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Boys!

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I hope you brought your checkbooks.

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The air brakes pay
for George's latest obsession.

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By changing the dimensions of his pipes,

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George can move natural gas
over 20 miles from the well.

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Shooting, like a gun.

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Is that good or bad, Mrs. Westinghouse?

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- How is your daughter, Gladys?
- Oh, quite well, thank you.

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She's met a financier.

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The beading on your dress is exquisite.

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Mr. Westinghouse, I saw in <i>The World</i>
Mr. Edison's new electric system

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is significantly cheaper than gas.

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Does that keep you up at night?

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There's always more to see.

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Mr. and Mrs. Worthington, Mr. Manesberg,

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Dr. and Mrs. Burton,
Reverend Vincent, Mr. McCoy,

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Mr. Faulk, Miss Faulk, enjoy your evening.

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Edison says he's months away
from lighting up the world.

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It's impressive, but trust me,
it's ten years away from being practical.

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The papers make it sound
as though this is something different.

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A miracle.

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As if you started to levitate
off the carpet.

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I'd love to meet him.
Could you arrange it?

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It's been several years...

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A dinner.
Comfortable. Elegant. Substantive.

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Edison can't be bothered to tie his shoes,
let alone attend a social event.

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Perhaps you're right.
But try anyway.

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Anything fascinating?

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Mr. Pennoyer has found a bargain
on a Beaux Arts shack in Newport.

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Mrs. Abernathy's mother has passed,
and apparently Edison believes

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it may never be nighttime again.

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- Are you excited to meet the President?
- Yes.

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Don't say a thing
about J.P. Morgan's nose.

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- What's wrong with his nose?
- Nothing.

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- What's wrong with his nose?
- It's huge. Huge!

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It's like someone took a hammer
and slammed it into his face.

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I thought you already got the money.

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I only got half.

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Does Morgan even know
that you're coming?

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He'll invest as always. I hate this.

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- Mr. Edison, you have dinner with...
- What?

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Dinner with Westinghouse. On your return.

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Why are barns red?

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Maybe so you can
see them in the snow.

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- It's 'cause red paint's cheapest.
- What happened to your shoes?

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Morgan will want to know
the practicality of your system.

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I have money.

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Enough for two small buildings
in Manhattan?

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Yes.

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Oh, good.

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This was intended to be my lunch.

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The President has asked to see
the phonograph in person.

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- I had no idea you'd be here.
- Mrs. Edison.

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Mr. Morgan. These are our children.

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Dot and Dash. Delightful.
I know what you're doing.

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How much are you short? Just how much
of my money do you want to wash away?

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Oh, as very, very much as possible.

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- Who's this?
- Samuel Insull.

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Mr. Edison's personal secretary.

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- Mr. Morgan, Mr. Edison.
- Which one? He's also Mr. Edison.

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The President will see you now.

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Now.

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On top of the Crumpetty Tree
the Quangle Wangle sat,

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but his face you could not see,
on account of his beaver hat.

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This is the sound of your voice.

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<i>On top of the Crumpetty Tree
the Quangle Wangle sat,</i>

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<i>but his face you could not see,</i>

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<i>- on account of his Beaver Hat.</i>
- Is that what I sound like?

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My men tell me
you're turning down $5 million.

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I'm grateful for the offer, Mr. President,

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but it's the type of science you're after
that I find objectionable.

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- There's always money in guns.
- The one device I shall never build

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is that which takes the life
of another man.

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It's barbaric.

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But... take a look at this.

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One square mile of Manhattan,
the First District.

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- And I'm gonna light it up.
- Then you have done it.

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A star in a jar. It's a warm glow.

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No smell. No poison.
Thirteen hours of light per globe.

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And it's cheaper than gas. Safer too.

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We bury the wires using my DC current,

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and those same wires
will bring you energy and heat.

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I need two buildings to house
six dynamos of my own construction.

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This won't even reach my house.

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Morgan, let me make you so rich

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that you will look back
at this moment and wonder,

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"Why was I ever so disgustingly poor?"

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It's all right there.
Ferry to Wall Street.

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In case you missed my scribble,
that's a big old circle

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around the <i>New York Times...</i>
free advertising.

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- One hundred fifty.
- Half a million.

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I'm talking about $500,000,
you buy the next century.

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Brighter, safer, yours.

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Sounds rather grand to me,
Pierpont. If I had your fortune...

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With respect, you don't, Mr. President.

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- What is that?
- That's not very nice.

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Morse code.

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What did the boy say?

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- What did the boy say?
- If there's nothing else,

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- it's been a pleasure, Mr. President.
- What did the boy say?

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Do you know what you've done?

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I always receive more by saying no.

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Set up the Manhattan offices
and make them look professional.

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- What does that mean?
- Oh, I don't know. Carpets.

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I don't know. Carpets.

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And the name?

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Edison Electric, of course.
Sir, why not build munitions?

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Five million dollars.
It's hard to say no to...

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No.

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If it's Edison, it works.

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If it works,
I'd strongly prefer it not kill anybody.

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Right.

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Thomas Edison has an unfavorable opinion
of college graduates seeking employment

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because they cannot answer
his examination questions.

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<i>"Who composed</i> Il Trovatore?"

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<i>Verdi.</i>

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<i>"What is the speed of sound?"</i>

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<i>Oh, a trick question.</i>

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Sound travels at
a constantly diminishing rate of speed.

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But I believe the fastest rate on record
is 11,463 feet per second.

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How do you know all this?

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I read that this morning.

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<i>This is different.</i>

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I can feel it.

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You never requested a house guest before.

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Really?

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Hmm.

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- Eight minutes from the junction, sir.
- Hmm?

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The Westinghouse dinner.

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We're going home. They're tired.
I already shook enough hands today.

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Evening, Frank.

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George.

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Pardon?

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I'm not stopping.

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Right.

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Maybe the brakes are busted.

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I doubt that.

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An emergency came up in New York.

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Don't let him agitate you.

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This is how he is.

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Before he was a wizard,
I let him live in my basement.

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My wife wouldn't have him at the table
with us unless he cleaned himself.

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And boy, given the ultimatum,
the man ate alone.

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How does he work?

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You want to know his secret?
He engineers his own reality,

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and he looks for needles in haystacks.

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But how does he know
there's a needle in the hay to begin with?

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He doesn't. Neither do you.

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But he's so determined not to be
the second person to find it,

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he'll go stalk by stalk,
on a "what-do-you-know."

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I will say one good thing about him:
He could be the richest man on earth,

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but he doesn't give a damn about money.

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What does he give a damn about?

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Mary? Talk.

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- I just want to test the resistance...
- Where's my barrette?

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- On top of your bureau.
- What's a bureau?

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It's what's under your barrette.

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Can I get you to promise on here
that you'll build me a fence?

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Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.

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Look, you're missing it!

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It's a baby! Still has her spots!

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Tom, come see this.

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Tom? Tom?

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You want half a million dollars,
make me something with your name on it

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that I can sell to General Sherman.

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Counteroffer.
How about I don't give you what you want,

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<i>but you give me everything I want?</i>

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We are gonna be big, big, big!

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- Bigger than an elephant!
- And no one stops an elephant!

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Whoo!

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It'll work.

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Look, I've got to be honest.
This might not work.

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Conventional wisdom has it, if you think
you're gonna fall flat on your face,

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better not do it in front of a crowd.

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Tonight, things could change.

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I hope they do.

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And if they do...

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they'll change there...

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and there.

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My boys and I caught in a jar

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what before now
has only flashed across the night sky.

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What say we unscrew the lid
and see what happens?

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You ready?

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- Three, two...
- Two, one!

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<i>The man has 100,000 feet
of copper for 87 customers.</i>

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<i>It will never be profitable.</i>

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It's a hobby for the rich.
Something to show off.

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It doesn't have to be.

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I'm securing patents on the Siemens dynamo
and the Gaulard-Gibbs transformer.

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Transformer?
That's more like a metal suitcase.

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How much did that cost?

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Edison, he picked the wrong horse.

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His current is like a hose
with a knot in it.

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He needs to sell one generator per mile.

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You want to build an AC system.
That's too powerful for motors.

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Put doubt out of your mind
for one moment and tell me,

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what distance
do you estimate one could get

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with a single alternating dynamo?

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- A few thousand.
- Yards?

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- Miles.
- Mm-hmm.

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And how many houses could we reach?

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I suppose all of them.
What about the bulbs?

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Hiram's agreed to license me his.

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If you're gonna rip off Edison,
rip him off right. They glow bright gray.

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I just want to do a demonstration
for Edison.

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Somewhere small. Small town. Rural.

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And then he'll see
alternating is possible,

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and we partner... our system, his bulbs.

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In my opinion, which I will admit is based
solely on physics and reality,

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what you want to do is fun to talk about.

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I really don't think it can be done.

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- Why?
- Because he would've already done it.

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My Paris office seems to think you may be
the only man on Earth to rival me.

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- How would you like to work for me?
- Very much.

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I'm expanding to 12 cities,
building direct-current systems...

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Direct current?

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Alternating current is far more efficient.

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- <i>Hickory, dickory dock...</i>
- Higher voltage,

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greater distance. less copper conductors...

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It's lethal, and it's too much power
for a motor to handle.

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I'm going to start you on $100 a month

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until you prove yourself worth
more or less.

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- A hundred dollars?
- If you can solve five things I can't,

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I'll pay you $50,000,
and then I'll have to fire you.

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Mr. Tesla, welcome to Edison Electric.

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We make a minor invention every ten days

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and a major one every six months or so.

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I have a suspicion
that though your husband's lab is but

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a hundred yards from your house, it must
seem sometimes like a hundred miles.

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No, a million.

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I've tried to find a way to stop
his brain, but it just runs and runs.

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It's something he can't control.
All I can do is bring him back to center.

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I've heard Mr. Edison called
"the worst husband in America"

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on account of him sleeping in his lab
on your wedding night.

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I've heard the story myself.

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Well, on our wedding night,

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Tom and I left on the Albany, uh...

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boat.

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We spent a week in Niagara Falls.

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I thought that one week of happiness
would be enough

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to illuminate an entire lifetime.

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He was a dashing inventor,
and I worked for him.

243
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You know. I was a...

244
00:20:42,335 --> 00:20:44,001
I-I was a...

245
00:20:45,335 --> 00:20:46,376
uh...

246
00:20:48,876 --> 00:20:50,376
Uh...

247
00:20:50,460 --> 00:20:51,626
I-I was a...

248
00:20:53,043 --> 00:20:54,168
Yes?

249
00:20:55,543 --> 00:20:58,001
Um...

250
00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:00,876
I'm sorry.

251
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:02,710
I-I operated the...

252
00:21:08,085 --> 00:21:10,168
- Telegraph?
- Yes.

253
00:21:10,251 --> 00:21:12,293
Yes. Telegraph.

254
00:21:14,668 --> 00:21:16,376
Forgive me.

255
00:21:20,251 --> 00:21:22,335
Does he have any hobbies?

256
00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,626
You promised them Coney Island.

257
00:21:35,710 --> 00:21:37,501
At the very least, a walk.

258
00:21:38,293 --> 00:21:40,585
We'll go on three walks tomorrow,
I promise.

259
00:21:43,918 --> 00:21:45,793
Here, why don't you take a picture?

260
00:22:04,668 --> 00:22:06,043
Slow down!

261
00:22:21,835 --> 00:22:25,168
It's neuralgia, brought on by eye strain.

262
00:22:25,251 --> 00:22:27,835
A good pair of spectacles
is all that's required.

263
00:22:27,918 --> 00:22:30,043
Oh, no. I'll look awful.

264
00:22:30,126 --> 00:22:32,876
No, no. No, you won't. That's impossible.

265
00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:36,418
Are you sure that's all?
She's been having terrible headaches.

266
00:22:36,501 --> 00:22:39,585
I'll leave her a vial of laudanum
until her eyes adjust.

267
00:22:39,668 --> 00:22:41,626
Thank you.

268
00:22:41,710 --> 00:22:43,210
Can you...

269
00:22:43,293 --> 00:22:46,210
Would you mind delaying the bill
for this visit?

270
00:22:47,126 --> 00:22:51,168
Well, my son would love an autograph.

271
00:23:19,543 --> 00:23:21,335
Christ, it's primitive.

272
00:23:23,418 --> 00:23:25,001
How much did this cost?

273
00:23:25,085 --> 00:23:27,335
- He won't tell me.
- What we need is here.

274
00:23:28,210 --> 00:23:31,251
<i>Edison's current
can't travel more than one mile, Frank.</i>

275
00:23:31,335 --> 00:23:34,668
<i>It peters out.
He'll have to build so many DC motors</i>

276
00:23:34,751 --> 00:23:37,543
<i>and bury all his copper
just to power one town.</i>

277
00:23:37,626 --> 00:23:40,835
<i>This country will look like
a checkerboard of power plants.</i>

278
00:23:40,918 --> 00:23:44,710
<i>But with one AC dynamo,
we can step-up the voltage</i>

279
00:23:44,793 --> 00:23:47,001
<i>and reach as far as the eye can see.</i>

280
00:23:47,085 --> 00:23:49,460
<i>We string the wires overhead on poles.</i>

281
00:23:49,543 --> 00:23:51,710
<i>Less copper, more electricity.</i>

282
00:23:51,793 --> 00:23:54,085
<i>We're 75 percent cheaper.</i>

283
00:23:54,168 --> 00:23:57,293
<i>The only thing that matters here
is distance.</i>

284
00:24:44,626 --> 00:24:48,168
Frank, this is as much yours
as it is mine.

285
00:24:48,251 --> 00:24:50,710
- I'd be proud if you'd flip the...
- I couldn't possibly.

286
00:24:50,793 --> 00:24:52,835
- Oh, don't be ridiculous.
- No, it belongs to you.

287
00:24:52,918 --> 00:24:54,958
- But you spent hours...
- George, it was your idea.

288
00:24:55,001 --> 00:24:56,501
You were the instigator.

289
00:24:56,585 --> 00:24:59,126
Shall we go for a ride?

290
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:11,085
<i>"To the Wizard of Menlo Park.</i>

291
00:25:12,126 --> 00:25:14,876
<i>As it seems your brakes have issues,</i>

292
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:18,710
<i>I would be delighted to send my car
to deliver you</i>

293
00:25:18,793 --> 00:25:21,751
<i>to Great Barrington, Massachusetts...</i>

294
00:25:22,876 --> 00:25:26,960
<i>where I have successfully
transmitted current one full mile."</i>

295
00:25:30,626 --> 00:25:32,251
No!

296
00:25:32,335 --> 00:25:34,210
How did he get the bulbs?

297
00:25:36,418 --> 00:25:39,376
What a roaring silence
from the brightest minds of America.

298
00:25:39,460 --> 00:25:44,001
- He's using Hiram's design.
- Which Hiram stole from me!

299
00:25:46,293 --> 00:25:49,043
- Sue him.
- We did. The court upheld his patent.

300
00:25:49,126 --> 00:25:50,852
I'm talking about Westinghouse.
Find an angle.

301
00:25:50,876 --> 00:25:53,168
Take a trip to Barrington
and see for yourself.

302
00:25:53,251 --> 00:25:55,585
Is anyone even slightly irked
that 15 years of work

303
00:25:55,668 --> 00:25:57,501
is being filched
from right under your eyes?

304
00:25:58,210 --> 00:25:59,418
Not again!

305
00:25:59,501 --> 00:26:02,960
I built a system here,
and he goes shopping for patents

306
00:26:03,043 --> 00:26:06,085
to cobble together something
to legally steal what is mine.

307
00:26:07,168 --> 00:26:10,626
If the bulbs are a battle,
then nail him on the dynamos.

308
00:26:10,710 --> 00:26:12,043
We can't.

309
00:26:13,835 --> 00:26:15,751
He's not even using direct current, sir.

310
00:26:17,918 --> 00:26:19,710
He's using alternating?

311
00:26:33,335 --> 00:26:34,585
Mary?

312
00:26:35,168 --> 00:26:36,543
Mary?

313
00:26:36,626 --> 00:26:38,668
Yes, I think we should have some more tea.

314
00:26:38,751 --> 00:26:40,585
Patricia?

315
00:26:57,501 --> 00:26:59,001
George Westinghouse?

316
00:26:59,876 --> 00:27:02,626
- Can we help you?
- I came from Thomas Edison.

317
00:27:03,543 --> 00:27:06,085
He wants me to buy one generator per mile.

318
00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:09,668
And then I saw the piece in <i>The Globe</i>
that says

319
00:27:09,751 --> 00:27:13,876
your electricity would save 66 percent
on Edison's.

320
00:27:15,751 --> 00:27:17,835
Well, it's a proposed saving.

321
00:27:18,418 --> 00:27:22,001
And it's not "my electricity."
It's "electricity."

322
00:27:22,626 --> 00:27:25,168
I think it makes much more sense
for the taxpayers of Columbus

323
00:27:25,251 --> 00:27:27,293
to go with Westinghouse Electric.

324
00:27:28,710 --> 00:27:31,918
I don't want to compete.
I only intend to license my system.

325
00:27:32,001 --> 00:27:34,168
- He's got the better bulbs.
- Why not compete?

326
00:27:34,251 --> 00:27:36,418
By now he knows.
Edison knows, I promise you.

327
00:27:36,501 --> 00:27:40,001
<i>The man doesn't care about
getting it right, just about getting it.</i>

328
00:27:40,085 --> 00:27:41,519
<i>But he doesn't respond.</i>

329
00:27:41,543 --> 00:27:44,001
Look, Westinghouse will never
have a complete system.

330
00:27:44,085 --> 00:27:46,727
- He can't even power a sewing machine.
- But I can solve that problem.

331
00:27:46,751 --> 00:27:49,918
Instead of again converting the currents
to work with a commutator,

332
00:27:50,001 --> 00:27:52,376
I would pass alternating current
differing in phase

333
00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:54,126
through two or more energizing circuits.

334
00:27:54,210 --> 00:27:57,001
You're supposed to be working on
commutators with DC dynamos.

335
00:27:57,085 --> 00:27:58,543
Well, I have.

336
00:27:58,626 --> 00:28:01,394
Look, I have done everything you have
asked, but you are making a mistake.

337
00:28:01,418 --> 00:28:03,876
- What?
- Direct current may be fine for cities

338
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,751
when the buildings are close together,
but most of your country is empty spaces.

339
00:28:07,835 --> 00:28:10,793
Only high voltage can span the distance.
You are not thinking long-term.

340
00:28:10,876 --> 00:28:14,835
This technology is within your grasp.
I can build you an efficient motor.

341
00:28:14,918 --> 00:28:16,210
Have you tried it?

342
00:28:16,293 --> 00:28:17,418
No.

343
00:28:18,501 --> 00:28:20,710
Look, in my head, it is nearly completed.

344
00:28:20,793 --> 00:28:22,953
Men claim to have heads
full of sonnets and symphonies,

345
00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:25,918
but their only problem seems to be
they can't quite write it down.

346
00:28:26,001 --> 00:28:29,668
- Let me try.
- No, because I can't start again!

347
00:28:29,751 --> 00:28:32,186
I got orders from Michigan.
I got a roomful of press waiting for me.

348
00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:33,918
Do what you were hired to do.

349
00:28:34,001 --> 00:28:36,210
So, you will not honor your word
about the remuneration?

350
00:28:36,293 --> 00:28:38,460
- What are you talking about?
- Well, you said $50,000.

351
00:28:38,543 --> 00:28:41,793
- Are you unhappy with my contributions?
- I'm not paying you $50,000.

352
00:28:41,876 --> 00:28:43,293
That was a joke.

353
00:28:46,793 --> 00:28:48,918
Coconut fibers and horn shavings,
and fishing lines

354
00:28:49,001 --> 00:28:51,251
and cork and celluloid and flax

355
00:28:51,335 --> 00:28:53,543
and platinum, iron, nickel, copper, steel.

356
00:28:53,626 --> 00:28:56,001
We scoured the earth, years and years,

357
00:28:56,085 --> 00:28:59,126
trying thousands,
10,000 different combinations.

358
00:28:59,210 --> 00:29:03,043
Then George Westinghouse
saw how I did it and put on a pirate hat.

359
00:29:03,126 --> 00:29:05,626
You get vultures in every venture,

360
00:29:05,710 --> 00:29:07,418
but you've just got to keep them away.

361
00:29:07,501 --> 00:29:10,668
- So this is just how it works?
- Map-makers include mistakes in their work

362
00:29:10,751 --> 00:29:13,043
to see if anyone else is copying them.

363
00:29:13,126 --> 00:29:16,085
I don't have that luxury. I can't invent
streets to lead the world down.

364
00:29:16,168 --> 00:29:18,543
Otherwise we all end up in the dark.

365
00:29:18,626 --> 00:29:21,793
Good, and remember, write as much
as you can about how he's infringing.

366
00:29:22,543 --> 00:29:24,918
Thank you, Mr. Edison,
and thanks for this.

367
00:29:31,668 --> 00:29:33,835
Did I mention that his system's lethal?

368
00:29:34,543 --> 00:29:36,626
You reach out and touch

369
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:40,085
a doorknob or a rail,
and, well, you become the circuit.

370
00:29:40,793 --> 00:29:43,126
Just to be clear on that point...

371
00:29:45,126 --> 00:29:46,543
Well, you die.

372
00:29:47,751 --> 00:29:50,251
With DC current,
you can reach out and touch anything

373
00:29:50,335 --> 00:29:53,001
at any stage of the line
with your bare hands.

374
00:29:53,085 --> 00:29:56,210
It's safe. It works. And it bears
the name of Edison, so it's pretty.

375
00:29:57,543 --> 00:30:01,376
Our government has been trying for some
time now to get me to invent a weapon,

376
00:30:01,460 --> 00:30:04,460
but I won't use this brain to invent
anything that hurts people.

377
00:30:04,543 --> 00:30:07,043
For that, you can shop in Pittsburgh.

378
00:30:07,126 --> 00:30:09,501
So you say
Westinghouse wants to hurt people?

379
00:30:09,585 --> 00:30:13,001
No. I can't say that. But you can.

380
00:30:24,751 --> 00:30:26,918
<i>This is what he thinks of you.</i>

381
00:30:28,085 --> 00:30:31,960
Issue a statement to the papers today.
Refute his charges.

382
00:30:32,043 --> 00:30:33,835
I'm not going to engage with this.

383
00:30:33,918 --> 00:30:36,668
We have the better system.
That speaks loudest.

384
00:30:42,835 --> 00:30:47,293
Westinghouse Electric Company
was founded at a quarter past 9:00.

385
00:30:48,918 --> 00:30:51,376
Hello. I'm George Westinghouse.
Do we have an appointment?

386
00:30:51,876 --> 00:30:53,210
North Dakota.

387
00:30:53,293 --> 00:30:54,585
New Orleans.

388
00:30:54,668 --> 00:30:55,960
Fort Worth.

389
00:30:56,043 --> 00:30:57,168
Sioux City.

390
00:30:57,251 --> 00:30:59,293
You want the good news or the good news?

391
00:30:59,376 --> 00:31:02,376
<i>♪ Hurrah, boys, hurrah ♪</i>

392
00:31:04,168 --> 00:31:06,436
<i>We've been spending
all our time trying to nab him</i>

393
00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:08,940
<i>on what's in the glass bubble
when we should've been looking at</i>

394
00:31:09,001 --> 00:31:11,251
<i>is the clear opposite end of the bulb,
the corkscrew.</i>

395
00:31:11,335 --> 00:31:13,001
- I own that.
<i>- That you do.</i>

396
00:31:14,376 --> 00:31:15,918
He's suing you.

397
00:31:16,585 --> 00:31:18,293
<i>This is a massive lawsuit.</i>

398
00:31:18,376 --> 00:31:20,626
<i>This is Edison and Morgan.</i>

399
00:31:20,710 --> 00:31:23,376
<i>My advice: Is there any way
that you can think of</i>

400
00:31:23,460 --> 00:31:25,376
<i>to beat gravity other than a corkscrew?</i>

401
00:31:28,001 --> 00:31:30,751
<i>Westinghouse designed
a stopper to get around your corkscrew.</i>

402
00:31:30,835 --> 00:31:32,915
<i>It's only a matter of time
before they're everywhere.</i>

403
00:31:34,376 --> 00:31:38,251
To tell you the truth, I am mostly looking
forward to using it at the lumber mills.

404
00:31:38,335 --> 00:31:40,751
Well, at the moment, we offer only light.

405
00:31:40,835 --> 00:31:44,460
In time, we'll move on
to motorized tools and appliances.

406
00:31:44,543 --> 00:31:47,126
When? I don't care what light costs.

407
00:31:48,085 --> 00:31:52,043
My home's on gas. I'm after productivity.
I don't understand.

408
00:31:52,126 --> 00:31:55,668
Edison said that electricity
can already be used in factories.

409
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:58,501
Well, his can.

410
00:32:02,126 --> 00:32:04,126
I need to see this needle move.

411
00:32:04,210 --> 00:32:06,894
I can't step the voltage down
without blowing the whole thing to pieces.

412
00:32:06,918 --> 00:32:08,876
Come on. You must've made some progress.

413
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,085
It's just not ready.

414
00:32:33,210 --> 00:32:35,126
Kill it. Kill it!

415
00:32:42,626 --> 00:32:44,666
There has to be a solution out there.

416
00:32:49,793 --> 00:32:53,710
The Nikola Tesla Electric Light Company.
How does that sound?

417
00:32:53,793 --> 00:32:56,543
- When can you bring arcs to production?
- Arc lighting?

418
00:32:56,626 --> 00:33:00,043
I believe we agreed to compete for
incandescents, motors and distribution.

419
00:33:00,126 --> 00:33:01,626
Leave that to Edison.

420
00:33:01,710 --> 00:33:04,376
I am working on advanced methods
to surpass him.

421
00:33:04,460 --> 00:33:08,126
- To beat Edison? How soon?
- Only a few years.

422
00:33:08,210 --> 00:33:10,293
I need a lab, engineers, supplies.

423
00:33:10,376 --> 00:33:12,043
There are, of course, expenses.

424
00:33:12,126 --> 00:33:14,668
Oh, where do you get the cash
for those fancy silks?

425
00:33:14,751 --> 00:33:16,960
How I spend my income is my concern.

426
00:33:17,043 --> 00:33:21,043
Look, Mr. Tesla, if you need cash now,
you should sell us your patents.

427
00:33:22,001 --> 00:33:23,793
And what would I receive?

428
00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:25,043
Stock.

429
00:33:25,126 --> 00:33:27,835
And later, if you succeed,
you can sell it for a killing.

430
00:33:27,918 --> 00:33:29,585
That means a fortune.

431
00:33:29,668 --> 00:33:33,293
- Yes, I know what an idiom is.
- We'll take on two-thirds of the risk.

432
00:33:33,376 --> 00:33:36,126
It's a good price
for the only thing you have to sell.

433
00:33:39,251 --> 00:33:42,585
Congestion of the brain?
What does that even mean?

434
00:33:42,668 --> 00:33:46,376
There's a... an occlusion hidden,

435
00:33:46,460 --> 00:33:48,751
and it expands.

436
00:33:48,835 --> 00:33:51,168
Her eyesight will likely go first,

437
00:33:51,251 --> 00:33:53,668
and then her vocabulary will fall away.

438
00:33:53,751 --> 00:33:55,210
I can't lose her.

439
00:33:57,918 --> 00:34:01,085
Working on a raised alphabet,
I'll make her a dictionary.

440
00:34:01,168 --> 00:34:03,960
She'll gradually lose her mobility.

441
00:34:04,043 --> 00:34:05,710
I'll build her an elevator.

442
00:34:06,710 --> 00:34:07,751
Mr. Edison,

443
00:34:08,710 --> 00:34:10,626
what your wife needs...

444
00:34:11,710 --> 00:34:13,501
no man can build.

445
00:34:14,335 --> 00:34:16,251
What my wife needs, according to you,

446
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,751
is a simple pair of spectacles.

447
00:34:20,501 --> 00:34:22,335
Nature will take its course.

448
00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:26,626
I, uh...

449
00:34:28,043 --> 00:34:30,418
I have to leave for New York tonight.

450
00:34:31,293 --> 00:34:33,001
It can't be avoided.

451
00:34:34,668 --> 00:34:37,876
I will attend to her
while you're away, but...

452
00:34:39,460 --> 00:34:40,668
don't linger.

453
00:34:55,710 --> 00:34:57,350
<i>Ohio is going with Westinghouse.</i>

454
00:34:57,376 --> 00:35:00,543
- Columbus. Zanesville.
- Zanesville? Give it to him.

455
00:35:00,626 --> 00:35:01,751
That isn't funny.

456
00:35:03,001 --> 00:35:05,793
We don't know something is a pattern
till it happens again,

457
00:35:05,876 --> 00:35:07,918
which I sincerely hope it does not.

458
00:35:08,001 --> 00:35:11,668
Now, you tell me, what is he doing right
that you're doing wrong?

459
00:35:11,751 --> 00:35:14,626
He is successfully selling machines
that will result

460
00:35:14,710 --> 00:35:17,168
in the accidental deaths of human beings.

461
00:35:17,251 --> 00:35:19,311
- And where are these deaths?
- Where are these deaths?

462
00:35:19,335 --> 00:35:20,460
Why don't we switch now,

463
00:35:20,543 --> 00:35:22,727
and then you get to shoulder
the inevitable suits of manslaughter.

464
00:35:22,751 --> 00:35:26,751
I think that people aren't dying because
it's not as dangerous as you wish it were.

465
00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:31,626
All right, he's beating us on costs,
but that is a temporary advantage.

466
00:35:31,710 --> 00:35:33,668
You give me enough time,
I'll make ours so cheap

467
00:35:33,751 --> 00:35:35,835
that only the rich will burn candles.

468
00:35:35,918 --> 00:35:38,751
And until then, you bleed cities
to Westinghouse. I'm not a bank.

469
00:35:38,835 --> 00:35:40,793
That is exactly what you are.

470
00:35:40,876 --> 00:35:44,501
We could've had this conversation by
telephone instead of you wasting my time.

471
00:35:44,585 --> 00:35:47,543
When I want to see someone, he comes.
Eye to eye. That's how it works.

472
00:35:47,626 --> 00:35:49,543
No. Here's how it works.

473
00:35:49,626 --> 00:35:53,543
I build miracles, and you continue to
give me as much goddamn money as I want.

474
00:35:54,293 --> 00:35:56,460
Oh, what? Did I squander another town?

475
00:35:58,335 --> 00:36:00,085
All right, what did I lose?

476
00:37:57,251 --> 00:38:00,335
<i>Say something.</i>

477
00:38:00,418 --> 00:38:03,918
<i>Can I get you to promise
on here that you'll build me a fence?</i>

478
00:38:05,293 --> 00:38:07,460
<i>Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.</i>

479
00:38:09,293 --> 00:38:10,960
<i>Look! You're missing it!</i>

480
00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:23,961
<i>Say something.</i>

481
00:38:24,043 --> 00:38:27,460
<i>Can I get you to promise
on here that you'll build me a fence?</i>

482
00:38:27,543 --> 00:38:29,793
<i>Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.</i>

483
00:38:31,293 --> 00:38:33,085
<i>Look! You're missing it!</i>

484
00:38:35,543 --> 00:38:38,168
No. Now we move on
to my motor, as agreed...

485
00:38:38,251 --> 00:38:40,835
Look, we don't...
we don't want any of that.

486
00:38:40,918 --> 00:38:42,793
The arcs you built aren't selling anymore.

487
00:38:42,876 --> 00:38:45,126
We can't compete with Edison
and Westinghouse!

488
00:38:45,210 --> 00:38:48,210
Then I will take my patents
and wish you both a great misfortune.

489
00:38:48,293 --> 00:38:50,793
- Your patents?
- Yes. My patents.

490
00:39:00,043 --> 00:39:01,918
Can I get you anything, sir?

491
00:39:03,168 --> 00:39:04,751
A time machine.

492
00:39:05,251 --> 00:39:08,585
Well, if I ever find one, I'll travel
back to this moment and give it to you.

493
00:39:09,835 --> 00:39:11,418
Did you read over the proposal?

494
00:39:11,501 --> 00:39:15,168
I'm not diverting what I've got left
of my resources in lighting up a fair.

495
00:39:15,251 --> 00:39:17,876
It's much more than a fair, sir.
A third of this country

496
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,293
will get on trains to Chicago
to try and see this City of Light.

497
00:39:22,793 --> 00:39:25,293
Every window, every streetlamp,
a sign that says,

498
00:39:25,376 --> 00:39:27,251
"The race is over, and we won."

499
00:39:28,001 --> 00:39:30,126
Why spend your final dollars
traveling this country

500
00:39:30,210 --> 00:39:32,793
to show everyone your electricity
when they're all

501
00:39:32,876 --> 00:39:35,376
traveling to the same place
to try to see it anyway?

502
00:39:35,460 --> 00:39:36,977
Because in a year, they'll rip it down.

503
00:39:37,001 --> 00:39:39,626
Only after 30 million people
have seen it, yes.

504
00:39:46,835 --> 00:39:48,626
Westinghouse is placing a bid.

505
00:40:03,168 --> 00:40:05,793
Nice hat. Looks expensive.

506
00:40:05,876 --> 00:40:08,210
I owned this before I worked for you,
Mr. Edison.

507
00:40:08,293 --> 00:40:11,626
I don't think you are working for me.
He's still using my bulbs.

508
00:40:11,710 --> 00:40:13,960
His patents are in order.

509
00:40:14,043 --> 00:40:15,585
Do you want my advice?

510
00:40:16,043 --> 00:40:18,460
You keep saying
Westinghouse's current will kill people,

511
00:40:18,543 --> 00:40:21,751
so in lieu of evidence,
why don't you provide it?

512
00:40:31,043 --> 00:40:34,626
We're doing this because
when we have a complete system,

513
00:40:34,710 --> 00:40:37,876
it works, and it's Edison.

514
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:39,376
Poor bastard.

515
00:40:40,335 --> 00:40:44,668
Well, he was gonna be slaughtered anyway.
He's not going to feel any pain, right?

516
00:40:44,751 --> 00:40:47,085
At 3,000 volts,
it'll be over before it begins.

517
00:40:47,168 --> 00:40:48,835
So there's nothing to worry about?

518
00:40:49,751 --> 00:40:52,543
But these are reporters, so you might
want to liven up a little bit.

519
00:40:57,126 --> 00:40:59,835
Welcome to Menlo Park.

520
00:40:59,918 --> 00:41:02,210
Thank you for coming out
on this cold morning.

521
00:41:02,293 --> 00:41:04,918
- Good to see you again.
- Good morning.

522
00:41:05,001 --> 00:41:07,043
- I'm Southwick Brown.
- A pleasure.

523
00:41:07,126 --> 00:41:09,585
Now you, uh, you might all
want to stand back a little bit.

524
00:41:09,668 --> 00:41:11,751
Gus is being connected to the same current

525
00:41:11,835 --> 00:41:14,210
that Westinghouse uses from his generator.

526
00:41:14,293 --> 00:41:18,001
But there's no word yet coined
to define death by electricity,

527
00:41:18,085 --> 00:41:20,751
so I asked the men who write
the dictionaries, and I heard back

528
00:41:20,835 --> 00:41:24,418
"electro-dite," "electro-cremate"
and "dyna-mort."

529
00:41:24,501 --> 00:41:28,418
But just as Joe Guillotine
got his name on his invention,

530
00:41:29,085 --> 00:41:32,251
how could we rob the rightful inventor
of death by electricity

531
00:41:32,335 --> 00:41:34,626
of his due credit?

532
00:41:34,710 --> 00:41:38,543
I ask you to please be respectful
as we Westinghouse this horse.

533
00:42:08,460 --> 00:42:11,835
Mr. Edison, Southwick Brown,
Capital Punishment Commission.

534
00:42:11,918 --> 00:42:14,960
You've read, no doubt, of the botched
hangings throughout the Northeast.

535
00:42:15,043 --> 00:42:17,311
<i>The prisoners either choke to death...</i>

536
00:42:17,335 --> 00:42:19,376
<i>...or are violently decapitated.</i>

537
00:42:19,460 --> 00:42:21,293
<i>The spectacle is inhumane.</i>

538
00:42:21,376 --> 00:42:25,168
<i>But the horse... his death
was so calm, you could call it...</i>

539
00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:28,876
<i>poetic.</i>

540
00:42:32,126 --> 00:42:35,460
The governor of New York,
upon my personal recommendation,

541
00:42:35,543 --> 00:42:37,626
would like to explore a death device

542
00:42:37,710 --> 00:42:40,210
which uses electricity on a human being.

543
00:42:40,835 --> 00:42:44,376
It would be our honor
to award you the contract.

544
00:42:45,543 --> 00:42:48,001
- If nothing else, a pleasure.
- I beg your pardon?

545
00:42:48,085 --> 00:42:52,501
To kill a human being under the guise
of justice is... is cockeyed.

546
00:42:52,585 --> 00:42:55,043
There's a big difference
between a horse and a person.

547
00:42:55,126 --> 00:42:58,251
God humanely brings us into this world.

548
00:42:58,835 --> 00:43:02,293
Why would you reject the opportunity
to be the first man

549
00:43:02,376 --> 00:43:04,793
to humanely take us out of it?

550
00:44:04,918 --> 00:44:06,376
William.

551
00:44:08,585 --> 00:44:10,251
I killed my wife.

552
00:44:22,126 --> 00:44:24,210
<i>I'm turning the handle.</i>

553
00:44:25,168 --> 00:44:27,085
<i>Maybe there's more to it than that.</i>

554
00:44:28,085 --> 00:44:30,501
<i>If I'm doing it wrong,
you'll never know I was fooling around</i>

555
00:44:30,585 --> 00:44:33,376
<i>with your phonograph or gramophone,</i>

556
00:44:33,460 --> 00:44:35,543
<i>whatever you end up calling it.</i>

557
00:44:35,626 --> 00:44:37,710
<i>And what is this thing really?</i>

558
00:44:38,501 --> 00:44:42,085
<i>Today's Mary is speaking
to tomorrow's Thomas.</i>

559
00:44:42,168 --> 00:44:43,501
<i>Or from where you sit,</i>

560
00:44:43,585 --> 00:44:46,043
<i>today's Tom is listening
to yesterday's Mary.</i>

561
00:44:48,918 --> 00:44:51,293
<i>I wonder what else you can do with it.</i>

562
00:44:59,543 --> 00:45:01,210
Mr. Tesla,

563
00:45:01,293 --> 00:45:04,269
my son and his idiot friend tell me
you don't want to make arc lights anymore.

564
00:45:04,293 --> 00:45:05,835
Is that true?

565
00:45:05,918 --> 00:45:08,335
Don't look at him, look at me.
I'm your primary shareholder.

566
00:45:08,418 --> 00:45:10,960
No. I already completed
the arc light project.

567
00:45:11,043 --> 00:45:14,793
Completed? You covered one city:
Rahway, New Jersey.

568
00:45:14,876 --> 00:45:17,710
For the love of God, think bigger.
Philadelphia.

569
00:45:17,793 --> 00:45:20,918
You design arc lights to outfit cities.
That was your only job.

570
00:45:21,001 --> 00:45:24,085
No. My AC motor. Okay? We agreed...

571
00:45:24,168 --> 00:45:26,668
- No, I never agreed to anything.
- In this office, you said...

572
00:45:26,751 --> 00:45:27,876
Uh!

573
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,293
Lane, could you wait outside for a moment?

574
00:45:37,210 --> 00:45:39,710
I'm sorry. Don't you realize
you're being fired here?

575
00:45:41,835 --> 00:45:45,626
No. Please, let me work through
what I have in my head.

576
00:45:45,710 --> 00:45:48,876
I will make you the greatest provider
of electrical power in the world.

577
00:45:48,960 --> 00:45:50,751
Better than Edison.

578
00:45:50,835 --> 00:45:53,168
I'm-I'm so close. Just a few months.

579
00:45:57,876 --> 00:46:00,668
You drop in here like you're from Neptune,

580
00:46:00,751 --> 00:46:03,501
like you got a great vision of the future

581
00:46:03,585 --> 00:46:05,686
- that no one understands but you.
- No, please don't touch.

582
00:46:05,710 --> 00:46:07,751
But you're just an immigrant.

583
00:46:08,585 --> 00:46:11,543
Head full of notions,
looking for a handout. You're not Edison.

584
00:46:11,626 --> 00:46:14,751
There's only one Edison. That's why
he's in. There's millions of you.

585
00:46:14,835 --> 00:46:18,960
Big ideas, but you can't see
the real force that moves things.

586
00:46:19,043 --> 00:46:22,001
And it's not AC/DC, it's not currents.

587
00:46:22,668 --> 00:46:24,043
It's currency.

588
00:46:24,626 --> 00:46:26,710
And that's the only motor
I'm interested in.

589
00:46:29,835 --> 00:46:33,585
These patents belong to
the Tesla Electric Light Company.

590
00:46:33,668 --> 00:46:37,251
This is now the Union Electric
and Manufacturing Company,

591
00:46:37,335 --> 00:46:39,376
and I own everything in this office.

592
00:46:40,001 --> 00:46:43,335
Patents, designs, engineers, all mine.

593
00:46:44,585 --> 00:46:47,251
Never going to be anything
named Tesla ever again.

594
00:46:48,626 --> 00:46:52,835
You take your notions
and go back where you came from.

595
00:47:05,335 --> 00:47:07,335
He's snapping up town after town.

596
00:47:08,293 --> 00:47:11,835
Cats, dogs, sheep, 11 horses...
What more do people need to see?

597
00:47:11,918 --> 00:47:14,335
The problem is, no one's actually dying
from alternating,

598
00:47:14,418 --> 00:47:17,376
apart from your cats,
dogs, sheep and 11 horses.

599
00:47:18,668 --> 00:47:21,376
- Sir, I realize I'm only your secretary...
- Just say it.

600
00:47:21,460 --> 00:47:24,335
Bring the phonograph to market.
You can make your own money.

601
00:47:24,418 --> 00:47:27,126
- No, it needs too many improvements.
- Make them. sir.

602
00:47:28,168 --> 00:47:31,168
- Bell is ripping you off.
- Graphophone? He just switched the name.

603
00:47:31,251 --> 00:47:34,227
Direct me to a store where I can buy
yours, and I won't give him the business.

604
00:47:34,251 --> 00:47:36,376
You have a real offer on the table here.

605
00:47:37,043 --> 00:47:40,335
Half a million dollars.
Sir, take the money. You need it.

606
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:43,460
If Bell ripped you off with the telephone,

607
00:47:43,543 --> 00:47:45,543
he'll do it again with the graphophone.

608
00:47:45,626 --> 00:47:47,793
Did you just misspeak intentionally?

609
00:47:47,876 --> 00:47:49,876
Do you want Chicago?

610
00:47:54,251 --> 00:47:55,751
All right, I'm ready.

611
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:18,335
A dollar a ball?

612
00:48:19,126 --> 00:48:20,793
So, what's your trade?

613
00:48:20,876 --> 00:48:24,210
Inventor. I fix problems for idiots.

614
00:48:25,293 --> 00:48:28,376
Imagine dictation
without the aid of a stenographer.

615
00:48:30,126 --> 00:48:33,001
Phonographic books
that will speak to blind people.

616
00:48:33,085 --> 00:48:35,668
Reproduction of music. Talking toys.

617
00:48:36,168 --> 00:48:39,001
Clocks that will announce the time.

618
00:48:39,085 --> 00:48:41,335
The preservation of dying languages.

619
00:48:41,418 --> 00:48:43,293
Teaching of elocution.

620
00:48:43,376 --> 00:48:45,918
- You hustled us.
- Yes. No.

621
00:48:46,835 --> 00:48:48,227
I didn't come all this way to lose.

622
00:48:48,251 --> 00:48:51,585
The final capturing of the dying words
of your loved ones.

623
00:48:55,501 --> 00:48:58,585
<i>Mary had a little lamb,
his fleece was white as snow,</i>

624
00:48:58,668 --> 00:49:01,793
<i>and everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.</i>

625
00:49:07,710 --> 00:49:12,001
Well, it's either not possible,
or I'm not the engineer I thought I was.

626
00:49:14,210 --> 00:49:17,751
And he's traveling around the country,
cooking up cats.

627
00:49:17,835 --> 00:49:20,876
George, he's playing dirty. You can too.

628
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:22,001
Mm.

629
00:49:23,626 --> 00:49:26,085
You know, when I was a boy, my father...

630
00:49:27,335 --> 00:49:29,335
tried to whip me with a branch.

631
00:49:30,376 --> 00:49:34,293
But after the first hit,
it broke into three little pieces.

632
00:49:35,918 --> 00:49:39,251
And we just stood there, looking at
this shattered stick on the ground.

633
00:49:40,876 --> 00:49:44,418
And then I noticed there was
a leather strap hanging on the wall,

634
00:49:44,501 --> 00:49:46,710
so I pointed to it and said,

635
00:49:46,793 --> 00:49:50,210
"Look. That's the better one."

636
00:49:51,418 --> 00:49:52,876
And he stopped.

637
00:49:57,376 --> 00:50:02,043
I can take a beating, but I have
no patience for shoddy craftsmanship.

638
00:50:04,668 --> 00:50:08,460
You are gonna have a working motor
sitting next to your display in Chicago,

639
00:50:08,543 --> 00:50:11,793
come hell, high water,
or the Wizard of Menlo Park.

640
00:50:18,543 --> 00:50:20,251
- Good night, Frank.
- Good night.

641
00:51:19,376 --> 00:51:21,376
So you admit Edison was right?

642
00:51:49,876 --> 00:51:52,168
We will remember Franklin Pope...

643
00:51:53,085 --> 00:51:55,876
for his fearless dedication
to moving us forward.

644
00:51:56,626 --> 00:51:59,751
He tried to see
what was hiding in plain sight.

645
00:52:05,501 --> 00:52:07,168
Today, I am...

646
00:52:09,001 --> 00:52:10,960
filled less with grief than anger,

647
00:52:11,043 --> 00:52:13,501
because what happened
could've been avoided.

648
00:52:15,918 --> 00:52:18,793
Hear me now
as you have never heard me before.

649
00:52:19,626 --> 00:52:21,210
As I breathe...

650
00:52:22,793 --> 00:52:24,960
as long as Westinghouse
stays in business...

651
00:52:26,376 --> 00:52:28,418
<i>more people will die.</i>

652
00:52:48,543 --> 00:52:50,293
My condolences.

653
00:52:52,626 --> 00:52:55,085
Sounds like he was
more than just an employee.

654
00:53:00,168 --> 00:53:02,376
What was his name? Franklin Popes?

655
00:53:03,543 --> 00:53:05,626
Pope. Just one.

656
00:53:06,876 --> 00:53:08,960
- It's a shame.
- Mm.

657
00:53:09,043 --> 00:53:10,585
But I'm here to help.

658
00:53:11,335 --> 00:53:13,210
Now, I know that you, uh,

659
00:53:13,293 --> 00:53:15,335
you wish Edison to quiet down.

660
00:53:18,085 --> 00:53:21,585
So let me combine your companies.
Let me clean up the mess.

661
00:53:25,543 --> 00:53:29,376
You really think Westinghouse Electric
is worth $5 million?

662
00:53:29,460 --> 00:53:32,751
The value of something is the highest
number someone else is willing to pay.

663
00:53:32,835 --> 00:53:36,418
But 800 men will lose their livelihoods.

664
00:53:36,501 --> 00:53:38,668
I will keep your workers.

665
00:53:38,751 --> 00:53:42,293
I will not make the same promise
for your five-day work week.

666
00:53:42,376 --> 00:53:43,418
Mm.

667
00:53:44,918 --> 00:53:47,001
Seems like you're amenable.

668
00:53:49,668 --> 00:53:50,751
Mm.

669
00:53:57,668 --> 00:53:59,626
Which current will you use?

670
00:54:01,126 --> 00:54:03,376
Whichever Edison selects, I suppose.

671
00:54:13,251 --> 00:54:14,585
<i>Absurdity.</i>

672
00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:17,126
You think I'm being absurd?

673
00:54:18,293 --> 00:54:20,168
Yes, I do.

674
00:54:20,251 --> 00:54:22,460
We're overextended, Marguerite.

675
00:54:23,585 --> 00:54:25,501
There's no shame in selling.

676
00:54:29,376 --> 00:54:32,543
What I was always after
was to partner with Edison...

677
00:54:33,585 --> 00:54:35,668
and I have the chance to do that now.

678
00:54:36,876 --> 00:54:40,835
We have no motor, so we're a train into
a mountainside anyway. It's impossible.

679
00:54:40,918 --> 00:54:43,960
I thought "impossible" wasn't a word
in your vocabulary.

680
00:54:50,085 --> 00:54:52,126
I am dissolving Westinghouse Electric.

681
00:54:52,210 --> 00:54:56,418
The proceeds will go to preserve
our other failing enterprises,

682
00:54:56,501 --> 00:55:00,585
and time itself will mend
Edison's mistakes.

683
00:55:00,668 --> 00:55:04,626
You are not a captain
who changes his course with the sea.

684
00:55:04,710 --> 00:55:06,626
We are not on a course!

685
00:55:07,210 --> 00:55:09,043
We're drowning!

686
00:55:09,126 --> 00:55:12,043
This whole thing is costing us a fortune!

687
00:55:12,126 --> 00:55:14,668
- You don't care about money.
- A fortune!

688
00:55:16,001 --> 00:55:19,168
I lived in your parents' house
while you went door-to-door.

689
00:55:19,793 --> 00:55:22,876
Do you want people saying
you stand for everything you don't?

690
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,043
Using your last name as a verb?

691
00:55:25,126 --> 00:55:28,418
Well, how exactly do you suggest
I correct that, dear?

692
00:55:29,876 --> 00:55:33,001
I have you, and I had Frank.

693
00:55:34,585 --> 00:55:35,668
That's it.

694
00:55:36,918 --> 00:55:38,501
I loved the man.

695
00:55:40,293 --> 00:55:44,710
This is really nothing
but a sensible business decision.

696
00:55:46,126 --> 00:55:48,168
- George...
- That's all.

697
00:55:52,751 --> 00:55:54,001
That's all.

698
00:56:00,710 --> 00:56:03,626
Say what you will about
George Westinghouse, he sure is nice.

699
00:56:39,626 --> 00:56:42,876
You've crossed into territory
for the Confederacy.

700
00:56:44,876 --> 00:56:47,918
No, I, uh, I think you're mistaken.

701
00:56:48,460 --> 00:56:50,751
According to my map here...

702
00:57:01,918 --> 00:57:06,585
Though I mourn the loss of my colleague,
misfortune does not trump progress.

703
00:57:08,793 --> 00:57:13,126
Now, it seems to me that Mr. Edison
puts his name on everything

704
00:57:13,210 --> 00:57:16,126
because he's terrified of being forgotten.

705
00:57:17,293 --> 00:57:20,293
If you want to be remembered, it's simple:
shoot a president.

706
00:57:21,251 --> 00:57:24,418
But if you prefer to have
what I call a legacy,

707
00:57:24,501 --> 00:57:27,376
you leave the world
a better place than you found it.

708
00:57:28,418 --> 00:57:31,751
Thomas Alva Edison is a charlatan

709
00:57:31,835 --> 00:57:35,501
who preys on the fears of the common man

710
00:57:35,585 --> 00:57:37,710
because I have the better system.

711
00:57:39,126 --> 00:57:44,210
And because I do have the better system,
Westinghouse Electric shall endure.

712
00:57:44,293 --> 00:57:45,376
Good day.

713
00:57:46,626 --> 00:57:50,085
<i>Westinghouse has taken the lead.
He's not going away.</i>

714
00:57:50,168 --> 00:57:53,918
<i>And while I appreciate your lights,
Mr. Edison, I'm also your customer.</i>

715
00:57:54,501 --> 00:57:57,251
<i>If something comes to my door
and offers me something that I need</i>

716
00:57:57,335 --> 00:58:00,501
that is better than what I have now,
at a cheaper price,

717
00:58:00,585 --> 00:58:03,668
why, I'd be a fool
not to invite him in for tea.

718
00:58:03,751 --> 00:58:06,668
- Is this an ultimatum?
<i>- More of a threat.</i>

719
00:58:06,751 --> 00:58:08,793
<i>If you maintain
that fear is the best strategy,</i>

720
00:58:08,876 --> 00:58:10,960
<i>then you'd better hurry up and try harder.</i>

721
00:58:12,543 --> 00:58:13,585
Time's up.

722
00:58:17,168 --> 00:58:19,251
<i>...man who was handsome and clever</i>

723
00:58:19,335 --> 00:58:21,835
<i>built a box with a crank and a lever</i>

724
00:58:21,918 --> 00:58:25,418
<i>to store his wife's voice,
though he made a poor choice,</i>

725
00:58:25,501 --> 00:58:29,168
<i>because now she can tease him forever.</i>

726
00:58:31,626 --> 00:58:35,043
I couldn't stop it if I wanted to,

727
00:58:35,543 --> 00:58:37,293
which I don't,

728
00:58:37,376 --> 00:58:40,835
because I...
I think it's a remarkable gift.

729
00:58:42,293 --> 00:58:46,210
Electricity will kill that man in Buffalo.

730
00:58:46,293 --> 00:58:49,085
We don't know the voltage.

731
00:58:49,168 --> 00:58:52,876
Too much, and he ignites.
Too little, and he's still alive.

732
00:58:53,460 --> 00:58:55,835
All we need is your advice.

733
00:58:55,918 --> 00:58:59,293
How much is humane?
Where to put the electrode?

734
00:58:59,376 --> 00:59:04,251
And in exchange, I will promise you
something that I know you want.

735
00:59:06,251 --> 00:59:10,585
I will put the Westinghouse name
right out front

736
00:59:10,668 --> 00:59:14,626
as the official electricity used
to kill human beings.

737
00:59:17,001 --> 00:59:21,001
I even think we can get this chair
on display at the Chicago World's Fair.

738
00:59:22,710 --> 00:59:24,376
The future.

739
00:59:32,376 --> 00:59:34,460
My name must never be
associated with this.

740
00:59:34,543 --> 00:59:37,376
I did not provide any consultation,
and you will advertise

741
00:59:37,460 --> 00:59:40,418
that Westinghouse is the best way
to take a human life.

742
00:59:41,501 --> 00:59:43,168
You guarantee your assistance?

743
00:59:45,126 --> 00:59:47,501
You ask a question, and I'll reply.

744
00:59:51,210 --> 00:59:52,793
Burn the correspondence.

745
00:59:54,251 --> 00:59:55,793
Absolutely.

746
00:59:58,960 --> 01:00:02,293
Fauteuils and blue painted bergère.

747
01:00:02,376 --> 01:00:04,710
I sold three sets of these
last week alone.

748
01:00:07,085 --> 01:00:09,876
Oh, uh, this is your classic spindle back.

749
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,876
Oh, yes. And these are framed cockpen.

750
01:00:12,960 --> 01:00:14,626
Quite popular.

751
01:00:20,960 --> 01:00:23,043
Oh, deportment style.

752
01:00:25,876 --> 01:00:28,710
Would you like four, six, eight, 12?

753
01:00:28,793 --> 01:00:29,835
Just one.

754
01:00:31,585 --> 01:00:35,460
<i>Mr. Brown, the apparatus
consists of a stationary engine,</i>

755
01:00:35,543 --> 01:00:39,376
<i>a Westinghouse alternating dynamo
capable of generating 3,000 volts,</i>

756
01:00:39,460 --> 01:00:42,876
<i>wood chair with headrest,
binding straps and adjustable electrodes.</i>

757
01:00:42,960 --> 01:00:45,168
<i>Burn. TAE.</i>

758
01:00:53,668 --> 01:00:56,168
<i>The voltmeter, ammeter
and switchboard controlling the current</i>

759
01:00:56,251 --> 01:00:59,251
<i>should be located in the execution room
for monitoring.</i>

760
01:00:59,335 --> 01:01:00,918
<i>Burn. TAE.</i>

761
01:01:01,001 --> 01:01:04,460
<i>The dynamo room is communicated
by electric signals. Burn. TAE.</i>

762
01:01:04,543 --> 01:01:08,001
<i>The most effective machines manufactured
by Westinghouse... Burn. TAE.</i>

763
01:01:08,085 --> 01:01:12,168
<i>I authorize payment of $3,600
for your efforts.</i>

764
01:01:12,251 --> 01:01:13,876
<i>Burn. TAE.</i>

765
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,085
<i>The only argument which can be
urged against "Westinghousing"</i>

766
01:01:17,168 --> 01:01:19,251
<i>on the score of cruel punishment is that</i>

767
01:01:19,335 --> 01:01:21,460
<i>the flesh may burn
at the points of contact,</i>

768
01:01:21,543 --> 01:01:24,223
<i>and the amount of current which can be
given without such mutilation</i>

769
01:01:24,293 --> 01:01:26,168
<i>is not yet known.</i>

770
01:01:26,251 --> 01:01:28,501
<i>Burn. TAE.</i>

771
01:01:38,710 --> 01:01:40,950
For someone who's trying to compete
for the World's Fair,

772
01:01:41,001 --> 01:01:42,710
this death-trap business
doesn't look good.

773
01:01:42,793 --> 01:01:47,043
Yeah, I know. It's just Edison
trying to smear me, as usual.

774
01:01:47,126 --> 01:01:49,043
- Can you prove it?
- No.

775
01:01:49,126 --> 01:01:51,585
But I was thinking maybe I could stop it.

776
01:01:52,376 --> 01:01:53,751
You mean me?

777
01:01:54,876 --> 01:01:58,001
You want my advice?
Don't hire me. Save your money.

778
01:01:59,001 --> 01:02:02,251
But I do know a man who could determine

779
01:02:02,335 --> 01:02:05,585
whether Edison has an exploitable
connection with the death chair.

780
01:02:05,668 --> 01:02:09,043
No, I was thinking
we could stop him via legal means.

781
01:02:10,293 --> 01:02:12,751
- You want me to put Edison on trial?
- No.

782
01:02:12,835 --> 01:02:15,168
The chair itself. The Eighth Amendment.

783
01:02:15,251 --> 01:02:17,710
So I'm to get an ax murderer

784
01:02:17,793 --> 01:02:20,335
who readily admits he slaughtered his wife

785
01:02:20,418 --> 01:02:22,251
a what... a sustainment?

786
01:02:22,335 --> 01:02:24,168
This is about showing,

787
01:02:24,251 --> 01:02:27,001
what kind of a man is Thomas Edison?

788
01:02:29,001 --> 01:02:31,126
You just keep my name out of it.

789
01:02:31,210 --> 01:02:33,418
Does your wife know
you're paying for this?

790
01:02:33,501 --> 01:02:35,335
It was her idea.

791
01:02:38,835 --> 01:02:42,251
What precisely makes electricity
not cruel and not inhumane?

792
01:02:42,335 --> 01:02:44,376
The velocity of the current is so great

793
01:02:44,460 --> 01:02:47,501
that the brain
is instantaneously paralyzed.

794
01:02:47,585 --> 01:02:49,293
The subject is dead

795
01:02:49,376 --> 01:02:52,001
before the nerves
can communicate any shock.

796
01:02:52,085 --> 01:02:53,960
How can you know if you haven't proof?

797
01:02:54,043 --> 01:02:55,335
I tested it...

798
01:02:56,085 --> 01:02:58,293
on a gorilla from London Zoo.

799
01:02:58,376 --> 01:03:01,918
Are you connected in any way with
any of the electric lighting companies?

800
01:03:02,001 --> 01:03:03,543
No, sir.

801
01:03:03,626 --> 01:03:07,210
The State calls Thomas Alva Edison.

802
01:03:07,293 --> 01:03:09,710
Will you explain generally

803
01:03:09,793 --> 01:03:12,293
the difference between
your continuous current

804
01:03:12,376 --> 01:03:16,085
and Mr. Westinghouse's
alternating electricity?

805
01:03:16,668 --> 01:03:19,918
A continuous current flows
like water through a pipe,

806
01:03:20,001 --> 01:03:22,210
and alternating current flows
in both directions.

807
01:03:22,293 --> 01:03:24,168
Water. That doesn't sound so dangerous.

808
01:03:24,251 --> 01:03:26,126
Not until you drown.

809
01:03:26,210 --> 01:03:29,001
Why don't you use
Mr. Westinghouse's current?

810
01:03:29,085 --> 01:03:31,418
- I don't like it.
- You think it's dangerous.

811
01:03:31,501 --> 01:03:32,710
Yes, I do.

812
01:03:32,793 --> 01:03:35,043
Suppose you took this...

813
01:03:36,085 --> 01:03:38,501
wicked Westinghouse current...

814
01:03:38,585 --> 01:03:41,335
the one that is going to be used
on Mr. Kemmler here...

815
01:03:42,293 --> 01:03:45,460
now, suppose you kept it up
for five or six minutes.

816
01:03:46,251 --> 01:03:48,710
At 1,500 volts,

817
01:03:48,793 --> 01:03:51,293
how long would it take
before he would feel the heat?

818
01:03:51,376 --> 01:03:54,501
Well, the temperature might rise

819
01:03:54,585 --> 01:03:56,626
four or five degrees above normal

820
01:03:56,710 --> 01:03:59,418
and continue until he was mummified.

821
01:04:00,168 --> 01:04:02,543
And this wouldn't cause considerable pain?

822
01:04:02,626 --> 01:04:04,293
- It would not.
- How do you know?

823
01:04:04,376 --> 01:04:06,751
Because I personally observed
such electricity

824
01:04:06,835 --> 01:04:08,876
being used to execute
a thousand-pound horse.

825
01:04:08,960 --> 01:04:11,186
- And did the horse feel pain?
- If he did, he didn't mention it.

826
01:04:14,168 --> 01:04:16,626
Now, Mr. Edison,
there is a great degree of feeling

827
01:04:16,710 --> 01:04:18,710
between you and Mr. Westinghouse.

828
01:04:18,793 --> 01:04:21,626
I do not dislike Mr. Westinghouse.

829
01:04:21,710 --> 01:04:23,835
There is a contest
between you two, isn't there?

830
01:04:23,918 --> 01:04:25,876
That is not what this is about.

831
01:04:27,085 --> 01:04:29,251
I've been asked
as a dispassionate scientist

832
01:04:29,335 --> 01:04:32,376
to advise on the simple question
of whether death by electricity

833
01:04:32,460 --> 01:04:35,251
is a violation of the Eighth Amendment
and is cruel and unusual.

834
01:04:35,335 --> 01:04:38,668
In my expert opinion,
the only humane method of execution

835
01:04:38,751 --> 01:04:40,751
is Westinghouse alternating current.

836
01:04:40,835 --> 01:04:43,186
Your Honor, Mr. Edison knows
that any current over 30 amperes...

837
01:04:43,210 --> 01:04:46,751
Milliamperes. If you're gonna interrupt,
do so in the proper denominations.

838
01:04:49,335 --> 01:04:50,793
Oh, thank you, Your Honor.

839
01:04:50,876 --> 01:04:52,352
It's my honor.

840
01:04:52,376 --> 01:04:54,710
All right, that's all I need to hear.

841
01:05:05,710 --> 01:05:07,876
What do you two lowlifes want, huh?

842
01:05:07,960 --> 01:05:09,835
Mr. Edison. Mr. Edison.

843
01:05:09,918 --> 01:05:10,960
Huh?

844
01:05:14,210 --> 01:05:15,376
Now look...

845
01:05:15,460 --> 01:05:17,352
I thought you were gonna leave
before I had a chance.

846
01:05:17,376 --> 01:05:21,043
- Mr. Edison, can I get your autograph?
- Uh, yeah, sure, I...

847
01:05:21,126 --> 01:05:23,126
William, do you mind?

848
01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:37,376
I should warn you, there's one thing
that always beats justice.

849
01:05:37,460 --> 01:05:38,585
Money?

850
01:05:38,668 --> 01:05:39,710
Fame.

851
01:06:00,835 --> 01:06:03,335
Oh, is that a New Model Army revolver?

852
01:06:04,001 --> 01:06:06,251
What a lovely machine that is.

853
01:06:07,168 --> 01:06:09,626
- Do you know how it works?
- You want me to show you?

854
01:06:09,710 --> 01:06:13,251
Oh, I didn't mean how it fires.
I simply meant how it works.

855
01:06:14,001 --> 01:06:16,460
It's quite a device.
You should have a look.

856
01:06:16,543 --> 01:06:19,793
You see, they designed the cylinder
so the hammer

857
01:06:19,876 --> 01:06:22,251
doesn't have to sit in an empty chamber.

858
01:06:22,335 --> 01:06:25,210
So I could shoot you six times
instead of five.

859
01:06:25,293 --> 01:06:28,085
Well, I suppose.

860
01:06:29,543 --> 01:06:31,751
They both lied on the stand.

861
01:06:32,668 --> 01:06:36,251
If you're gonna take your shot,
now is the last time to fire.

862
01:06:36,335 --> 01:06:39,543
Sometimes we have to work
outside of the rules to get what's right.

863
01:06:41,543 --> 01:06:43,543
It would be nice if we didn't have to.

864
01:06:45,251 --> 01:06:46,335
Wouldn't it?

865
01:06:47,585 --> 01:06:50,210
- This doesn't make you like him.
- Mm.

866
01:06:53,168 --> 01:06:54,585
So, what will it be?

867
01:07:52,751 --> 01:07:55,251
In my bad ear, it sounded extraordinary.

868
01:07:55,335 --> 01:07:56,501
Father...

869
01:08:00,043 --> 01:08:01,085
Hello.

870
01:08:01,168 --> 01:08:04,001
The apparatus consists
of a stationary engine,

871
01:08:04,085 --> 01:08:06,543
<i>a Westinghouse alternating dynamo</i>

872
01:08:06,626 --> 01:08:09,085
<i>capable of generating 3,000 volts.</i>

873
01:08:09,168 --> 01:08:11,210
<i>Wood chair with headrest.</i>

874
01:08:11,293 --> 01:08:14,085
- <i>Where did you get that?
- I'm sending them to the paper.</i>

875
01:08:14,168 --> 01:08:17,251
Those letters are stolen.
You can't publish them.

876
01:08:17,335 --> 01:08:19,793
- Why not?
- Because they're private correspondences.

877
01:08:19,876 --> 01:08:23,668
Mr. Edison, if you say something
about me or my company again,

878
01:08:23,751 --> 01:08:25,918
I would ask that you tell the truth.

879
01:08:27,460 --> 01:08:29,793
That would be the decent thing to do.

880
01:08:31,751 --> 01:08:32,876
<i>Wouldn't it?</i>

881
01:08:35,251 --> 01:08:38,960
- <i>Why didn't you burn the letters?
- They were from Thomas Edison.</i>

882
01:08:39,043 --> 01:08:41,835
<i>I don't think you appreciate
that this chair is something</i>

883
01:08:41,918 --> 01:08:44,168
to be proud of and remembered for.

884
01:08:44,251 --> 01:08:46,543
I don't even know
how much electricity you need to use.

885
01:08:46,626 --> 01:08:50,251
- You said 1,500 volts.
- I said I think 1,500 volts.

886
01:08:50,335 --> 01:08:53,001
But if all the water in his body
evaporates, then he may ignite.

887
01:08:53,085 --> 01:08:55,793
- So we lower the amount.
- Then you slowly roast him to death.

888
01:08:55,876 --> 01:08:59,418
Listen. You must listen to me.
What you're going to do is wrong.

889
01:08:59,501 --> 01:09:02,293
Now you said that it's inevitable
and somebody else will do it.

890
01:09:02,376 --> 01:09:05,626
But just because somebody else is
gonna do it doesn't mean that you have to.

891
01:09:06,668 --> 01:09:10,876
The State thanks you
for your expert opinion and your help.

892
01:09:30,376 --> 01:09:31,460
What?

893
01:09:34,460 --> 01:09:36,543
- It's not my place to say.
- Say it.

894
01:09:37,293 --> 01:09:40,001
You said you'd never build
a device that would kill anyone.

895
01:09:49,293 --> 01:09:52,210
I make something impossible,
and they rip it away from me,

896
01:09:52,293 --> 01:09:54,585
so I do it again and they do it again.

897
01:09:54,668 --> 01:09:56,918
And again. And again.

898
01:09:59,335 --> 01:10:01,168
This isn't like everything else.

899
01:10:02,918 --> 01:10:04,626
This is everything else.

900
01:10:05,918 --> 01:10:09,793
Our future is not gonna be paved
with bricks but with copper.

901
01:10:11,668 --> 01:10:15,751
Automation, transportation, communication,
and the man that controls that current

902
01:10:15,835 --> 01:10:17,793
controls that future.

903
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:20,918
But you know Westinghouse is right.

904
01:10:22,626 --> 01:10:24,626
You don't actually believe
that a few accidents

905
01:10:24,710 --> 01:10:26,626
rule out the viability of his current.

906
01:10:26,710 --> 01:10:28,852
- You just don't want to lose.
- I have merely amplified

907
01:10:28,876 --> 01:10:30,960
what no one else
was willing to take seriously.

908
01:10:31,043 --> 01:10:33,376
No, what you did was run him over
with a 12-ton train.

909
01:10:33,460 --> 01:10:35,769
Oh, well, he's the one
that's supposed to only make brakes,

910
01:10:35,793 --> 01:10:37,793
so, who's to blame here?

911
01:10:40,460 --> 01:10:42,626
Switch tonight, and you win.

912
01:10:42,710 --> 01:10:44,793
His current kills people.

913
01:10:44,876 --> 01:10:46,251
Only because you said it will!

914
01:10:46,335 --> 01:10:49,126
Listen, I either stop complaining
about the scavengers in my garden

915
01:10:49,210 --> 01:10:52,751
or build a wall so damn high that people
will never even dare to scale it.

916
01:10:52,835 --> 01:10:54,668
You are the smartest man I know.

917
01:10:54,751 --> 01:10:58,001
Beyond building miracles out of thin air,

918
01:10:58,085 --> 01:11:00,501
I was most impressed by your principles.

919
01:11:02,460 --> 01:11:05,835
You didn't invent the incandescent.
People just think you did.

920
01:11:13,126 --> 01:11:17,918
Let me welcome you to the reality
of how things come into existence.

921
01:11:18,001 --> 01:11:21,043
We all contribute.
That's what invention is.

922
01:11:21,126 --> 01:11:24,918
The salt. The grain. The heat. The heart.

923
01:11:25,001 --> 01:11:28,543
But only one man makes the bread rise.

924
01:11:30,501 --> 01:11:33,043
That's the one that puts it all together

925
01:11:33,126 --> 01:11:36,043
and makes it taste so damn good
that people will go out there

926
01:11:36,126 --> 01:11:40,376
and hand over their hard-won dollars
to buy it.

927
01:11:40,460 --> 01:11:43,460
Mr. Edison, I want you to succeed. I do.

928
01:11:45,751 --> 01:11:48,751
But you have to switch tonight,
or you'll die as PT Barnum

929
01:11:48,835 --> 01:11:50,793
rather than Sir Isaac Newton.

930
01:12:15,543 --> 01:12:18,001
Though he may be unfamiliar to you,

931
01:12:18,085 --> 01:12:21,876
his studies have demonstrated
an understanding of electrical matters

932
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:25,960
unlike anyone I have ever known,
with respect to the assembled.

933
01:12:26,043 --> 01:12:29,585
Gentlemen and lady, Nikola Tesla.

934
01:12:33,043 --> 01:12:35,585
<i>Straight to our ultimate question,</i>

935
01:12:36,335 --> 01:12:37,835
<i>yes or no...</i>

936
01:12:38,668 --> 01:12:41,376
can alternating currents operate a motor?

937
01:12:43,126 --> 01:12:44,376
Yes.

938
01:12:46,043 --> 01:12:48,168
<i>Now anyone who builds
an alternating system</i>

939
01:12:48,251 --> 01:12:51,668
<i>will be able to do what Edison can
for only a third of the cost.</i>

940
01:12:51,751 --> 01:12:54,001
In figure two of my polyphase system,
the armature coils

941
01:12:54,085 --> 01:12:55,960
are shown in a more advanced position.

942
01:12:56,043 --> 01:12:58,251
2-A illustrates the corresponding
magnetic condition...

943
01:12:58,335 --> 01:13:00,269
Synchronous motor obtained
by winding a laminated ring

944
01:13:00,293 --> 01:13:01,602
provided with pole projections...

945
01:13:01,626 --> 01:13:03,460
The induction is of an ideal character,

946
01:13:03,543 --> 01:13:05,918
being always maintained
at its maximum action.

947
01:13:06,001 --> 01:13:09,501
Mr. Tesla, have you actually built
the motor to test your theories?

948
01:13:09,585 --> 01:13:12,501
But they are not theories.
No, I have not built it.

949
01:13:12,585 --> 01:13:14,460
But that would prove your beliefs.

950
01:13:14,543 --> 01:13:17,376
But they are not beliefs,
and it is absolutely immaterial to me

951
01:13:17,460 --> 01:13:19,460
whether I run the motor in my mind
or in a shop,

952
01:13:19,543 --> 01:13:22,376
for I have built it already
in my imagination, and it is perfect.

953
01:13:22,460 --> 01:13:24,710
- Are you serious?
- Almost always.

954
01:13:34,085 --> 01:13:36,585
Hello. I'm George Westinghouse.

955
01:13:46,668 --> 01:13:48,376
- George Westinghouse?
- Mm-hmm.

956
01:13:48,460 --> 01:13:51,168
An engine that compresses air into a tank

957
01:13:51,251 --> 01:13:54,335
which is taken via pipe
to each brake on the train,

958
01:13:54,418 --> 01:13:56,710
allowing them to operate simultaneously.

959
01:13:58,543 --> 01:14:00,293
Smart design.

960
01:14:00,376 --> 01:14:01,585
Thank you.

961
01:14:09,960 --> 01:14:11,210
Please.

962
01:14:26,751 --> 01:14:29,335
I think this entire room
is slanted two degrees.

963
01:14:33,626 --> 01:14:37,585
I sincerely appreciate you
taking the time to meet with me.

964
01:14:37,668 --> 01:14:40,043
Are-Are you going somewhere?

965
01:14:51,668 --> 01:14:52,710
Oh.

966
01:14:54,626 --> 01:14:56,876
- This is it?
- It's Niagara Falls.

967
01:14:56,960 --> 01:14:58,126
Yeah.

968
01:14:58,210 --> 01:15:01,210
And ever since my school days,
I have pictured in my imagination

969
01:15:01,293 --> 01:15:03,626
a big wheel spinning out lightning.

970
01:15:05,293 --> 01:15:08,543
Did you know that when I first came
to this country, I worked for Mr. Edison?

971
01:15:08,626 --> 01:15:10,460
- I did not.
- Tea?

972
01:15:10,543 --> 01:15:12,085
Sure.

973
01:15:12,918 --> 01:15:15,835
I fixed two of his DC generators
in one night,

974
01:15:15,918 --> 01:15:18,043
and he called me a damn good man.

975
01:15:19,126 --> 01:15:21,251
So, why did he not treat me that way?

976
01:15:21,335 --> 01:15:24,501
I quit.
Tried my own company and was deceived.

977
01:15:24,585 --> 01:15:26,876
Who was I? Some immigrant.

978
01:15:27,918 --> 01:15:30,585
So I took the only job I could find:
digging a ditch.

979
01:15:31,918 --> 01:15:35,460
The men laughed at my fine clothes,
but at the end of the day, I had $2.

980
01:15:38,460 --> 01:15:40,876
What was the ditch to be used for?

981
01:15:41,876 --> 01:15:43,626
Edison Electric.

982
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:46,835
It felt like digging my own grave.

983
01:15:48,460 --> 01:15:52,418
If Mr. Edison succeeds, he will set us
back so far, we may never recover.

984
01:15:52,501 --> 01:15:54,835
The Fair must be alternating.

985
01:15:54,918 --> 01:15:56,501
It must be my motor.

986
01:15:57,210 --> 01:15:59,960
I have watched as the world talks
of Chicago as a symbol,

987
01:16:00,043 --> 01:16:01,418
a City of Light.

988
01:16:02,251 --> 01:16:05,418
All cities will have light
in your lifetime,

989
01:16:05,501 --> 01:16:10,043
but harnessing the power of Niagara,
that is to see our future.

990
01:16:10,126 --> 01:16:13,793
The Falls? I'm here to talk about Chicago.

991
01:16:13,876 --> 01:16:15,293
Think beyond Chicago.

992
01:16:15,376 --> 01:16:19,085
Energy is as fundamental
as food, as water, as air.

993
01:16:19,168 --> 01:16:22,293
You can... You cannot say
that only those with money can eat

994
01:16:22,376 --> 01:16:24,085
or can breathe.

995
01:16:24,168 --> 01:16:25,977
Yes, the Falls will light up
the Eastern Seaboard.

996
01:16:26,001 --> 01:16:28,894
Yes, there is a great fortune to be made,
and I covet a very nice walking stick

997
01:16:28,918 --> 01:16:31,251
I saw on 63rd and Madison,
but Niagara is the proof

998
01:16:31,335 --> 01:16:33,376
that one day we may detach power
from profit.

999
01:16:33,460 --> 01:16:36,001
- That is how you truly win.
- Mm.

1000
01:16:36,918 --> 01:16:41,085
- How do I know you will not cheat me?
- Well, you don't.

1001
01:16:43,626 --> 01:16:46,376
But the fact is, Mr. Tesla,
I need your motor.

1002
01:16:46,460 --> 01:16:49,918
I may be able to light up the Fair,
but I still can't move a machine.

1003
01:16:50,001 --> 01:16:53,418
If we cannot reach an agreement today,
my company will die

1004
01:16:53,501 --> 01:16:55,376
right here in your hotel room.

1005
01:16:57,876 --> 01:17:01,626
But if it does perish, so might your dream
of harnessing power from Niagara.

1006
01:17:06,085 --> 01:17:08,085
So, do we have a deal?

1007
01:17:09,960 --> 01:17:11,335
Five thousand.

1008
01:17:19,085 --> 01:17:20,376
One thousand.

1009
01:17:32,376 --> 01:17:33,418
Yeah.

1010
01:17:36,168 --> 01:17:38,251
I'll give you $2.50...

1011
01:17:42,710 --> 01:17:44,085
per horsepower.

1012
01:17:45,585 --> 01:17:49,418
I'm no genius myself,
but that should be millions.

1013
01:17:52,335 --> 01:17:54,710
May I treat you to dinner at Delmonico's?

1014
01:17:56,126 --> 01:17:58,043
All right, Mr. Tesla, time to go.

1015
01:17:58,126 --> 01:18:01,446
- No, I will not leave your slanted room.
- He hasn't paid his bill in over a month.

1016
01:18:01,501 --> 01:18:04,793
Well, how much would it cost
to keep him here for the year?

1017
01:18:09,751 --> 01:18:12,793
I need to shed 300 men
from the gas company.

1018
01:18:16,043 --> 01:18:18,126
There's no way around it.

1019
01:18:18,918 --> 01:18:21,718
So we pay their salaries
and move them to the electricity.

1020
01:18:21,793 --> 01:18:23,793
We can't keep doing this.

1021
01:18:24,835 --> 01:18:27,043
If we win, we won't have to.

1022
01:18:29,085 --> 01:18:30,918
You have truth on your side.

1023
01:18:33,126 --> 01:18:37,251
And whatever happens, you'll know
you never did anything but play fair.

1024
01:18:49,210 --> 01:18:50,835
I stole the letters

1025
01:18:50,918 --> 01:18:53,293
linking Edison to the death chair.

1026
01:18:54,668 --> 01:18:57,001
I gave them to the papers to smudge him.

1027
01:18:59,751 --> 01:19:01,626
I know you're disappointed in me.

1028
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:33,793
What am I looking at here?

1029
01:19:33,876 --> 01:19:37,293
An 80-foot tall tower
covered with 16,000 Edison bulbs,

1030
01:19:37,376 --> 01:19:39,210
topped with an eight-foot lighthouse.

1031
01:19:39,293 --> 01:19:41,501
That signals to the world
that we are the victors.

1032
01:19:41,585 --> 01:19:43,626
Otherwise,
how will people know that we won?

1033
01:19:44,335 --> 01:19:45,668
It's an idol.

1034
01:19:46,585 --> 01:19:48,293
It's a... signature.

1035
01:19:49,710 --> 01:19:53,043
And you'll get something that no one's
ever received from Thomas Edison before.

1036
01:19:53,126 --> 01:19:55,335
- Oh, yes? What's that?
- An apology.

1037
01:19:55,418 --> 01:19:59,460
I admit that spending has been,
well, more than anticipated,

1038
01:19:59,543 --> 01:20:02,710
but now, more than ever,
it's important you must push through.

1039
01:20:02,793 --> 01:20:06,585
Whatever Westinghouse is bidding
for the Fair, we... you must bid more.

1040
01:20:06,668 --> 01:20:07,876
I must.

1041
01:20:09,335 --> 01:20:10,376
"Must."

1042
01:20:12,626 --> 01:20:14,043
Who's Nikola Tesla?

1043
01:20:17,043 --> 01:20:18,168
What about him?

1044
01:20:18,251 --> 01:20:20,668
Well, he gave a talk at Columbia.

1045
01:20:20,751 --> 01:20:24,960
Word is, the Serb is building Westinghouse
a polyphase motor.

1046
01:20:25,543 --> 01:20:29,376
Light and power.
You can do both. He now may as well.

1047
01:20:29,460 --> 01:20:32,144
Who even knows how long it'll take them
to build a functioning model...

1048
01:20:32,168 --> 01:20:35,418
As of this morning,
you have ceded, I have here,

1049
01:20:35,501 --> 01:20:37,960
nine more cities to Westinghouse.

1050
01:20:38,043 --> 01:20:40,168
So, here's what's happening.

1051
01:20:41,210 --> 01:20:45,293
I am merging Edison Electric
with some of the other ankle-biters.

1052
01:20:45,751 --> 01:20:47,751
You are out.

1053
01:20:48,668 --> 01:20:49,876
You know why.

1054
01:20:50,751 --> 01:20:54,293
And I'm happy to tell you, if you require
this moment to be even more unpleasant.

1055
01:20:54,376 --> 01:20:56,585
You will receive stock,

1056
01:20:56,668 --> 01:20:59,043
and you will retain a seat on the board.

1057
01:21:05,710 --> 01:21:07,085
Who's gonna present? You?

1058
01:21:07,168 --> 01:21:09,793
- Good God, no.
- You tell me now?

1059
01:21:09,876 --> 01:21:11,977
I was here. I thought you deserved
to hear it face-to-face.

1060
01:21:12,001 --> 01:21:15,126
No, you didn't.
You just wanted to waste my time

1061
01:21:15,210 --> 01:21:17,335
and get me to sign autographs
for children.

1062
01:21:18,460 --> 01:21:20,602
- What are you going to call it then?
- That's your concern?

1063
01:21:20,626 --> 01:21:22,293
Edison Electric. It has to be.

1064
01:21:22,376 --> 01:21:25,876
Edison and electricity are synonymous,
Morgan. The bulb...

1065
01:21:25,960 --> 01:21:28,876
I do not attach a losing name
to a fledgling enterprise.

1066
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:31,335
Now that your letters have leaked,
you've lost credibility.

1067
01:21:31,418 --> 01:21:32,538
- So, what is it?
- The name?

1068
01:21:32,585 --> 01:21:34,210
Yes, the goddamn name!

1069
01:21:34,293 --> 01:21:37,085
The contract just says General Electric,
but I'll think of something.

1070
01:21:37,168 --> 01:21:38,293
I can be creative too.

1071
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:45,043
Yeah.

1072
01:21:47,876 --> 01:21:48,960
Mr. Insull.

1073
01:21:51,293 --> 01:21:52,418
A moment.

1074
01:22:31,710 --> 01:22:34,668
He said they'd keep your name attached
as long as you didn't pursue action

1075
01:22:34,751 --> 01:22:36,918
or speak negatively to the press
about the merger.

1076
01:22:37,001 --> 01:22:38,335
What did he offer you?

1077
01:22:39,460 --> 01:22:41,420
- Tell me.
- Vice president, but I turned it down.

1078
01:22:41,460 --> 01:22:42,626
- You should take it.
- Why?

1079
01:22:42,710 --> 01:22:44,602
Alternating current...
what's the transmission voltage?

1080
01:22:44,626 --> 01:22:45,835
230,000 volts.

1081
01:22:45,918 --> 01:22:47,668
What's the filament on a 12,000-hour lamp?

1082
01:22:47,751 --> 01:22:49,852
- Carbonized Japanese bamboo.
- What do I eat for breakfast?

1083
01:22:49,876 --> 01:22:51,102
- Pie.
- So, what's the surprise?

1084
01:22:51,126 --> 01:22:53,960
Of course he needs you.
You're me, but a human being.

1085
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:04,626
Look around the room.

1086
01:23:04,710 --> 01:23:06,126
- Hmm?
- Who's missing?

1087
01:23:08,210 --> 01:23:11,418
Edison General Electric Company, please.

1088
01:23:11,501 --> 01:23:13,251
General Electric?

1089
01:23:13,335 --> 01:23:15,960
- Edison General Electric Company.
- Yes.

1090
01:23:16,043 --> 01:23:17,876
Ah!

1091
01:23:31,085 --> 01:23:32,335
He's 12.

1092
01:23:32,418 --> 01:23:35,960
Mr. Insull, these are
the committee members of...

1093
01:23:36,043 --> 01:23:38,585
Listen closely.
Focus on the quality of the light.

1094
01:23:38,668 --> 01:23:40,751
I don't care what the courts say.

1095
01:23:40,835 --> 01:23:42,418
Westinghouse ripped off my bulbs,

1096
01:23:42,501 --> 01:23:45,126
and the good news for you
is he did a terrible job.

1097
01:23:45,210 --> 01:23:48,418
They are outdoor bulbs,
so they have a life of about two hours.

1098
01:23:48,501 --> 01:23:50,418
So focus on the replacement time.

1099
01:23:51,501 --> 01:23:55,168
Talk about the superiority of ours,
as if there's no competition.

1100
01:23:55,751 --> 01:23:58,293
Use terms like "standard," "purest,"

1101
01:23:58,376 --> 01:24:00,376
"the most beautiful light," et cetera.

1102
01:24:00,460 --> 01:24:03,102
Find out what kind of men they are.
There are really only two types.

1103
01:24:03,126 --> 01:24:06,543
The first believe themselves to be
practical, but they're secret dreamers.

1104
01:24:06,626 --> 01:24:08,543
They're the ones who'll take the risks.

1105
01:24:08,626 --> 01:24:11,043
The second, well, they'll smile
and thank you for the show,

1106
01:24:11,126 --> 01:24:12,835
but they'll vote with their wallets.

1107
01:24:12,918 --> 01:24:16,710
Unless Westinghouse is mortgaging
everything he's worth on this bid,

1108
01:24:16,793 --> 01:24:18,751
Morgan has you in good stead
with the money men.

1109
01:24:18,835 --> 01:24:21,460
So your only real job
is to look the dreamers in the eye

1110
01:24:21,543 --> 01:24:23,251
and promise them magic.

1111
01:24:23,335 --> 01:24:26,376
Now, explain back to me everything
that you remember about a parallel

1112
01:24:26,460 --> 01:24:28,894
and series of electric circuits
using none of the words I just said.

1113
01:24:30,835 --> 01:24:33,501
Though I am young,
I am an expert in these matters,

1114
01:24:33,585 --> 01:24:36,585
rivaled only really by Mr. Edison himself.

1115
01:24:36,668 --> 01:24:39,376
Should you choose Westinghouse, then...

1116
01:24:39,460 --> 01:24:41,960
then yes, there is a possibility

1117
01:24:42,043 --> 01:24:45,085
you'll be putting in jeopardy
the lives of 28 million people.

1118
01:24:46,335 --> 01:24:50,251
Even if Westinghouse were to make
even the smallest of errors,

1119
01:24:50,335 --> 01:24:52,585
unintentional, of course,

1120
01:24:52,668 --> 01:24:54,668
a visiting politician, a wife,

1121
01:24:54,751 --> 01:24:57,001
even a seven-year-old girl
may lean against a lamppost

1122
01:24:57,085 --> 01:24:59,001
and be struck dead immediately.

1123
01:24:59,668 --> 01:25:01,001
There you have it.

1124
01:25:01,085 --> 01:25:04,335
Mr. Westinghouse's brand of electricity
is fatal.

1125
01:25:04,418 --> 01:25:06,835
Thank you, Mr. Insull.

1126
01:25:06,918 --> 01:25:08,501
Just to be clear, sir,

1127
01:25:08,585 --> 01:25:11,751
any electrical current
over 200 milliamperes can be deadly.

1128
01:25:11,835 --> 01:25:13,251
Even yours?

1129
01:25:21,210 --> 01:25:23,293
Mr. Westinghouse,
these are the committee members

1130
01:25:23,376 --> 01:25:25,126
of grounds and buildings:

1131
01:25:25,210 --> 01:25:27,793
Charles Schwab, Craig Cannon,

1132
01:25:27,876 --> 01:25:30,001
- Mayor Cregier, of course.
- Oh, of course.

1133
01:25:30,085 --> 01:25:32,543
Victor Lawson of the <i>Chicago Daily News,</i>

1134
01:25:32,626 --> 01:25:34,960
and the Honorable Judge Tree.

1135
01:25:35,043 --> 01:25:36,460
I'm Daniel Burnham.

1136
01:25:36,543 --> 01:25:40,751
Respectfully, we ask that you please
keep your remarks to one hour.

1137
01:25:40,835 --> 01:25:42,501
That won't be necessary.

1138
01:25:43,210 --> 01:25:45,460
- Here you go. Sir.
- Thank you.

1139
01:25:47,043 --> 01:25:48,210
Hmm.

1140
01:25:50,835 --> 01:25:52,585
My bid.

1141
01:25:52,668 --> 01:25:54,376
These are all your figures?

1142
01:25:54,460 --> 01:25:56,710
Yes, sir. Independent estimates.

1143
01:25:56,793 --> 01:26:00,126
Before we, uh,
get into the messy business,

1144
01:26:00,210 --> 01:26:03,335
let us begin
with this most general question:

1145
01:26:03,418 --> 01:26:08,210
Why should we grant Westinghouse Electric
the contract for the World's Fair?

1146
01:26:08,293 --> 01:26:12,960
Well, I guess because
our system works significantly better,

1147
01:26:13,043 --> 01:26:14,210
and, uh...

1148
01:26:16,543 --> 01:26:19,585
because our system
is significantly cheaper.

1149
01:26:24,751 --> 01:26:27,626
Mr. Schwab, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Cannon,

1150
01:26:27,710 --> 01:26:30,918
Mayor Cregier, Mr. Lawson, Judge Tree,

1151
01:26:31,001 --> 01:26:32,293
and Mr. Burnham,

1152
01:26:33,043 --> 01:26:35,960
thank you very much for your time
and your consideration.

1153
01:26:49,876 --> 01:26:52,210
Financially, it's clear.
We just take the better bid.

1154
01:26:52,293 --> 01:26:55,210
- Look, Westinghouse is dangerous.
- Potentially dangerous.

1155
01:26:55,293 --> 01:26:57,293
You even printed it in your own paper.

1156
01:26:57,376 --> 01:27:00,793
<i>Alternating will be used
to kill that man in Buffalo.</i>

1157
01:27:13,043 --> 01:27:14,835
<i>They both light up lights, right?</i>

1158
01:27:14,918 --> 01:27:17,918
Westinghouse saves us some money.
Thomas Edison sells tickets.

1159
01:27:21,376 --> 01:27:24,210
What I wouldn't give to flip through that.

1160
01:27:24,293 --> 01:27:26,960
It's like a handbook
to the future, isn't it?

1161
01:27:30,835 --> 01:27:33,668
- We need a clear majority, gentlemen.
- Don't you have stock in GE?

1162
01:27:33,751 --> 01:27:35,126
That's irrelevant.

1163
01:27:36,668 --> 01:27:39,585
No one has ever done
what you have done for me.

1164
01:27:39,668 --> 01:27:43,126
The value of something
isn't what someone's willing to pay,

1165
01:27:43,210 --> 01:27:46,376
but the value of something
is what it contributes.

1166
01:27:46,460 --> 01:27:50,085
When we vote again, Burnham,
you can telephone the winner tonight.

1167
01:27:54,626 --> 01:27:57,126
Is it true you were born
during a lightning storm?

1168
01:27:58,210 --> 01:27:59,835
It is true.

1169
01:28:02,001 --> 01:28:04,418
All right. Tell me one thing in that book.

1170
01:28:06,793 --> 01:28:09,918
Look, you and Mr. Edison, you spend
all your time on either end of the system,

1171
01:28:10,001 --> 01:28:11,918
the dynamos and the lamps.

1172
01:28:12,001 --> 01:28:14,085
But what about what is in between?

1173
01:28:14,168 --> 01:28:15,585
- The wires?
- Mm.

1174
01:28:16,668 --> 01:28:19,376
Do we need them?

1175
01:28:34,585 --> 01:28:38,585
The problem is, despite
all the advantages of the Remington...

1176
01:28:43,001 --> 01:28:46,418
it doesn't fix the fact that
you just dampened the gunpowder.

1177
01:29:18,418 --> 01:29:19,960
What's this?

1178
01:29:22,835 --> 01:29:26,460
This is gonna do for the eye
what the phonograph did for the ear.

1179
01:29:32,876 --> 01:29:33,960
Dot?

1180
01:29:50,543 --> 01:29:51,585
Again.

1181
01:29:54,960 --> 01:29:56,043
Again!

1182
01:31:28,835 --> 01:31:30,751
Do you have any final words?

1183
01:31:33,043 --> 01:31:35,418
I believe I'm going to a better place.

1184
01:31:37,793 --> 01:31:39,210
Goodbye, William.

1185
01:31:47,751 --> 01:31:51,210
We live in a higher civilization...

1186
01:31:52,168 --> 01:31:53,626
from this day.

1187
01:33:12,001 --> 01:33:15,418
"An awful spectacle,
far worse than hanging.

1188
01:33:15,501 --> 01:33:19,626
George Westinghouse:
'They would have done better with an ax.'

1189
01:33:19,710 --> 01:33:21,835
Sizzling sound. A billow of smoke

1190
01:33:21,918 --> 01:33:24,251
that filled the room
with the odor of burning hair."

1191
01:33:25,751 --> 01:33:27,835
Well, at least it happened to a murderer.

1192
01:33:29,710 --> 01:33:32,335
At least
they'll never use it again to kill anyone.

1193
01:33:39,918 --> 01:33:41,918
Soon all these people
will have electric light,

1194
01:33:42,001 --> 01:33:44,293
and no one will even remember
it ever happened.

1195
01:33:45,835 --> 01:33:48,085
I have books so full of ideas

1196
01:33:48,168 --> 01:33:51,251
it would take me more than 12 lifetimes
to execute them.

1197
01:33:52,751 --> 01:33:55,126
So let the man have his fair
and waterfall.

1198
01:34:00,418 --> 01:34:02,043
Well, for what's it's worth,

1199
01:34:02,585 --> 01:34:06,126
I'd much rather have worked for you
than Westinghouse any day.

1200
01:34:06,210 --> 01:34:07,376
Why is that?

1201
01:34:08,293 --> 01:34:10,585
Well, I wouldn't have had as much fun,
would I?

1202
01:35:11,710 --> 01:35:13,835
Have you seen much of the fair?

1203
01:35:13,918 --> 01:35:17,168
- A Muybridge lecture, Little Egypt.
- Oh, the dancer.

1204
01:35:17,251 --> 01:35:18,626
- You saw her?
- No.

1205
01:35:19,501 --> 01:35:22,626
Well, she was... If you get the time.

1206
01:35:23,543 --> 01:35:24,585
Hmm.

1207
01:35:29,585 --> 01:35:32,251
Don't you think
a fence is a unique creation?

1208
01:35:34,043 --> 01:35:37,085
Your neighbor puts one up,
and suddenly one becomes two.

1209
01:35:38,001 --> 01:35:41,418
You also have a fence.
There's only one problem.

1210
01:35:41,501 --> 01:35:44,751
You see, one person
on one side of the fence designed it,

1211
01:35:44,835 --> 01:35:47,043
one person on one side built it,

1212
01:35:47,126 --> 01:35:49,293
and one person paid for it,

1213
01:35:49,376 --> 01:35:53,126
and yet the other person receives
a fine, free fence.

1214
01:35:55,835 --> 01:35:57,793
I didn't take your ideas.

1215
01:35:58,626 --> 01:35:59,876
Mr. Edison?

1216
01:36:01,126 --> 01:36:02,168
Sure.

1217
01:36:04,001 --> 01:36:05,126
Thank you.

1218
01:36:06,126 --> 01:36:09,251
- I was wondering about one thing.
- Oh, I'm sure there were many.

1219
01:36:09,335 --> 01:36:13,210
I was gonna invite you to dinner again,

1220
01:36:13,293 --> 01:36:15,710
but I suppose now
is as good a time as any.

1221
01:36:15,793 --> 01:36:17,269
You want to know
what was in the 13-hour bulb?

1222
01:36:17,293 --> 01:36:19,460
- I know how it works.
- Yeah, I know you do.

1223
01:36:19,543 --> 01:36:21,543
I only wondered what it felt like.

1224
01:36:23,585 --> 01:36:24,960
- Pardon?
- The bulb.

1225
01:36:25,960 --> 01:36:27,335
When you knew.

1226
01:36:27,876 --> 01:36:30,251
What was the feeling in that moment?

1227
01:36:38,668 --> 01:36:40,293
I can't tell you. I mean...

1228
01:36:42,126 --> 01:36:46,835
It's impossible to describe the feeling
because it was impossible.

1229
01:36:47,751 --> 01:36:50,710
Years of work.
Ten thousand different filaments.

1230
01:36:51,210 --> 01:36:53,501
When the thread went in the bulb,
as usual,

1231
01:36:53,585 --> 01:36:56,501
we placed our bets
and the generator sputtered to life

1232
01:36:56,585 --> 01:37:00,335
and the ball began to glow, we didn't
expect anything but another failure.

1233
01:37:02,460 --> 01:37:04,418
Then something started to happen.

1234
01:37:08,085 --> 01:37:10,876
See, our best filament
only lasted ten minutes,

1235
01:37:11,585 --> 01:37:14,710
and this fluke was rounding 20,

1236
01:37:14,793 --> 01:37:16,960
so people started to chatter.

1237
01:37:17,043 --> 01:37:20,835
And 30 minutes, 40 minutes,
an hour, two hours.

1238
01:37:20,918 --> 01:37:23,043
Then people started to shout.

1239
01:37:23,126 --> 01:37:25,793
And remember,
we hadn't got past ten minutes.

1240
01:37:26,585 --> 01:37:29,876
The boys were climbing up the walls,
tearing their hair out, and...

1241
01:37:31,710 --> 01:37:33,585
because it was impossible.

1242
01:37:34,626 --> 01:37:38,001
Seven hours. Eight hours. Nine.

1243
01:37:39,501 --> 01:37:41,335
We were silent when we hit ten.

1244
01:37:43,668 --> 01:37:46,043
Just sat around that glowing bubble,

1245
01:37:46,126 --> 01:37:49,210
drunk on our own magic,
staring at it like it...

1246
01:37:49,293 --> 01:37:52,335
I don't know, like it was the baby Jesus
playing Mozart.

1247
01:37:56,001 --> 01:37:59,335
After 13 and a half hours,
the glass cracked, and I knew it.

1248
01:38:01,668 --> 01:38:03,543
The world would never be the same.

1249
01:38:05,668 --> 01:38:08,751
I'm working on something now,
something so new that...

1250
01:38:10,376 --> 01:38:14,126
people will forget that my name
was ever associated with electricity.

1251
01:38:14,210 --> 01:38:16,335
I wonder if you know what it is yet.

1252
01:38:22,501 --> 01:38:24,585
You know, I think the solution is...

1253
01:38:25,251 --> 01:38:27,293
to divide the cost of the fence.

1254
01:38:29,710 --> 01:38:32,835
Or you cannot build a fence at all.

1255
01:38:35,710 --> 01:38:37,751
Your garden would be twice as big.

1256
01:38:38,501 --> 01:38:40,501
Wouldn't it, Tom?

1257
01:38:47,960 --> 01:38:49,918
If nothing else, a pleasure.

1258
01:38:52,168 --> 01:38:53,710
Enjoy the fair, George.

1259
01:39:11,793 --> 01:39:15,501
<i>We build monuments to speak
to the future, to say, "We were here.</i>

1260
01:39:17,210 --> 01:39:18,668
We have lived."

1261
01:39:20,001 --> 01:39:23,751
A true legacy
isn't what we build up to the heavens

1262
01:39:23,835 --> 01:39:25,918
or carve deep into stone.

1263
01:39:27,085 --> 01:39:29,251
Rocks will crumble,

1264
01:39:29,335 --> 01:39:30,960
paper disintegrates,

1265
01:39:32,001 --> 01:39:33,876
and bone turns to powder.

1266
01:39:35,460 --> 01:39:38,418
Only that
which isn't in the physical realm

1267
01:39:38,501 --> 01:39:41,043
and reaches in both directions
can be eternal.

1268
01:39:42,876 --> 01:39:44,293
Our ideas.

1269
01:39:46,251 --> 01:39:48,251
They are what we leave behind.

1270
01:39:49,710 --> 01:39:52,126
And only they
are what can push us forward.