WEBVTT 00:00:04.950 --> 00:00:24.950 ..:: ارائه شده توسط وب سايت بلبل جان ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:00:44.272 --> 00:00:47.415 He had a black cat named Machek when he was a boy. 00:00:52.839 --> 00:00:54.477 The cat followed him everywhere. 00:00:58.474 --> 00:01:00.969 And one day, when he stroked the cat's back, 00:01:02.214 --> 00:01:03.346 he saw a miracle. 00:01:06.026 --> 00:01:08.359 A sheet of light crackling under his hand. 00:01:10.932 --> 00:01:11.893 "Lightning in the sky," 00:01:11.927 --> 00:01:13.629 his father explained, 00:01:13.746 --> 00:01:15.865 "is the same thing as the spark shooting 00:01:15.934 --> 00:01:17.568 "from Machek's back." 00:01:18.356 --> 00:01:19.912 And Tesla asked himself, 00:01:23.296 --> 00:01:25.448 "Is nature a gigantic cat? 00:01:26.486 --> 00:01:27.461 "And if so, 00:01:30.156 --> 00:01:31.723 "who strokes its back?" 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:54.287 Mind over matter, 00:01:54.461 --> 00:01:56.329 that's what it's all about, isn't it? 00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:02.827 Eventually, we'll be able to see in the dark. 00:02:03.340 --> 00:02:04.542 I found them. 00:02:04.855 --> 00:02:06.550 I think there are more in the crazy drawer. 00:02:06.593 --> 00:02:07.561 Do you know where that is? 00:02:10.880 --> 00:02:12.356 The crazy drawer? 00:02:13.171 --> 00:02:15.493 That means is you don't have crazy drawers 00:02:15.561 --> 00:02:17.197 where you're from? 00:02:17.263 --> 00:02:19.051 My mother had a crazy drawer. 00:02:19.187 --> 00:02:19.822 And yours? 00:02:19.880 --> 00:02:21.595 Leave my mother out of this. 00:02:22.803 --> 00:02:25.118 No one expected you to come in tonight, Tom. 00:02:25.189 --> 00:02:26.725 Ha, no? 00:02:27.046 --> 00:02:28.060 Seriously? 00:02:28.847 --> 00:02:30.220 Well I expected it. 00:02:34.755 --> 00:02:36.723 When I was five years old... 00:02:37.994 --> 00:02:40.469 Ed, you don't have to stop because I'm talking. 00:02:44.126 --> 00:02:47.663 I was five years old and we sailed across Lake Erie 00:02:47.751 --> 00:02:51.555 to visit the Edison clan there in Vienna. 00:02:51.728 --> 00:02:52.946 Vienna, Ontario. 00:02:54.057 --> 00:02:57.750 Mother and father, sisters, Marriane and Tanney, 00:02:57.803 --> 00:02:59.805 my brother, Charlie, and my Grandpa Sam. 00:03:00.914 --> 00:03:02.006 I learned to swim. 00:03:03.431 --> 00:03:05.077 When I got back to Ohio, 00:03:05.850 --> 00:03:08.853 I went exploring with my good friend, George. 00:03:09.104 --> 00:03:10.605 George Lockwood. 00:03:10.662 --> 00:03:12.497 He was exactly my age. 00:03:12.545 --> 00:03:14.515 We went out to the canal below my house 00:03:14.594 --> 00:03:16.730 and I went into the water and George followed me 00:03:16.857 --> 00:03:20.459 and afterward, I went home feeling very subdued 00:03:20.522 --> 00:03:21.962 and crawled into bed. 00:03:24.332 --> 00:03:26.565 When my mother woke me, it was very dark 00:03:27.256 --> 00:03:28.829 and she asked about George. 00:03:30.189 --> 00:03:32.673 Everybody was looking for him, half the town. 00:03:33.376 --> 00:03:36.909 Had lit lanterns, called his name looking everywhere. 00:03:37.821 --> 00:03:41.683 I told her I saw George's head disappear in the water 00:03:42.470 --> 00:03:44.564 and I waited for him a long time 00:03:45.204 --> 00:03:46.605 and I didn't know what to do. 00:03:49.339 --> 00:03:50.663 I was five years old. 00:03:53.328 --> 00:03:55.598 What made me think of that just now. 00:03:55.757 --> 00:03:56.825 Go home, Tom. 00:03:56.897 --> 00:03:57.731 Seriously. 00:03:58.623 --> 00:04:00.577 I aways assumed people can swim. 00:04:02.452 --> 00:04:05.483 Oh, Tesla, didn't see you there before. 00:04:08.459 --> 00:04:10.893 It is true you're from Transylvania? 00:04:14.171 --> 00:04:15.006 No. 00:04:16.606 --> 00:04:18.717 Have you ever eaten human flesh? 00:04:22.852 --> 00:04:23.968 Are you married? 00:04:27.602 --> 00:04:28.403 No. 00:04:30.121 --> 00:04:31.372 Why do you ask? 00:04:32.769 --> 00:04:35.172 We like to give the new men a hard time. 00:04:38.168 --> 00:04:39.668 I can swim. 00:04:39.915 --> 00:04:41.049 What's that? 00:04:42.599 --> 00:04:44.172 What you said before, 00:04:45.121 --> 00:04:46.588 I can swim. 00:04:46.668 --> 00:04:47.669 Can you? 00:04:47.703 --> 00:04:48.536 Well good. 00:04:50.198 --> 00:04:51.116 We'll see. 00:05:08.848 --> 00:05:10.887 Pity the poor immigrant, 00:05:10.993 --> 00:05:12.227 as the song goes. 00:05:14.053 --> 00:05:16.367 Tesla came to America with an open heart 00:05:17.423 --> 00:05:19.933 filled with expectation and hope. 00:05:40.441 --> 00:05:42.944 I told you about my brother. 00:05:44.929 --> 00:05:47.346 It was this time of year. 00:05:49.335 --> 00:05:50.610 I was seven, 00:05:51.357 --> 00:05:52.525 he was 12. 00:05:52.559 --> 00:05:54.537 He didn't die instantly when he was thrown 00:05:54.625 --> 00:05:55.807 from the horse. 00:05:55.919 --> 00:05:58.316 My mother woke me, 00:05:59.139 --> 00:06:00.563 brought me to the body, 00:06:01.309 --> 00:06:03.373 told me to kiss him on the lips. 00:06:04.132 --> 00:06:06.263 His very cold lips. 00:06:10.164 --> 00:06:11.966 He was the brilliant one. 00:06:13.617 --> 00:06:15.931 I could never measure up. 00:06:33.372 --> 00:06:34.793 Dear Szigeti, 00:06:37.449 --> 00:06:40.434 I'm finding my way at Edison's Machine Works, 00:06:41.153 --> 00:06:44.293 where there's always too much to do and not enough time, 00:06:44.412 --> 00:06:46.394 never enough money or men, 00:06:47.097 --> 00:06:51.404 constant fixes, upgrades, emergencies. 00:06:52.545 --> 00:06:56.176 Edison hardly sleeps and expects everyone around him 00:06:56.210 --> 00:06:57.703 to sleep even less. 00:06:59.843 --> 00:07:04.009 He talks to everyone, but is incapable of listening. 00:07:05.181 --> 00:07:07.555 He has no interest in my motor. 00:07:08.297 --> 00:07:12.935 You know the proverb, nothing grows in the shadow of an Oak. 00:07:20.551 --> 00:07:24.157 I had hoped that Edison and I would, 00:07:25.695 --> 00:07:27.178 I don't know, work together, 00:07:27.248 --> 00:07:30.800 that he would understand. 00:07:32.259 --> 00:07:33.093 Yes. 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:36.259 That we could be friends. 00:07:38.172 --> 00:07:40.808 Edison doesn't have time to comb his hair. 00:07:42.254 --> 00:07:43.521 It's more than that. 00:07:44.790 --> 00:07:46.518 There was a death in the family. 00:07:47.374 --> 00:07:49.138 Nobody talks about it. 00:07:49.228 --> 00:07:50.174 His wife, 00:07:52.333 --> 00:07:53.423 his wife died. 00:07:55.041 --> 00:07:56.381 When was this? 00:07:56.553 --> 00:07:57.507 Tuesday. 00:08:01.075 --> 00:08:04.665 Alternating current is a waste of time. 00:08:06.113 --> 00:08:08.324 Impractical and deadly. 00:08:10.017 --> 00:08:11.280 There's no future in it. 00:08:18.231 --> 00:08:19.749 $50,000. 00:08:21.796 --> 00:08:26.100 You think I owe you $50,000 honestly? 00:08:27.269 --> 00:08:28.103 Tesla, 00:08:29.086 --> 00:08:31.589 you don't understand the American sense of humor. 00:08:40.542 --> 00:08:43.645 This is pretty surely not how it happened 00:08:43.717 --> 00:08:45.303 but what can I tell you? 00:08:46.192 --> 00:08:49.641 If you Google Nikola Tesla you get 34 million results, 00:08:49.718 --> 00:08:51.552 but for images there are mostly just 00:08:51.625 --> 00:08:54.519 three our four photographs repeated over and over. 00:08:56.030 --> 00:08:56.962 They get flipped around. 00:08:57.020 --> 00:08:58.900 Some are colorized or photoshopped with lightning 00:08:58.961 --> 00:09:02.387 in the background but it's basically just four pictures. 00:09:03.142 --> 00:09:06.360 Beyond that, things get murky and more imaginative. 00:09:10.589 --> 00:09:14.593 He was born in 1856, far from the Gilded Age 00:09:14.682 --> 00:09:17.330 in Likas Milian, a small rural village 00:09:17.395 --> 00:09:19.264 in what's now Croatia. 00:09:19.353 --> 00:09:21.805 His father is an Orthodox Serbian priest, 00:09:22.536 --> 00:09:25.157 but he's closer with his mother, a brilliant woman 00:09:25.224 --> 00:09:27.126 who couldn't read or write. 00:09:27.161 --> 00:09:30.631 He's a precocious boy, a bit withdrawn, secretive 00:09:30.664 --> 00:09:32.953 with a gift for languages and mathematics. 00:09:33.028 --> 00:09:35.839 Defying his father, he studies engineering in Prague, 00:09:35.898 --> 00:09:37.063 but never graduates. 00:09:37.128 --> 00:09:39.898 In Budapest, coming out of a depression, 00:09:39.992 --> 00:09:43.796 walking in a park with a friend, he sees in a flash, 00:09:43.877 --> 00:09:45.825 in a vision the motor that will be 00:09:45.889 --> 00:09:47.969 his first revolutionary invention. 00:09:50.887 --> 00:09:53.160 Alternating current is a waste of time. 00:09:53.989 --> 00:09:55.418 Impractical and deadly. 00:09:56.263 --> 00:09:57.606 There's no future in it. 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:02.793 $50,000. 00:10:04.068 --> 00:10:06.346 You think I owe you $50,000? 00:10:07.271 --> 00:10:09.730 Tesla, you have no understanding 00:10:09.819 --> 00:10:11.575 of the American sense of humor. 00:10:20.404 --> 00:10:22.844 A man who says he doesn't care about money 00:10:23.003 --> 00:10:26.006 can find himself tormented by the lack of it. 00:10:26.659 --> 00:10:29.754 Whereas Edison, Edison values money 00:10:30.235 --> 00:10:32.538 but spends it faster than he makes it. 00:10:32.836 --> 00:10:34.905 But he's always making it 00:10:34.986 --> 00:10:36.643 in great quantities. 00:10:37.454 --> 00:10:41.258 Google Thomas Edison and you get over 64 million results. 00:10:42.308 --> 00:10:44.001 Twice as many as Tesla. 00:10:44.756 --> 00:10:47.544 Edison's one of the most famous, most successful men 00:10:47.610 --> 00:10:48.686 of his time. 00:10:49.430 --> 00:10:51.195 But some facts slip out of sight. 00:10:52.092 --> 00:10:54.328 Tesla went to work for Edison the same year, 00:10:54.534 --> 00:10:57.458 the same summer that Mary Edison died. 00:10:58.083 --> 00:11:01.152 Congestion of the brain was the official report, 00:11:01.255 --> 00:11:03.285 code for a Morphine overdose. 00:11:03.351 --> 00:11:05.855 She was 15 when they met in the rain 00:11:05.904 --> 00:11:08.107 outside Edison's new workshop, 00:11:08.148 --> 00:11:11.685 16 when they married, 25 when she died, 00:11:11.742 --> 00:11:14.275 leaving Edison with three young children 00:11:14.346 --> 00:11:15.895 and a lot on his mind. 00:11:22.906 --> 00:11:26.443 This, you might think, is where Tesla's luck turns. 00:11:26.507 --> 00:11:29.653 He finds investors and sets up the Tesla Lighting Company, 00:11:29.713 --> 00:11:32.895 but his partners swindle him, leaving him penniless. 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:38.269 He falls into the abyss of poverty, 00:11:38.852 --> 00:11:41.982 becomes a ditch digger digging trenches for cables, 00:11:42.291 --> 00:11:44.076 phone lines for Western Union. 00:11:50.553 --> 00:11:53.438 After a humiliating year, a sympathetic foreman 00:11:53.472 --> 00:11:57.187 introduces him to Alfred S. Brown and Charles F. Peck. 00:12:00.477 --> 00:12:04.084 They key is the motor rotates by virtue of induction 00:12:04.147 --> 00:12:06.492 of rotating magnetic fields. 00:12:06.544 --> 00:12:08.627 I've eliminated the commutator which distributes 00:12:08.685 --> 00:12:10.153 electricity to the rotor. 00:12:10.257 --> 00:12:13.004 So you've eliminated the need for the commutator 00:12:13.078 --> 00:12:14.413 and brushes the sparks. 00:12:14.495 --> 00:12:15.369 Amazing. 00:12:15.424 --> 00:12:16.716 There are no sparks. 00:12:16.763 --> 00:12:17.578 Is that so bad? 00:12:17.633 --> 00:12:19.083 They're just unnecessary. 00:12:19.117 --> 00:12:21.116 The magnetic field redirects the current. 00:12:21.163 --> 00:12:22.102 May I? 00:12:22.863 --> 00:12:26.033 The work you did for Edison, what was it? 00:12:26.096 --> 00:12:29.099 I redesigned 24 different dynamos, 00:12:29.196 --> 00:12:30.684 standard machines, 00:12:32.218 --> 00:12:34.688 replaced longer magnets with short coils, 00:12:34.816 --> 00:12:35.943 replaced older models. 00:12:36.027 --> 00:12:38.697 I couldn't interest him in alternating current, 00:12:38.786 --> 00:12:39.446 but of course you know... 00:12:39.501 --> 00:12:40.923 I know, I'm an electrician. 00:12:40.986 --> 00:12:41.527 But he... 00:12:41.582 --> 00:12:43.001 The lawyer, the sensible one. 00:12:43.060 --> 00:12:44.235 He understands... 00:12:44.287 --> 00:12:46.545 This is more than just a motor. 00:12:47.135 --> 00:12:49.355 It is entire system 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.434 for generating, transmitting, and utilizing power. 00:12:54.564 --> 00:12:58.397 You were making $15 a week with Edison, correct? 00:12:59.669 --> 00:13:00.171 We checked. 00:13:00.233 --> 00:13:01.900 Edison hires the best, 00:13:01.962 --> 00:13:04.611 but he practically makes them pay for the privilege. 00:13:04.645 --> 00:13:05.853 We have capital. 00:13:05.939 --> 00:13:09.838 $50,000 for an Annual sinking fund 00:13:09.906 --> 00:13:11.311 and alternating current... 00:13:11.357 --> 00:13:12.619 I don't care if it's dangerous. 00:13:12.653 --> 00:13:13.556 It isn't. 00:13:13.622 --> 00:13:14.348 Edison says... 00:13:14.418 --> 00:13:17.524 Fire is dangerous if you stick your hand in it. 00:13:17.558 --> 00:13:19.226 We'll set you up with a lab 00:13:19.259 --> 00:13:20.458 and a salary. 00:13:21.474 --> 00:13:23.610 $250 a month. 00:13:25.392 --> 00:13:28.328 It's better than you were expecting, is it? 00:13:54.661 --> 00:13:58.013 I understand your mother is not very impressed with me. 00:14:01.268 --> 00:14:05.764 Edison met his second wife, Mina Miller, in 1885. 00:14:07.474 --> 00:14:12.799 My mother regards our earthly existence as insignificant. 00:14:14.090 --> 00:14:15.258 Her father had made a fortune 00:14:15.315 --> 00:14:17.517 by inventing a popular lawnmower, 00:14:17.605 --> 00:14:18.830 the Buckeye Reaper. 00:14:19.689 --> 00:14:21.982 The youngest of seven children, she was engaged 00:14:22.061 --> 00:14:23.862 to marry a preacher's son. 00:14:25.865 --> 00:14:28.161 She says when you leave this life, 00:14:28.512 --> 00:14:31.739 you enter into a brighter and happier life, 00:14:32.466 --> 00:14:33.693 one that never ends. 00:14:42.049 --> 00:14:43.917 You know what my mother said to me? 00:14:50.223 --> 00:14:52.915 Never eat anything bigger than your head. 00:15:00.427 --> 00:15:03.237 I am going to ask your father 00:15:04.832 --> 00:15:06.414 if I can 00:15:10.033 --> 00:15:12.215 teach you morse code. 00:15:14.341 --> 00:15:16.286 So we can talk without talking. 00:15:21.876 --> 00:15:23.943 Instead of a single coil, 00:15:24.251 --> 00:15:25.787 we use four. 00:15:25.893 --> 00:15:29.440 Four coils around a laminated ring. 00:15:29.525 --> 00:15:34.786 Two separate AC currents feed into the paired coils 00:15:34.863 --> 00:15:36.647 on opposite sides. 00:15:36.743 --> 00:15:38.938 The currents are out of phase. 00:15:39.012 --> 00:15:43.062 This creates the rotating electrical field. 00:15:45.776 --> 00:15:46.932 No sparks. 00:15:49.281 --> 00:15:51.552 I was with him in Budapest 00:15:51.586 --> 00:15:53.654 when he had the idea. 00:15:54.066 --> 00:15:57.952 He saw it in his head and then 00:15:58.047 --> 00:15:59.813 he draw it in the dirt. 00:16:01.856 --> 00:16:03.290 I did. 00:16:03.323 --> 00:16:04.992 That was five years ago. 00:16:07.453 --> 00:16:08.821 And here we are now. 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:18.005 New Orleans, St. Paul, Chicago, Philadelphia, Brooklyn. 00:16:18.261 --> 00:16:23.903 Edison has 121 power stations in the U.S. 00:16:24.398 --> 00:16:30.340 Plus Berlin and Milan, Paris, Bordeaux, Amsterdam, Munich. 00:16:31.188 --> 00:16:32.318 Everywhere. 00:16:32.352 --> 00:16:35.912 When we get this across, it's going to rewrite the book. 00:16:35.972 --> 00:16:38.291 It's going to knock him sideways. 00:16:43.363 --> 00:16:45.199 What is this can? 00:16:45.233 --> 00:16:46.505 It's a prototype. 00:16:47.452 --> 00:16:49.475 You expect me to invest in a spinning tin can 00:16:49.534 --> 00:16:50.547 of shoe polish? 00:16:50.602 --> 00:16:51.839 I do. 00:16:51.922 --> 00:16:53.207 That motor 00:16:53.287 --> 00:16:55.502 will do the work of the world. 00:16:58.376 --> 00:16:59.843 It'll set men free. 00:17:40.812 --> 00:17:42.146 It's perfect. 00:17:42.266 --> 00:17:43.607 I congratulate you. 00:17:44.896 --> 00:17:46.765 Its efficiency without question is equal 00:17:46.861 --> 00:17:48.562 to the best direct current motor. 00:17:48.595 --> 00:17:52.900 In terms of voltage potentials, it can have no match. 00:17:53.017 --> 00:17:54.568 The best machine is the one with 00:17:54.601 --> 00:17:56.525 the fewest parts. 00:17:57.499 --> 00:17:59.444 It's the solution everyone's been searching for. 00:17:59.491 --> 00:18:00.975 Where have you been hiding? 00:18:01.008 --> 00:18:02.077 What do you mean? 00:18:02.144 --> 00:18:04.412 You're not a member of the AIEE. 00:18:04.477 --> 00:18:05.440 American Institute of... 00:18:05.494 --> 00:18:07.081 Or the National Electric Light Association 00:18:07.114 --> 00:18:09.317 or the Electric Club of New York. 00:18:09.424 --> 00:18:11.885 Your endorsement means a great deal to us. 00:18:12.049 --> 00:18:13.839 To all of us, Professor. 00:18:14.020 --> 00:18:17.824 Mr. Tesla has been keeping a low profile. 00:18:17.899 --> 00:18:18.844 That will change. 00:18:18.887 --> 00:18:19.854 I can tell ya, 00:18:20.999 --> 00:18:23.935 the patent office will not accept the application. 00:18:24.165 --> 00:18:25.398 What do you mean? 00:18:25.724 --> 00:18:26.923 You think you can jam all you've done 00:18:26.982 --> 00:18:29.151 into a single omnibus patent? 00:18:29.302 --> 00:18:30.682 You'll have to break it up 00:18:30.758 --> 00:18:32.913 into half a dozen separate inventions. 00:18:36.043 --> 00:18:38.012 Well that's how I see it. 00:18:38.086 --> 00:18:40.279 We're at a turning point in the history of human engin... 00:18:40.358 --> 00:18:41.260 Sorry I'm late. 00:18:41.349 --> 00:18:43.240 Ah, Evelyn. 00:18:45.585 --> 00:18:46.419 This is 00:18:47.527 --> 00:18:48.739 Mr. Tesla, 00:18:50.123 --> 00:18:54.120 Mr. Peck, and Mr. Brown, his business partners and Mr... 00:18:54.210 --> 00:18:55.759 Antoni Szigeti. 00:18:55.804 --> 00:18:57.085 Tesla's assistant. 00:18:58.691 --> 00:19:00.971 My niece Evelyn and? 00:19:01.064 --> 00:19:01.898 Anne. 00:19:03.932 --> 00:19:06.537 Excuse me, I'm a creature of habit. 00:19:07.668 --> 00:19:08.642 Sit down. 00:19:08.788 --> 00:19:10.311 Look at Mr. Tesla's motor. 00:19:10.344 --> 00:19:11.946 It's gonna make him very famous. 00:19:15.636 --> 00:19:17.939 Well in that case, we can split my sandwich. 00:19:27.169 --> 00:19:28.405 Do you like snow? 00:19:28.562 --> 00:19:30.163 Looks like we're gonna get a lot more of it. 00:19:32.532 --> 00:19:33.814 Go ahead, show 'em. 00:19:33.905 --> 00:19:35.523 He's eliminated the commutator and the sparks 00:19:35.590 --> 00:19:37.192 to go with it. 00:19:37.305 --> 00:19:40.074 My uncle likes machines more than people. 00:19:40.180 --> 00:19:41.108 Do I? 00:19:41.223 --> 00:19:42.310 Possibly. 00:19:42.833 --> 00:19:45.274 Machines is an extension of people, 00:19:45.364 --> 00:19:47.198 not as the opposite of people. 00:19:51.919 --> 00:19:53.087 Nothing touches. 00:19:53.176 --> 00:19:53.921 That's right. 00:19:53.955 --> 00:19:55.168 No sparks. 00:19:58.525 --> 00:20:00.527 The new machines have something extra. 00:20:01.538 --> 00:20:03.103 When my cousin died, I started to feel 00:20:03.195 --> 00:20:05.431 she was with me when I turned on the light. 00:20:05.511 --> 00:20:06.521 Electric light. 00:20:07.734 --> 00:20:09.669 It was as though there was something in the current 00:20:09.703 --> 00:20:11.269 and the light in the air that 00:20:12.840 --> 00:20:14.150 allowed her to linger. 00:20:41.202 --> 00:20:44.280 I now have the pleasure of introducing you 00:20:44.360 --> 00:20:47.130 to a novel system of electrical transformation 00:20:47.241 --> 00:20:49.762 and distribution of energy 00:20:49.822 --> 00:20:52.077 by means of alternate currents. 00:20:57.218 --> 00:20:59.432 My notice was rather brief, 00:21:00.220 --> 00:21:02.943 so I would be very much gratified if the little work 00:21:03.003 --> 00:21:06.299 I've done meets with your approval. 00:21:17.917 --> 00:21:19.496 The importance of maintaining the intensity 00:21:19.572 --> 00:21:21.627 of the all constant 00:21:21.697 --> 00:21:24.406 is that if this can be produced, we can utilize 00:21:24.453 --> 00:21:26.414 instead of the sub-divider armature 00:21:26.447 --> 00:21:28.215 an ordinary still pock. 00:21:28.249 --> 00:21:29.283 Get me out of here. 00:21:36.719 --> 00:21:38.392 Westinghouse. 00:21:38.426 --> 00:21:39.740 George Westinghouse. 00:21:40.732 --> 00:21:42.700 He wants the motor, of course. 00:21:42.797 --> 00:21:45.749 We are telling him that another party is involved, 00:21:45.802 --> 00:21:49.339 a San Francisco capitalist offering $200,000. 00:21:49.403 --> 00:21:54.083 Plus $2.50 per house power, royalty 00:21:54.134 --> 00:21:56.883 for each motor reinstalled. 00:21:57.008 --> 00:21:58.078 That is strategy. 00:21:58.112 --> 00:21:59.017 Employ it. 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:00.915 You can go along with this, can't you? 00:22:02.749 --> 00:22:04.318 There's nobody else, really. 00:22:04.396 --> 00:22:06.186 Westinghouse is the only one who has the cash. 00:22:06.241 --> 00:22:08.355 The cash and the guts. 00:22:09.128 --> 00:22:10.723 George Westinghouse was 16 00:22:10.758 --> 00:22:13.094 when he enlisted in the Civil War. 00:22:13.208 --> 00:22:15.362 Served in the Navy on the northern side 00:22:15.396 --> 00:22:17.630 and was promoted to Corporal. 00:22:18.117 --> 00:22:21.368 When he was 21, he invented the air break for trains 00:22:21.402 --> 00:22:24.577 and made a fortune because all the railroads needed it. 00:22:24.704 --> 00:22:26.964 He was an inventor and businessman, 00:22:27.035 --> 00:22:28.209 a rare mix. 00:22:28.296 --> 00:22:30.544 Doesn't mind buying other people's patents, 00:22:30.578 --> 00:22:32.313 working them in to bigger schemes. 00:22:32.621 --> 00:22:34.614 He hates self-promotion. 00:22:34.647 --> 00:22:37.918 Google him and you get just five million results. 00:22:38.509 --> 00:22:40.373 He met his wife, Marguerite, on a train. 00:22:45.722 --> 00:22:47.490 Westinghouse buy Tesla's patents 00:22:47.595 --> 00:22:50.231 for over a million dollars in today's money 00:22:50.264 --> 00:22:52.099 and enlists Tesla to come to his home base 00:22:52.187 --> 00:22:53.509 to oversee production. 00:22:58.705 --> 00:23:00.979 Royalties for every motor sold assure Tesla 00:23:01.060 --> 00:23:04.578 more millions, an accumulating fortune in years to come. 00:23:05.853 --> 00:23:06.687 Ah. 00:23:08.282 --> 00:23:10.918 You know this man, Brown? 00:23:11.317 --> 00:23:12.452 Works for Edison? 00:23:13.454 --> 00:23:15.209 Harold P. Brown? 00:23:16.409 --> 00:23:19.253 I know an Alfred S. Brown, an associate. 00:23:20.294 --> 00:23:23.164 Sure, Brown's a pretty common American name. 00:23:23.244 --> 00:23:25.813 Brown and Green, two color names. 00:23:26.699 --> 00:23:29.203 I knew an Orange once, James. 00:23:29.298 --> 00:23:31.738 But he pronounced it Oranje. 00:23:31.772 --> 00:23:36.159 Anyway, Harold P. Brown has bought some of our machines 00:23:36.247 --> 00:23:39.784 on the sly and has Westinghouse, that's what he calls it, 00:23:40.261 --> 00:23:43.583 24 dogs purchased from children 00:23:43.620 --> 00:23:45.541 for 25 cents each. 00:23:46.554 --> 00:23:48.298 What I'm does, and I'm sure you've heard, 00:23:48.334 --> 00:23:50.699 in the name of science is he zaps the dog 00:23:50.793 --> 00:23:53.594 with 14 hundred volts of direct current. 00:23:54.117 --> 00:23:57.688 Without fatal results and then kills the same dog 00:23:57.735 --> 00:24:02.203 with 400 to 800 of Westinghouse current. 00:24:10.931 --> 00:24:13.699 Sorry about the noise. 00:24:13.866 --> 00:24:14.910 And the heat. 00:24:16.884 --> 00:24:19.165 Pittsburgh has its charms but 00:24:19.354 --> 00:24:20.550 they can seem... 00:24:30.970 --> 00:24:32.904 Brown's challenged me 00:24:32.966 --> 00:24:35.947 to a duel. 00:24:37.489 --> 00:24:40.824 He wants me to bring a machine and go to New York 00:24:40.902 --> 00:24:44.277 and expose myself to electric shocks, 00:24:44.311 --> 00:24:46.376 alternating current, of course 00:24:46.439 --> 00:24:49.683 while he receives direct current. 00:24:49.781 --> 00:24:53.420 We shall commence with 100 volts 00:24:53.568 --> 00:24:57.734 and then increase by 50 volts until one or the other 00:24:57.804 --> 00:25:00.894 publicly admits his error. 00:25:03.503 --> 00:25:04.513 I'll do it. 00:25:05.908 --> 00:25:08.455 Well that's very kind of you, but even if I 00:25:08.518 --> 00:25:12.505 or you submitted to such an imbecilic adventure, 00:25:12.630 --> 00:25:15.784 they're still gearing up to execute Kemmler. 00:25:16.777 --> 00:25:18.078 Kemmler? 00:25:18.151 --> 00:25:19.530 The ax murderer. 00:25:20.009 --> 00:25:20.785 Now, to be fair, 00:25:20.819 --> 00:25:23.594 he used a hatchet. 00:25:26.084 --> 00:25:27.182 I had to do it. 00:25:28.517 --> 00:25:30.424 I wanted to kill her and the sooner I hang, 00:25:30.527 --> 00:25:31.665 the better it'll be. 00:25:33.521 --> 00:25:36.942 Instead of hanging, there's a move to electrocute 00:25:37.028 --> 00:25:40.357 and our friend, Edison, is going to testify 00:25:40.435 --> 00:25:42.369 suggesting they put an end to Kemmler 00:25:42.403 --> 00:25:45.230 using a Westinghouse machine. 00:25:47.800 --> 00:25:49.402 He's running scared. 00:25:50.930 --> 00:25:52.098 Garcal? 00:25:52.147 --> 00:25:53.022 Lemonade. 00:25:54.365 --> 00:25:55.518 You want a lemonade? 00:25:56.460 --> 00:25:57.928 No, thank you. 00:26:00.442 --> 00:26:02.958 AC versus DC. 00:26:03.018 --> 00:26:04.946 People think it's a difference of opinion 00:26:05.016 --> 00:26:06.627 but we know better. 00:26:06.765 --> 00:26:09.229 You know I reached out to Edison. 00:26:09.325 --> 00:26:11.948 Invited him here, suggested a merger. 00:26:13.072 --> 00:26:14.931 He's too busy, he wrote back. 00:26:16.385 --> 00:26:19.634 "Working in my lab consumes all my time." 00:26:30.063 --> 00:26:31.321 It's war. 00:26:52.983 --> 00:26:53.884 Your name? 00:26:55.132 --> 00:26:57.541 Thomas Alva Edison. 00:26:57.614 --> 00:26:59.756 And what is your calling or profession? 00:26:59.834 --> 00:27:00.882 Inventor. 00:27:00.941 --> 00:27:02.911 Have you devoted a great deal of time 00:27:03.031 --> 00:27:04.566 to the subject of electricity? 00:27:05.648 --> 00:27:07.843 Yes, of course. 00:27:07.919 --> 00:27:08.819 All right. 00:27:08.873 --> 00:27:11.206 And how long have you engaged in your work 00:27:11.260 --> 00:27:14.373 as inventor or electrician? 00:27:14.457 --> 00:27:15.793 26 years. 00:27:15.969 --> 00:27:17.689 Now, can you tell us... 00:27:17.751 --> 00:27:19.233 can you state 00:27:19.333 --> 00:27:21.435 the necessary strength of current needed in order 00:27:21.468 --> 00:27:24.905 to produce death in all cases? 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:27.223 Well I'm opposed to capital punishment. 00:27:28.267 --> 00:27:30.010 The question did not arise 00:27:30.113 --> 00:27:33.115 do we as individuals believe in capital punishment. 00:27:33.795 --> 00:27:36.966 The practice has been in existence by law 00:27:37.137 --> 00:27:39.386 in all ages in all nations 00:27:39.490 --> 00:27:42.051 and probably will for all of time to come. 00:27:44.003 --> 00:27:47.294 Now, Mr. Edison, explain the difference between 00:27:47.460 --> 00:27:49.329 continuous or direct current 00:27:49.363 --> 00:27:50.679 and alternating current. 00:27:50.768 --> 00:27:54.080 Direct current flows like water through a pipe. 00:27:54.942 --> 00:27:58.571 Alternating current is the same as if a body of water 00:27:58.605 --> 00:28:02.337 were allowed to flow through a pipe in one direction 00:28:02.399 --> 00:28:06.125 for a given amount of time and then reversed 00:28:06.187 --> 00:28:07.780 for a given amount of time. 00:28:07.850 --> 00:28:09.950 Direct current is like a river flowing peacefully 00:28:09.983 --> 00:28:11.185 to the sea. 00:28:11.218 --> 00:28:13.899 Alternating current is like a current 00:28:13.995 --> 00:28:16.263 rushing violently over a precipice. 00:28:18.866 --> 00:28:20.327 Now have you measured 00:28:20.360 --> 00:28:22.422 the electrical resistance of human beings? 00:28:22.456 --> 00:28:23.964 Yes, I have. 00:28:24.108 --> 00:28:26.133 Can an artificial current be generated 00:28:26.231 --> 00:28:29.111 and applied in such a manner as to produce death 00:28:29.174 --> 00:28:31.171 in human beings in every case? 00:28:31.273 --> 00:28:32.172 Yes. 00:28:32.307 --> 00:28:33.575 Instantly? 00:28:35.956 --> 00:28:37.157 Instantly? 00:28:39.651 --> 00:28:40.485 Yes. 00:28:49.545 --> 00:28:50.390 Thank you. 00:28:50.517 --> 00:28:51.677 Mr. Cochran. 00:28:53.526 --> 00:28:55.941 I'm concerned, Mr. Edison, that different men 00:28:56.000 --> 00:28:59.543 in your experiments demonstrate at different resistance. 00:29:00.393 --> 00:29:01.062 What would the effect be... 00:29:01.096 --> 00:29:02.269 Excuse me, I'm sorry. 00:29:02.340 --> 00:29:04.238 I can't hear you, you'll have to speak up. 00:29:05.242 --> 00:29:08.480 I'm worried that the current will have unforeseen effect. 00:29:08.969 --> 00:29:11.105 Now what would the effect be on Kemmler 00:29:11.159 --> 00:29:14.481 if we were to apply the current for five or six minutes? 00:29:14.553 --> 00:29:15.941 Now, wait a minute. 00:29:17.292 --> 00:29:18.590 What your saying... 00:29:18.644 --> 00:29:19.787 If we applied the current 00:29:19.821 --> 00:29:22.227 for five or six minutes, what will happen to Kemmler, 00:29:22.271 --> 00:29:23.784 will he not be carbonized? 00:29:25.017 --> 00:29:26.815 No, he'd be mummified. 00:29:27.565 --> 00:29:30.060 All the moisture in his body would evaporate. 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:31.754 But that's the hardly point. 00:29:31.809 --> 00:29:32.403 Mr. Edison... 00:29:32.466 --> 00:29:35.269 Just 1,000 volts of one amp current 00:29:35.302 --> 00:29:37.777 is 10 times as much as you need to kill any man 00:29:37.832 --> 00:29:40.507 with the Westinghouse alternator. 00:29:41.022 --> 00:29:44.645 Westinghouse uses 2,000 more volts. 00:29:52.188 --> 00:29:55.990 Suppose a man touches a wire in a wet place, well 00:29:56.140 --> 00:29:57.433 that's a dead man. 00:30:00.484 --> 00:30:01.763 This is your belief. 00:30:01.878 --> 00:30:03.530 What's that? 00:30:03.665 --> 00:30:05.732 This is your belief, correct? 00:30:05.857 --> 00:30:07.668 This is not based on knowledge? 00:30:07.802 --> 00:30:08.843 Oh, correct. 00:30:09.797 --> 00:30:11.261 I never killed anybody. 00:30:24.685 --> 00:30:26.154 Your friends from school? 00:30:26.721 --> 00:30:30.006 Colleagues in Budapest eight years ago. 00:30:30.859 --> 00:30:32.426 Friends, yes. 00:30:32.459 --> 00:30:34.494 And then Paris. 00:30:34.613 --> 00:30:36.351 He's an inventor as well. 00:30:38.098 --> 00:30:43.071 But I seem to have a gift for helping other inventors. 00:30:46.273 --> 00:30:47.866 You remind me of my cat. 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:52.487 If I were to interview my cat, 00:30:52.573 --> 00:30:54.330 I feel I'd have to prepare in advance 00:30:54.364 --> 00:30:56.467 to ask him really interesting questions. 00:31:02.322 --> 00:31:04.184 Where are you from? 00:31:04.235 --> 00:31:06.308 He's from a small village 00:31:06.352 --> 00:31:07.988 in the Austrian Empire. 00:31:08.656 --> 00:31:10.297 Humble beginnings. 00:31:10.478 --> 00:31:11.857 Like Abraham Lincoln. 00:31:12.730 --> 00:31:14.452 He has many fond memory. 00:31:16.473 --> 00:31:17.307 Yes. 00:31:19.073 --> 00:31:20.008 I remember 00:31:20.673 --> 00:31:22.509 when I was 17, summertime, 00:31:22.542 --> 00:31:24.478 I lived in the country. 00:31:24.612 --> 00:31:26.881 There was a Cholera epidemic. 00:31:26.983 --> 00:31:31.052 They burned trees in the streets to ward away evil spirits 00:31:31.186 --> 00:31:34.226 and drank infected water, died like dogs. 00:31:41.395 --> 00:31:45.529 I just realized Mr. Tesla and Mr.? 00:31:45.607 --> 00:31:46.342 Szigeti. 00:31:46.390 --> 00:31:46.959 Yes. 00:31:46.993 --> 00:31:49.903 Just realized how late it is and somebody's father 00:31:49.937 --> 00:31:52.205 expects her home on the hour. 00:31:52.371 --> 00:31:53.338 He doesn't care. 00:31:58.169 --> 00:32:00.171 You know who my father is of course? 00:32:02.599 --> 00:32:03.433 Yes. 00:32:04.661 --> 00:32:07.362 Do you consider my father a malignant force in the world? 00:32:09.562 --> 00:32:11.525 A person who amasses a fortune like a pirate 00:32:11.589 --> 00:32:12.638 or a gangster? 00:32:14.620 --> 00:32:18.132 Who acquires power by exploiting workers, and resources, 00:32:18.235 --> 00:32:21.268 and rigging markets, and manipulating economies, 00:32:21.367 --> 00:32:22.031 and so forth? 00:32:22.093 --> 00:32:24.804 Or is he a captain of industry? 00:32:24.890 --> 00:32:26.941 Are his actions positive? 00:32:27.090 --> 00:32:30.945 Does he in fact expand markets, and provide more jobs, 00:32:31.072 --> 00:32:34.341 and give vast sums of money to those less fortunate? 00:32:35.682 --> 00:32:38.620 This young lady's in my care and I must get her home. 00:32:44.954 --> 00:32:45.754 Til soon, 00:32:46.832 --> 00:32:47.930 Mr. Tesla. 00:32:52.667 --> 00:32:54.828 Yes, we may see you again soon. 00:32:56.705 --> 00:32:57.637 Or sooner. 00:32:57.765 --> 00:32:58.824 You never can tell. 00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:20.384 Anne Morgan, 00:33:21.387 --> 00:33:23.919 daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan. 00:33:25.529 --> 00:33:28.534 My father preferred to be called Pierpont. 00:33:28.690 --> 00:33:30.337 Pierpont Morgan. 00:33:30.453 --> 00:33:32.260 At that time and for decades to come, 00:33:32.323 --> 00:33:34.741 one of the wealthiest men in the world. 00:33:34.870 --> 00:33:36.177 He was born rich, 00:33:36.295 --> 00:33:38.745 entered the family banking business early on. 00:33:38.867 --> 00:33:41.314 In 1861 when he was 24, 00:33:41.442 --> 00:33:44.157 he married his first wife, Amelia Sturges. 00:33:44.859 --> 00:33:46.787 He took her to Europe after they were married, 00:33:46.841 --> 00:33:48.956 she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis and died 00:33:48.990 --> 00:33:50.624 four months later. 00:33:50.742 --> 00:33:51.768 He was shattered. 00:33:53.005 --> 00:33:56.226 He buried himself in work, banking, finance, 00:33:56.296 --> 00:33:59.033 buying and trading companies and corporations. 00:33:59.508 --> 00:34:03.284 I don't think he ever asked who strokes the cat's back. 00:34:04.664 --> 00:34:07.837 He married Frances Louisa Tracy and had four children. 00:34:08.601 --> 00:34:09.754 I'm the youngest. 00:34:16.608 --> 00:34:19.232 He hired Thomas Edison to install electricity 00:34:19.310 --> 00:34:21.756 in our Madison Avenue mansion, 00:34:22.243 --> 00:34:23.791 the first private residence in New York 00:34:23.871 --> 00:34:25.773 illuminated by Edison's light. 00:34:26.794 --> 00:34:28.495 While Tesla was refining his designs 00:34:28.582 --> 00:34:30.359 for the perfect induction motor, 00:34:31.399 --> 00:34:32.973 my father was pouring millions 00:34:33.035 --> 00:34:35.426 into the Edison General Electric Company. 00:34:40.274 --> 00:34:41.309 Hmm. 00:34:41.473 --> 00:34:43.042 A woman like that, 00:34:43.922 --> 00:34:45.980 she can make all 00:34:46.123 --> 00:34:47.494 your dreams 00:34:47.528 --> 00:34:48.633 come true. 00:34:52.418 --> 00:34:53.860 Well my dreams are true. 00:34:55.786 --> 00:34:56.620 Yeah. 00:34:57.755 --> 00:34:59.769 But you lack funding. 00:35:05.940 --> 00:35:06.993 I will 00:35:07.479 --> 00:35:09.252 delight in working of the 00:35:11.176 --> 00:35:13.679 nerve to show. 00:35:22.422 --> 00:35:24.718 It's a compass 00:35:24.955 --> 00:35:27.024 for steering ships at sea. 00:35:36.725 --> 00:35:37.606 It's good. 00:35:41.227 --> 00:35:42.588 Yes, it's very good. 00:35:45.283 --> 00:35:46.184 But, 00:35:49.235 --> 00:35:51.498 Sir William Thompson's done it already. 00:35:54.849 --> 00:35:56.562 Lord Calvin. 00:35:57.173 --> 00:36:00.453 if you want, I can show you the journal. 00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:04.735 Well, 00:36:08.037 --> 00:36:09.638 I should have showed you sooner. 00:36:11.534 --> 00:36:12.368 Yes. 00:36:35.502 --> 00:36:38.113 Ah yes, well good luck with 00:36:39.204 --> 00:36:40.528 Anne Morgan. 00:37:04.799 --> 00:37:05.633 Gentlemen, 00:37:07.651 --> 00:37:09.554 this is William Kemmler. 00:37:16.811 --> 00:37:18.266 I wish you all good luck. 00:37:21.619 --> 00:37:26.039 I believe I am going to a good place and 00:37:26.237 --> 00:37:27.497 I am ready to go. 00:37:52.485 --> 00:37:54.135 And there's no rush. 00:37:54.354 --> 00:37:55.896 Let's get this right. 00:37:56.350 --> 00:37:58.385 I don't wanna take any chances on this thing. 00:37:59.013 --> 00:37:59.812 You know? 00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:11.115 Anne is very upset. 00:38:13.767 --> 00:38:16.323 She says you live in your head. 00:38:16.505 --> 00:38:17.691 Doesn't everyone? 00:38:19.529 --> 00:38:23.739 Too much in your head, I think she feels left out. 00:38:27.520 --> 00:38:30.556 Sometimes it seems as though all I do is think. 00:38:30.683 --> 00:38:32.478 For days or weeks on end. 00:38:34.741 --> 00:38:35.675 Have you seen this? 00:38:35.841 --> 00:38:36.677 Late edition? 00:38:37.610 --> 00:38:39.914 They made a thorough botch of it. 00:38:40.087 --> 00:38:40.921 Gruesome. 00:38:42.325 --> 00:38:44.094 Like my brain's burning. 00:38:45.447 --> 00:38:46.909 Who could live with that? 00:38:52.003 --> 00:38:54.609 When I thought to sleep out all my faults, 00:38:54.701 --> 00:38:58.205 I found that some had stuffed the bed with thoughts. 00:38:59.147 --> 00:39:01.268 I would say thorns. 00:39:01.489 --> 00:39:03.512 With a click of the lever, Kemmler's body 00:39:03.551 --> 00:39:06.151 straightened and seemed as though it might be thrown across 00:39:06.236 --> 00:39:09.350 the chamber, were it not for the straps which held it. 00:39:09.429 --> 00:39:11.032 What is that? 00:39:11.495 --> 00:39:12.980 Post. 00:39:13.195 --> 00:39:16.110 The body was as rigid as though cast and bronze, 00:39:16.157 --> 00:39:18.752 save for the index finger of the right hand, 00:39:18.846 --> 00:39:21.266 which closed up so tightly that the nail penetrated 00:39:21.328 --> 00:39:24.344 the flesh on the first joint and blood trickled out 00:39:24.378 --> 00:39:25.792 on the arm of the chair. 00:39:31.763 --> 00:39:33.814 There were two or three doctors with stopwatches, 00:39:33.889 --> 00:39:35.631 they saw Kemmler still breathing. 00:39:42.024 --> 00:39:43.025 He wasn't dead. 00:39:45.656 --> 00:39:47.481 They got the machine started up again, 00:39:47.648 --> 00:39:49.583 gave him another thousand volts. 00:39:50.958 --> 00:39:51.824 Well that did it. 00:39:54.013 --> 00:39:55.714 What was Kemmler convicted for? 00:39:58.682 --> 00:39:59.905 Killed his wife. 00:39:59.984 --> 00:40:01.095 Was Edison there? 00:40:01.688 --> 00:40:02.890 He's in Paris. 00:40:03.025 --> 00:40:04.460 Seven of his company as they're merging 00:40:04.494 --> 00:40:07.458 with international outlets, backed by Deutsche Bank. 00:40:16.917 --> 00:40:18.912 And Drexel Morgan Company. 00:40:19.323 --> 00:40:20.571 Morgan. 00:40:29.703 --> 00:40:30.925 Blame the doctors. 00:40:31.004 --> 00:40:32.904 They applied the current to the top of his head. 00:40:32.951 --> 00:40:34.244 Hair is not conductive. 00:40:34.298 --> 00:40:37.298 They should put his hand in a jar of water. 00:40:37.401 --> 00:40:38.936 They'll get it right next time. 00:41:04.117 --> 00:41:05.877 You're indulging me 00:41:05.951 --> 00:41:07.352 because of my father. 00:41:07.998 --> 00:41:09.008 No. 00:41:12.116 --> 00:41:13.417 I came to wonder, 00:41:14.642 --> 00:41:17.005 could any woman ever reach 00:41:17.115 --> 00:41:19.573 or touch Tesla? 00:41:19.755 --> 00:41:21.157 The way his mother had? 00:41:24.850 --> 00:41:27.781 He had a vision just before she died. 00:41:27.923 --> 00:41:31.752 Easter Sunday at one a.m., 1892. 00:41:31.901 --> 00:41:34.188 After her funeral, he fell ill 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:36.519 and spent three weeks living like a shadow in the village 00:41:36.589 --> 00:41:37.758 where she was born. 00:41:38.617 --> 00:41:42.229 Then he rebounded, gave a lecture in Belgrade 00:41:42.333 --> 00:41:43.368 and came home. 00:41:44.415 --> 00:41:45.478 No. 00:41:48.749 --> 00:41:51.483 You think of people as machines, but you're wrong. 00:41:51.936 --> 00:41:52.960 - They aren't. - I said 00:41:52.994 --> 00:41:54.842 the universe is a machine. 00:41:54.912 --> 00:41:55.909 No. 00:41:56.098 --> 00:41:58.564 We have an outside and an inside. 00:41:58.670 --> 00:42:00.773 We have wills and souls. 00:42:05.906 --> 00:42:07.016 I'm fine. 00:42:11.285 --> 00:42:14.448 It's just sometimes I have a rather 00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:16.936 unfavorable reaction to pearls. 00:42:31.119 --> 00:42:32.554 Leave us alone. 00:42:48.185 --> 00:42:49.219 My father... 00:42:56.618 --> 00:42:57.920 You should meet my father. 00:42:59.142 --> 00:43:01.394 He's good with numbers and objects, like you. 00:43:01.481 --> 00:43:03.139 I would like to meet him. 00:43:03.860 --> 00:43:06.596 If he isn't too busy helping Edison. 00:43:07.259 --> 00:43:08.629 Watch out for his nose. 00:43:08.707 --> 00:43:09.683 His what? 00:43:10.201 --> 00:43:11.298 His nose. 00:43:12.176 --> 00:43:13.778 You've heard about it, I assume? 00:43:16.205 --> 00:43:17.827 The richest man in the world and he has 00:43:17.884 --> 00:43:19.461 a hideous skin disease. 00:43:20.156 --> 00:43:23.695 Inflaming and disfiguring his nose. 00:43:25.397 --> 00:43:27.198 He dares you to pretend you don't see it. 00:43:28.982 --> 00:43:30.024 Maybe it will happen to me, 00:43:30.104 --> 00:43:32.338 it's just a matter of time. 00:43:34.374 --> 00:43:36.343 Maybe I'd be better off without a nose, 00:43:37.259 --> 00:43:38.393 like the sphinx. 00:43:42.108 --> 00:43:44.251 When are you going to Chicago? 00:43:44.385 --> 00:43:46.520 How did you know about that? 00:43:46.669 --> 00:43:48.989 Westinghouse is installing hundreds of dynamos. 00:43:49.391 --> 00:43:51.024 250,000 light bulbs. 00:43:51.114 --> 00:43:52.459 I leave tomorrow. 00:43:53.102 --> 00:43:54.303 With your friend? 00:43:54.892 --> 00:43:55.929 The Hungarian? 00:43:56.765 --> 00:43:58.005 Szigeti? 00:43:58.194 --> 00:43:58.722 No. 00:43:58.785 --> 00:44:00.186 He lost his compass. 00:44:00.986 --> 00:44:03.835 He went to South America to seek his fortune. 00:44:05.398 --> 00:44:07.274 But wasn't he your 00:44:07.377 --> 00:44:08.424 best friend? 00:44:19.870 --> 00:44:21.805 I can visit you in Chicago. 00:44:23.010 --> 00:44:25.359 That's not necessary. 00:44:25.543 --> 00:44:27.261 Thank you, no. 00:44:27.598 --> 00:44:28.602 You need me. 00:44:34.447 --> 00:44:36.838 Thinking, my father taught me, 00:44:37.036 --> 00:44:39.139 is more interesting than knowing 00:44:39.337 --> 00:44:41.909 but less interesting than lucking. 00:44:43.566 --> 00:44:45.722 That's one way to size up the pavilion of light 00:44:45.807 --> 00:44:48.777 at the World's Fair in Chicago 1893, 00:44:49.945 --> 00:44:52.935 where the new Tesla Westinghouse machines provide power 00:44:52.997 --> 00:44:54.224 and illumination. 00:44:55.089 --> 00:44:57.232 The fair consumes three times more electricity 00:44:57.318 --> 00:44:59.226 than the whole city itself. 00:44:59.425 --> 00:45:01.607 28 million visitors from around the world 00:45:01.662 --> 00:45:04.565 and they all see what Edison has tried to deny, 00:45:04.775 --> 00:45:08.045 alternating current is beautiful and safe. 00:45:13.554 --> 00:45:15.156 Ahh. 00:45:15.495 --> 00:45:16.466 Thank you for joining me. 00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:17.334 Please. 00:45:19.969 --> 00:45:21.693 I took the liberty, 00:45:21.727 --> 00:45:23.130 ordered for us both. 00:45:23.216 --> 00:45:25.118 An American meal. 00:45:25.410 --> 00:45:26.244 Pie. 00:45:28.103 --> 00:45:29.775 So you've been to my exhibition, 00:45:29.841 --> 00:45:31.924 the tower, the Edison column. 00:45:33.919 --> 00:45:36.381 18,000 bulbs literally 00:45:36.415 --> 00:45:39.566 surrounded by 25 hundred different types of Edison lamps. 00:45:39.779 --> 00:45:40.846 Go ahead, it's fresh. 00:45:40.966 --> 00:45:42.821 Well, I'm an American now. 00:45:42.875 --> 00:45:43.782 Full-fledged citizen. 00:45:43.828 --> 00:45:44.938 Yes, yes, of course you are. 00:45:44.972 --> 00:45:45.703 Of course. 00:45:45.786 --> 00:45:48.354 As I was saying, it's really on display. 00:45:49.499 --> 00:45:52.613 Edison dynamos, flat irons, sewing machine motors, 00:45:52.692 --> 00:45:54.754 dinging room fans, elevators. 00:45:55.520 --> 00:45:56.960 I like the dolls. 00:45:56.994 --> 00:45:57.545 The dolls? 00:45:57.579 --> 00:45:58.655 They're very amusing. 00:45:58.689 --> 00:46:00.298 Hmm, the talking dolls. 00:46:00.376 --> 00:46:02.222 We rushed it, it's not perfect. 00:46:03.121 --> 00:46:05.726 Kinetscope, moving pictures. 00:46:05.986 --> 00:46:07.727 Everybody will like that. 00:46:09.564 --> 00:46:11.865 But I invited you, here you are. 00:46:13.165 --> 00:46:14.666 Tesla, it's plain as day. 00:46:16.017 --> 00:46:18.361 This entire World's Fair is lit and powered 00:46:18.395 --> 00:46:20.073 by alternating current. 00:46:20.317 --> 00:46:23.107 Westinghouse machines, your design. 00:46:24.654 --> 00:46:27.047 I was wrong about alternating current. 00:46:27.876 --> 00:46:29.511 I was wrong about you. 00:46:29.966 --> 00:46:32.354 I still have capital, I still have investors. 00:46:32.459 --> 00:46:34.994 An unmatched capacity for PR. 00:46:36.075 --> 00:46:37.460 Let's reset the clocks. 00:46:38.255 --> 00:46:40.586 Bygones be bygones. 00:46:41.361 --> 00:46:43.270 You must have all sorts of ideas. 00:46:44.059 --> 00:46:45.599 Pick a project, 00:46:45.858 --> 00:46:48.749 something incredible, huh? 00:46:51.410 --> 00:46:55.531 We can do incredible things together, huh? 00:46:57.487 --> 00:46:59.021 What do you wanna do next? 00:47:02.344 --> 00:47:03.212 Got a light? 00:47:05.382 --> 00:47:06.985 Do you have a light? 00:47:20.187 --> 00:47:22.636 This meeting never happened. 00:47:22.855 --> 00:47:25.739 Edison and Tesla didn't talk at the World Fair. 00:47:25.941 --> 00:47:27.280 Edison never admitted he was wrong 00:47:27.350 --> 00:47:29.196 about alternating current. 00:47:29.305 --> 00:47:32.613 There was no apology, no reconciliation. 00:47:33.258 --> 00:47:35.083 And you can't hep but wonder, 00:47:35.413 --> 00:47:38.548 if only Tesla had someone sharp and smart at his side, 00:47:39.088 --> 00:47:41.469 an enlightened hustler to steer him through 00:47:41.503 --> 00:47:43.270 the crass, commercial world. 00:47:46.713 --> 00:47:47.763 If only. 00:48:16.525 --> 00:48:17.640 Dr. Tesla. 00:48:18.138 --> 00:48:19.306 He's waiting for you. 00:48:25.889 --> 00:48:26.690 Ah. 00:48:27.129 --> 00:48:28.573 I know you don't like to 00:48:29.262 --> 00:48:30.996 shake hands, I've taken note. 00:48:31.030 --> 00:48:33.074 Excuse me, watch your toes. 00:48:33.354 --> 00:48:36.281 I was assured this was an out of the way 00:48:36.351 --> 00:48:39.179 meeting place but it's... 00:48:39.383 --> 00:48:40.986 I was misinformed. 00:48:41.963 --> 00:48:42.796 Let's 00:48:43.696 --> 00:48:44.530 maybe. 00:48:47.901 --> 00:48:48.735 Yeah. 00:48:54.721 --> 00:48:56.329 Edison sunk. 00:48:56.625 --> 00:48:58.032 He's on the ropes. 00:48:58.310 --> 00:48:59.466 We beat him. 00:48:59.718 --> 00:49:01.735 It was never about Edison. 00:49:02.010 --> 00:49:04.754 He was simply on the wrong side of the street. 00:49:06.191 --> 00:49:09.021 My legal bills would suggest 00:49:11.322 --> 00:49:13.385 it's a bit more ugly than that. 00:49:15.287 --> 00:49:16.793 'Cause 00:49:16.882 --> 00:49:18.366 here's the thing, 00:49:26.323 --> 00:49:29.818 Westinghouse Electric is fighting for its life. 00:49:30.503 --> 00:49:33.600 The economy and the Edison merger. 00:49:33.676 --> 00:49:35.812 I'm sure you understand this. 00:49:37.803 --> 00:49:40.607 Even with the Niagara Commission 00:49:40.853 --> 00:49:42.275 on our side, 00:49:42.519 --> 00:49:45.378 JP Morgan is pulling all the strings. 00:49:46.124 --> 00:49:49.130 We don't stand a chance unless we initiate 00:49:49.268 --> 00:49:51.293 a similar merger on our side. 00:49:53.459 --> 00:49:55.912 My new Board of Directors 00:49:57.499 --> 00:49:58.334 says 00:50:00.022 --> 00:50:04.489 if I pay you the royalties spelled out in your contract, 00:50:06.162 --> 00:50:07.232 we're bust. 00:50:08.263 --> 00:50:09.837 It's too much money. 00:50:10.027 --> 00:50:12.019 The whole company's in jeopardy. 00:50:14.850 --> 00:50:16.244 They refuse 00:50:16.463 --> 00:50:18.132 to go forward with the merger 00:50:19.093 --> 00:50:24.221 unless your contract, the horsepower clause, is canceled. 00:50:29.535 --> 00:50:32.505 Would you mind if we went somewhere a little less dusty? 00:50:45.592 --> 00:50:47.130 You mean that if I give this up 00:50:47.164 --> 00:50:49.214 and the merger goes through, you'll retain 00:50:49.248 --> 00:50:51.075 control of your company 00:50:51.688 --> 00:50:53.893 and the polyphase system finally? 00:50:53.927 --> 00:50:55.204 Yes, right. 00:50:55.274 --> 00:50:56.550 Finally. 00:50:56.841 --> 00:50:59.619 The whole country is put on AC, 00:50:59.871 --> 00:51:01.330 on your machines. 00:51:03.365 --> 00:51:04.591 Our machines. 00:51:04.883 --> 00:51:06.660 Your polyphase system. 00:51:07.255 --> 00:51:09.124 You know how I feel about this. 00:51:09.158 --> 00:51:10.495 And if I refuse? 00:51:10.878 --> 00:51:12.834 You'll have to deal with the bankers. 00:51:13.006 --> 00:51:14.698 I wouldn't blame you, but in that case 00:51:14.732 --> 00:51:16.666 I'd be clear out of the picture. 00:51:22.254 --> 00:51:23.770 A sensible man would have said, 00:51:23.855 --> 00:51:26.858 "Wait a minute, let me talk to my lawyer." 00:51:31.463 --> 00:51:32.698 But Tesla... 00:51:33.660 --> 00:51:34.653 Tear it up. 00:51:37.249 --> 00:51:38.267 Tear it up. 00:51:41.704 --> 00:51:44.386 I'd prefer if you tore it up. 00:52:03.584 --> 00:52:04.853 You won't regret it. 00:52:04.887 --> 00:52:07.122 We are going to Niagara. 00:52:07.156 --> 00:52:08.406 There's no stopping it. 00:52:08.440 --> 00:52:09.623 All right. 00:52:12.002 --> 00:52:13.439 It's gonna be okay, don't worry. 00:52:13.503 --> 00:52:15.781 There's more than one way to skin a cat. 00:52:15.815 --> 00:52:16.841 Yes, I've heard that. 00:52:16.875 --> 00:52:18.619 Do you think it's true? 00:52:18.895 --> 00:52:19.827 Of course. 00:52:19.861 --> 00:52:21.664 Take it from an old cat skinner. 00:52:32.961 --> 00:52:36.064 Sarah Bernhardt, the divine Sarah. 00:52:36.801 --> 00:52:40.044 The first internationally famous celebrity superstar. 00:52:46.060 --> 00:52:48.055 Legend has it, she once dropped her handkerchief 00:52:48.094 --> 00:52:49.258 at Tesla's feet. 00:52:50.032 --> 00:52:51.232 Or was it her scarf? 00:52:52.410 --> 00:52:55.977 She's in motion all her life, traveling the globe. 00:52:56.904 --> 00:52:59.076 She makes her first appearance on the American stage 00:52:59.132 --> 00:53:01.681 in New York in 1881. 00:53:02.486 --> 00:53:04.854 At two in the morning on her way to Boston, 00:53:04.932 --> 00:53:07.363 she stops off in Menlo Park, New Jersey 00:53:07.457 --> 00:53:10.628 to visit the wizard, Thomas Alva Edison. 00:53:15.244 --> 00:53:17.514 Listen to me carefully. 00:53:18.171 --> 00:53:20.500 Every moment now is precious to me. 00:53:21.624 --> 00:53:23.768 I was the monster in this riddle. 00:53:24.503 --> 00:53:27.379 I was insane with incestuous passion. 00:53:28.313 --> 00:53:31.595 Now I am drunk on an infallible poison. 00:53:32.605 --> 00:53:36.486 I can feel my pulses pushing it icily into my feet, 00:53:36.551 --> 00:53:39.046 hands, and the roots of my hair. 00:53:47.036 --> 00:53:48.907 10 years later, she's back 00:53:49.051 --> 00:53:52.281 for the Chicago World's Fair and another grand tour. 00:54:07.624 --> 00:54:09.325 She travels in a coffin, you know? 00:54:10.270 --> 00:54:11.517 Which she sleeps in. 00:54:13.474 --> 00:54:14.993 She sleeps 00:54:15.027 --> 00:54:16.384 in a coffin. 00:54:16.643 --> 00:54:19.086 To prepare for the reality of death. 00:54:19.909 --> 00:54:21.183 I'd like a coffin. 00:54:22.428 --> 00:54:24.697 Her motto is quand meme, 00:54:25.930 --> 00:54:28.585 which translated means all the same 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:33.000 or despite everything, even so. 00:54:33.237 --> 00:54:34.230 No matter what? 00:54:35.849 --> 00:54:37.108 Do you speak French? 00:54:40.075 --> 00:54:42.114 I can speak a few words... 00:54:42.964 --> 00:54:44.464 ...even form some sentences. 00:54:47.114 --> 00:54:49.984 I would like to see you again. 00:54:50.548 --> 00:54:51.683 Will you come with me? 00:54:52.883 --> 00:54:57.888 Quand meme. 00:55:18.980 --> 00:55:21.099 Pleased to meet you. Pleased to meet you. 00:55:21.158 --> 00:55:23.704 Robert Underwood Johnson, the Century Magazine. 00:55:24.620 --> 00:55:25.697 I and my wife... 00:55:25.751 --> 00:55:26.436 Catherine. 00:55:26.514 --> 00:55:27.948 We have been wanting to see you in the flesh 00:55:28.011 --> 00:55:29.790 for a very long time. 00:55:30.026 --> 00:55:32.932 A very long time. It's so delightful. 00:55:33.026 --> 00:55:34.594 Overwhelming. 00:55:34.790 --> 00:55:36.106 May I introduce? 00:55:36.175 --> 00:55:39.171 Do you know the brilliant, Nikola Tesla? 00:55:39.687 --> 00:55:42.148 I believe this looks like a sheet of paper burning in flames. 00:55:45.657 --> 00:55:47.008 Are you an actor? 00:55:49.463 --> 00:55:50.731 He looks like an actor. 00:55:51.404 --> 00:55:53.765 He's the greatest inventor of all time. 00:55:53.827 --> 00:55:55.883 The greatest inventor of the age. 00:55:55.949 --> 00:55:57.184 He is shy. 00:56:02.499 --> 00:56:05.402 But you insist in looking me directly in the eye? 00:56:06.528 --> 00:56:08.163 Yes, he does that. 00:56:11.800 --> 00:56:13.541 Ah, the divine Miss Sarah, 00:56:13.581 --> 00:56:15.538 you couldn't have been diviner. 00:56:19.049 --> 00:56:20.463 Of course you already know each other. 00:56:23.265 --> 00:56:24.361 Hello, Robert. 00:56:24.395 --> 00:56:27.618 Catherine, I don't believe you know my wife, Mina. 00:56:27.652 --> 00:56:29.552 When you died I had to hold my breath. 00:56:29.586 --> 00:56:30.878 It was terrifying. 00:56:30.912 --> 00:56:32.215 Exactly how I felt. 00:56:32.249 --> 00:56:33.254 Bless my wife, Catherine. 00:56:33.287 --> 00:56:35.573 You know, I had Mr. Tesla at my workshop 00:56:35.607 --> 00:56:36.456 nine years ago. 00:56:36.490 --> 00:56:37.324 He lasted, what? 00:56:37.358 --> 00:56:38.523 Six months. 00:56:38.557 --> 00:56:40.259 Six months, he quit. 00:56:41.994 --> 00:56:42.856 I didn't. 00:56:42.890 --> 00:56:44.044 He thinks I owe him money. 00:56:44.078 --> 00:56:44.598 What was it? 00:56:44.632 --> 00:56:45.833 $50? 00:56:45.973 --> 00:56:48.779 I know, I shouldn't talk about money. 00:56:48.813 --> 00:56:50.469 I shouldn't needn't really joke about money. 00:56:50.563 --> 00:56:53.607 Especially with someone who has no sense of humor. 00:56:53.992 --> 00:56:54.826 Yes. 00:56:56.616 --> 00:56:58.217 It's all right, we're friends. 00:57:00.529 --> 00:57:02.965 And now he makes lots of money. 00:57:04.155 --> 00:57:07.058 And his machines outsell my machines. 00:57:09.513 --> 00:57:11.230 Oh, yes. 00:57:11.264 --> 00:57:13.934 Salt water taffy for you from Florida. 00:57:14.593 --> 00:57:16.929 Because you have everything else already. 00:57:18.376 --> 00:57:19.755 Where is your coffin? 00:57:26.963 --> 00:57:29.667 You can't look at me like this without consequences. 00:57:30.636 --> 00:57:31.809 That's from a play. 00:57:33.390 --> 00:57:34.958 We will see each other again. 00:57:38.875 --> 00:57:40.260 No hard feelings. 00:57:46.218 --> 00:57:47.331 What did you say to her? 00:57:47.365 --> 00:57:48.232 I didn't quite... 00:57:50.328 --> 00:57:51.872 I asked about her coffin. 00:57:53.314 --> 00:57:55.192 I guess she keeps it in her hotel. 00:58:16.154 --> 00:58:18.733 For the Niagara hydroelectric power plant, 00:58:18.811 --> 00:58:21.321 Tesla designs completely new machines, 00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:24.385 unprecedented generators, fives times bigger 00:58:24.441 --> 00:58:26.080 than anything ever built. 00:58:26.855 --> 00:58:30.952 Plus transformers, motors, transmission lines, turbines. 00:58:32.917 --> 00:58:35.687 Revolutionary in their power and range. 00:58:38.657 --> 00:58:41.148 He didn't invent alternating current. 00:58:41.407 --> 00:58:42.488 Nobody did. 00:58:43.212 --> 00:58:45.709 But his system makes it practical and possible to use 00:58:45.796 --> 00:58:48.484 everywhere efficiently throughout the world. 00:58:55.228 --> 00:58:56.539 His system had to be broken down 00:58:56.573 --> 00:58:58.508 into 40 fundamental patents. 00:59:01.319 --> 00:59:04.128 Most valuable patent since the invention of the telephone. 00:59:05.205 --> 00:59:06.745 We'll see about that. 00:59:06.815 --> 00:59:08.651 In St. Louis last week, over 4,000 people 00:59:08.744 --> 00:59:10.411 attended his lecture. 00:59:10.733 --> 00:59:13.135 Yale gave him an honorary degree, then Columbia. 00:59:14.204 --> 00:59:16.443 You've seen the articles in the magazine. 00:59:19.040 --> 00:59:21.380 And now, already he has eight new patents 00:59:21.453 --> 00:59:22.861 for wireless energy. 00:59:24.068 --> 00:59:27.312 Electromagnetic pulses using high frequency waves. 00:59:28.251 --> 00:59:30.152 You know him. 00:59:30.264 --> 00:59:31.613 You've talked to him. 00:59:32.432 --> 00:59:34.142 Is he looking for an investor 00:59:35.217 --> 00:59:36.305 or a wife? 00:59:41.889 --> 00:59:44.499 Chastity is a path to enlightenment. 00:59:45.461 --> 00:59:47.800 A great inventor should never marry. 00:59:49.728 --> 00:59:51.296 You realize this? 00:59:53.136 --> 00:59:55.339 We are what our thoughts have made us. 00:59:56.365 --> 00:59:57.599 I believe that. 01:00:00.028 --> 01:00:02.103 So take care about what you think. 01:00:02.891 --> 01:00:04.264 Thoughts live, 01:00:04.571 --> 01:00:05.957 they travel far. 01:00:18.794 --> 01:00:21.516 My aim is to develop an entirely new 01:00:21.571 --> 01:00:23.015 system of communication. 01:00:23.049 --> 01:00:23.568 Yes, you've said... 01:00:23.630 --> 01:00:25.533 Using new principles. 01:00:25.603 --> 01:00:28.057 Electric symbols, voices even, 01:00:28.091 --> 01:00:30.299 photographs transmitted through the air. 01:00:30.333 --> 01:00:31.849 Well you could load your wireless boat 01:00:31.919 --> 01:00:34.293 with a cargo of dynamite, submerge it, 01:00:34.327 --> 01:00:36.869 make it swim along and then explode the dynamite... 01:00:36.903 --> 01:00:38.758 - I could, but... - it'll blow up, say, 01:00:38.792 --> 01:00:39.941 - a battleship? - But I was thinking 01:00:39.975 --> 01:00:40.663 much bigger than that. 01:00:40.697 --> 01:00:41.768 Oh, it has many applications. 01:00:41.802 --> 01:00:44.274 Yes, it will transform the way the world works. 01:00:44.371 --> 01:00:45.979 An entire system. 01:00:46.038 --> 01:00:46.905 I know. 01:00:49.662 --> 01:00:52.197 It's a paradox, yet true, 01:00:52.267 --> 01:00:55.022 that the more we learn, the more ignorant we become 01:00:55.077 --> 01:00:57.070 in the absolute sense. 01:00:57.187 --> 01:00:59.967 It's through enlightenment that we are made aware 01:01:00.001 --> 01:01:01.414 of our limitations. 01:01:02.128 --> 01:01:03.829 That's why I'm going to Colorado. 01:01:09.447 --> 01:01:10.581 That's far. 01:01:15.859 --> 01:01:16.694 Why? 01:01:17.350 --> 01:01:20.486 The air, altitude, lightning storms. 01:01:23.702 --> 01:01:26.146 My brain is only a receiver. 01:01:26.371 --> 01:01:28.406 In the universe, there is a core from which 01:01:28.440 --> 01:01:32.156 we receive all information, inspiration, 01:01:32.206 --> 01:01:33.849 knowledge, and strength. 01:01:49.831 --> 01:01:51.273 I know it's not simple 01:01:52.596 --> 01:01:54.379 to be able to love calmly. 01:01:56.029 --> 01:01:58.230 To trust without fear. 01:02:06.399 --> 01:02:08.780 To commit yourself to really difficult tasks 01:02:08.883 --> 01:02:11.664 with unlimited energy. 01:02:16.362 --> 01:02:19.225 Is it better to be vindicated or to be loved? 01:02:23.270 --> 01:02:26.273 Idealism cannot work hand in hand with capitalism. 01:02:27.313 --> 01:02:28.149 True 01:02:28.991 --> 01:02:30.070 or false? 01:02:33.181 --> 01:02:36.167 Are dreams and intelligence enough to save the world? 01:02:36.959 --> 01:02:38.035 Is your 01:02:39.306 --> 01:02:40.880 heightened ability, 01:02:42.825 --> 01:02:43.900 your brilliance 01:02:47.909 --> 01:02:50.111 a blessing or a curse? 01:02:53.183 --> 01:02:56.987 You have become much better at asking questions. 01:03:58.340 --> 01:04:01.246 In Colorado, Tesla disappears into his work. 01:04:05.601 --> 01:04:08.305 Conducting experiments that have never been duplicated 01:04:09.616 --> 01:04:10.908 or fully understood. 01:04:16.810 --> 01:04:19.384 He was synchronizing electricity in the sky and the earth 01:04:19.418 --> 01:04:22.287 with currents surging through his magnifying transmitter. 01:04:25.975 --> 01:04:27.863 A.K.A., a Tesla coil. 01:04:39.838 --> 01:04:42.440 It was like getting the ocean to sit for a portrait. 01:05:27.119 --> 01:05:29.159 Salutations, Miss Morgan 01:05:29.235 --> 01:05:31.003 from the Alta Vista Hotel. 01:05:31.793 --> 01:05:34.549 Mr. Lowenstein, my associate from New York 01:05:34.627 --> 01:05:37.134 has been troubled by altitude sickness, 01:05:37.220 --> 01:05:41.189 but I am invigorated by the climate. 01:05:41.260 --> 01:05:45.457 Skies of dazzling calm alternating with storms 01:05:45.543 --> 01:05:47.273 of great violence. 01:05:47.366 --> 01:05:51.959 We have not seen Colorado's legendary fireballs, but 01:05:52.272 --> 01:05:54.650 I intend to generate them myself. 01:05:55.494 --> 01:05:59.943 The essential aspects of my work here must remain veiled, 01:06:00.005 --> 01:06:02.957 as they say, in secrecy. 01:06:03.322 --> 01:06:07.347 When my results are revealed, humanity will be like 01:06:07.417 --> 01:06:10.594 an ant heap stirred up with a stick. 01:06:11.945 --> 01:06:14.661 I've enlisted the aid of a bright, local boy 01:06:14.695 --> 01:06:18.739 who humbly assures us he doesn't know what electricity is. 01:06:19.047 --> 01:06:21.808 I tell him with great seriousness, 01:06:22.058 --> 01:06:24.844 "No one knows what it is." 01:06:28.981 --> 01:06:33.739 Every human being is an engine geared to the wheel work 01:06:33.805 --> 01:06:35.134 of the universe. 01:09:54.846 --> 01:09:55.436 You did that. 01:09:55.470 --> 01:09:57.171 The whole God damn generator is on fire. 01:09:57.233 --> 01:09:59.353 You threw a short on the line! 01:09:59.392 --> 01:10:03.405 I set the earth an electrical resonance. 01:10:03.476 --> 01:10:05.400 You blacked out the whole God damn town, 01:10:05.434 --> 01:10:06.626 you son of a bitch. 01:10:06.660 --> 01:10:08.260 You knocked out the generator. 01:10:08.294 --> 01:10:11.505 I sent electrons streaming into the earth 01:10:11.539 --> 01:10:16.104 at a rate of 150 oscillations per second, 01:10:16.138 --> 01:10:20.440 each pulsation a wavelength of 6,600 feet 01:10:20.474 --> 01:10:24.217 and it expands, overflowing the curve of the earth 01:10:24.251 --> 01:10:29.574 creating a stationary wave that arises and falls 01:10:29.620 --> 01:10:31.567 on the other side of the planet. 01:10:31.608 --> 01:10:34.090 I will pay for a new generator. 01:10:34.993 --> 01:10:36.263 Great. 01:10:37.117 --> 01:10:38.685 My expense. 01:10:50.894 --> 01:10:52.230 She's in the dining room. 01:11:20.640 --> 01:11:21.475 Ah. 01:11:27.108 --> 01:11:29.649 You are the sole topic of conversation here. 01:11:29.947 --> 01:11:32.007 Well, other than me. 01:11:36.504 --> 01:11:38.092 You work at night 01:11:38.351 --> 01:11:39.952 in a secret laboratory. 01:11:40.845 --> 01:11:41.875 No windows. 01:11:42.507 --> 01:11:45.629 You shoot lightnings from the earth 01:11:45.706 --> 01:11:46.908 to the sky. 01:11:47.033 --> 01:11:49.369 And my only fear is the very real possibility 01:11:49.449 --> 01:11:51.617 that I may set the sky on fire. 01:11:52.307 --> 01:11:54.839 It's as if I'm trying to tame a wild cat 01:11:54.893 --> 01:11:58.236 and I have become nothing but a mass of bloody scratches. 01:11:59.136 --> 01:12:01.181 Oh, you like being scratched? 01:12:02.217 --> 01:12:03.296 If necessary. 01:12:04.548 --> 01:12:05.710 She was in Colorado 01:12:05.754 --> 01:12:08.022 for her second worldwide farewell tour. 01:12:08.683 --> 01:12:10.373 Or was it her third? 01:12:10.467 --> 01:12:14.762 He was drawn to her, I guess, for her fame and glamor 01:12:15.128 --> 01:12:17.525 and for her unattainability. 01:12:17.559 --> 01:12:20.857 Colorado's a bit like a hospital ward. 01:12:21.540 --> 01:12:22.837 Have you noticed? 01:12:23.216 --> 01:12:27.575 It's filled with rich people with tuberculosis 01:12:27.638 --> 01:12:30.643 pumping their lungs with the pure mountain air. 01:12:31.404 --> 01:12:33.173 They love the theater but 01:12:33.777 --> 01:12:35.178 they cough a lot. 01:12:36.683 --> 01:12:37.518 Champagne? 01:12:39.089 --> 01:12:40.991 I've been dying a lot lately. 01:12:42.106 --> 01:12:44.191 Never the same death twice. 01:12:44.585 --> 01:12:46.127 That's my specialty. 01:12:46.433 --> 01:12:48.939 I've died so much I feel immortal. 01:12:49.042 --> 01:12:51.525 Well your English is improving. 01:12:51.599 --> 01:12:53.134 Well, maybe. 01:12:55.045 --> 01:12:58.669 But when I am on stage, I perform only in French. 01:13:00.279 --> 01:13:04.089 Some Americans pay to see the great French actress. 01:13:10.570 --> 01:13:14.507 There was a time when I hated death. 01:13:14.660 --> 01:13:15.910 I regret that now. 01:13:16.317 --> 01:13:17.653 Death is necessary... 01:13:18.519 --> 01:13:19.746 ...and I love it. 01:13:20.425 --> 01:13:23.195 Because it waits for you before it strikes. 01:13:26.879 --> 01:13:29.378 I can get you tickets to Camille tomorrow night. 01:13:30.122 --> 01:13:31.484 Well, tonight. 01:13:32.064 --> 01:13:34.108 If the lights come back on. 01:13:34.200 --> 01:13:35.721 I'll make sure they come back on 01:13:35.784 --> 01:13:37.432 before the curtain comes up. 01:14:15.291 --> 01:14:16.092 Suppose 01:14:18.002 --> 01:14:19.904 you had to cut your head off 01:14:20.852 --> 01:14:23.021 and give it to someone else, 01:14:23.695 --> 01:14:25.201 what difference would it make? 01:14:28.119 --> 01:14:30.287 This is what love is like. 01:15:31.418 --> 01:15:33.594 "Energy creates energy," 01:15:34.010 --> 01:15:35.311 Sarah Bernhardt said. 01:15:36.297 --> 01:15:39.739 "It is by spending myself that I become rich." 01:16:50.684 --> 01:16:52.973 So it's like rivulets in a lake. 01:16:53.076 --> 01:16:55.538 Where you throw a stone and these lamps... 01:16:58.085 --> 01:16:59.495 Please tell me again, Mr. Tesla, 01:16:59.529 --> 01:17:01.938 the distance between your machines and these lamps. 01:17:01.972 --> 01:17:03.384 26 miles. 01:17:04.005 --> 01:17:05.969 It would be simple 01:17:06.901 --> 01:17:10.948 to take a common 300 horsepower oscillator 01:17:10.982 --> 01:17:14.763 to run simultaneously operations just like this one 01:17:14.797 --> 01:17:16.498 at any point on the globe. 01:17:17.312 --> 01:17:20.945 One need only place the receiving apparatus into the ground. 01:17:20.979 --> 01:17:22.645 Doesn't matter if the transmission is affected 01:17:22.715 --> 01:17:23.582 at a few miles 01:17:23.693 --> 01:17:26.040 or a few thousand miles. 01:17:26.673 --> 01:17:29.159 The waves travel in all directions, 01:17:29.252 --> 01:17:32.724 passing over the earth's bulge in ever smaller circles 01:17:32.817 --> 01:17:35.688 in increasing intensity until they converge 01:17:35.749 --> 01:17:37.722 on the planet's opposite side. 01:17:38.685 --> 01:17:41.371 So transmitting messages to a 01:17:41.554 --> 01:17:44.108 receiving terminal, if I understand you, 01:17:44.167 --> 01:17:46.935 you can signal steam ships at sea, 01:17:46.968 --> 01:17:49.704 obtain instantaneous stock quotes from the stock exchange, 01:17:49.738 --> 01:17:50.906 New York Stock Exchange 01:17:50.939 --> 01:17:52.941 if you set up a tower on the east coast 01:17:52.974 --> 01:17:55.610 and another one on the other side of the Atlantic? 01:17:55.644 --> 01:17:56.478 Yes. 01:17:58.328 --> 01:18:01.131 How much you estimate you need to make this a reality? 01:18:07.489 --> 01:18:10.358 Let's be honest, I don't have a very good impression of you. 01:18:10.478 --> 01:18:12.314 You talk, you're boastful. 01:18:13.249 --> 01:18:14.829 And apart from the deal with Westinghouse, 01:18:14.863 --> 01:18:17.032 you've yet to make much money off of your boasts. 01:18:17.122 --> 01:18:21.570 But contrary to popular belief, I never did a thing 01:18:21.603 --> 01:18:24.207 except buying and selling securities of foreign exchange 01:18:24.240 --> 01:18:26.966 simply to make money from the doing of it. 01:18:35.034 --> 01:18:36.545 $100,000? 01:18:36.618 --> 01:18:37.552 That be sufficient? 01:18:39.497 --> 01:18:40.932 Yes. 01:18:40.989 --> 01:18:42.791 I think you're wrong. 01:18:42.824 --> 01:18:45.393 I understand what you're up to here and you can do more. 01:18:47.395 --> 01:18:49.412 We'll draw up a contract, of course. 01:18:52.570 --> 01:18:54.246 You and I have much in common. 01:18:55.437 --> 01:18:56.905 I believe in higher reality, 01:18:58.642 --> 01:19:00.976 I believe in recklessness of great men. 01:19:02.278 --> 01:19:03.979 Following the battle of the currents, 01:19:04.107 --> 01:19:07.115 Thomas Edison abandons his idea of electricity. 01:19:07.237 --> 01:19:08.984 He's done with it, he says, 01:19:09.096 --> 01:19:10.852 and throws himself at his new method 01:19:10.886 --> 01:19:14.122 of extracting low grade iron ore from crushed rocks. 01:19:14.203 --> 01:19:16.625 He buys land in Ogdensburg, New Jersey 01:19:16.717 --> 01:19:21.096 and sets up a vast operation, employing over 400 men. 01:19:21.186 --> 01:19:24.432 By 1899, while Tesla's in Colorado Springs, 01:19:25.116 --> 01:19:28.069 the Edison mining concern is declared a complete failure, 01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:29.704 wiping our four million dollars 01:19:29.738 --> 01:19:31.539 of Edison's personal fortune. 01:19:40.488 --> 01:19:42.590 Yeah, it's all gone. 01:19:42.693 --> 01:19:45.315 But we had a hell of a good time spending it. 01:19:47.972 --> 01:19:50.473 As his mother would say, he tried to eat something 01:19:50.525 --> 01:19:51.913 bigger than his head. 01:20:19.322 --> 01:20:21.746 Miss Morgan, I believe I've been remiss. 01:20:22.891 --> 01:20:23.951 What does that mean? 01:20:23.985 --> 01:20:25.088 Remiss. 01:20:26.188 --> 01:20:28.190 That's one of those 01:20:28.224 --> 01:20:30.492 words I never really know what... 01:20:38.510 --> 01:20:41.772 Yes, Marconi sends his signal through the air 01:20:42.766 --> 01:20:47.096 using 17 of my patents. 01:20:48.453 --> 01:20:53.159 When our tower is complete, we will send our message 01:20:53.255 --> 01:20:55.767 across the earth through the earth. 01:20:57.360 --> 01:20:59.156 He sent it across the Channel 01:21:00.292 --> 01:21:02.127 and no one's done that before. 01:21:02.878 --> 01:21:03.965 You haven't done that. 01:21:03.999 --> 01:21:07.969 Using 17 of my patents. 01:21:08.003 --> 01:21:08.870 Hello, Anne. 01:21:10.005 --> 01:21:11.259 I've just made tea. 01:21:15.311 --> 01:21:18.580 I understand your father left for Cairo last week. 01:21:18.613 --> 01:21:21.150 His aides say he can't be reached for another two weeks. 01:21:21.196 --> 01:21:24.253 When this tower is complete, 01:21:24.434 --> 01:21:27.361 he will be able to be reached in an instant. 01:21:30.071 --> 01:21:33.074 I'm not here to talk for him or about him. 01:21:34.882 --> 01:21:36.089 Except to tell you 01:21:36.890 --> 01:21:38.400 that he knows you're in debt. 01:21:38.503 --> 01:21:39.509 Of course he's in debt. 01:21:39.543 --> 01:21:41.149 He's revolutionizing at least three fields of... 01:21:41.220 --> 01:21:42.414 Deep debt. 01:21:44.168 --> 01:21:45.804 And when you send out distress signals... 01:21:45.890 --> 01:21:47.271 Do you understand the scale of what he's... 01:21:47.305 --> 01:21:49.778 It can only alarm any other investors, 01:21:49.811 --> 01:21:51.616 if any are left to be alarmed. 01:21:52.881 --> 01:21:54.450 And all my father asked for was a way 01:21:54.483 --> 01:21:56.844 to send stock reports across the Atlantic. 01:21:58.743 --> 01:22:01.582 We don't have any other investors. 01:22:01.686 --> 01:22:02.888 Why would you? 01:22:03.259 --> 01:22:05.868 My father has a 51% share of your patents. 01:22:13.436 --> 01:22:15.103 I'm wondering why you're giving interviews 01:22:15.137 --> 01:22:17.506 about getting messages from Mars. 01:22:17.540 --> 01:22:18.718 I had three 01:22:19.542 --> 01:22:20.750 signals, 01:22:21.473 --> 01:22:24.603 distinct vibrations, even, not random. 01:22:25.940 --> 01:22:28.377 I do believe it pretends a message. 01:22:28.451 --> 01:22:30.785 Why would you go on record with this? 01:22:31.329 --> 01:22:32.620 I said it pretends... 01:22:32.654 --> 01:22:34.055 From Mars? 01:22:34.089 --> 01:22:36.192 My father reads these things. 01:22:36.225 --> 01:22:38.127 You believe in martians? 01:22:38.275 --> 01:22:39.428 The chance of alien life is actually... 01:22:39.462 --> 01:22:41.564 Alien life 01:22:41.596 --> 01:22:44.605 is a statistical certainty. 01:22:51.106 --> 01:22:53.410 What if you're picking up Marconi's signals? 01:22:54.511 --> 01:22:57.181 His test signals from across the English Channel. 01:22:57.472 --> 01:22:59.541 Not Mars, but Marconi? 01:23:02.218 --> 01:23:05.787 I believe that I may be 01:23:06.798 --> 01:23:08.141 the first person 01:23:08.921 --> 01:23:13.775 who has ever heard the sound of one planet greeting another. 01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:20.336 What happens if your system succeeds? 01:23:20.415 --> 01:23:22.350 Who controls the distribution of power? 01:23:23.305 --> 01:23:24.825 Nobody controls it. 01:23:25.503 --> 01:23:26.573 Like air, right? 01:23:28.355 --> 01:23:30.678 You can't break it into saleable units 01:23:30.756 --> 01:23:31.980 available to everyone. 01:23:32.075 --> 01:23:32.909 That's right. 01:23:36.426 --> 01:23:38.487 Doesn't it occur to you that the way the world runs 01:23:38.521 --> 01:23:40.989 is determined by the manipulation of all this? 01:23:43.124 --> 01:23:45.721 Power, energy. 01:23:47.809 --> 01:23:49.512 And what you wanna do is... 01:23:55.820 --> 01:23:57.055 What do you want to do? 01:23:58.564 --> 01:24:00.566 When this system is complete, 01:24:01.782 --> 01:24:05.112 we will be able to go to a swamp, 01:24:05.677 --> 01:24:09.447 or a desert, some place broken, and plighted. 01:24:09.964 --> 01:24:12.387 Places small, sea for a few, 01:24:12.507 --> 01:24:17.159 simple machines and have light, heat, 01:24:17.255 --> 01:24:21.696 mode of power, a complete system of communication 01:24:21.827 --> 01:24:24.366 for a people previously living under 01:24:24.400 --> 01:24:26.866 the most wretched of circumstances. 01:24:27.718 --> 01:24:28.552 And 01:24:31.705 --> 01:24:34.040 we will be able to do it cheaply. 01:24:39.148 --> 01:24:40.735 You are not an economist. 01:24:42.947 --> 01:24:44.481 Everything has to be paid for. 01:24:46.120 --> 01:24:47.377 Especially money. 01:24:55.929 --> 01:24:58.766 The 150,000 my father gives Tesla 01:24:58.800 --> 01:25:01.136 in December, 1901, 01:25:01.256 --> 01:25:03.558 equivalent of four million in today's money, 01:25:04.422 --> 01:25:07.510 is the same amount he paid for this painting in April. 01:25:11.234 --> 01:25:12.235 Though this 01:25:14.015 --> 01:25:16.352 is my favorite painting he bought at this time. 01:25:17.927 --> 01:25:19.757 Remere, 01:25:19.833 --> 01:25:21.429 another 100,000. 01:25:25.627 --> 01:25:28.997 During the same period, working day and night, 01:25:29.128 --> 01:25:32.468 Pierpont organizes the creation of U.S. Steel, 01:25:32.633 --> 01:25:35.336 the first company valued at a billion dollars. 01:25:41.908 --> 01:25:44.808 Since a year, Mr. Morgan, 01:25:45.714 --> 01:25:48.384 there has been hardly a night 01:25:48.417 --> 01:25:52.721 when my pillow has not been bathed in tears, 01:25:52.843 --> 01:25:56.372 but you must not think me a weak man for that. 01:25:57.017 --> 01:26:01.340 When while this is applied, the earth will be converted 01:26:01.374 --> 01:26:05.706 into a huge brain, capable of response 01:26:05.792 --> 01:26:09.204 in every one of it parts. 01:26:09.331 --> 01:26:11.839 Its principles I have discovered 01:26:11.931 --> 01:26:15.277 will cause a revolution so great 01:26:15.311 --> 01:26:20.512 that almost all values and all human relations 01:26:20.608 --> 01:26:23.386 will be profoundly modified. 01:26:24.684 --> 01:26:27.352 My patents confer a monopoly. 01:27:36.597 --> 01:27:38.122 Ah, Mr. Tesla. 01:27:40.473 --> 01:27:43.443 I understand your ship has run up against the rocks. 01:27:44.173 --> 01:27:45.099 Great pity. 01:27:45.134 --> 01:27:46.106 Mr. Morgan. 01:27:48.207 --> 01:27:50.408 There isn't a single person that's come to visit me 01:27:50.491 --> 01:27:53.173 in the last 30 years who's come for any purpose 01:27:53.255 --> 01:27:55.792 other than to grovel on the carpet for money. 01:27:56.712 --> 01:27:59.609 I've sent you detailed telegraphs, facts. 01:27:59.866 --> 01:28:01.667 I'm not a vagabond come to beg. 01:28:02.479 --> 01:28:05.429 Last year I provided you with $100,000. 01:28:06.160 --> 01:28:09.462 Months later, you requested additional aid, $50,000 more. 01:28:09.496 --> 01:28:11.299 Do you think I'm a bottomless pit? 01:28:11.899 --> 01:28:15.517 When my work is finished, you'll recoup your investment 01:28:15.551 --> 01:28:16.988 tenfold, a hundredfold. 01:28:17.071 --> 01:28:19.374 I'm not convinced you will finish your work. 01:28:20.861 --> 01:28:22.796 Anyway, I'm in no need of money. 01:28:24.668 --> 01:28:25.469 Ball. 01:28:26.775 --> 01:28:29.041 I'm working on a new method 01:28:29.201 --> 01:28:30.804 to photograph thought, 01:28:32.506 --> 01:28:35.709 transcribing electric impulses from the brain. 01:28:38.155 --> 01:28:40.459 The Ottawa Indians considered the Milky Way 01:28:40.547 --> 01:28:43.584 to be muddy water stirred by a turtle 01:28:43.617 --> 01:28:46.453 swimming along the bottom of the sky. 01:28:47.754 --> 01:28:50.457 What do you think of that? 01:28:50.490 --> 01:28:54.125 There is nothing durable but the eternal state of things. 01:28:55.829 --> 01:28:58.565 Do not let yourself be intimidated 01:28:58.677 --> 01:29:00.237 by the horror of the world. 01:29:00.635 --> 01:29:03.437 Everything's ordered and correct and must fulfill 01:29:03.494 --> 01:29:06.585 its destiny in order to retain perfection. 01:29:11.399 --> 01:29:13.467 Soon I will be able to release 01:29:13.951 --> 01:29:17.050 a new series of inventions 01:29:17.146 --> 01:29:19.581 that will make warfare unthinkable. 01:29:22.520 --> 01:29:25.058 The central idea is a being 01:29:25.092 --> 01:29:28.127 of some microscopic particles traveling at a speed 01:29:28.222 --> 01:29:30.659 close to that of the speed of light. 01:29:31.697 --> 01:29:34.567 It will stop an army in its tracks 01:29:34.601 --> 01:29:38.005 at 250 miles, swipe a squadron of airplanes 01:29:38.038 --> 01:29:39.539 at an even greater distance. 01:29:48.749 --> 01:29:51.485 Beam travels in a straight line trajectory and therefore 01:29:51.518 --> 01:29:55.322 has range limitations by the curvature of the earth 01:29:55.355 --> 01:29:58.996 and all the essential details aren't finished in my mind. 01:30:55.757 --> 01:30:59.193 ♪ Welcome to your life ♪ 01:31:00.008 --> 01:31:03.521 ♪ There's no turning back ♪ 01:31:04.391 --> 01:31:08.614 ♪ Even while we sleep ♪ 01:31:08.703 --> 01:31:15.052 ♪ We will find you acting on your best behavior ♪ 01:31:15.163 --> 01:31:19.396 ♪ Turn your back on mother nature ♪ 01:31:19.540 --> 01:31:25.717 ♪ Everybody wants to rule the world ♪ 01:31:34.675 --> 01:31:38.704 ♪ It's my own design ♪ 01:31:38.836 --> 01:31:42.773 ♪ It's my own remorse ♪ 01:31:43.096 --> 01:31:47.434 ♪ Help me to decide ♪ 01:31:47.467 --> 01:31:51.855 ♪ Help me make the most of freedom ♪ 01:31:51.941 --> 01:31:53.977 ♪ And of pleasure ♪ 01:31:54.095 --> 01:31:58.057 ♪ Nothing ever lasts forever ♪ 01:31:58.178 --> 01:32:02.461 ♪ Everybody wants to rule the world ♪ 01:32:15.888 --> 01:32:19.892 ♪ So glad we almost made it ♪ 01:32:20.003 --> 01:32:23.874 ♪ So sad they had to fade it ♪ 01:32:24.087 --> 01:32:31.989 ♪ Everybody wants to rule the world ♪ 01:32:45.328 --> 01:32:49.746 ♪ I can't stand this indecision ♪ 01:32:49.780 --> 01:32:54.084 ♪ Married with a lack of vision ♪ 01:32:54.118 --> 01:32:59.740 ♪ Everybody wants to rule the world ♪ 01:33:42.082 --> 01:33:43.643 Do you remember my face when I realized 01:33:43.712 --> 01:33:45.342 it was hopeless between us? 01:33:47.414 --> 01:33:49.839 Or does everything get jumbled in your head? 01:33:53.122 --> 01:33:55.758 On a sequence of numbers, 01:33:56.129 --> 01:33:58.832 but a blur of images, impressions, 01:33:59.782 --> 01:34:00.616 feelings. 01:34:01.866 --> 01:34:03.601 The way most of us remember things. 01:34:15.079 --> 01:34:19.484 I finally met someone, someone as strong and willful 01:34:19.619 --> 01:34:21.421 as my father, 01:34:21.890 --> 01:34:23.693 someone who wanted me. 01:34:25.080 --> 01:34:26.380 S. E. Marbury. 01:34:30.245 --> 01:34:33.347 I moved into her villa in the French countryside 01:34:33.466 --> 01:34:35.902 and we poured American money into a relief fund 01:34:35.936 --> 01:34:38.872 during the war, a health service, 01:34:38.905 --> 01:34:40.245 a camp for children. 01:34:47.826 --> 01:34:51.429 Nikola Tesla outlives Edison, Westinghouse, 01:34:51.518 --> 01:34:55.185 Sarah Bernhardt, and my father 01:34:55.271 --> 01:34:57.791 and dies alone at the Hotel New Yorker 01:34:57.824 --> 01:35:00.629 on January 7th, 1943. 01:35:01.429 --> 01:35:03.258 He was 87 years old. 01:35:03.863 --> 01:35:06.114 Destitute but not forgotten. 01:35:06.688 --> 01:35:09.254 Over 2,000 people attend his funeral 01:35:09.538 --> 01:35:11.678 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. 01:35:15.542 --> 01:35:17.138 He was always looking ahead, 01:35:17.923 --> 01:35:20.046 projecting himself into the future. 01:35:21.973 --> 01:35:24.476 Maybe he promised more than he could deliver, 01:35:25.252 --> 01:35:26.750 maybe he overreached, 01:35:28.006 --> 01:35:30.008 or maybe the world that we are living in 01:35:30.636 --> 01:35:33.660 is a dream that Tesla dreamed first. 01:35:50.500 --> 01:36:06.142 جديدترين اخبار فيلم و سريال در کانال تلگرام و اینستاگرام سايت .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.