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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 The World
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 JP. 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 lnsull.
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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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On top of the Crumpetty Tree
the Quangle Wangle sat,
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but his face you could not see,
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- on account of his Beaver Hat.
- 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 New York Times...
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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"Who composed ll Trovatore?"
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Verdi.
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"What is the speed of sound?"
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Oh, a trick question.
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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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This is different.
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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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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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but you give me everything I want?
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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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The man has 100,000 feet
of copper for 87 customers.
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It will never be profitable.
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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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- Hickory, dickory dock...
- 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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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.
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You know. I was a...
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H was a...
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uh...
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00:21:18,538 --> 00:21:20,028
Uh...
246
00:21:20,121 --> 00:21:21,281
H was a...
247
00:21:22,705 --> 00:21:23,820
Yes?
248
00:21:25,205 --> 00:21:27,662
Um...
249
00:21:28,663 --> 00:21:30,528
I'm sorry.
250
00:21:30,621 --> 00:21:32,361
L-I operated the...
251
00:21:37,746 --> 00:21:39,828
- Telegraph?
- Yes.
252
00:21:39,913 --> 00:21:41,949
Yes. Telegraph.
253
00:21:44,330 --> 00:21:46,036
Forgive me.
254
00:21:49,913 --> 00:21:51,995
Does he have any hobbies?
255
00:22:02,996 --> 00:22:05,282
You promised them Coney Island.
256
00:22:05,371 --> 00:22:07,157
At the very least, a walk.
257
00:22:07,955 --> 00:22:10,241
We'll go on three walks tomorrow,
I promise.
258
00:22:13,580 --> 00:22:15,445
Here, why don't you take a picture?
259
00:22:34,330 --> 00:22:35,695
Slow down!
260
00:22:51,496 --> 00:22:54,818
It's neuralgia, brought on by eye strain.
261
00:22:54,913 --> 00:22:57,495
A good pair of spectacles
is all that's required.
262
00:22:57,580 --> 00:22:59,696
Oh, no. I'll look awful.
263
00:22:59,788 --> 00:23:02,530
No, no. No, you won't. That's impossible.
264
00:23:02,621 --> 00:23:06,068
Are you sure that's all?
She's been having terrible headaches.
265
00:23:06,163 --> 00:23:09,235
I'll leave her a vial of laudanum
until her eyes adjust.
266
00:23:09,330 --> 00:23:11,286
Thank you.
267
00:23:11,371 --> 00:23:12,861
Can you...
268
00:23:12,955 --> 00:23:15,867
Would you mind delaying the bill
for this visit?
269
00:23:16,788 --> 00:23:20,827
Well, my son would love an autograph.
270
00:23:49,205 --> 00:23:50,991
Christ, it's primitive.
271
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,661
How much did this cost?
272
00:23:54,746 --> 00:23:56,987
- He won't tell me.
- What we need is here.
273
00:23:57,871 --> 00:24:00,908
Edison '3 current
can't travel more than one mile, Frank.
274
00:24:00,996 --> 00:24:04,318
It peters out.
He'll have to build so many DC motors
275
00:24:04,413 --> 00:24:07,200
and bury all his copper
just to power one town.
276
00:24:07,288 --> 00:24:10,485
This country will look like
a checkerboard of power plants.
277
00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:14,368
But with one AC dynamo,
we can step-up the voltage
278
00:24:14,455 --> 00:24:16,662
and reach as far as the eye can see.
279
00:24:16,746 --> 00:24:19,112
We string the wires overhead on poles.
280
00:24:19,205 --> 00:24:21,366
Less copper, more electricity.
281
00:24:21,455 --> 00:24:23,741
We're 75 percent cheaper.
282
00:24:23,830 --> 00:24:26,947
The only thing that matters here
is distance.
283
00:25:14,288 --> 00:25:17,826
Frank, this is as much yours
as it is mine.
284
00:25:17,913 --> 00:25:20,370
- I'd be proud if you'd flip the...
- I couldn't possibly.
285
00:25:20,455 --> 00:25:22,491
- Oh, don't be ridiculous.
- No, it belongs to you.
286
00:25:22,580 --> 00:25:24,620
- But you spent hours...
- George, it was your idea.
287
00:25:24,663 --> 00:25:26,153
You were the instigator.
288
00:25:26,246 --> 00:25:28,783
Shall we go for a ride?
289
00:25:37,621 --> 00:25:40,738
"To the Wizard of Menlo Park."
290
00:25:41,788 --> 00:25:44,530
As it seems your brakes have issues,
291
00:25:44,621 --> 00:25:48,364
I would be delighted to send my car
to deliver you
292
00:25:48,455 --> 00:25:51,413
to Great Barrington, Massachusetts...
293
00:25:52,538 --> 00:25:56,611
"where I have successfully
transmitted current one full mile."
294
00:26:00,288 --> 00:26:01,903
No!
295
00:26:01,996 --> 00:26:03,861
How did he get the bulbs?
296
00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,038
What a roaring silence
from the brightest minds of America.
297
00:26:09,121 --> 00:26:13,660
- He's using Hiram's design.
- Which Hiram stole from me!
298
00:26:15,955 --> 00:26:18,697
- Sue him.
- We did. The court upheld his patent.
299
00:26:18,788 --> 00:26:20,514
I'm talking about Westinghouse.
Find an angle.
300
00:26:20,538 --> 00:26:22,824
Take a trip to Barrington
and see for yourself.
301
00:26:22,913 --> 00:26:25,245
Is anyone even slightly irked
that 15 years of work
302
00:26:25,330 --> 00:26:27,161
is being filched
from right under your eyes?
303
00:26:27,871 --> 00:26:29,077
Not again!
304
00:26:29,163 --> 00:26:32,610
I built a system here,
and he goes shopping for patents
305
00:26:32,705 --> 00:26:35,742
to cobble together something
to legally steal what is mine.
306
00:26:36,830 --> 00:26:40,277
If the bulbs are a battle,
then nail him on the dynamos.
307
00:26:40,371 --> 00:26:41,702
We can't.
308
00:26:43,496 --> 00:26:45,407
He's not even using direct current, sir.
309
00:26:47,580 --> 00:26:49,366
He's using alternating?
310
00:27:02,996 --> 00:27:04,236
Mary?
311
00:27:04,830 --> 00:27:06,195
Mary?
312
00:27:06,288 --> 00:27:08,324
Yes, I think we should have some more tea.
313
00:27:08,413 --> 00:27:10,244
Patricia?
314
00:27:27,163 --> 00:27:28,653
George Westinghouse?
315
00:27:29,538 --> 00:27:32,280
- Can we help you?
- I came from Thomas Edison.
316
00:27:33,205 --> 00:27:35,742
He wants me to buy one generator per mile.
317
00:27:39,413 --> 00:27:43,531
Your electricity would save 66 percent
on Edison's.
318
00:27:45,413 --> 00:27:47,495
Well, it's a proposed saving.
319
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:51,652
And it's not "my electricity."
It's "electricity."
320
00:27:52,288 --> 00:27:54,825
I think it makes much more sense
for the taxpayers of Columbus
321
00:27:54,913 --> 00:27:56,949
to go with Westinghouse Electric.
322
00:27:58,371 --> 00:28:01,568
I don't want to compete.
I only intend to license my system.
323
00:28:01,663 --> 00:28:03,824
- He's got the better bulbs.
- Why not compete?
324
00:28:03,913 --> 00:28:06,074
By now he knows.
Edison knows, I promise you.
325
00:28:06,163 --> 00:28:09,655
The man doesn't care about
getting it right, just about getting it.
326
00:28:09,746 --> 00:28:11,181
But he doesn't respond.
327
00:28:11,205 --> 00:28:13,662
Look, Westinghouse will never
have a complete system.
328
00:28:13,746 --> 00:28:16,389
- He can't even power a sewing machine.
- But I can solve that problem.
329
00:28:16,413 --> 00:28:19,576
Instead of again converting the currents
to work with a commutator,
330
00:28:19,663 --> 00:28:22,029
I would pass alternating current
differing in phase
331
00:28:22,121 --> 00:28:23,782
through two or more energizing circuits.
332
00:28:23,871 --> 00:28:26,658
You're supposed to be working on
commutators with DC dynamos.
333
00:28:26,746 --> 00:28:28,202
Well, I have.
334
00:28:28,288 --> 00:28:31,056
Look, I have done everything you have
asked, but you are making a mistake.
335
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,537
- What?
- Direct current may be fine for cities
336
00:28:33,621 --> 00:28:37,409
when the buildings are close together,
but most of your country is empty spaces.
337
00:28:37,496 --> 00:28:40,454
Only high voltage can span the distance.
You are not thinking long-term.
338
00:28:40,538 --> 00:28:44,486
This technology is within your grasp.
I can build you an efficient motor.
339
00:28:44,580 --> 00:28:45,865
Have you tried it?
340
00:28:45,955 --> 00:28:47,070
No.
341
00:28:48,163 --> 00:28:50,370
Look, in my head, it is nearly completed.
342
00:28:50,455 --> 00:28:52,615
Men claim to have heads
full of sonnets and symphonies,
343
00:28:52,663 --> 00:28:55,575
but their only problem seems to be
they can't quite write it down.
344
00:28:55,663 --> 00:28:59,326
- Let me try.
- No, because I can't start again!
345
00:28:59,413 --> 00:29:01,847
I got orders from Michigan.
I got a roomful of press waiting for me.
346
00:29:01,871 --> 00:29:03,577
Do what you were hired to do.
347
00:29:03,663 --> 00:29:05,870
So, you will not honor your word
about the remuneration?
348
00:29:05,955 --> 00:29:08,116
- What are you talking about?
- Well, you said $50,000.
349
00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:11,447
- Are you unhappy with my contributions?
- I'm not paying you $50,000.
350
00:29:11,538 --> 00:29:12,948
That was a joke.
351
00:29:16,455 --> 00:29:18,571
Coconut fibers and horn shavings,
and fishing lines
352
00:29:18,663 --> 00:29:20,904
and cork and celluloid and flax
353
00:29:20,996 --> 00:29:23,203
and platinum, iron, nickel, copper, steel.
354
00:29:23,288 --> 00:29:25,654
We scoured the earth, years and years,
355
00:29:25,746 --> 00:29:28,783
trying thousands,
10,000 different combinations.
356
00:29:28,871 --> 00:29:32,693
Then George Westinghouse
saw howl did it and put on a pirate hat.
357
00:29:32,788 --> 00:29:35,279
You get vultures in every venture,
358
00:29:35,371 --> 00:29:37,077
but you've just got to keep them away.
359
00:29:37,163 --> 00:29:40,326
- So this is just how it works?
- Map-makers include mistakes in their work
360
00:29:40,413 --> 00:29:42,699
to see if anyone else is copying them.
361
00:29:42,788 --> 00:29:45,746
I don't have that luxury. I can't invent
streets to lead the world down.
362
00:29:45,830 --> 00:29:48,196
OthenNise we all end up in the dark.
363
00:29:48,288 --> 00:29:51,451
Good, and remember, write as much
as you can about how he's infringing.
364
00:29:52,205 --> 00:29:54,571
Thank you, Mr. Edison,
and thanks for this.
365
00:30:01,330 --> 00:30:03,491
Did I mention that his system's lethal?
366
00:30:04,205 --> 00:30:06,287
You reach out and touch
367
00:30:06,371 --> 00:30:09,738
a doorknob or a rail,
and, well, you become the circuit.
368
00:30:10,455 --> 00:30:12,787
Just to be clear on that point...
369
00:30:14,788 --> 00:30:16,198
Well, you die.
370
00:30:17,413 --> 00:30:19,904
With DC current,
you can reach out and touch anything
371
00:30:19,996 --> 00:30:22,658
at any stage of the line
with your bare hands.
372
00:30:22,746 --> 00:30:25,863
It's safe. It works. And it bears
the name of Edison, so it's pretty.
373
00:30:27,205 --> 00:30:31,027
Our government has been trying for some
time now to get me to invent a weapon,
374
00:30:31,121 --> 00:30:34,113
but I won't use this brain to invent
anything that hurts people.
375
00:30:34,205 --> 00:30:36,696
For that, you can shop in Pittsburgh.
376
00:30:36,788 --> 00:30:39,154
So you say
Westinghouse wants to hurt people?
377
00:30:39,246 --> 00:30:42,659
No. I can't say that. But you can.
378
00:30:54,413 --> 00:30:56,574
This is what he thinks of you.
379
00:30:57,746 --> 00:31:01,614
Issue a statement to the papers today.
Refute his charges.
380
00:31:01,705 --> 00:31:03,491
I'm not going to engage with this.
381
00:31:03,580 --> 00:31:06,322
We have the better system.
That speaks loudest.
382
00:31:12,496 --> 00:31:16,944
Westinghouse Electric Company
was founded at a quarter past 9:00.
383
00:31:18,580 --> 00:31:21,037
Hello. I'm George Westinghouse.
Do we have an appointment?
384
00:31:21,538 --> 00:31:22,869
North Dakota.
385
00:31:22,955 --> 00:31:24,240
New Orleans.
386
00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:25,615
Fort Worth.
387
00:31:25,705 --> 00:31:26,820
Sioux City.
388
00:31:26,913 --> 00:31:28,949
You want the good news or the good news?
389
00:31:29,038 --> 00:31:32,030
J' Hurrah, boys, hurrah J'
390
00:31:33,830 --> 00:31:36,097
We've been spending
all our time trying to nab him
391
00:31:36,121 --> 00:31:38,601
on what's in the glass bubble
when we should've been looking at
392
00:31:38,663 --> 00:31:40,904
is the clear opposite end of the bulb,
the corkscrew.
393
00:31:40,996 --> 00:31:42,657
- I own that.
- That you do.
394
00:31:44,038 --> 00:31:45,574
He's suing you.
395
00:31:46,246 --> 00:31:47,952
This is a massive lawsuit.
396
00:31:48,038 --> 00:31:50,279
This is Edison and Morgan.
397
00:31:50,371 --> 00:31:53,033
Is there any way
that you can think of
398
00:31:53,121 --> 00:31:55,032
to beat gravity other than a corkscrew?
399
00:31:57,663 --> 00:32:00,405
Westinghouse designed
a stopper to get around your corkscrew.
400
00:32:00,496 --> 00:32:02,576
It's only a matter of time
before they're everywhere.
401
00:32:04,038 --> 00:32:07,906
To tell you the truth, I am mostly looking
fonNard to using it at the lumber mills.
402
00:32:07,996 --> 00:32:10,408
Well, at the moment, we offer only light.
403
00:32:10,496 --> 00:32:14,114
In time, we'll move on
to motorized tools and appliances.
404
00:32:14,205 --> 00:32:16,787
When? I don't care what light costs.
405
00:32:17,746 --> 00:32:21,694
My home's on gas. I'm after productivity.
I don't understand.
406
00:32:21,788 --> 00:32:25,326
Edison said that electricity
can already be used in factories.
407
00:32:26,621 --> 00:32:28,157
Well, his can.
408
00:32:31,788 --> 00:32:33,779
I need to see this needle move.
409
00:32:33,871 --> 00:32:36,556
I can't step the voltage down
without blowing the whole thing to pieces.
410
00:32:36,580 --> 00:32:38,536
Come on. You must've made some progress.
411
00:32:38,621 --> 00:32:39,736
It's just not ready.
412
00:33:02,871 --> 00:33:04,782
Kill it. Kill it!
413
00:33:12,288 --> 00:33:14,328
There has to be a solution out there.
414
00:33:19,455 --> 00:33:23,368
The Nikola Tesla Electric Light Company.
How does that sound?
415
00:33:23,455 --> 00:33:26,197
- When can you bring arcs to production?
- Arc lighting?
416
00:33:26,288 --> 00:33:29,701
I believe we agreed to compete for
incandescents, motors and distribution.
417
00:33:29,788 --> 00:33:31,278
Leave that to Edison.
418
00:33:31,371 --> 00:33:34,033
I am working on advanced methods
to surpass him.
419
00:33:34,121 --> 00:33:37,784
- To beat Edison? How soon?
- Only a few years.
420
00:33:37,871 --> 00:33:39,953
I need a lab, engineers, supplies.
421
00:33:40,038 --> 00:33:41,699
There are, of course, expenses.
422
00:33:41,788 --> 00:33:44,325
Oh, where do you get the cash
for those fancy silks?
423
00:33:44,413 --> 00:33:46,620
How I spend my income is my concern.
424
00:33:46,705 --> 00:33:50,698
Look, Mr. Tesla, if you need cash now,
you should sell us your patents.
425
00:33:51,663 --> 00:33:53,449
And what would I receive?
426
00:33:53,538 --> 00:33:54,698
Stock.
427
00:33:54,788 --> 00:33:57,495
And later, if you succeed,
you can sell it for a killing.
428
00:33:57,580 --> 00:33:59,241
That means a fortune.
429
00:33:59,330 --> 00:34:02,948
- Yes, I know what an idiom is.
- We'll take on two-thirds of the risk.
430
00:34:03,038 --> 00:34:05,780
It's a good price
for the only thing you have to sell.
431
00:34:08,913 --> 00:34:12,235
Congestion of the brain?
What does that even mean?
432
00:34:12,330 --> 00:34:16,027
There's a... an occlusion hidden,
433
00:34:16,121 --> 00:34:18,407
and it expands.
434
00:34:18,496 --> 00:34:20,828
Her eyesight will likely go first,
435
00:34:20,913 --> 00:34:23,325
and then her vocabulary will fall away.
436
00:34:23,413 --> 00:34:24,869
I can't lose her.
437
00:34:27,580 --> 00:34:30,743
Working on a raised alphabet,
I'll make her a dictionary.
438
00:34:30,830 --> 00:34:33,617
She'll gradually lose her mobility.
439
00:34:33,705 --> 00:34:35,366
I'll build her an elevator.
440
00:34:36,371 --> 00:34:37,406
Mr. Edison,
441
00:34:38,371 --> 00:34:40,282
what your wife needs...
442
00:34:41,371 --> 00:34:43,157
no man can build.
443
00:34:43,996 --> 00:34:45,907
What my wife needs, according to you,
444
00:34:46,621 --> 00:34:48,407
is a simple pair of spectacles.
445
00:34:50,163 --> 00:34:51,994
Nature will take its course.
446
00:34:55,246 --> 00:34:56,281
I, uh...
447
00:34:57,705 --> 00:35:00,071
I have to leave for New York tonight.
448
00:35:00,955 --> 00:35:02,661
It can't be avoided.
449
00:35:04,330 --> 00:35:07,527
I will attend to her
while you're away, but...
450
00:35:09,121 --> 00:35:10,327
dontfingen
451
00:35:25,371 --> 00:35:27,011
Ohio is going with Westinghouse.
452
00:35:27,038 --> 00:35:30,201
- Columbus. Zanesville.
- Zanesville? Give it to him.
453
00:35:30,288 --> 00:35:31,403
That isn't funny.
454
00:35:32,663 --> 00:35:35,450
We don't know something is a pattern
till it happens again,
455
00:35:35,538 --> 00:35:37,574
which I sincerely hope it does not.
456
00:35:37,663 --> 00:35:41,326
Now, you tell me, what is he doing right
that you're doing wrong?
457
00:35:41,413 --> 00:35:44,280
He is successfully selling machines
that will result
458
00:35:44,371 --> 00:35:46,828
in the accidental deaths of human beings.
459
00:35:46,913 --> 00:35:48,972
- And where are these deaths?
- Where are these deaths?
460
00:35:48,996 --> 00:35:50,111
Why don't we switch now,
461
00:35:50,205 --> 00:35:52,389
and then you get to shoulder
the inevitable suits of manslaughter.
462
00:35:52,413 --> 00:35:56,406
I think that people aren't dying because
it's not as dangerous as you wish it were.
463
00:35:58,371 --> 00:36:01,283
All right, he's beating us on costs,
but that is a temporary advantage.
464
00:36:01,371 --> 00:36:03,327
You give me enough time,
I'll make ours so cheap
465
00:36:03,413 --> 00:36:05,495
that only the rich will burn candles.
466
00:36:05,580 --> 00:36:08,413
And until then, you bleed cities
to Westinghouse. I'm not a bank.
467
00:36:08,496 --> 00:36:10,452
That is exactly what you are.
468
00:36:10,538 --> 00:36:14,156
We could've had this conversation by
telephone instead of you wasting my time.
469
00:36:14,246 --> 00:36:17,204
When I want to see someone, he comes.
Eye to eye. That's how it works.
470
00:36:17,288 --> 00:36:19,199
No. Here's how it works.
471
00:36:19,288 --> 00:36:23,201
I build miracles, and you continue to
give me as much goddamn money as I want.
472
00:36:23,955 --> 00:36:26,116
Oh, what? Did I squander another town?
473
00:36:27,996 --> 00:36:29,736
All right, what did I lose?
474
00:38:26,913 --> 00:38:29,985
Say something.
475
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,572
Can [get you to promise
on here that you'll build me a fence?
476
00:38:34,955 --> 00:38:37,116
Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.
477
00:38:38,955 --> 00:38:40,616
Look! You're missing it!
478
00:38:50,663 --> 00:38:53,623
Say something.
479
00:38:53,705 --> 00:38:57,118
Can [get you to promise
on here that you'll build me a fence?
480
00:38:57,205 --> 00:38:59,446
Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw.
481
00:39:00,955 --> 00:39:02,741
Look! You're missing it!
482
00:39:05,205 --> 00:39:07,821
No. Now we move on
to my motor, as agreed...
483
00:39:07,913 --> 00:39:10,495
Look, we don't...
We don't want any of that.
484
00:39:10,580 --> 00:39:12,445
The arcs you built aren't selling anymore.
485
00:39:12,538 --> 00:39:14,779
We can't compete with Edison
and Westinghouse!
486
00:39:14,871 --> 00:39:17,863
Then I will take my patents
and wish you both a great misfortune.
487
00:39:17,955 --> 00:39:20,446
- Your patents?
- Yes. My patents.
488
00:39:29,705 --> 00:39:31,570
Can I get you anything, sir?
489
00:39:32,830 --> 00:39:34,411
A time machine.
490
00:39:34,913 --> 00:39:38,235
Well, if! Ever find one, I'll travel
back to this moment and give it to you.
491
00:39:39,496 --> 00:39:41,077
Did you read over the proposal?
492
00:39:41,163 --> 00:39:44,826
I'm not diverting what I've got left
of my resources in lighting up a fair.
493
00:39:44,913 --> 00:39:47,529
It's much more than a fair, sir.
A third of this country
494
00:39:47,621 --> 00:39:51,944
will get on trains to Chicago
to try and see this City of Light.
495
00:39:52,455 --> 00:39:54,946
Every window, every streetlamp,
a sign that says,
496
00:39:55,038 --> 00:39:56,903
"The race is over, and we won."
497
00:39:57,663 --> 00:39:59,779
Why spend your final dollars
traveling this country
498
00:39:59,871 --> 00:40:02,453
to show everyone your electricity
when they're all
499
00:40:02,538 --> 00:40:05,029
traveling to the same place
to try to see it anyway?
500
00:40:05,121 --> 00:40:06,639
Because in a year, they'll rip it down.
501
00:40:06,663 --> 00:40:09,279
Only after 30 million people
have seen it, yes.
502
00:40:16,496 --> 00:40:18,282
Westinghouse is placing a bid.
503
00:40:32,830 --> 00:40:35,446
Nice hat. Looks expensive.
504
00:40:35,538 --> 00:40:37,870
I owned this before I worked for you,
Mr. Edison.
505
00:40:37,955 --> 00:40:41,277
I don't think you are working for me.
He's still using my bulbs.
506
00:40:41,371 --> 00:40:43,612
His patents are in order.
507
00:40:43,705 --> 00:40:45,241
Do you want my advice?
508
00:40:45,705 --> 00:40:48,117
You keep saying
Westinghouse's current will kill people,
509
00:40:48,205 --> 00:40:51,402
so in lieu of evidence,
why don't you provide it?
510
00:41:00,705 --> 00:41:04,277
We're doing this because
when we have a complete system,
511
00:41:04,371 --> 00:41:07,534
it works, and it's Edison.
512
00:41:07,621 --> 00:41:09,031
Poor bastard.
513
00:41:09,996 --> 00:41:14,319
Well, he was gonna be slaughtered anyway.
He's not going to feel any pain, right?
514
00:41:14,413 --> 00:41:16,745
At 3,000 volts,
it'll be over before it begins.
515
00:41:16,830 --> 00:41:18,491
So there's nothing to worry about?
516
00:41:19,413 --> 00:41:22,200
But these are reporters, so you might
want to liven up a little bit.
517
00:41:26,788 --> 00:41:29,495
Welcome to Menlo Park.
518
00:41:29,580 --> 00:41:31,866
Thank you for coming out
on this cold morning.
519
00:41:31,955 --> 00:41:34,571
- Good to see you again.
- Good morning.
520
00:41:34,663 --> 00:41:36,699
- I'm Southwick Brown.
- A pleasure.
521
00:41:36,788 --> 00:41:39,245
Now you, uh, you might all
want to stand back a little bit.
522
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:41,412
Gus is being connected to the same current
523
00:41:41,496 --> 00:41:43,862
that Westinghouse uses from his generator.
524
00:41:43,955 --> 00:41:47,652
But there's no word yet coined
to define death by electricity,
525
00:41:47,746 --> 00:41:50,408
so I asked the men who write
the dictionaries, and I heard back
526
00:41:50,496 --> 00:41:54,068
"electro-dite," "electro-cremate"
and "dyna-mort."
527
00:41:54,163 --> 00:41:58,076
Butjust as Joe Guillotine
got his name on his invention,
528
00:41:58,746 --> 00:42:01,909
how could we rob the rightful inventor
of death by electricity
529
00:42:01,996 --> 00:42:04,282
of his due credit?
530
00:42:04,371 --> 00:42:08,193
I ask you to please be respectful
as we Westinghouse this horse.
531
00:42:38,121 --> 00:42:41,488
Mr. Edison, Southwick Brown,
Capital Punishment Commission.
532
00:42:41,580 --> 00:42:44,617
You've read, no doubt, of the botched
hangings throughout the Northeast.
533
00:42:44,705 --> 00:42:46,972
The prisoners either choke to death...
534
00:42:46,996 --> 00:42:49,032
Or are violently decapitated.
535
00:42:49,121 --> 00:42:50,952
The spectacle is inhumane.
536
00:42:51,038 --> 00:42:54,826
But the horse... his death
was so calm, you could call it...
537
00:42:57,121 --> 00:42:58,531
poetic.
538
00:43:01,788 --> 00:43:05,110
The governor of New York,
upon my personal recommendation,
539
00:43:05,205 --> 00:43:07,287
would like to explore a death device
540
00:43:07,371 --> 00:43:09,862
which uses electricity on a human being.
541
00:43:10,496 --> 00:43:14,034
It would be our honor
to award you the contract.
542
00:43:15,205 --> 00:43:17,662
- If nothing else, a pleasure.
- I beg your pardon?
543
00:43:17,746 --> 00:43:22,160
To kill a human being under the guise
of justice is... is cockeyed.
544
00:43:22,246 --> 00:43:24,703
There's a big difference
between a horse and a person.
545
00:43:24,788 --> 00:43:27,905
God humanely brings us into this world.
546
00:43:28,496 --> 00:43:31,943
Why would you reject the opportunity
to be the first man
547
00:43:32,038 --> 00:43:34,450
to humanely take us out of it?
548
00:44:34,580 --> 00:44:36,036
William.
549
00:44:38,246 --> 00:44:39,907
I killed my wife.
550
00:44:51,788 --> 00:44:53,870
I'm turning the handle.
551
00:44:54,830 --> 00:44:56,741
Maybe there's more to it than that.
552
00:44:57,746 --> 00:45:00,158
If I'm doing it wrong,
you'll never know I was fooling around
553
00:45:00,246 --> 00:45:03,033
with your phonograph or gramophone,
554
00:45:03,121 --> 00:45:05,203
whatever you end up calling it.
555
00:45:05,288 --> 00:45:07,370
And what is this thing really?
556
00:45:08,163 --> 00:45:11,735
Today's Mary is speaking
to tomorrow's Thomas.
557
00:45:11,830 --> 00:45:13,161
Or from where you sit,
558
00:45:13,246 --> 00:45:15,703
today's Tom is listening
to yesterday's Mary.
559
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:20,946
I wonder what else you can do with it.
560
00:45:29,205 --> 00:45:30,866
Mr. Tesla,
561
00:45:30,955 --> 00:45:33,931
my son and his idiot friend tell me
you don't want to make arc lights anymore.
562
00:45:33,955 --> 00:45:35,491
Is that true?
563
00:45:35,580 --> 00:45:37,992
Don't look at him, look at me.
I'm your primary shareholder.
564
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,617
No. I already completed
the arc light project.
565
00:45:40,705 --> 00:45:44,448
Completed? You covered one city:
Rahway, New Jersey.
566
00:45:44,538 --> 00:45:47,371
For the love of God, think bigger.
Philadelphia.
567
00:45:47,455 --> 00:45:50,572
You design arc lights to outfit cities.
That was your only job.
568
00:45:50,663 --> 00:45:53,735
No. My AC motor. Okay? We agreed...
569
00:45:53,830 --> 00:45:56,321
- No, I never agreed to anything.
- In this office, you said...
570
00:45:56,413 --> 00:45:57,528
Uh!
571
00:45:57,621 --> 00:45:59,953
Lane, could you wait outside for a moment?
572
00:46:06,871 --> 00:46:09,362
I'm sorry. Don't you realize
you're being fired here?
573
00:46:11,496 --> 00:46:15,284
No. Please, let me work through
what I have in my head.
574
00:46:15,371 --> 00:46:18,534
I will make you the greatest provider
of electrical power in the world.
575
00:46:18,621 --> 00:46:20,407
Better than Edison.
576
00:46:20,496 --> 00:46:22,828
I'm-I'm so close. Just a few months.
577
00:46:27,538 --> 00:46:30,325
You drop in here like you're from Neptune,
578
00:46:30,413 --> 00:46:33,155
like you got a great vision of the future
579
00:46:33,246 --> 00:46:35,347
- that no one understands but you.
- No, please don't touch.
580
00:46:35,371 --> 00:46:37,407
But you're just an immigrant.
581
00:46:38,246 --> 00:46:41,204
Head full of notions,
looking for a handout. You're not Edison.
582
00:46:41,288 --> 00:46:44,405
There's only one Edison. That's why
he's in. There's millions of you.
583
00:46:44,496 --> 00:46:48,614
Big ideas, but you can't see
the real force that moves things.
584
00:46:48,705 --> 00:46:51,663
And it's not AC/DC, it's not currents.
585
00:46:52,330 --> 00:46:53,695
It's currency.
586
00:46:54,288 --> 00:46:56,370
And that's the only motor
I'm interested in.
587
00:46:59,496 --> 00:47:03,239
These patents belong to
the Tesla Electric Light Company.
588
00:47:03,330 --> 00:47:06,902
This is now the Union Electric
and Manufacturing Company,
589
00:47:06,996 --> 00:47:09,032
and I own everything in this office.
590
00:47:09,663 --> 00:47:12,985
Patents, designs, engineers, all mine.
591
00:47:14,246 --> 00:47:16,908
Never going to be anything
named Tesla ever again.
592
00:47:18,288 --> 00:47:22,486
You take your notions
and go back where you came from.
593
00:47:34,996 --> 00:47:36,987
He's snapping up town after town.
594
00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:41,493
Cats, dogs, sheep, 11 horses...
What more do people need to see?
595
00:47:41,580 --> 00:47:43,992
The problem is, no one's actually dying
from alternating,
596
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,038
apart from your cats,
dogs, sheep and 11 horses.
597
00:47:48,330 --> 00:47:51,037
- Sir, I realize I'm only your secretary...
- Just say it.
598
00:47:51,121 --> 00:47:53,988
Bring the phonograph to market.
You can make your own money.
599
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,787
- No, it needs too many improvements.
- Make them. Sir.
600
00:47:57,830 --> 00:48:00,822
- Bell is ripping you off.
- Graphophone? He just switched the name.
601
00:48:00,913 --> 00:48:03,889
Direct me to a store where I can buy
yours, and I won't give him the business.
602
00:48:03,913 --> 00:48:06,029
You have a real offer on the table here.
603
00:48:06,705 --> 00:48:09,993
Half a million dollars.
Sir, take the money. You need it.
604
00:48:11,121 --> 00:48:13,112
If Bell ripped you off with the telephone,
605
00:48:13,205 --> 00:48:15,196
he'll do it again with the graphophone.
606
00:48:15,288 --> 00:48:17,449
Did you just misspeak intentionally?
607
00:48:17,538 --> 00:48:19,529
Do you want Chicago?
608
00:48:23,913 --> 00:48:25,403
All right, I'm ready.
609
00:48:46,621 --> 00:48:47,986
A dollar a ball?
610
00:48:48,788 --> 00:48:50,449
So, what's your trade?
611
00:48:50,538 --> 00:48:53,860
Inventor. I fix problems for idiots.
612
00:48:54,955 --> 00:48:58,027
Imagine dictation
without the aid of a stenographer.
613
00:48:59,788 --> 00:49:02,655
Phonographic books
that will speak to blind people.
614
00:49:02,746 --> 00:49:05,328
Reproduction of music. Talking toys.
615
00:49:05,830 --> 00:49:08,663
Clocks that will announce the time.
616
00:49:08,746 --> 00:49:10,987
The preservation of dying languages.
617
00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:12,945
Teaching of elocution.
618
00:49:13,038 --> 00:49:15,575
- You hustled us.
- Yes. No.
619
00:49:16,496 --> 00:49:17,889
I didn't come all this way to lose.
620
00:49:17,913 --> 00:49:21,235
The final capturing of the dying words
of your loved ones.
621
00:49:25,163 --> 00:49:28,235
Mary had a little lamb,
his fleece was white as snow,
622
00:49:28,330 --> 00:49:31,447
and everywhere that Mary went,
the lamb was sure to go.
623
00:49:37,371 --> 00:49:41,660
Well, it's either not possible,
or I'm not the engineer I thought I was.
624
00:49:43,871 --> 00:49:47,409
And he's traveling around the country,
cooking up cats.
625
00:49:47,496 --> 00:49:50,533
George, he's playing dirty. You can too.
626
00:49:50,621 --> 00:49:51,656
Mm.
627
00:49:53,288 --> 00:49:55,745
You know, when I was a boy, my father...
628
00:49:56,996 --> 00:49:58,987
tried to whip me with a branch.
629
00:50:00,038 --> 00:50:03,951
But after the first hit,
it broke into three little pieces.
630
00:50:05,580 --> 00:50:08,902
And we just stood there, looking at
this shattered stick on the ground.
631
00:50:10,538 --> 00:50:14,076
And then I noticed there was
a leather strap hanging on the wall,
632
00:50:14,163 --> 00:50:16,370
so I pointed to it and said,
633
00:50:16,455 --> 00:50:19,868
"Look. That's the better one."
634
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,536
And he stopped.
635
00:50:27,038 --> 00:50:31,702
I can take a beating, but I have
no patience for shoddy craftsmanship.
636
00:50:34,330 --> 00:50:38,118
You are gonna have a working motor
sitting next to your display in Chicago,
637
00:50:38,205 --> 00:50:41,447
come hell, high water,
or the Wizard of Menlo Park.
638
00:50:48,205 --> 00:50:49,911
- Good night, Frank.
- Good night.
639
00:51:49,038 --> 00:51:51,029
So you admit Edison was right?
640
00:52:19,538 --> 00:52:21,824
We will remember Franklin Pope...
641
00:52:22,746 --> 00:52:25,533
for his fearless dedication
to moving us fonrvard.
642
00:52:26,288 --> 00:52:29,405
He tried to see
what was hiding in plain sight.
643
00:52:35,163 --> 00:52:36,824
Today, I am...
644
00:52:38,663 --> 00:52:40,619
filled less with grief than anger,
645
00:52:40,705 --> 00:52:43,162
because what happened
could've been avoided.
646
00:52:45,580 --> 00:52:48,447
Hear me now
as you have never heard me before.
647
00:52:49,288 --> 00:52:50,869
As I breathe...
648
00:52:52,455 --> 00:52:54,616
as long as Westinghouse
stays in business...
649
00:52:56,038 --> 00:52:58,074
more people will die.
650
00:53:18,205 --> 00:53:19,945
My condolences.
651
00:53:22,288 --> 00:53:24,745
Sounds like he was
more than just an employee.
652
00:53:29,830 --> 00:53:32,037
What was his name? Franklin Popes?
653
00:53:33,205 --> 00:53:35,287
Pope. Just one.
654
00:53:36,538 --> 00:53:38,620
- It's a shame.
- Mm.
655
00:53:38,705 --> 00:53:40,241
But I'm here to help.
656
00:53:40,996 --> 00:53:42,861
Now, I know that you, uh,
657
00:53:42,955 --> 00:53:44,991
you wish Edison to quiet down.
658
00:53:47,746 --> 00:53:51,238
So let me combine your companies.
Let me clean up the mess.
659
00:53:55,205 --> 00:53:59,027
You really think Westinghouse Electric
is worth $5 million?
660
00:53:59,121 --> 00:54:02,409
The value of something is the highest
number someone else is willing to pay.
661
00:54:02,496 --> 00:54:06,068
But 800 men will lose their livelihoods.
662
00:54:06,163 --> 00:54:08,324
I will keep your workers.
663
00:54:08,413 --> 00:54:11,951
I will not make the same promise
for your five-day work week.
664
00:54:12,038 --> 00:54:13,073
Mm.
665
00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:16,662
Seems like you're amenable.
666
00:54:19,330 --> 00:54:20,410
Mm.
667
00:54:27,330 --> 00:54:29,286
Which current will you use?
668
00:54:30,788 --> 00:54:33,029
Whichever Edison selects, I suppose.
669
00:54:42,913 --> 00:54:44,244
Absurdity.
670
00:54:44,871 --> 00:54:46,782
You think I'm being absurd?
671
00:54:47,955 --> 00:54:49,820
Yes, I do.
672
00:54:49,913 --> 00:54:52,120
We're overextended, Marguerite.
673
00:54:53,246 --> 00:54:55,157
There's no shame in selling.
674
00:54:59,038 --> 00:55:02,201
What I was always after
was to partner with Edison...
675
00:55:03,246 --> 00:55:05,328
and I have the chance to do that now.
676
00:55:06,538 --> 00:55:10,486
We have no motor, so we're a train into
a mountainside anyway. It's impossible.
677
00:55:10,580 --> 00:55:13,617
I thought "impossible" wasn't a word
in your vocabulary.
678
00:55:19,746 --> 00:55:21,782
I am dissolving Westinghouse Electric.
679
00:55:21,871 --> 00:55:26,069
The proceeds will go to preserve
our other failing enterprises,
680
00:55:26,163 --> 00:55:30,236
and time itself will mend
Edison's mistakes.
681
00:55:30,330 --> 00:55:34,278
You are not a captain
who changes his course with the sea.
682
00:55:34,371 --> 00:55:36,282
We are not on a course!
683
00:55:36,871 --> 00:55:38,702
We're drowning!
684
00:55:38,788 --> 00:55:41,700
This whole thing is costing us a fortune!
685
00:55:41,788 --> 00:55:44,325
- You don't care about money.
- A fortune!
686
00:55:45,663 --> 00:55:48,826
I lived in your parents' house
while you went door-to-door.
687
00:55:49,455 --> 00:55:52,527
Do you want people saying
you stand for everything you don't?
688
00:55:52,621 --> 00:55:54,703
Using your last name as a verb?
689
00:55:54,788 --> 00:55:58,076
Well, how exactly do you suggest
I correct that, dear?
690
00:55:59,538 --> 00:56:02,655
I have you, and I had Frank.
691
00:56:04,246 --> 00:56:05,326
That's it.
692
00:56:06,580 --> 00:56:08,161
I loved the man.
693
00:56:09,955 --> 00:56:14,369
This is really nothing
but a sensible business decision.
694
00:56:15,788 --> 00:56:17,824
- George...
- That's all.
695
00:56:22,413 --> 00:56:23,653
That's all.
696
00:56:30,371 --> 00:56:33,283
Say what you will about
George Westinghouse, he sure is nice.
697
00:57:09,288 --> 00:57:12,530
You've crossed into territory
for the Confederacy.
698
00:57:14,538 --> 00:57:17,575
No, I, uh, I think you're mistaken.
699
00:57:18,121 --> 00:57:20,407
According to my map here...
700
00:57:31,580 --> 00:57:36,244
Though I mourn the loss of my colleague,
misfortune does not trump progress.
701
00:57:38,455 --> 00:57:42,778
Now, it seems to me that Mr. Edison
puts his name on everything
702
00:57:42,871 --> 00:57:45,783
because he's terrified of being forgotten.
703
00:57:46,955 --> 00:57:49,947
IF YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED, IT'S SIMPLE:
Shoot a president.
704
00:57:50,913 --> 00:57:54,076
But if you prefer to have
what I call a legacy,
705
00:57:54,163 --> 00:57:57,030
you leave the world
a better place than you found it.
706
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:01,402
Thomas Alva Edison is a charlatan
707
00:58:01,496 --> 00:58:05,159
who preys on the fears of the common man
708
00:58:05,246 --> 00:58:07,362
because I have the better system.
709
00:58:08,788 --> 00:58:13,862
And because I do have the better system,
Westinghouse Electric shall endure.
710
00:58:13,955 --> 00:58:15,035
Good day.
711
00:58:16,288 --> 00:58:19,735
Westinghouse has taken the lead.
He's not going away.
712
00:58:19,830 --> 00:58:23,573
And while I appreciate your lights,
Mr. Edison, I'm also your customer.
713
00:58:24,163 --> 00:58:26,905
If something comes to my door
and offers me something that I need
714
00:58:26,996 --> 00:58:30,159
that is better than what I have now,
at a cheaper price,
715
00:58:30,246 --> 00:58:33,318
why, I'd be a tool
not to invite him in for tea.
716
00:58:33,413 --> 00:58:36,325
- Is this an ultimatum?
- More of a threat.
717
00:58:36,413 --> 00:58:38,449
If you maintain
that fear is the best strategy,
718
00:58:38,538 --> 00:58:40,620
then you'd better hurry up and try harder.
719
00:58:42,205 --> 00:58:43,240
Time's up.
720
00:58:46,830 --> 00:58:48,912
Man who was handsome and clever
721
00:58:48,996 --> 00:58:51,487
built a box with a crank and a lever
722
00:58:51,580 --> 00:58:55,072
to store his wife's voice,
though he made a poor choice,
723
00:58:55,163 --> 00:58:58,826
because now she can tease him forever.
724
00:59:01,288 --> 00:59:04,701
I couldn't stop it if I wanted to,
725
00:59:05,205 --> 00:59:06,945
which I don't,
726
00:59:07,038 --> 00:59:10,485
because I...
I think it's a remarkable gift.
727
00:59:11,955 --> 00:59:15,868
Electricity will kill that man in Buffalo.
728
00:59:15,955 --> 00:59:18,742
We don't know the voltage.
729
00:59:18,830 --> 00:59:22,527
Too much, and he ignites.
Too little, and he's still alive.
730
00:59:23,121 --> 00:59:25,487
All we need is your advice.
731
00:59:25,580 --> 00:59:28,947
How much is humane?
Where to put the electrode?
732
00:59:29,038 --> 00:59:33,907
And in exchange, I will promise you
something that I know you want.
733
00:59:35,913 --> 00:59:40,236
I will put the Westinghouse name
right out front
734
00:59:40,330 --> 00:59:44,278
as the official electricity used
to kill human beings.
735
00:59:46,663 --> 00:59:50,656
I even think we can get this chair
on display at the Chicago World's Fair.
736
00:59:52,371 --> 00:59:54,032
The future.
737
01:00:02,038 --> 01:00:04,120
My name must never be
associated with this.
738
01:00:04,205 --> 01:00:07,038
I did not provide any consultation,
and you will advertise
739
01:00:07,121 --> 01:00:10,079
that Westinghouse is the best way
to take a human life.
740
01:00:11,163 --> 01:00:12,824
You guarantee your assistance?
741
01:00:14,788 --> 01:00:17,154
You ask a question, and I'll reply.
742
01:00:20,871 --> 01:00:22,452
Burn the correspondence.
743
01:00:23,913 --> 01:00:25,449
Absolutely.
744
01:00:28,621 --> 01:00:31,943
Fauteuils and blue painted bergere.
745
01:00:32,038 --> 01:00:34,370
I sold three sets of these
last week alone.
746
01:00:36,746 --> 01:00:39,533
Oh, uh, this is your classic spindle back.
747
01:00:39,621 --> 01:00:42,533
Oh, yes. And these are framed cockpen.
748
01:00:42,621 --> 01:00:44,282
Quite popular.
749
01:00:50,621 --> 01:00:52,703
Oh, deportment style.
750
01:00:55,538 --> 01:00:58,371
Would you like four, six, eight, 12?
751
01:00:58,455 --> 01:00:59,490
Just one.
752
01:01:01,246 --> 01:01:05,114
Mr. Brown, the apparatus
consists of a stationary engine,
753
01:01:05,205 --> 01:01:09,027
a Westinghouse alternating dynamo
capable of generating 3, 000 volts,
754
01:01:09,121 --> 01:01:12,534
wood chair with headrest,
binding straps and adjustable electrodes.
755
01:01:12,621 --> 01:01:14,828
Burn. TAE.
756
01:01:23,330 --> 01:01:25,821
The voltmeter, ammeter
and switchboard controlling the current
757
01:01:25,913 --> 01:01:28,905
should be located in the execution room
for monitoring.
758
01:01:28,996 --> 01:01:30,577
Burn. TAE.
759
01:01:30,663 --> 01:01:34,110
The dynamo room is communicated
by electric signals. Burn. TAE.
760
01:01:34,205 --> 01:01:37,652
The most effective machines manufactured
by Westinghouse... Burn. TAE.
761
01:01:37,746 --> 01:01:41,819
I authorize payment of $3, 600
for your efforts.
762
01:01:41,913 --> 01:01:43,528
Burn. TAE.
763
01:01:43,621 --> 01:01:46,738
The only argument which can be
urged against "Westinghousing"
764
01:01:46,830 --> 01:01:48,912
on the score of cruel punishment is that
765
01:01:48,996 --> 01:01:51,112
the flesh may burn
at the points of contact,
766
01:01:51,205 --> 01:01:53,885
and the amount of current which can be
given without such mutilation
767
01:01:53,955 --> 01:01:55,820
is not yet known.
768
01:01:55,913 --> 01:01:58,154
Burn. TAE.
769
01:02:08,371 --> 01:02:10,611
For someone who's trying to compete
for the World's Fair,
770
01:02:10,663 --> 01:02:12,369
this death-trap business
doesn't look good.
771
01:02:12,455 --> 01:02:16,698
Yeah, I know. It's just Edison
trying to smear me, as usual.
772
01:02:16,788 --> 01:02:18,699
- Can you prove it?
- No.
773
01:02:18,788 --> 01:02:21,245
But I was thinking maybe I could stop it.
774
01:02:22,038 --> 01:02:23,403
You mean me?
775
01:02:24,538 --> 01:02:27,655
You want my advice?
Don't hire me. Save your money.
776
01:02:28,663 --> 01:02:31,905
But I do know a man who could determine
777
01:02:31,996 --> 01:02:35,238
whether Edison has an exploitable
connection with the death chair.
778
01:02:35,330 --> 01:02:38,697
No, I was thinking
we could stop him via legal means.
779
01:02:39,955 --> 01:02:42,412
- You want me to put Edison on trial?
- No.
780
01:02:42,496 --> 01:02:44,828
The chair itself. The Eighth Amendment.
781
01:02:44,913 --> 01:02:47,370
So I'm to get an ax murderer
782
01:02:47,455 --> 01:02:49,992
who readily admits he slaughtered his wife
783
01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:51,911
a what... a sustainment?
784
01:02:51,996 --> 01:02:53,827
This is about showing,
785
01:02:53,913 --> 01:02:56,655
what kind of a man is Thomas Edison?
786
01:02:58,663 --> 01:03:00,779
You just keep my name out of it.
787
01:03:00,871 --> 01:03:03,078
Does your wife know
you're paying for this?
788
01:03:03,163 --> 01:03:04,994
It was her idea.
789
01:03:08,496 --> 01:03:11,909
What precisely makes electricity
not cruel and not inhumane?
790
01:03:11,996 --> 01:03:14,032
The velocity of the current is so great
791
01:03:14,121 --> 01:03:17,158
that the brain
is instantaneously paralyzed.
792
01:03:17,246 --> 01:03:18,952
The subject is dead
793
01:03:19,038 --> 01:03:21,654
before the nerves
can communicate any shock.
794
01:03:21,746 --> 01:03:23,611
How can you know if you haven't proof?
795
01:03:23,705 --> 01:03:24,990
I tested it...
796
01:03:25,746 --> 01:03:27,953
on a gorilla from London Zoo.
797
01:03:28,038 --> 01:03:31,576
Are you connected in any way with
any of the electric lighting companies?
798
01:03:31,663 --> 01:03:33,199
No, sir.
799
01:03:33,288 --> 01:03:36,860
The State calls Thomas Alva Edison.
800
01:03:36,955 --> 01:03:39,367
Will you explain generally
801
01:03:39,455 --> 01:03:41,946
the difference between
your continuous current
802
01:03:42,038 --> 01:03:45,735
and Mr. Westinghouse's
alternating electricity?
803
01:03:46,330 --> 01:03:49,572
A continuous current flows
like water through a pipe,
804
01:03:49,663 --> 01:03:51,870
and alternating current flows
in both directions.
805
01:03:51,955 --> 01:03:53,820
Water. That doesn't sound so dangerous.
806
01:03:53,913 --> 01:03:55,778
Not until you drown.
807
01:03:55,871 --> 01:03:58,658
Why don't you use
Mr. Westinghouse's current?
808
01:03:58,746 --> 01:04:01,078
- I don't like it.
- You think it's dangerous.
809
01:04:01,163 --> 01:04:02,369
Yes, I do.
810
01:04:02,455 --> 01:04:04,696
Suppose you took this...
811
01:04:05,746 --> 01:04:08,158
wicked Westinghouse current...
812
01:04:08,246 --> 01:04:10,988
the one that is going to be used
on Mr. Kemmler here...
813
01:04:11,955 --> 01:04:15,118
now, suppose you kept it up
for five or six minutes.
814
01:04:15,913 --> 01:04:18,370
At 1,500 volts,
815
01:04:18,455 --> 01:04:20,946
how long would it take
before he would feel the heat?
816
01:04:21,038 --> 01:04:24,155
Well, the temperature might rise
817
01:04:24,246 --> 01:04:26,282
four or five degrees above normal
818
01:04:26,371 --> 01:04:29,078
and continue until he was mummified.
819
01:04:29,830 --> 01:04:32,196
And this wouldn't cause considerable pain?
820
01:04:32,288 --> 01:04:33,949
- It would not.
- How do you know?
821
01:04:34,038 --> 01:04:36,404
Because I personally observed
such electricity
822
01:04:36,496 --> 01:04:38,532
being used to execute
a thousand-pound horse.
823
01:04:38,621 --> 01:04:41,181
- And did the horse feel pain?
- If he did, he didn't mention it.
824
01:04:43,830 --> 01:04:46,287
Now, Mr. Edison,
there is a great degree of feeling
825
01:04:46,371 --> 01:04:48,362
between you and Mr. Westinghouse.
826
01:04:48,455 --> 01:04:51,288
I do not dislike Mr. Westinghouse.
827
01:04:51,371 --> 01:04:53,491
There is a contest
between you two, isn't there?
828
01:04:53,580 --> 01:04:55,536
That is not what this is about.
829
01:04:56,746 --> 01:04:58,907
I've been asked
as a dispassionate scientist
830
01:04:58,996 --> 01:05:02,033
to advise on the simple question
of whether death by electricity
831
01:05:02,121 --> 01:05:04,908
is a violation of the Eighth Amendment
and is cruel and unusual.
832
01:05:04,996 --> 01:05:08,318
In my expert opinion,
the only humane method of execution
833
01:05:08,413 --> 01:05:10,404
is Westinghouse alternating current.
834
01:05:10,496 --> 01:05:12,847
Your Honor, Mr. Edison knows
that any current over 30 amperes...
835
01:05:12,871 --> 01:05:16,409
Milliamperes. If you're gonna interrupt,
do so in the proper denominations.
836
01:05:18,996 --> 01:05:20,452
Oh, thank you, Your Honor.
837
01:05:20,538 --> 01:05:22,014
It's my honor.
838
01:05:22,038 --> 01:05:24,370
All right, that's all I need to hear.
839
01:05:35,371 --> 01:05:37,532
What do you two lowlifes want, huh?
840
01:05:37,621 --> 01:05:39,486
Mr. Edison. Mr. Edison.
841
01:05:39,580 --> 01:05:40,615
Huh?
842
01:05:43,871 --> 01:05:45,031
Now look...
843
01:05:45,121 --> 01:05:47,014
I thought you were gonna leave
before I had a chance.
844
01:05:47,038 --> 01:05:50,701
- Mr. Edison, can I get your autograph?
- Uh, yeah, sure, I...
845
01:05:50,788 --> 01:05:52,779
William, do you mind?
846
01:06:03,663 --> 01:06:07,030
I should warn you, there's one thing
that always beats justice.
847
01:06:07,121 --> 01:06:08,236
Money?
848
01:06:08,330 --> 01:06:09,365
Fame.
849
01:06:30,496 --> 01:06:32,987
Oh, is that a New Model Army revolver?
850
01:06:33,663 --> 01:06:35,904
What a lovely machine that is.
851
01:06:36,830 --> 01:06:39,287
- Do you know how it works?
- You want me to show you?
852
01:06:39,371 --> 01:06:42,909
Oh, I didn't mean how it fires.
I simply meant how it works.
853
01:06:43,663 --> 01:06:46,120
It's quite a device.
You should have a look.
854
01:06:46,205 --> 01:06:49,447
You see, they designed the cylinder
so the hammer
855
01:06:49,538 --> 01:06:51,904
doesn't have to sit in an empty chamber.
856
01:06:51,996 --> 01:06:54,863
So I could shoot you six times
instead of five.
857
01:06:54,955 --> 01:06:57,742
Well, I suppose.
858
01:06:59,205 --> 01:07:01,412
They both lied on the stand.
859
01:07:02,330 --> 01:07:05,902
If you're gonna take your shot,
now is the last time to fire.
860
01:07:05,996 --> 01:07:09,193
Sometimes we have to work
outside of the rules to get what's right.
861
01:07:11,205 --> 01:07:13,196
It would be nice if we didn't have to.
862
01:07:14,913 --> 01:07:15,993
Wouldn't it?
863
01:07:17,246 --> 01:07:19,862
- This doesn't make you like him.
- Mm.
864
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:24,240
So, what will it be?
865
01:08:22,413 --> 01:08:24,904
In my bad ear, it sounded extraordinary.
866
01:08:24,996 --> 01:08:26,156
Father...
867
01:08:29,705 --> 01:08:30,740
Hello.
868
01:08:30,830 --> 01:08:33,663
The apparatus consists
of a stationary engine,
869
01:08:33,746 --> 01:08:36,203
a Westinghouse alternating dynamo
870
01:08:36,288 --> 01:08:38,745
capable of generating 3, 000 volts.
871
01:08:38,830 --> 01:08:40,866
Wood chair with headrest,
872
01:08:40,955 --> 01:08:43,742
- Where did you get that?
- I'm sending them to the paper.
873
01:08:43,830 --> 01:08:46,902
Those letters are stolen.
You can't publish them.
874
01:08:46,996 --> 01:08:49,453
- Why not?
- Because they're private correspondences.
875
01:08:49,538 --> 01:08:53,326
Mr. Edison, if you say something
about me or my company again,
876
01:08:53,413 --> 01:08:55,574
I would ask that you tell the truth.
877
01:08:57,121 --> 01:08:59,453
That would be the decent thing to do.
878
01:09:01,413 --> 01:09:02,528
Wouldn't it?
879
01:09:04,913 --> 01:09:08,610
- Why didn't you burn the letters?
- They were from Thomas Edison.
880
01:09:08,705 --> 01:09:11,492
I don't think you appreciate
that this chair is something
881
01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:13,821
to be proud of and remembered for.
882
01:09:13,913 --> 01:09:16,199
I don't even know
how much electricity you need to use.
883
01:09:16,288 --> 01:09:19,906
- You said 1,500 volts.
- I said I think 1,500 volts.
884
01:09:19,996 --> 01:09:22,658
But if all the water in his body
evaporates, then he may ignite.
885
01:09:22,746 --> 01:09:25,453
- So we lower the amount.
- Then you slowly roast him to death.
886
01:09:25,538 --> 01:09:29,076
Listen. You must listen to me.
What you're going to do is wrong.
887
01:09:29,163 --> 01:09:31,950
Now you said that it's inevitable
and somebody else will do it.
888
01:09:32,038 --> 01:09:35,280
But just because somebody else is
gonna do it doesn't mean that you have to.
889
01:09:36,330 --> 01:09:40,528
The State thanks you
for your expert opinion and your help.
890
01:10:00,038 --> 01:10:01,118
What?
891
01:10:04,121 --> 01:10:06,203
- It's not my place to say.
- Say it.
892
01:10:06,955 --> 01:10:09,662
You said you'd never build
a device that would kill anyone.
893
01:10:18,955 --> 01:10:21,867
I make something impossible,
and they rip it away from me,
894
01:10:21,955 --> 01:10:24,241
so I do it again and they do it again.
895
01:10:24,330 --> 01:10:26,571
And again. And again.
896
01:10:28,996 --> 01:10:30,827
This isn't like everything else.
897
01:10:32,580 --> 01:10:34,286
This is everything else.
898
01:10:35,580 --> 01:10:39,448
Our future is not gonna be paved
with bricks but with copper.
899
01:10:41,330 --> 01:10:45,403
Automation, transportation, communication,
and the man that controls that current
900
01:10:45,496 --> 01:10:47,452
controls that future.
901
01:10:48,621 --> 01:10:50,577
But you know Westinghouse is right.
902
01:10:52,288 --> 01:10:54,279
You don't actually believe
that a few accidents
903
01:10:54,371 --> 01:10:56,282
rule out the viability of his current.
904
01:10:56,371 --> 01:10:58,514
- You just don't want to lose.
- I have merely amplified
905
01:10:58,538 --> 01:11:00,620
what no one else
was willing to take seriously.
906
01:11:00,705 --> 01:11:03,037
No, what you did was run him over
with a 12-ton train.
907
01:11:03,121 --> 01:11:05,431
Oh, well, he's the one
that's supposed to only make brakes,
908
01:11:05,455 --> 01:11:07,446
so, who's to blame here?
909
01:11:10,121 --> 01:11:12,282
Switch tonight, and you win.
910
01:11:12,371 --> 01:11:14,453
His current kills people.
911
01:11:14,538 --> 01:11:15,903
Only because you said it will!
912
01:11:15,996 --> 01:11:18,783
Listen, I either stop complaining
about the scavengers in my garden
913
01:11:18,871 --> 01:11:22,409
or build a wall so damn high that people
will never even dare to scale it.
914
01:11:22,496 --> 01:11:24,327
You are the smartest man I know.
915
01:11:24,413 --> 01:11:27,655
Beyond building miracles out of thin air,
916
01:11:27,746 --> 01:11:30,158
I was most impressed by your principles.
917
01:11:32,121 --> 01:11:35,488
You didn't invent the incandescent.
People just think you did.
918
01:11:42,788 --> 01:11:47,578
Let me welcome you to the reality
of how things come into existence.
919
01:11:47,663 --> 01:11:50,700
We all contribute.
That's what invention is.
920
01:11:50,788 --> 01:11:54,576
The salt. The grain. The heat. The heart.
921
01:11:54,663 --> 01:11:58,201
But only one man makes the bread rise.
922
01:12:00,163 --> 01:12:02,700
That's the one that puts it all together
923
01:12:02,788 --> 01:12:05,700
and makes it taste so damn good
that people will go out there
924
01:12:05,788 --> 01:12:10,031
and hand over their hard-won dollars
to buy it.
925
01:12:10,121 --> 01:12:13,113
Mr. Edison, I want you to succeed. I do.
926
01:12:15,413 --> 01:12:18,405
But you have to switch tonight,
or you'll die as PT Barnum
927
01:12:18,496 --> 01:12:20,452
rather than Sir Isaac Newton.
928
01:12:45,205 --> 01:12:47,662
Though he may be unfamiliar to you,
929
01:12:47,746 --> 01:12:51,534
his studies have demonstrated
an understanding of electrical matters
930
01:12:51,621 --> 01:12:55,614
unlike anyone I have ever known,
with respect to the assembled.
931
01:12:55,705 --> 01:12:59,243
Gentlemen and lady, Nikola Tesla.
932
01:13:02,705 --> 01:13:05,242
Straight to our ultimate question,
933
01:13:05,996 --> 01:13:07,486
yes or no-...
934
01:13:08,330 --> 01:13:11,037
Can alternating currents operate a motor?
935
01:13:12,788 --> 01:13:14,028
Yes.
936
01:13:15,705 --> 01:13:17,821
Now anyone who builds
an alternating system
937
01:13:17,913 --> 01:13:21,326
will be able to do what Edison can
for only a third of the cost.
938
01:13:21,413 --> 01:13:23,654
In figure two of my polyphase system,
the armature coils
939
01:13:23,746 --> 01:13:25,611
are shown in a more advanced position.
940
01:13:25,705 --> 01:13:27,912
2-A illustrates the corresponding
magnetic condition...
941
01:13:27,996 --> 01:13:29,931
Synchronous motor obtained
by winding a laminated ring
942
01:13:29,955 --> 01:13:31,264
provided with pole projections...
943
01:13:31,288 --> 01:13:33,119
The induction is of an ideal character,
944
01:13:33,205 --> 01:13:35,571
being always maintained
at its maximum action.
945
01:13:35,663 --> 01:13:39,155
Mr. Tesla, have you actually built
the motor to test your theories?
946
01:13:39,246 --> 01:13:42,158
But they are not theories.
No, I have not built it.
947
01:13:42,246 --> 01:13:44,111
But that would prove your beliefs.
948
01:13:44,205 --> 01:13:47,038
But they are not beliefs,
and it is absolutely immaterial to me
949
01:13:47,121 --> 01:13:49,112
whether I run the motor in my mind
or in a shop,
950
01:13:49,205 --> 01:13:52,038
for I have built it already
in my imagination, and it is perfect.
951
01:13:52,121 --> 01:13:54,362
- Are you serious?
- Almost always.
952
01:14:03,746 --> 01:14:06,237
Hello. I'm George Westinghouse.
953
01:14:16,330 --> 01:14:18,036
- George Westinghouse?
- Mm-hmm.
954
01:14:18,121 --> 01:14:20,828
An engine that compresses air into a tank
955
01:14:20,913 --> 01:14:23,985
which is taken via pipe
to each brake on the train,
956
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:26,366
allowing them to operate simultaneously.
957
01:14:30,038 --> 01:14:31,244
Thank you.
958
01:14:39,621 --> 01:14:40,861
Please.
959
01:14:56,413 --> 01:14:58,995
I think this entire room
is slanted two degrees.
960
01:15:03,288 --> 01:15:07,236
I sincerely appreciate you
taking the time to meet with me.
961
01:15:07,330 --> 01:15:09,696
Are-Are you going somewhere?
962
01:15:21,330 --> 01:15:22,365
Oh.
963
01:15:24,288 --> 01:15:26,529
- This is it?
- It's Niagara Falls.
964
01:15:26,621 --> 01:15:27,781
Yeah.
965
01:15:27,871 --> 01:15:30,863
And ever since my school days,
I have pictured in my imagination
966
01:15:30,955 --> 01:15:33,287
a big wheel spinning out lightning.
967
01:15:34,955 --> 01:15:38,197
Did you know that when I first came
to this country, I worked for Mr. Edison?
968
01:15:38,288 --> 01:15:40,119
- I did not.
- Tea?
969
01:15:40,205 --> 01:15:41,741
Sure.
970
01:15:42,580 --> 01:15:45,492
I fixed two of his DC generators
in one night,
971
01:15:45,580 --> 01:15:47,696
and he called me a damn good man.
972
01:15:48,788 --> 01:15:50,904
So, why did he not treat me that way?
973
01:15:50,996 --> 01:15:54,159
I quit.
Tried my own company and was deceived.
974
01:15:54,246 --> 01:15:56,532
Who was I? Some immigrant.
975
01:15:57,580 --> 01:16:00,242
SO I TOOK THE ONLYJOB I COULD fiND:
Digging a ditch.
976
01:16:01,580 --> 01:16:05,118
The men laughed at my fine clothes,
but at the end of the day, I had $2.
977
01:16:08,121 --> 01:16:10,533
What was the ditch to be used for?
978
01:16:11,538 --> 01:16:13,278
Edison Electric.
979
01:16:14,621 --> 01:16:16,486
It felt like digging my own grave.
980
01:16:18,121 --> 01:16:22,069
If Mr. Edison succeeds, he will set us
back so far, we may never recover.
981
01:16:22,163 --> 01:16:24,495
The Fair must be alternating.
982
01:16:24,580 --> 01:16:26,161
It must be my motor.
983
01:16:26,871 --> 01:16:29,613
I have watched as the world talks
of Chicago as a symbol,
984
01:16:29,705 --> 01:16:31,070
a City of Light.
985
01:16:31,913 --> 01:16:35,076
All cities will have light
in your lifetime,
986
01:16:35,163 --> 01:16:39,702
but harnessing the power of Niagara,
that is to see our future.
987
01:16:39,788 --> 01:16:43,451
The Falls? I'm here to talk about Chicago.
988
01:16:43,538 --> 01:16:44,948
Think beyond Chicago.
989
01:16:45,038 --> 01:16:48,735
Energy is as fundamental
as food, as water, as air.
990
01:16:48,830 --> 01:16:51,947
You can... You cannot say
that only those with money can eat
991
01:16:52,038 --> 01:16:53,744
or can breathe.
992
01:16:53,830 --> 01:16:55,639
Yes, the Falls will light up
the Eastern Seaboard.
993
01:16:55,663 --> 01:16:58,556
Yes, there is a great fortune to be made,
and I covet a very nice walking stick
994
01:16:58,580 --> 01:17:00,912
I saw on 63rd and Madison,
but Niagara is the proof
995
01:17:00,996 --> 01:17:03,032
that one day we may detach power
from profit.
996
01:17:03,121 --> 01:17:05,658
- That is how you truly win.
- Mm.
997
01:17:06,580 --> 01:17:10,744
- How do I know you will not cheat me?
- Well, you don't.
998
01:17:13,288 --> 01:17:16,030
But the fact is, Mr. Tesla,
I need your motor.
999
01:17:16,121 --> 01:17:19,568
I may be able to light up the Fair,
but I still can't move a machine.
1000
01:17:19,663 --> 01:17:23,076
If we cannot reach an agreement today,
my company will die
1001
01:17:23,163 --> 01:17:25,028
right here in your hotel room.
1002
01:17:27,538 --> 01:17:31,281
But if it does perish, so might your dream
of harnessing power from Niagara.
1003
01:17:35,746 --> 01:17:37,737
So, do we have a deal?
1004
01:17:39,621 --> 01:17:40,986
Five thousand.
1005
01:17:48,746 --> 01:17:50,031
One thousand.
1006
01:18:02,038 --> 01:18:03,073
Yeah.
1007
01:18:05,830 --> 01:18:07,912
I'll give you $2.50...
1008
01:18:12,371 --> 01:18:13,736
per horsepower.
1009
01:18:15,246 --> 01:18:19,068
I'm no genius myself,
but that should be millions.
1010
01:18:21,996 --> 01:18:24,362
May I treat you to dinner at Delmonico's?
1011
01:18:25,788 --> 01:18:27,699
All right, Mr. Tesla, time to go.
1012
01:18:27,788 --> 01:18:31,108
- No, I will not leave your slanted room.
- He hasn't paid his bill in over a month.
1013
01:18:31,163 --> 01:18:34,451
Well, how much would it cost
to keep him here for the year?
1014
01:18:39,413 --> 01:18:42,450
I need to shed 300 men
from the gas company.
1015
01:18:45,705 --> 01:18:47,787
There's no way around it.
1016
01:18:48,580 --> 01:18:51,380
So we pay their salaries
and move them to the electricity.
1017
01:18:51,455 --> 01:18:53,446
We can't keep doing this.
1018
01:18:54,496 --> 01:18:56,703
If we win, we won't have to.
1019
01:18:58,746 --> 01:19:00,577
You have truth on your side.
1020
01:19:02,788 --> 01:19:06,906
And whatever happens, you'll know
you never did anything but play fair.
1021
01:19:18,871 --> 01:19:20,486
I stole the letters
1022
01:19:20,580 --> 01:19:22,946
linking Edison to the death chair.
1023
01:19:24,330 --> 01:19:26,662
I gave them to the papers to smudge him.
1024
01:19:29,413 --> 01:19:31,278
I know you're disappointed in me.
1025
01:20:01,621 --> 01:20:03,452
What am I looking at here?
1026
01:20:03,538 --> 01:20:06,951
An 80-foot tall tower
covered with 16,000 Edison bulbs,
1027
01:20:07,038 --> 01:20:08,869
topped with an eight-foot lighthouse.
1028
01:20:08,955 --> 01:20:11,162
That signals to the world
that we are the victors.
1029
01:20:11,246 --> 01:20:13,282
Otherwise,
how will people know that we won?
1030
01:20:13,996 --> 01:20:15,327
It's an idol.
1031
01:20:16,246 --> 01:20:17,952
It's a... signature.
1032
01:20:19,371 --> 01:20:22,693
And you'll get something that no one's
ever received from Thomas Edison before.
1033
01:20:22,788 --> 01:20:24,995
- Oh, yes? What's that?
- An apology.
1034
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:29,119
I admit that spending has been,
well, more than anticipated,
1035
01:20:29,205 --> 01:20:32,368
but now, more than ever,
it's important you must push through.
1036
01:20:32,455 --> 01:20:36,243
Whatever Westinghouse is bidding
for the Fair, we... you must bid more.
1037
01:20:36,330 --> 01:20:37,536
I must.
1038
01:20:38,996 --> 01:20:40,031
"Must."
1039
01:20:42,288 --> 01:20:43,698
Who's Nikola Tesla?
1040
01:20:46,705 --> 01:20:47,820
What about him?
1041
01:20:47,913 --> 01:20:50,325
Well, he gave a talk at Columbia.
1042
01:20:50,413 --> 01:20:54,611
Word is, the Serb is building Westinghouse
a polyphase motor.
1043
01:20:55,205 --> 01:20:59,027
Light and power.
You can do both. He now may as well.
1044
01:20:59,121 --> 01:21:01,806
Who even knows how long it'll take them
to build a functioning model...
1045
01:21:01,830 --> 01:21:05,072
As of this morning,
you have ceded, I have here,
1046
01:21:05,163 --> 01:21:07,620
nine more cities to Westinghouse.
1047
01:21:07,705 --> 01:21:09,821
So, here's what's happening.
1048
01:21:10,871 --> 01:21:14,944
I am merging Edison Electric
with some of the other ankle-biters.
1049
01:21:15,413 --> 01:21:17,404
You are out.
1050
01:21:18,330 --> 01:21:19,536
You know why.
1051
01:21:20,413 --> 01:21:23,951
And I'm happy to tell you, if you require
this moment to be even more unpleasant.
1052
01:21:24,038 --> 01:21:26,245
You will receive stock,
1053
01:21:26,330 --> 01:21:28,696
and you will retain a seat on the board.
1054
01:21:35,371 --> 01:21:36,736
Who's gonna present? You?
1055
01:21:36,830 --> 01:21:39,446
- Good God, no.
- You tell me now?
1056
01:21:39,538 --> 01:21:41,639
I was here. I thought you deserved
to hear it face-to-face.
1057
01:21:41,663 --> 01:21:44,780
No, you didn't.
You just wanted to waste my time
1058
01:21:44,871 --> 01:21:46,987
and get me to sign autographs
for children.
1059
01:21:48,121 --> 01:21:50,264
- What are you going to call it then?
- That's your concern?
1060
01:21:50,288 --> 01:21:51,949
Edison Electric. It has to be.
1061
01:21:52,038 --> 01:21:55,530
Edison and electricity are synonymous,
Morgan. The bulb...
1062
01:21:55,621 --> 01:21:58,533
I do not attach a losing name
to a fledgling enterprise.
1063
01:21:58,621 --> 01:22:00,987
Now that your letters have leaked,
you've lost credibility.
1064
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:02,200
- So, what is it?
- The name?
1065
01:22:02,246 --> 01:22:03,861
Yes, the goddamn name!
1066
01:22:03,955 --> 01:22:06,742
The contractjust says General Electric,
but I'll think of something.
1067
01:22:06,830 --> 01:22:07,945
I can be creative too.
1068
01:22:13,621 --> 01:22:14,701
Yeah.
1069
01:22:17,538 --> 01:22:18,618
Mr. lnsull.
1070
01:22:20,955 --> 01:22:22,070
A moment.
1071
01:23:01,371 --> 01:23:04,329
He said they'd keep your name attached
as long as you didn't pursue action
1072
01:23:04,413 --> 01:23:06,574
or speak negatively to the press
about the merger.
1073
01:23:06,663 --> 01:23:07,994
What did he offer you?
1074
01:23:09,121 --> 01:23:11,081
- Tell me.
- Vice president, but I turned it down.
1075
01:23:11,121 --> 01:23:12,281
- You should take it.
- Why?
1076
01:23:12,371 --> 01:23:14,264
Alternating current...
What's the transmission voltage?
1077
01:23:14,288 --> 01:23:15,494
230,000 volts.
1078
01:23:15,580 --> 01:23:17,320
What's the filament on a 12,000-hour lamp?
1079
01:23:17,413 --> 01:23:19,514
- Carbonized Japanese bamboo.
- What do I eat for breakfast?
1080
01:23:19,538 --> 01:23:20,764
- Pie.
- So, what's the surprise?
1081
01:23:20,788 --> 01:23:23,621
Of course he needs you.
You're me, but a human being.
1082
01:23:32,621 --> 01:23:34,282
Look around the room.
1083
01:23:34,371 --> 01:23:35,781
- Hmm?
- Who's missing?
1084
01:23:37,871 --> 01:23:41,068
Edison General Electric Company, please.
1085
01:23:41,163 --> 01:23:42,903
General Electric?
1086
01:23:42,996 --> 01:23:45,612
- Edison General Electric Company.
- Yes.
1087
01:23:45,705 --> 01:23:47,536
Ah!
1088
01:24:00,746 --> 01:24:01,986
He's 12.
1089
01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:05,618
Mr. Insull, these are
the committee members of...
1090
01:24:05,705 --> 01:24:08,242
Listen closely.
Focus on the quality of the light.
1091
01:24:08,330 --> 01:24:10,412
I don't care what the courts say.
1092
01:24:10,496 --> 01:24:12,077
Westinghouse ripped off my bulbs,
1093
01:24:12,163 --> 01:24:14,779
and the good news for you
is he did a terrible job.
1094
01:24:14,871 --> 01:24:18,068
They are outdoor bulbs,
so they have a life of about two hours.
1095
01:24:18,163 --> 01:24:20,074
So focus on the replacement time.
1096
01:24:21,163 --> 01:24:24,826
Talk about the superiority of ours,
as if there's no competition.
1097
01:24:25,413 --> 01:24:27,950
Use terms like "standard," "purest,"
1098
01:24:28,038 --> 01:24:30,029
"the most beautiful light," et cetera.
1099
01:24:30,121 --> 01:24:32,764
Find out what kind of men they are.
There are really only two types.
1100
01:24:32,788 --> 01:24:36,201
The first believe themselves to be
practical, but they're secret dreamers.
1101
01:24:36,288 --> 01:24:38,199
They're the ones who'll take the risks.
1102
01:24:38,288 --> 01:24:40,700
The second, well, they'll smile
and thank you for the show,
1103
01:24:40,788 --> 01:24:42,494
but they'll vote with their wallets.
1104
01:24:42,580 --> 01:24:46,368
Unless Westinghouse is mortgaging
everything he's worth on this bid,
1105
01:24:46,455 --> 01:24:48,411
Morgan has you in good stead
with the money men.
1106
01:24:48,496 --> 01:24:51,112
So your only real job
is to look the dreamers in the eye
1107
01:24:51,205 --> 01:24:52,911
and promise them magic.
1108
01:24:52,996 --> 01:24:56,033
Now, explain back to me everything
that you remember about a parallel
1109
01:24:56,121 --> 01:24:58,801
and series of electric circuits
using none of the words I just said.
1110
01:25:00,496 --> 01:25:03,158
Though I am young,
I am an expert in these matters,
1111
01:25:03,246 --> 01:25:06,238
rivaled only really by Mr. Edison himself.
1112
01:25:06,330 --> 01:25:09,037
Should you choose Westinghouse, then...
1113
01:25:09,121 --> 01:25:11,612
then yes, there is a possibility
1114
01:25:11,705 --> 01:25:14,742
you'll be putting in jeopardy
the lives of 28 million people.
1115
01:25:15,996 --> 01:25:19,909
Even if Westinghouse were to make
even the smallest of errors,
1116
01:25:19,996 --> 01:25:22,237
unintentional, of course,
1117
01:25:22,330 --> 01:25:24,321
a visiting politician, a wife,
1118
01:25:24,413 --> 01:25:26,654
even a seven-year-old girl
may lean against a lamppost
1119
01:25:26,746 --> 01:25:28,657
and be struck dead immediately.
1120
01:25:29,330 --> 01:25:30,661
There you have it.
1121
01:25:30,746 --> 01:25:33,988
Mr. Westinghouse's brand of electricity
is fatal.
1122
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:36,492
Thank you, Mr. lnsull.
1123
01:25:36,580 --> 01:25:38,161
Just to be clear, sir,
1124
01:25:38,246 --> 01:25:41,409
any electrical current
over 200 milliamperes can be deadly.
1125
01:25:41,496 --> 01:25:42,906
Even yours?
1126
01:25:50,871 --> 01:25:52,953
Mr. Westinghouse,
these are the committee members.
1127
01:25:53,038 --> 01:25:54,778
OF GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS:
1128
01:25:54,871 --> 01:25:57,453
Charles Schwab, Craig Cannon,
1129
01:25:57,538 --> 01:25:59,654
- Mayor Cregier, of course.
- Oh, of course.
1130
01:25:59,746 --> 01:26:02,203
Victor Lawson of the Chicago Daily News,
1131
01:26:02,288 --> 01:26:04,620
and the Honorable Judge Tree.
1132
01:26:04,705 --> 01:26:06,115
I'm Daniel Burnham.
1133
01:26:06,205 --> 01:26:10,403
Respectfully, we ask that you please
keep your remarks to one hour.
1134
01:26:10,496 --> 01:26:12,157
That won't be necessary.
1135
01:26:12,871 --> 01:26:15,112
- Here you go. Sir.
- Thank you.
1136
01:26:16,705 --> 01:26:17,865
Hmm.
1137
01:26:20,496 --> 01:26:22,236
My bid.
1138
01:26:22,330 --> 01:26:24,036
These are all your figures?
1139
01:26:24,121 --> 01:26:26,362
Yes, sir. Independent estimates.
1140
01:26:26,455 --> 01:26:29,777
Before we, uh,
get into the messy business,
1141
01:26:29,871 --> 01:26:32,988
let us begin
with this most general question:
1142
01:26:33,080 --> 01:26:37,870
Why should we grant Westinghouse Electric
the contract for the World's Fair?
1143
01:26:37,955 --> 01:26:42,619
Well, I guess because
our system works significantly better,
1144
01:26:42,705 --> 01:26:43,865
and, uh...
1145
01:26:46,205 --> 01:26:49,242
because our system
is significantly cheaper.
1146
01:26:54,413 --> 01:26:57,280
Mr. Schwab, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Cannon,
1147
01:26:57,371 --> 01:27:00,568
Mayor Cregier, Mr. Lawson, Judge Tree,
1148
01:27:00,663 --> 01:27:01,948
and Mr. Burnham,
1149
01:27:02,705 --> 01:27:05,617
thank you very much for your time
and your consideration.
1150
01:27:19,538 --> 01:27:21,870
Financially, it's clear.
We just take the better bid.
1151
01:27:21,955 --> 01:27:24,867
- Look, Westinghouse is dangerous.
- Potentially dangerous.
1152
01:27:24,955 --> 01:27:26,946
You even printed it in your own paper.
1153
01:27:27,038 --> 01:27:30,451
Alternating will be used
to kill that man in Buffalo.
1154
01:27:42,705 --> 01:27:44,491
They both light up lights, right?
1155
01:27:44,580 --> 01:27:47,572
Westinghouse saves us some money.
Thomas Edison sells tickets.
1156
01:27:51,038 --> 01:27:53,871
What I wouldn't give to flip through that.
1157
01:27:53,955 --> 01:27:56,617
It's like a handbook
to the future, isn't it?
1158
01:28:00,496 --> 01:28:03,329
- We need a clear majority, gentlemen.
- Don't you have stock in GE?
1159
01:28:03,413 --> 01:28:04,778
That's irrelevant.
1160
01:28:06,330 --> 01:28:09,242
No one has ever done
what you have done for me.
1161
01:28:09,330 --> 01:28:12,777
The value of something
isn't what someone's willing to pay,
1162
01:28:12,871 --> 01:28:16,034
but the value of something
is what it contributes.
1163
01:28:16,121 --> 01:28:19,739
When we vote again, Burnham,
you can telephone the winner tonight.
1164
01:28:24,288 --> 01:28:26,779
Is it true you were born
during a lightning storm?
1165
01:28:27,871 --> 01:28:29,486
It is true.
1166
01:28:31,663 --> 01:28:34,075
All right. Tell me one thing in that book.
1167
01:28:36,455 --> 01:28:39,572
Look, you and Mr. Edison, you spend
all your time on either end of the system,
1168
01:28:39,663 --> 01:28:41,574
the dynamos and the lamps.
1169
01:28:41,663 --> 01:28:43,745
But what about what is in between?
1170
01:28:43,830 --> 01:28:45,240
- The wires?
- Mm.
1171
01:28:46,330 --> 01:28:49,037
Do we need them?
1172
01:29:04,246 --> 01:29:08,239
The problem is, despite
all the advantages of the Remington...
1173
01:29:12,663 --> 01:29:16,076
it doesn't fix the fact that
you just dampened the gunpowder.
1174
01:29:48,080 --> 01:29:49,616
What's this?
1175
01:29:52,496 --> 01:29:56,114
This is gonna do for the eye
what the phonograph did for the ear.
1176
01:30:02,538 --> 01:30:03,618
Dot?
1177
01:30:20,205 --> 01:30:21,240
Again.
1178
01:30:24,621 --> 01:30:25,701
Again!
1179
01:31:58,496 --> 01:32:00,407
Do you have any final words?
1180
01:32:02,705 --> 01:32:05,071
I believe I'm going to a better place.
1181
01:32:07,455 --> 01:32:08,865
Goodbye, William.
1182
01:32:17,413 --> 01:32:20,860
We live in a higher civilization...
1183
01:32:21,830 --> 01:32:23,286
from this day.
1184
01:33:41,663 --> 01:33:45,076
"An awful spectacle,
far worse than hanging."
1185
01:33:45,163 --> 01:33:49,281
'They would have done better with an ax.'
1186
01:33:49,371 --> 01:33:51,487
Sizzling sound. A billow of smoke
1187
01:33:51,580 --> 01:33:53,912
"that filled the room
with the odor of burning hair."
1188
01:33:55,413 --> 01:33:57,495
Well, at least it happened to a murderer.
1189
01:33:59,371 --> 01:34:01,987
At least
they'll never use it again to kill anyone.
1190
01:34:09,580 --> 01:34:11,571
Soon all these people
will have electric light,
1191
01:34:11,663 --> 01:34:13,949
and no one will even remember
it ever happened.
1192
01:34:15,496 --> 01:34:17,737
I have books so full of ideas
1193
01:34:17,830 --> 01:34:20,902
it would take me more than 12 lifetimes
to execute them.
1194
01:34:22,413 --> 01:34:24,779
So let the man have his fair
and waterfall.
1195
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:31,695
Well, for what's it's worth,
1196
01:34:32,246 --> 01:34:35,784
I'd much rather have worked for you
than Westinghouse any day.
1197
01:34:35,871 --> 01:34:37,031
Why is that?
1198
01:34:37,955 --> 01:34:40,241
Well, I wouldn't have had as much fun,
would I?
1199
01:35:41,371 --> 01:35:43,487
Have you seen much of the fair?
1200
01:35:43,580 --> 01:35:46,822
- A Muybridge lecture, Little Egypt.
- Oh, the dancer.
1201
01:35:46,913 --> 01:35:48,278
- You saw her?
- No.
1202
01:35:49,163 --> 01:35:52,280
Well, she was... If you get the time.
1203
01:35:53,205 --> 01:35:54,240
Hmm.
1204
01:35:59,246 --> 01:36:01,908
Don't you think
a fence is a unique creation?
1205
01:36:03,705 --> 01:36:06,742
Your neighbor puts one up,
and suddenly one becomes two.
1206
01:36:07,663 --> 01:36:11,076
You also have a fence.
There's only one problem.
1207
01:36:11,163 --> 01:36:14,405
You see, one person
on one side of the fence designed it,
1208
01:36:14,496 --> 01:36:16,703
one person on one side built it,
1209
01:36:16,788 --> 01:36:18,949
and one person paid for it,
1210
01:36:19,038 --> 01:36:22,781
and yet the other person receives
a fine, free fence.
1211
01:36:25,496 --> 01:36:27,452
I didn't take your ideas.
1212
01:36:28,288 --> 01:36:29,528
Mr. Edison?
1213
01:36:30,788 --> 01:36:31,823
Sure.
1214
01:36:33,663 --> 01:36:34,778
Thank you.
1215
01:36:35,788 --> 01:36:38,905
- I was wondering about one thing.
- Oh, I'm sure there were many.
1216
01:36:38,996 --> 01:36:42,864
I was gonna invite you to dinner again,
1217
01:36:42,955 --> 01:36:45,367
but I suppose now
is as good a time as any.
1218
01:36:45,455 --> 01:36:46,931
You want to know
what was in the 13-hour bulb?
1219
01:36:46,955 --> 01:36:49,116
- I know how it works.
- Yeah, I know you do.
1220
01:36:49,205 --> 01:36:51,196
I only wondered what it felt like.
1221
01:36:53,246 --> 01:36:54,611
- Pardon?
- The bulb.
1222
01:36:55,621 --> 01:36:56,986
When you knew.
1223
01:36:57,538 --> 01:36:59,904
What was the feeling in that moment?
1224
01:37:08,330 --> 01:37:09,945
I can't tell you. I mean...
1225
01:37:11,788 --> 01:37:16,487
It's impossible to describe the feeling
because it was impossible.
1226
01:37:17,413 --> 01:37:20,371
Years of work.
Ten thousand different filaments.
1227
01:37:20,871 --> 01:37:23,157
When the thread went in the bulb,
as usual,
1228
01:37:23,246 --> 01:37:26,158
we placed our bets
and the generator sputtered to life
1229
01:37:26,246 --> 01:37:29,989
and the ball began to glow, we didn't
expect anything but another failure.
1230
01:37:32,121 --> 01:37:34,077
Then something started to happen.
1231
01:37:37,746 --> 01:37:40,533
See, our best filament
only lasted ten minutes,
1232
01:37:41,246 --> 01:37:44,363
and this fluke was rounding 20,
1233
01:37:44,455 --> 01:37:46,616
so people started to chatter.
1234
01:37:46,705 --> 01:37:50,493
And 30 minutes, 40 minutes,
an hour, two hours.
1235
01:37:50,580 --> 01:37:52,696
Then people started to shout.
1236
01:37:52,788 --> 01:37:55,450
And remember,
we hadn't got past ten minutes.
1237
01:37:56,246 --> 01:37:59,534
The boys were climbing up the walls,
tearing their hair out, and...
1238
01:38:01,371 --> 01:38:03,236
because it was impossible.
1239
01:38:04,288 --> 01:38:07,655
Seven hours. Eight hours. Nine.
1240
01:38:09,163 --> 01:38:10,994
We were silent when we hit ten.
1241
01:38:13,330 --> 01:38:15,696
Just sat around that glowing bubble,
1242
01:38:15,788 --> 01:38:18,860
drunk on our own magic,
staring at it like it...
1243
01:38:18,955 --> 01:38:21,992
I don't know, like it was the baby Jesus
playing Mozart.
1244
01:38:25,663 --> 01:38:28,985
After 13 and a half hours,
the glass cracked, and I knew it.
1245
01:38:31,330 --> 01:38:33,195
The world would never be the same.
1246
01:38:35,330 --> 01:38:38,402
I'm working on something now,
something so new that...
1247
01:38:40,038 --> 01:38:43,781
people will forget that my name
was ever associated with electricity.
1248
01:38:43,871 --> 01:38:45,987
I wonder if you know what it is yet.
1249
01:38:52,163 --> 01:38:54,245
You know, I think the solution is...
1250
01:38:54,913 --> 01:38:56,949
to divide the cost of the fence.
1251
01:38:59,371 --> 01:39:02,488
Or you cannot build a fence at all.
1252
01:39:05,371 --> 01:39:07,407
Your garden would be twice as big.
1253
01:39:08,163 --> 01:39:10,154
Wouldn't it, Tom?
1254
01:39:17,621 --> 01:39:19,577
If nothing else, a pleasure.
1255
01:39:21,830 --> 01:39:23,366
Enjoy the fair, George.
1256
01:39:41,455 --> 01:39:45,152
We build monuments to speak
to the future, to say, "We were here."
1257
01:39:46,871 --> 01:39:48,327
"We have lived."
1258
01:39:49,663 --> 01:39:53,406
A true legacy
isn't what we build up to the heavens
1259
01:39:53,496 --> 01:39:55,578
or carve deep into stone.
1260
01:39:56,746 --> 01:39:58,907
Rocks will crumble,
1261
01:39:58,996 --> 01:40:00,611
paper disintegrates,
1262
01:40:05,121 --> 01:40:08,079
Only that
which isn't in the physical realm
1263
01:40:08,163 --> 01:40:10,700
and reaches in both directions
can be eternal.
1264
01:40:12,538 --> 01:40:13,948
Our ideas.
1265
01:40:15,913 --> 01:40:17,904
They are what we leave behind.
1266
01:40:19,371 --> 01:40:21,783
And only they
are what can push us forward.
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