.

909
00:56:54,086 --> 00:56:55,378
It was terrifying.

910
00:56:55,412 --> 00:56:56,715
Exactly how I felt.

911
00:56:56,749 --> 00:56:57,754
Bless
my wife, Catherine.

912
00:56:57,787 --> 00:57:00,073
You know, I had Mr.
Tesla at my workshop

913
00:57:00,107 --> 00:57:00,956
nine years ago.

914
00:57:00,990 --> 00:57:01,824
He lasted, what?

915
00:57:01,858 --> 00:57:03,023
Six months.

916
00:57:03,057 --> 00:57:04,759
Six months, he quit.

917
00:57:06,494 --> 00:57:07,356
I didn't.

918
00:57:07,390 --> 00:57:08,544
He thinks I owe him money.

919
00:57:08,578 --> 00:57:09,098
What was it?

920
00:57:09,132 --> 00:57:10,333
$50?

921
00:57:10,473 --> 00:57:13,279
I know, I shouldn't
talk about money.

922
00:57:13,313 --> 00:57:14,969
I shouldn't needn't
really joke about money.

923
00:57:15,063 --> 00:57:18,107
Especially with someone
who has no sense of humor.

924
00:57:18,492 --> 00:57:19,326
Yes.

925
00:57:21,116 --> 00:57:22,717
It's all right, we're friends.

926
00:57:25,029 --> 00:57:27,465
And now he makes
lots of money.

927
00:57:28,655 --> 00:57:31,558
And his machines
outsell my machines.

928
00:57:34,013 --> 00:57:35,730
Oh, yes.

929
00:57:35,764 --> 00:57:38,434
Salt water taffy for
you from Florida.

930
00:57:39,093 --> 00:57:41,429
Because you have
everything else already.

931
00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:44,255
Where is your coffin?

932
00:57:51,463 --> 00:57:54,167
You can't look at me like
this without consequences.

933
00:57:55,136 --> 00:57:56,309
That's from a play.

934
00:57:57,890 --> 00:57:59,458
We will see each other again.

935
00:58:03,375 --> 00:58:04,760
No hard feelings.

936
00:58:10,718 --> 00:58:11,831
What
did you say to her?

937
00:58:11,865 --> 00:58:12,732
I didn't quite...

938
00:58:14,828 --> 00:58:16,372
I asked about her coffin.

939
00:58:17,814 --> 00:58:19,692
I guess she keeps
it in her hotel.

940
00:58:40,654 --> 00:58:43,233
For the Niagara
hydroelectric power plant,

941
00:58:43,311 --> 00:58:45,821
Tesla designs
completely new machines,

942
00:58:45,860 --> 00:58:48,885
unprecedented generators,
fives times bigger

943
00:58:48,941 --> 00:58:50,580
than anything ever built.

944
00:58:51,355 --> 00:58:55,452
Plus transformers, motors,
transmission lines, turbines.

945
00:58:57,417 --> 00:59:00,187
Revolutionary in
their power and range.

946
00:59:03,157 --> 00:59:05,648
He didn't invent
alternating current.

947
00:59:05,907 --> 00:59:06,988
Nobody did.

948
00:59:07,712 --> 00:59:10,209
But his system makes it
practical and possible to use

949
00:59:10,296 --> 00:59:12,984
everywhere efficiently
throughout the world.

950
00:59:19,728 --> 00:59:21,039
His system had to be broken down

951
00:59:21,073 --> 00:59:23,008
into 40 fundamental patents.

952
00:59:25,819 --> 00:59:28,628
Most valuable patent since the
invention of the telephone.

953
00:59:29,705 --> 00:59:31,245
We'll see about that.

954
00:59:31,315 --> 00:59:33,151
In St. Louis last
week, over 4,000 people

955
00:59:33,244 --> 00:59:34,911
attended his lecture.

956
00:59:35,233 --> 00:59:37,635
Yale gave him an honorary
degree, then Columbia.

957
00:59:38,704 --> 00:59:40,943
You've seen the articles
in the magazine.

958
00:59:43,540 --> 00:59:45,880
And now, already he
has eight new patents

959
00:59:45,953 --> 00:59:47,361
for wireless energy.

960
00:59:48,568 --> 00:59:51,812
Electromagnetic pulses
using high frequency waves.

961
00:59:52,751 --> 00:59:54,652
You know him.

962
00:59:54,764 --> 00:59:56,113
You've talked to him.

963
00:59:56,932 --> 00:59:58,642
Is he looking for an investor

964
00:59:59,717 --> 01:00:00,805
or a wife?

965
01:00:06,389 --> 01:00:08,999
Chastity is a path
to enlightenment.

966
01:00:09,961 --> 01:00:12,300
A great inventor
should never marry.

967
01:00:14,228 --> 01:00:15,796
You realize this?

968
01:00:17,636 --> 01:00:19,839
We are what our
thoughts have made us.

969
01:00:20,865 --> 01:00:22,099
I believe that.

970
01:00:24,528 --> 01:00:26,603
So take care about
what you think.

971
01:00:27,391 --> 01:00:28,764
Thoughts live,

972
01:00:29,071 --> 01:00:30,457
they travel far.

973
01:00:43,294 --> 01:00:46,016
My aim is to develop
an entirely new

974
01:00:46,071 --> 01:00:47,515
system of communication.

975
01:00:47,549 --> 01:00:48,068
Yes, you've said...

976
01:00:48,130 --> 01:00:50,033
Using new principles.

977
01:00:50,103 --> 01:00:52,557
Electric symbols, voices even,

978
01:00:52,591 --> 01:00:54,799
photographs transmitted
through the air.

979
01:00:54,833 --> 01:00:56,349
Well you could load
your wireless boat

980
01:00:56,419 --> 01:00:58,793
with a cargo of
dynamite, submerge it,

981
01:00:58,827 --> 01:01:01,369
make it swim along and
then explode the dynamite...

982
01:01:01,403 --> 01:01:03,258
- I could, but...
- it'll blow up, say,

983
01:01:03,292 --> 01:01:04,441
- a battleship?
- But I was thinking

984
01:01:04,475 --> 01:01:05,163
much bigger than that.

985
01:01:05,197 --> 01:01:06,268
Oh, it has many applications.

986
01:01:06,302 --> 01:01:08,774
Yes, it will transform
the way the world works.

987
01:01:08,871 --> 01:01:10,479
An entire system.

988
01:01:10,538 --> 01:01:11,405
I know.

989
01:01:14,162 --> 01:01:16,697
It's a paradox, yet true,

990
01:01:16,767 --> 01:01:19,522
that the more we learn,
the more ignorant we become

991
01:01:19,577 --> 01:01:21,570
in the absolute sense.

992
01:01:21,687 --> 01:01:24,467
It's through enlightenment
that we are made aware

993
01:01:24,501 --> 01:01:25,914
of our limitations.

994
01:01:26,628 --> 01:01:28,329
That's why I'm
going to Colorado.

995
01:01:33,947 --> 01:01:35,081
That's far.

996
01:01:40,359 --> 01:01:41,194
Why?

997
01:01:41,850 --> 01:01:44,986
The air, altitude,
lightning storms.

998
01:01:48,202 --> 01:01:50,646
My brain is only a receiver.

999
01:01:50,871 --> 01:01:52,906
In the universe, there
is a core from which

1000
01:01:52,940 --> 01:01:56,656
we receive all
information, inspiration,

1001
01:01:56,706 --> 01:01:58,349
knowledge, and strength.

1002
01:02:14,331 --> 01:02:15,773
I know it's not simple

1003
01:02:17,096 --> 01:02:18,879
to be able to love calmly.

1004
01:02:20,529 --> 01:02:22,730
To trust without fear.

1005
01:02:30,899 --> 01:02:33,280
To commit yourself to
really difficult tasks

1006
01:02:33,383 --> 01:02:36,164
with unlimited energy.

1007
01:02:40,862 --> 01:02:43,725
Is it better to be
vindicated or to be loved?

1008
01:02:47,770 --> 01:02:50,773
Idealism cannot work hand
in hand with capitalism.

1009
01:02:51,813 --> 01:02:52,649
True

1010
01:02:53,491 --> 01:02:54,570
or false?

1011
01:02:57,681 --> 01:03:00,667
Are dreams and intelligence
enough to save the world?

1012
01:03:01,459 --> 01:03:02,535
Is your

1013
01:03:03,806 --> 01:03:05,380
heightened ability,

1014
01:03:07,325 --> 01:03:08,400
your brilliance

1015
01:03:12,409 --> 01:03:14,611
a blessing or a curse?

1016
01:03:17,683 --> 01:03:21,487
You have become much
better at asking questions.

1017
01:04:22,840 --> 01:04:25,746
In Colorado, Tesla
disappears into his work.

1018
01:04:30,101 --> 01:04:32,805
Conducting experiments that
have never been duplicated

1019
01:04:34,116 --> 01:04:35,408
or fully understood.

1020
01:04:41,310 --> 01:04:43,884
He was synchronizing electricity
in the sky and the earth

1021
01:04:43,918 --> 01:04:46,787
with currents surging through
his magnifying transmitter.

1022
01:04:50,475 --> 01:04:52,363
A.K.A., a Tesla coil.

1023
01:05:04,338 --> 01:05:06,940
It was like getting the
ocean to sit for a portrait.

1024
01:05:51,619 --> 01:05:53,659
Salutations,
Miss Morgan

1025
01:05:53,735 --> 01:05:55,503
from the Alta Vista Hotel.

1026
01:05:56,293 --> 01:05:59,049
Mr. Lowenstein, my
associate from New York

1027
01:05:59,127 --> 01:06:01,634
has been troubled by
altitude sickness,

1028
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:05,689
but I am invigorated
by the climate.

1029
01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:09,957
Skies of dazzling calm
alternating with storms

1030
01:06:10,043 --> 01:06:11,773
of great violence.

1031
01:06:11,866 --> 01:06:16,459
We have not seen Colorado's
legendary fireballs, but

1032
01:06:16,772 --> 01:06:19,150
I intend to generate
them myself.

1033
01:06:19,994 --> 01:06:24,443
The essential aspects of my
work here must remain veiled,

1034
01:06:24,505 --> 01:06:27,457
as they say, in secrecy.

1035
01:06:27,822 --> 01:06:31,847
When my results are revealed,
humanity will be like

1036
01:06:31,917 --> 01:06:35,094
an ant heap stirred
up with a stick.

1037
01:06:36,445 --> 01:06:39,161
I've enlisted the aid
of a bright, local boy

1038
01:06:39,195 --> 01:06:43,239
who humbly assures us he doesn't
know what electricity is.

1039
01:06:43,547 --> 01:06:46,308
I tell him with
great seriousness,

1040
01:06:46,558 --> 01:06:49,344
"No one knows what it is."

1041
01:06:53,481 --> 01:06:58,239
Every human being is an engine
geared to the wheel work

1042
01:06:58,305 --> 01:06:59,634
of the universe.

1043
01:10:19,346 --> 01:10:19,936
You did that.

1044
01:10:19,970 --> 01:10:21,671
The whole God damn
generator is on fire.

1045
01:10:21,733 --> 01:10:23,853
You threw a short on the line!

1046
01:10:23,892 --> 01:10:27,905
I set the earth an
electrical resonance.

1047
01:10:27,976 --> 01:10:29,900
You blacked out the
whole God damn town,

1048
01:10:29,934 --> 01:10:31,126
you son of a bitch.

1049
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:32,760
You knocked out the generator.

1050
01:10:32,794 --> 01:10:36,005
I sent electrons
streaming into the earth

1051
01:10:36,039 --> 01:10:40,604
at a rate of 150
oscillations per second,

1052
01:10:40,638 --> 01:10:44,940
each pulsation a
wavelength of 6,600 feet

1053
01:10:44,974 --> 01:10:48,717
and it expands, overflowing
the curve of the earth

1054
01:10:48,751 --> 01:10:54,074
creating a stationary
wave that arises and falls

1055
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:56,067
on the other side of the planet.

1056
01:10:56,108 --> 01:10:58,590
I will pay for a new generator.

1057
01:10:59,493 --> 01:11:00,763
Great.

1058
01:11:01,617 --> 01:11:03,185
My expense.

1059
01:11:15,394 --> 01:11:16,730
She's in the dining room.

1060
01:11:45,140 --> 01:11:45,975
Ah.

1061
01:11:51,608 --> 01:11:54,149
You are the sole topic
of conversation here.

1062
01:11:54,447 --> 01:11:56,507
Well, other than me.

1063
01:12:01,004 --> 01:12:02,592
You work at night

1064
01:12:02,851 --> 01:12:04,452
in a secret laboratory.

1065
01:12:05,345 --> 01:12:06,375
No windows.

1066
01:12:07,007 --> 01:12:10,129
You shoot lightnings
from the earth

1067
01:12:10,206 --> 01:12:11,408
to the sky.

1068
01:12:11,533 --> 01:12:13,869
And my only fear is
the very real possibility

1069
01:12:13,949 --> 01:12:16,117
that I may set the sky on fire.

1070
01:12:16,807 --> 01:12:19,339
It's as if I'm trying
to tame a wild cat

1071
01:12:19,393 --> 01:12:22,736
and I have become nothing but
a mass of bloody scratches.

1072
01:12:23,636 --> 01:12:25,681
Oh, you like being scratched?

1073
01:12:26,717 --> 01:12:27,796
If necessary.

1074
01:12:29,048 --> 01:12:30,210
She was in Colorado

1075
01:12:30,254 --> 01:12:32,522
for her second
worldwide farewell tour.

1076
01:12:33,183 --> 01:12:34,873
Or was it her third?

1077
01:12:34,967 --> 01:12:39,262
He was drawn to her, I guess,
for her fame and glamor

1078
01:12:39,628 --> 01:12:42,025
and for her unattainability.

1079
01:12:42,059 --> 01:12:45,357
Colorado's a bit
like a hospital ward.

1080
01:12:46,040 --> 01:12:47,337
Have you noticed?

1081
01:12:47,716 --> 01:12:52,075
It's filled with rich
people with tuberculosis

1082
01:12:52,138 --> 01:12:55,143
pumping their lungs with
the pure mountain air.

1083
01:12:55,904 --> 01:12:57,673
They love the theater but

1084
01:12:58,277 --> 01:12:59,678
they cough a lot.

1085
01:13:01,183 --> 01:13:02,018
Champagne?

1086
01:13:03,589 --> 01:13:05,491
I've been dying a lot lately.

1087
01:13:06,606 --> 01:13:08,691
Never the same death twice.

1088
01:13:09,085 --> 01:13:10,627
That's my specialty.

1089
01:13:10,933 --> 01:13:13,439
I've died so much
I feel immortal.

1090
01:13:13,542 --> 01:13:16,025
Well your English
is improving.

1091
01:13:16,099 --> 01:13:17,634
Well, maybe.

1092
01:13:19,545 --> 01:13:23,169
But when I am on stage,
I perform only in French.

1093
01:13:24,779 --> 01:13:28,589
Some Americans pay to see
the great French actress.

1094
01:13:35,070 --> 01:13:39,007
There was a time when I hated death.

1095
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:40,410
I regret that now.

1096
01:13:40,817 --> 01:13:42,153
Death is necessary...

1097
01:13:43,019 --> 01:13:44,246
...and I love it.

1098
01:13:44,925 --> 01:13:47,695
Because it waits for you before it strikes.

1099
01:13:51,379 --> 01:13:53,878
I can get you tickets to
Camille tomorrow night.

1100
01:13:54,622 --> 01:13:55,984
Well, tonight.

1101
01:13:56,564 --> 01:13:58,608
If the lights come back on.

1102
01:13:58,700 --> 01:14:00,221
I'll make
sure they come back on

1103
01:14:00,284 --> 01:14:01,932
before the curtain comes up.

1104
01:14:39,791 --> 01:14:40,592
Suppose

1105
01:14:42,502 --> 01:14:44,404
you had to cut your head off

1106
01:14:45,352 --> 01:14:47,521
and give it to someone else,

1107
01:14:48,195 --> 01:14:49,701
what difference would it make?

1108
01:14:52,619 --> 01:14:54,787
This is what love is like.

1109
01:15:55,918 --> 01:15:58,094
"Energy creates energy,"

1110
01:15:58,510 --> 01:15:59,811
Sarah Bernhardt said.

1111
01:16:00,797 --> 01:16:04,239
"It is by spending myself
that I become rich."

1112
01:17:15,184 --> 01:17:17,473
So it's like
rivulets in a lake.

1113
01:17:17,576 --> 01:17:20,038
Where you throw a stone
and these lamps...

1114
01:17:22,585 --> 01:17:23,995
Please tell me again, Mr. Tesla,

1115
01:17:24,029 --> 01:17:26,438
the distance between your
machines and these lamps.

1116
01:17:26,472 --> 01:17:27,884
26 miles.

1117
01:17:28,505 --> 01:17:30,469
It would be simple

1118
01:17:31,401 --> 01:17:35,448
to take a common 300
horsepower oscillator

1119
01:17:35,482 --> 01:17:39,263
to run simultaneously
operations just like this one

1120
01:17:39,297 --> 01:17:40,998
at any point on the globe.

1121
01:17:41,812 --> 01:17:45,445
One need only place the receiving
apparatus into the ground.

1122
01:17:45,479 --> 01:17:47,145
Doesn't matter if the
transmission is affected

1123
01:17:47,215 --> 01:17:48,082
at a few miles

1124
01:17:48,193 --> 01:17:50,540
or a few thousand miles.

1125
01:17:51,173 --> 01:17:53,659
The waves travel
in all directions,

1126
01:17:53,752 --> 01:17:57,224
passing over the earth's
bulge in ever smaller circles

1127
01:17:57,317 --> 01:18:00,188
in increasing intensity
until they converge

1128
01:18:00,249 --> 01:18:02,222
on the planet's opposite side.

1129
01:18:03,185 --> 01:18:05,871
So transmitting messages to a

1130
01:18:06,054 --> 01:18:08,608
receiving terminal,
if I understand you,

1131
01:18:08,667 --> 01:18:11,435
you can signal
steam ships at sea,

1132
01:18:11,468 --> 01:18:14,204
obtain instantaneous stock
quotes from the stock exchange,

1133
01:18:14,238 --> 01:18:15,406
New York Stock Exchange

1134
01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,441
if you set up a tower
on the east coast

1135
01:18:17,474 --> 01:18:20,110
and another one on the
other side of the Atlantic?

1136
01:18:20,144 --> 01:18:20,978
Yes.

1137
01:18:22,828 --> 01:18:25,631
How much you estimate you
need to make this a reality?

1138
01:18:31,989 --> 01:18:34,858
Let's be honest, I don't have
a very good impression of you.

1139
01:18:34,978 --> 01:18:36,814
You talk, you're boastful.

1140
01:18:37,749 --> 01:18:39,329
And apart from the
deal with Westinghouse,

1141
01:18:39,363 --> 01:18:41,532
you've yet to make much
money off of your boasts.

1142
01:18:41,622 --> 01:18:46,070
But contrary to popular
belief, I never did a thing

1143
01:18:46,103 --> 01:18:48,707
except buying and selling
securities of foreign exchange

1144
01:18:48,740 --> 01:18:51,466
simply to make money
from the doing of it.

1145
01:18:59,534 --> 01:19:01,045
$100,000?

1146
01:19:01,118 --> 01:19:02,052
That be sufficient?

1147
01:19:03,997 --> 01:19:05,432
Yes.

1148
01:19:05,489 --> 01:19:07,291
I think you're wrong.

1149
01:19:07,324 --> 01:19:09,893
I understand what you're up
to here and you can do more.

1150
01:19:11,895 --> 01:19:13,912
We'll draw up a
contract, of course.

1151
01:19:17,070 --> 01:19:18,746
You and I have much in common.

1152
01:19:19,937 --> 01:19:21,405
I believe in higher reality,

1153
01:19:23,142 --> 01:19:25,476
I believe in recklessness
of great men.

1154
01:19:26,778 --> 01:19:28,479
Following the
battle of the currents,

1155
01:19:28,607 --> 01:19:31,615
Thomas Edison abandons
his idea of electricity.

1156
01:19:31,737 --> 01:19:33,484
He's done with it, he says,

1157
01:19:33,596 --> 01:19:35,352
and throws himself
at his new method

1158
01:19:35,386 --> 01:19:38,622
of extracting low grade
iron ore from crushed rocks.

1159
01:19:38,703 --> 01:19:41,125
He buys land in
Ogdensburg, New Jersey

1160
01:19:41,217 --> 01:19:45,596
and sets up a vast operation,
employing over 400 men.

1161
01:19:45,686 --> 01:19:48,932
By 1899, while Tesla's
in Colorado Springs,

1162
01:19:49,616 --> 01:19:52,569
the Edison mining concern is
declared a complete failure,

1163
01:19:52,659 --> 01:19:54,204
wiping our four million dollars

1164
01:19:54,238 --> 01:19:56,039
of Edison's personal fortune.

1165
01:20:04,988 --> 01:20:07,090
Yeah, it's all gone.

1166
01:20:07,193 --> 01:20:09,815
But we had a hell of a
good time spending it.

1167
01:20:12,472 --> 01:20:14,973
As his mother would
say, he tried to eat something

1168
01:20:15,025 --> 01:20:16,413
bigger than his head.

1169
01:20:43,822 --> 01:20:46,246
Miss Morgan, I believe
I've been remiss.

1170
01:20:47,391 --> 01:20:48,451
What does that mean?

1171
01:20:48,485 --> 01:20:49,588
Remiss.

1172
01:20:50,688 --> 01:20:52,690
That's one of those

1173
01:20:52,724 --> 01:20:54,992
words I never
really know what...

1174
01:21:03,010 --> 01:21:06,272
Yes, Marconi sends his
signal through the air

1175
01:21:07,266 --> 01:21:11,596
using 17 of my patents.

1176
01:21:12,953 --> 01:21:17,659
When our tower is complete,
we will send our message

1177
01:21:17,755 --> 01:21:20,267
across the earth
through the earth.

1178
01:21:21,860 --> 01:21:23,656
He sent it across the Channel

1179
01:21:24,792 --> 01:21:26,627
and no one's done that before.

1180
01:21:27,378 --> 01:21:28,465
You haven't done that.

1181
01:21:28,499 --> 01:21:32,469
Using 17 of my patents.

1182
01:21:32,503 --> 01:21:33,370
Hello, Anne.

1183
01:21:34,505 --> 01:21:35,759
I've just made tea.

1184
01:21:39,811 --> 01:21:43,080
I understand your father
left for Cairo last week.

1185
01:21:43,113 --> 01:21:45,650
His aides say he can't be
reached for another two weeks.

1186
01:21:45,696 --> 01:21:48,753
When this tower is complete,

1187
01:21:48,934 --> 01:21:51,861
he will be able to be
reached in an instant.

1188
01:21:54,571 --> 01:21:57,574
I'm not here to talk
for him or about him.

1189
01:21:59,382 --> 01:22:00,589
Except to tell you

1190
01:22:01,390 --> 01:22:02,900
that he knows you're in debt.

1191
01:22:03,003 --> 01:22:04,009
Of
course he's in debt.

1192
01:22:04,043 --> 01:22:05,649
He's revolutionizing at
least three fields of...

1193
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:06,914
Deep debt.

1194
01:22:08,668 --> 01:22:10,304
And when you send out
distress signals...

1195
01:22:10,390 --> 01:22:11,771
Do you understand
the scale of what he's...

1196
01:22:11,805 --> 01:22:14,278
It can only
alarm any other investors,

1197
01:22:14,311 --> 01:22:16,116
if any are left to be alarmed.

1198
01:22:17,381 --> 01:22:18,950
And all my father
asked for was a way

1199
01:22:18,983 --> 01:22:21,344
to send stock reports
across the Atlantic.

1200
01:22:23,243 --> 01:22:26,082
We don't have any
other investors.

1201
01:22:26,186 --> 01:22:27,388
Why would you?

1202
01:22:27,759 --> 01:22:30,368
My father has a 51%
share of your patents.

1203
01:22:37,936 --> 01:22:39,603
I'm wondering why
you're giving interviews

1204
01:22:39,637 --> 01:22:42,006
about getting
messages from Mars.

1205
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:43,218
I had three

1206
01:22:44,042 --> 01:22:45,250
signals,

1207
01:22:45,973 --> 01:22:49,103
distinct vibrations,
even, not random.

1208
01:22:50,440 --> 01:22:52,877
I do believe it
pretends a message.

1209
01:22:52,951 --> 01:22:55,285
Why would you go
on record with this?

1210
01:22:55,829 --> 01:22:57,120
I said it pretends...

1211
01:22:57,154 --> 01:22:58,555
From Mars?

1212
01:22:58,589 --> 01:23:00,692
My father reads these things.

1213
01:23:00,725 --> 01:23:02,627
You believe in martians?

1214
01:23:02,775 --> 01:23:03,928
The chance of alien
life is actually...

1215
01:23:03,962 --> 01:23:06,064
Alien life

1216
01:23:06,096 --> 01:23:09,105
is a statistical certainty.

1217
01:23:15,606 --> 01:23:17,910
What if you're picking
up Marconi's signals?

1218
01:23:19,011 --> 01:23:21,681
His test signals from
across the English Channel.

1219
01:23:21,972 --> 01:23:24,041
Not Mars, but Marconi?

1220
01:23:26,718 --> 01:23:30,287
I believe that I may be

1221
01:23:31,298 --> 01:23:32,641
the first person

1222
01:23:33,421 --> 01:23:38,275
who has ever heard the sound
of one planet greeting another.

1223
01:23:42,100 --> 01:23:44,836
What happens if
your system succeeds?

1224
01:23:44,915 --> 01:23:46,850
Who controls the
distribution of power?

1225
01:23:47,805 --> 01:23:49,325
Nobody controls it.

1226
01:23:50,003 --> 01:23:51,073
Like air, right?

1227
01:23:52,855 --> 01:23:55,178
You can't break it
into saleable units

1228
01:23:55,256 --> 01:23:56,480
available to everyone.

1229
01:23:56,575 --> 01:23:57,409
That's right.

1230
01:24:00,926 --> 01:24:02,987
Doesn't it occur to you
that the way the world runs

1231
01:24:03,021 --> 01:24:05,489
is determined by the
manipulation of all this?

1232
01:24:07,624 --> 01:24:10,221
Power, energy.

1233
01:24:12,309 --> 01:24:14,012
And what you wanna do is...

1234
01:24:20,320 --> 01:24:21,555
What do you want to do?

1235
01:24:23,064 --> 01:24:25,066
When this system is complete,

1236
01:24:26,282 --> 01:24:29,612
we will be able
to go to a swamp,

1237
01:24:30,177 --> 01:24:33,947
or a desert, some place
broken, and plighted.

1238
01:24:34,464 --> 01:24:36,887
Places small, sea for a few,

1239
01:24:37,007 --> 01:24:41,659
simple machines and
have light, heat,

1240
01:24:41,755 --> 01:24:46,196
mode of power, a complete
system of communication

1241
01:24:46,327 --> 01:24:48,866
for a people
previously living under

1242
01:24:48,900 --> 01:24:51,366
the most wretched
of circumstances.

1243
01:24:52,218 --> 01:24:53,052
And

1244
01:24:56,205 --> 01:24:58,540
we will be able
to do it cheaply.

1245
01:25:03,648 --> 01:25:05,235
You are not an economist.

1246
01:25:07,447 --> 01:25:08,981
Everything has to be paid for.

1247
01:25:10,620 --> 01:25:11,877
Especially money.

1248
01:25:20,429 --> 01:25:23,266
The 150,000 my
father gives Tesla

1249
01:25:23,300 --> 01:25:25,636
in December, 1901,

1250
01:25:25,756 --> 01:25:28,058
equivalent of four
million in today's money,

1251
01:25:28,922 --> 01:25:32,010
is the same amount he paid
for this painting in April.

1252
01:25:35,734 --> 01:25:36,735
Though this

1253
01:25:38,515 --> 01:25:40,852
is my favorite painting
he bought at this time.

1254
01:25:42,427 --> 01:25:44,257
Remere,

1255
01:25:44,333 --> 01:25:45,929
another 100,000.

1256
01:25:50,127 --> 01:25:53,497
During the same period,
working day and night,

1257
01:25:53,628 --> 01:25:56,968
Pierpont organizes the
creation of U.S. Steel,

1258
01:25:57,133 --> 01:25:59,836
the first company valued
at a billion dollars.

1259
01:26:06,408 --> 01:26:09,308
Since a
year, Mr. Morgan,

1260
01:26:10,214 --> 01:26:12,884
there has been hardly a night

1261
01:26:12,917 --> 01:26:17,221
when my pillow has not
been bathed in tears,

1262
01:26:17,343 --> 01:26:20,872
but you must not think
me a weak man for that.

1263
01:26:21,517 --> 01:26:25,840
When while this is applied,
the earth will be converted

1264
01:26:25,874 --> 01:26:30,206
into a huge brain,
capable of response

1265
01:26:30,292 --> 01:26:33,704
in every one of it parts.

1266
01:26:33,831 --> 01:26:36,339
Its principles I have discovered

1267
01:26:36,431 --> 01:26:39,777
will cause a revolution so great

1268
01:26:39,811 --> 01:26:45,012
that almost all values
and all human relations

1269
01:26:45,108 --> 01:26:47,886
will be profoundly modified.

1270
01:26:49,184 --> 01:26:51,852
My patents confer a monopoly.

1271
01:28:01,097 --> 01:28:02,622
Ah, Mr. Tesla.

1272
01:28:04,973 --> 01:28:07,943
I understand your ship has
run up against the rocks.

1273
01:28:08,673 --> 01:28:09,599
Great pity.

1274
01:28:09,634 --> 01:28:10,606
Mr. Morgan.

1275
01:28:12,707 --> 01:28:14,908
There isn't a single person
that's come to visit me

1276
01:28:14,991 --> 01:28:17,673
in the last 30 years
who's come for any purpose

1277
01:28:17,755 --> 01:28:20,292
other than to grovel on
the carpet for money.

1278
01:28:21,212 --> 01:28:24,109
I've sent you detailed
telegraphs, facts.

1279
01:28:24,366 --> 01:28:26,167
I'm not a vagabond come to beg.

1280
01:28:26,979 --> 01:28:29,929
Last year I provided
you with $100,000.

1281
01:28:30,660 --> 01:28:33,962
Months later, you requested
additional aid, $50,000 more.

1282
01:28:33,996 --> 01:28:35,799
Do you think I'm
a bottomless pit?

1283
01:28:36,399 --> 01:28:40,017
When my work is finished,
you'll recoup your investment

1284
01:28:40,051 --> 01:28:41,488
tenfold, a hundredfold.

1285
01:28:41,571 --> 01:28:43,874
I'm not convinced you
will finish your work.

1286
01:28:45,361 --> 01:28:47,296
Anyway, I'm in no need of money.

1287
01:28:49,168 --> 01:28:49,969
Ball.

1288
01:28:51,275 --> 01:28:53,541
I'm working on a new method

1289
01:28:53,701 --> 01:28:55,304
to photograph thought,

1290
01:28:57,006 --> 01:29:00,209
transcribing electric
impulses from the brain.

1291
01:29:02,655 --> 01:29:04,959
The Ottawa Indians
considered the Milky Way

1292
01:29:05,047 --> 01:29:08,084
to be muddy water
stirred by a turtle

1293
01:29:08,117 --> 01:29:10,953
swimming along the
bottom of the sky.

1294
01:29:12,254 --> 01:29:14,957
What do you think of that?

1295
01:29:14,990 --> 01:29:18,625
There is nothing durable but
the eternal state of things.

1296
01:29:20,329 --> 01:29:23,065
Do not let yourself
be intimidated

1297
01:29:23,177 --> 01:29:24,737
by the horror of the world.

1298
01:29:25,135 --> 01:29:27,937
Everything's ordered and
correct and must fulfill

1299
01:29:27,994 --> 01:29:31,085
its destiny in order
to retain perfection.

1300
01:29:35,899 --> 01:29:37,967
Soon I will be able to release

1301
01:29:38,451 --> 01:29:41,550
a new series of inventions

1302
01:29:41,646 --> 01:29:44,081
that will make
warfare unthinkable.

1303
01:29:47,020 --> 01:29:49,558
The central idea is a being

1304
01:29:49,592 --> 01:29:52,627
of some microscopic particles
traveling at a speed

1305
01:29:52,722 --> 01:29:55,159
close to that of
the speed of light.

1306
01:29:56,197 --> 01:29:59,067
It will stop an
army in its tracks

1307
01:29:59,101 --> 01:30:02,505
at 250 miles, swipe a
squadron of airplanes

1308
01:30:02,538 --> 01:30:04,039
at an even greater distance.

1309
01:30:13,249 --> 01:30:15,985
Beam travels in a straight
line trajectory and therefore

1310
01:30:16,018 --> 01:30:19,822
has range limitations by
the curvature of the earth

1311
01:30:19,855 --> 01:30:23,496
and all the essential details
aren't finished in my mind.

1312
01:31:20,257 --> 01:31:23,693
♪ Welcome to your life ♪

1313
01:31:24,508 --> 01:31:28,021
♪ There's no turning back ♪

1314
01:31:28,891 --> 01:31:33,114
♪ Even while we sleep ♪

1315
01:31:33,203 --> 01:31:39,552
♪ We will find you acting
on your best behavior ♪

1316
01:31:39,663 --> 01:31:43,896
♪ Turn your back
on mother nature ♪

1317
01:31:44,040 --> 01:31:50,217
♪ Everybody wants
to rule the world ♪

1318
01:31:59,175 --> 01:32:03,204
♪ It's my own design ♪

1319
01:32:03,336 --> 01:32:07,273
♪ It's my own remorse ♪

1320
01:32:07,596 --> 01:32:11,934
♪ Help me to decide ♪

1321
01:32:11,967 --> 01:32:16,355
♪ Help me make the
most of freedom ♪

1322
01:32:16,441 --> 01:32:18,477
♪ And of pleasure ♪

1323
01:32:18,595 --> 01:32:22,557
♪ Nothing ever lasts forever ♪

1324
01:32:22,678 --> 01:32:26,961
♪ Everybody wants
to rule the world ♪

1325
01:32:40,388 --> 01:32:44,392
♪ So glad we almost made it ♪

1326
01:32:44,503 --> 01:32:48,374
♪ So sad they had to fade it ♪

1327
01:32:48,587 --> 01:32:56,489
♪ Everybody wants
to rule the world ♪

1328
01:33:09,828 --> 01:33:14,246
♪ I can't stand
this indecision ♪

1329
01:33:14,280 --> 01:33:18,584
♪ Married with a
lack of vision ♪

1330
01:33:18,618 --> 01:33:24,240
♪ Everybody wants
to rule the world ♪

1331
01:34:06,582 --> 01:34:08,143
Do you remember my
face when I realized

1332
01:34:08,212 --> 01:34:09,842
it was hopeless between us?

1333
01:34:11,914 --> 01:34:14,339
Or does everything get
jumbled in your head?

1334
01:34:17,622 --> 01:34:20,258
On a sequence of numbers,

1335
01:34:20,629 --> 01:34:23,332
but a blur of
images, impressions,

1336
01:34:24,282 --> 01:34:25,116
feelings.

1337
01:34:26,366 --> 01:34:28,101
The way most of us
remember things.

1338
01:34:39,579 --> 01:34:43,984
I finally met someone,
someone as strong and willful

1339
01:34:44,119 --> 01:34:45,921
as my father,

1340
01:34:46,390 --> 01:34:48,193
someone who wanted me.

1341
01:34:49,580 --> 01:34:50,880
S. E. Marbury.

1342
01:34:54,745 --> 01:34:57,847
I moved into her villa
in the French countryside

1343
01:34:57,966 --> 01:35:00,402
and we poured American
money into a relief fund

1344
01:35:00,436 --> 01:35:03,372
during the war,
a health service,

1345
01:35:03,405 --> 01:35:04,745
a camp for children.

1346
01:35:12,326 --> 01:35:15,929
Nikola Tesla outlives
Edison, Westinghouse,

1347
01:35:16,018 --> 01:35:19,685
Sarah Bernhardt, and my father

1348
01:35:19,771 --> 01:35:22,291
and dies alone at
the Hotel New Yorker

1349
01:35:22,324 --> 01:35:25,129
on January 7th, 1943.

1350
01:35:25,929 --> 01:35:27,758
He was 87 years old.

1351
01:35:28,363 --> 01:35:30,614
Destitute but not forgotten.

1352
01:35:31,188 --> 01:35:33,754
Over 2,000 people
attend his funeral

1353
01:35:34,038 --> 01:35:36,178
at the Cathedral of
St. John the Divine.

1354
01:35:40,042 --> 01:35:41,638
He was always looking ahead,

1355
01:35:42,423 --> 01:35:44,546
projecting himself
into the future.

1356
01:35:46,473 --> 01:35:48,976
Maybe he promised more
than he could deliver,

1357
01:35:49,752 --> 01:35:51,250
maybe he overreached,

1358
01:35:52,506 --> 01:35:54,508
or maybe the world
that we are living in

1359
01:35:55,136 --> 01:35:58,160
is a dream that
Tesla dreamed first.