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改編自真人實事
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(WIND HOWLING)
(風呼嘯)
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EDISON:To all whom it may concern,
愛迪生:對於所有相關的人來說,
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be it known that I, Thomas Alva Edison,
眾所周知,我,托馬斯·阿爾瓦·愛迪生,
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submits on this, the 27th day of January, 1880,
於 1880 年 1 月 27 日提交,
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the application of this abstract to the Patent Office of the United States of America.
將此摘要提交給美利堅合眾國專利局。
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The unique design of my invention is that of a glass vacuum tube
我的發明的獨特設計是玻璃真空管
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which houses inside a thin cotton thread filament,
裡面裝有細棉線細絲,
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the two lower ends of which secure respective posts,
其兩個下端固定各自的柱子,
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forming an arch shape.
形成拱形。
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Details and schematic drawings follow,
詳細資訊和示意圖如下,
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exhibiting all aspects of the invention.
展示本發明的所有面向。
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But its purpose is simple,
但它的目的很簡單,
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to give light.
給予光明。
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(CLANG)
(鐺)
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(BRAKES SCREECHING)
(煞車聲)
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(RUMBLING)
(隆隆聲)
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賓夕凡尼亞州(美國東北部的一州), 匹茲堡
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(PEOPLE MURMURING)
(人們竊竊私語)
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MAN: Boys!
各位
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I hope you brought your Checkbooks.
希望你們有帶支票簿來
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
(模糊不清的喋喋不休)
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The Current War
電流大戰
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Are you excited to meetthe President? Yes.
你很高興見到總統嗎? 是的.
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Don't say a thing about J.P. Morgan's nose.
不要說摩根大通的鼻子.
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What's wrong with his nose?
Nothing.
他的鼻子怎麼了?
沒有什麼.
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It's huge. Huge!
它超大. 巨大的!
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It's like someone took a hammer and slammed it into his face.
就像有人拿起一把錘子, 狠狠砸在他臉上.
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MARY: I thought you already got the money.
瑪莉:我以為你已經拿到錢了
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EDISON: I only got half.
愛迪生:我只拿到一半.
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MARY: Does Morgan even know that you're coming?
瑪莉:摩根知道你要來嗎?
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He'll invest as always.
I hate this.
他會一如既往地投資.
我討厭這個.
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SAMUEL: Mr. Edison, you have dinner with...
塞繆爾:愛迪生先生,你和…一起吃晚餐
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What? Dinner with Westinghouse, on your return.
什麼? 當你返回時與西屋電氣共進晚餐
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GIRL: Why are barns red?
MARY: Maybe so you can see them in the snow.
女孩:為什麼穀倉是紅色的?
瑪莉:也許這樣你就可以在雪地裡看到它們了.
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EDISON: No, it's 'cause red paint's the cheapest.
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Morgan will want to know the practicality of your system.
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GIRL: I have money.
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Enough for two small buildings in Manhattan?
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Yes.
Oh, good.
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(DOOR OPENS)
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This was intended to be my lunch.
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EDISON: The President had asked to see the phonograph in person.
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I had no idea you'd be here.
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Mrs. Edison.
Mr. Morgan.
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These are our children.
Dot and Dash. Delightful.
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I know what you're doing.
How much are you short?
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Just how much of my money do you want to wash away?
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Oh, as very, very much as possible.
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Who's this?
Samuel Insull.
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Mr. Edison's personal secretary.
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Mr. Morgan, Mr. Edison.
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Which one?
He's also Mr. Edison.
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The President will see you now.
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Now. "On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
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"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."
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This is the sound of your voice.
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(ON PHONOGRAPH) "On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
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”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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(CHILDREN GIGGLING)
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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.
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The one device I shall never build is that which takes the life of another man. 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.
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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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(CHUCKLES)
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(CLINKING)
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EDISON: It's all right there.
Ferry to Wall Street.
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In case you missed my scribble, there's a big old circle
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around The New York Times.
Free advertising.
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150.
Halfa million.
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I'm talking about $500,000,
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you can buy the next century, brighter, safer, yours.
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PRESIDENT: Sounds rather grand to me, Pierpont. If I had your fortune...
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MORGAN: With respect, you don't, Mr. President.
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What is that?
That's not very nice.
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EDISON: Morse code.
(YOUNG DASH GIGGLES)
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MORGAN: What did the boy say?
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What did the boy say?
If 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're doing?
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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?
I don't know. Carpets...
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I don't know, carpets.
I don't know.
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SAMUEL: And the name?
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Edison Electric, of course.
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Sir, why not build munitions?
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$5 million, it's hard to say no to.
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No. If it's Edison, it works.
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If it works, I'd strongly prefer itnotknlanybody.
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Right.
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"Thomas Edison has an unfavorable opinion
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"of college graduates seeking employment,
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"because they cannot answer his examination questions.
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”Who composed II trovatore?"
IVIARGU ERITE: Verdi-
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”What is the speed of sound?"
Wow, 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
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is 11, 463 feet per second.
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How do you know all this?
I read that this morning.
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(LAUGHS)
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Never requested a houseguest before.
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Really?
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Hmm.
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I can feel it.
This is different.
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Eight minutes from the junction, sir.
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Hmm?
The Westinghouse dinner.
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We're going home. They're tired.
I already shook enough hands today.
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GEORGE: Evening, Frank.
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FRANKLIN: George.
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Pardon?
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I'm not stopping.
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Right.
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(TRAIN ENGINE CHUGGING)
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FRANKLIN: Maybe the brakes are busted.
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I doubt that!
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(SIGHS)
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An emergency came up in New York.
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(THUNDER RUMBLES)
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(HORSE WHINNIES)
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(GUN CLICKS)
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FRANKLIN: 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
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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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And how does he know there's a needle in the hay to begin with?
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He doesn't. Neither do you.
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But he's so determined not to be the second person to find it,
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he'll go stalk by stalk on a what-do-you-know.
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I will say one good thing about him.
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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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It was rude, not stopping.
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Ispoketo Mrs. Westinghouse directly.
I accepted the invitation.
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You've embarrassed us both.
Why do you feel embarrassed?
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What do you care what people think?
I care what they feel.
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(CREAKING)
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Mary.
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Talk. I just want to test the resistance...
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Where's my barrette?
On top of your bureau.
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What's a bureau? It's what's under your barrette.
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Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me afence?
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The ground's frozen.
Needs to thaw.
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DOT: Look, you're missing it!
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It's a baby!
Still has her spots.
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MARY: Tom, come see this.
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Tom! Tom?
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(PHONE RINGS)
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You want half a million dollars, you make me something
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with your name on it 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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Halfa million.
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We are gonna be big, big, big!
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YOUNG DASH: Bigger than an elephant?
And no one stops an elephant!
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Whoo!
(GIGGLES)
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(HORN BLARING)
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It'll work.
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Look, I got to be honest.
This might not work.
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Conventional wisdom has it,
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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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(CROWD LAUGHS)
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Tonight, things could change.
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I hope they do.
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And if they do, they'll change there and there.
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My boys and I caught in a jar 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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(CROWD CHEERING AND APPLAUDING)
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You ready?
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Three, two, one.
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(CROWD CHEERING)
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GEORGE: The man has 100, 000 feet of copper for 87 customers.
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It will never be profitable.
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FRANKLIN: It's a hobby for the rich.
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Something to show off.
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It doesn't have to be.
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I'm securing the patents on the Siemens dynamo
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and the Gaulard-Gibbs transformer.
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Transformer? It'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.
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It'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.
Mmm-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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Ah, if you're gonna rip off Edison, rip him off right.
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They glow bright gray.
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I just want to do a demonstration for Edison.
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Somewhere small, a 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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FRANKLIN: 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 have already done it.
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(MUTTERING)
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Well, 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?
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Very much.
I'm expanding to 12 cities,
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building direct current systems...
Direct current?
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Alternating current is far more efficient.
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EMDLL: Hickory, dickory, dock...
Higher voltage,
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greater distance, less copper conductors.
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It's lethal and it's far too much power for a motor to handle.
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I'm gonna start you on a hundred dollars a month
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until you prove yourself worth more or less.
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A hundred dollars?
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If you can solve five things that I can't, I'll pay you $50,000,
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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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WOMAN: You know, I have a suspicion that,
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though your husband's lab is but a hundred yards from your house,
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it must seem sometimes like a hundred miles.
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No, a million.
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I've tried to find a way to stop his brain, but it just runs and runs.
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It's something he can't control.
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All I can do is bring him back to center.
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I've heard Mr. Edison called the worst husband in America,
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on account of him sleeping in his lab on your wedding night.
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I've heard the story myself.
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Well, on our wedding night, 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
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would be enough to illuminate an entire lifetime. (CHUCKLES)
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He was a dashing inventor, and I worked for him, you know.
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I was a...
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I was a...
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Uh...
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I was a...
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Yes?
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Um...
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(CHUCKLES)
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I'm sorry.
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I operated the...
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(STAMMERS)
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Telegraph?
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Telegraph. Yes.
Yes. Forgive me.
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Does he have any hobbies?
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(TRAIN RUMBLING)
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You promised them Coney Island.
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At the very least, a walk.
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We'll go on three walks tomorrow.
I promise.
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Here, why don't you take a picture?
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Say what we practiced.
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DOT: Do you not love us anymore?
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YOUNG DASH: Do you not love us anymore?
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I love you more than anybody has ever loved anybody before.
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MARY: Slow down.
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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DOCTOR: It's neuralgia,
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brought on by eyestrain.
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A good pair of spectacles is all that's required.
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Oh, no. I'll look awful.
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No, no, no, you won't.
That's impossible.
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You're sure? That's all?
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She's been having terrible headaches.
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I'll leave her a vial of laudanum until her eyes adjust.
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Thank you.
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Can you...
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Would you mind delaying the bill for this visit?
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My son would love an autograph.
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EDISON: Sure.
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(TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS)
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Christ, it's primitive.
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How much did this cost?
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He won't tell me.
What we need is here.
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GEORGE: Edison's current can't travel more than one mile, Frank.
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It peters out. He'll have to build so many DC motors
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and bury all his copper just to power one town.
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This country will look like a checkerboard of power plants.
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But, with one AC dynamo, we can step up the voltage and reach as far as the eye can see.
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We string the wires overhead on poles.
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Less copper, more electricity.
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We're 75% cheaper.
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The only thing that matters here is distance.
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Frank, this is as much yours as it is mine.
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I'd be proud if you'd flip the...
I couldn't possibly.
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Oh, don't be ridiculous.
The moment belongs to you.
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But you spent hours...
George, it was your idea.
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You were the instigator.
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(MACHINE WHIRS)
Shall we go for a ride?
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GEORGE: "To the Wizard of Menlo Park,
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”as it seems your brakes have issues,
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"I would be delighted to send my car to deliver you”to Great Barrington, Massachusetts,
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”where I have successfully transmitted current one full mile. ”
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No!
(GLASS SHATTERS)
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How did he get the bulbs?
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What a roaring silence from the brightest minds of America.
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MAN: He's using Hiram's design.
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Which Hiram stole from me!
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Sue him.
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We already did.
The court upheld his patent.
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I'm talking aboutvvesfinghouse.
Find an angle.
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Take a trip to Barrington and see for yourself.
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Are you not even slightly irked that 15 years of work
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is being filched from right under your eyes?
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Not again.
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I built a system here, and he goes shopping for patents
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to cobble together something to legally steal what is mine.
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If the bulbs are a battle, then nail him on the dynamos.
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We can't.
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He's not even using direct current, sir.
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He's using alternating?
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(MACHINE WHIRRING)
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MAN: George Westinghouse?
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George Westinghouse?
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Can we help you?
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I came from Thomas Edison.
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He wants me to buy one generator per mile?
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And then I saw the piece in The Globe that says
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your electricity would save 66% on Edison's.
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Well, it's a proposed saving.
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And it's not my electricity.
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It's electricity.
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I think it makes much more sense to the taxpayers of Columbus
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to go with Westinghouse Electric.
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I don't want to compete. I only intend to license my system.
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He's got the better bulbs.
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Why not compete? By now, he knows.
Edison knows, I promise you.
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And the man doesn't care about getting it right.
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He just cares about getting it.
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GEORGE: But he doesn't respond.
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EDISON: Westinghouse will never have a complete system.
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He can't even power a sewing machine.
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TESLA: But I can solve that problem.
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Instead of, again, converting the currents
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to work with a commutator, I would pass alternating current differing in phase
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through two or more energizing circuits.
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You're supposed to be working on commutators with DC dynamos.
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VVeH,lhave.
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Look, I have done everything you have asked,
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but you are making a mistake.
What?
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Direct current may be fine for cities when the build...
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When the buildings are close together, but most of your country is empty spaces.
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Only high voltage can span the distance.
What is this?
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You are not thinking long-term.
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This technology is within your grasp.
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I can build you an efficient motor.
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Have you tried it?
No.
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Look, in my head, it is nearly complete...
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Men claim to have their heads full of sonnets and symphonies,
386
00:26:43,581 --> 00:26:46,709
but their only problem seems to be they can't quite write it down.
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00:26:46,793 --> 00:26:47,919
Let me try.
No.
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Because I can't start again.
I got orders from Michigan.
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I got a roomful of press waiting for me.
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00:26:53,007 --> 00:26:54,717
Do what you were hired to do.
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So, you will not honor your word about the remuneration?
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00:26:56,969 --> 00:26:59,096
What are you talking about?
Well, you said $50,000.
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Are you unhappy with my contributions?
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I'm not paying you $50,000.
That was a joke.
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I was relying on that income.
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EDISON: Coconut fibers and horn shavings and fishing lines and cork and celluloid
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and flax and platinum and iron, nickel, copper, steel.
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We scoured the Earth years and years,
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trying thousands, 10,000 different combinations.
401
00:27:22,745 --> 00:27:26,332
Then George Westinghouse saw how I did it and put on a pirate hat.
403
00:27:26,415 --> 00:27:27,500
(MEN CHUCKLE)
404
00:27:27,583 --> 00:27:30,795
You get vultures in every venture, but you just got to keep 'em away.
405
00:27:30,878 --> 00:27:32,713
So, this is just how it works?
406
00:27:32,797 --> 00:27:36,008
Mapmakers include mistakes in their work to see if anyone else is copying them.
407
00:27:36,092 --> 00:27:37,552
I don't have that luxury.
408
00:27:37,635 --> 00:27:39,512
I can't invent streets to lead the world down.
409
00:27:39,595 --> 00:27:41,055
Otherwise, we all end up in the dark.
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00:27:41,556 --> 00:27:45,184
Good, and remember, as much as you can about how he's infringing.
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00:27:45,935 --> 00:27:48,271
Thank you, Mr. Edison, and thanks for this.
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(FLASHBULB POPS)
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00:27:54,777 --> 00:27:57,196
Did I mention that his system's lethal?
415
00:27:57,989 --> 00:28:01,993
Now, you reach out and touch a doorknob or a rail, and...
416
00:28:02,076 --> 00:28:03,452
Well, you become the circuit.
417
00:28:04,161 --> 00:28:06,247
Just to be clear on that point...
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00:28:08,207 --> 00:28:09,917
Well, you die.
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00:28:11,085 --> 00:28:12,962
You know, with DC current, you can reach out
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and touch anything at any stage of the line with your bare hands.
It's safe, it works, and it bears the name of Edison, so it's pretty.
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00:28:19,719 --> 00:28:20,887
(CHUCKUNG)
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Our government has been trying for some time now to get me to invent a weapon,
426
00:28:24,599 --> 00:28:27,435
but I won't use this brain to invent anything that hurts people.
427
00:28:27,852 --> 00:28:30,479
Forthat you can shop in Pittsburgh.
428
00:28:30,563 --> 00:28:32,398
So you say Westinghouse wants to hurt people?
429
00:28:32,481 --> 00:28:34,775
No, I can't say that.
430
00:28:34,859 --> 00:28:36,152
But you can.
431
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,249
MARGUERITE: This is what he thinks of you.
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00:28:51,626 --> 00:28:53,961
Issue a statement to the papers today.
433
00:28:54,086 --> 00:28:55,379
Refute his charges.
434
00:28:55,463 --> 00:28:57,173
I'm not going to engage with this.
435
00:28:57,256 --> 00:29:00,134
We have the better system.
That speaks loudest.
436
00:29:06,265 --> 00:29:10,728
Westinghouse Electric Company was founded at a quarter past 9:00.
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00:29:11,896 --> 00:29:14,815
Hello. I'm George Westinghouse.
Do we have an appointment?
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00:29:14,899 --> 00:29:15,900
North Dakota.
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00:29:16,776 --> 00:29:18,069
New Orleans.
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00:29:18,152 --> 00:29:19,487
Fort Worth.
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00:29:19,570 --> 00:29:20,655
Sioux City.
443
00:29:20,738 --> 00:29:22,782
You want the good news or the good news?
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00:29:22,865 --> 00:29:25,451
(SINGING) Forever, hurrah, boys, hurrah...
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00:29:26,202 --> 00:29:27,995
There's always more to see.
446
00:29:29,163 --> 00:29:31,916
Mr. and Mrs. Worthington, Mr. Manesberg,
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00:29:31,999 --> 00:29:35,461
Mr. McCoy, Mr. Faulk, Miss Faulk, enjoy your evening.
448
00:29:37,046 --> 00:29:38,881
MAN 1 ON PHONE: We've been spending all our time
449
00:29:38,965 --> 00:29:40,758
trying to nab him on what's in the glass bubble
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00:29:40,841 --> 00:29:45,054
when we should have been looking at the clear opposite end of the bulb,the corkscrew.
I own that.
452
00:29:45,137 --> 00:29:46,597
MAN: That you do.
453
00:29:46,973 --> 00:29:48,307
He's suing you.
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00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:53,145
MAN 2 ON PHONE: This is a massive lawsuit.
This is Edison and Morgan.
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00:29:53,229 --> 00:29:55,898
My advice, is there any way that you can think of
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00:29:55,982 --> 00:29:57,984
to beat gravity, other than a corkscrew?
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00:29:59,318 --> 00:30:02,071
MAN 1: Westinghouse designed a stopper to get around your corkscrew.
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00:30:02,154 --> 00:30:04,115
It's only a matter of time before they're everywhere.
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00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:07,702
To tell you the truth, I am mostly looking forward
460
00:30:07,785 --> 00:30:09,453
to using it at the lumber mills.
461
00:30:09,537 --> 00:30:12,123
Well, at the moment, we offer only light.
462
00:30:12,498 --> 00:30:15,668
In time, we'll move on to motorized tools and appliances.
463
00:30:15,751 --> 00:30:18,421
When? I don't care what light costs.
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00:30:19,088 --> 00:30:23,384
My home's on gas. I'm after productivity.
I don't understand.
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00:30:23,467 --> 00:30:26,887
Edison said that electricity can already be used in the factories.
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00:30:28,139 --> 00:30:29,807
Well, his can.
467
00:30:33,269 --> 00:30:34,729
I need to see this needle move.
468
00:30:34,812 --> 00:30:37,523
I can't step the voltage down without blowing the whole thing to pieces.
469
00:30:37,606 --> 00:30:39,734
Come on! You must have made some progress.
470
00:30:39,817 --> 00:30:40,943
It's just not ready.
471
00:31:02,965 --> 00:31:04,008
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
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00:31:04,091 --> 00:31:05,301
Kill it! Kill it!
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(MACHINE POWERING DOWN)
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00:31:09,722 --> 00:31:10,973
(SIGHS)
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00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:15,019
GEORGE: There has to be a solution out there.
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00:31:20,691 --> 00:31:22,943
The Nikola Tesla Electric Light Company.
477
00:31:23,027 --> 00:31:24,320
How does that sound?
478
00:31:24,779 --> 00:31:26,280
When can you bring arcs to production?
479
00:31:26,363 --> 00:31:27,448
Arc lighting?
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00:31:27,531 --> 00:31:30,951
IbeHeve we agreed to compete for incandescents, motors, and distribution.
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00:31:31,035 --> 00:31:32,536
Leave that to Edison.
483
00:31:32,620 --> 00:31:35,247
I am working on advanced methods to surpass him.
484
00:31:35,331 --> 00:31:37,416
To beat Edison? How soon?
485
00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:41,295
Only a few years. I need a lab, engineers, supplies.
486
00:31:41,378 --> 00:31:43,005
There are, of course, expenses.
487
00:31:43,089 --> 00:31:45,174
Oh, where do you get the cash for those fancy silks?
488
00:31:45,841 --> 00:31:47,676
How I spend my income is my concern.
489
00:31:47,968 --> 00:31:51,931
Look, Mr. Tesla, if you need cash now, you should sell us your patents.
491
00:31:52,890 --> 00:31:55,643
And what would I receive?
Stock.
492
00:31:55,726 --> 00:31:58,854
And later, if you succeed, you could sell it for a killing.
493
00:31:58,938 --> 00:32:00,523
That means a fortune.
494
00:32:00,606 --> 00:32:02,233
Yes, I know what an idiom is.
495
00:32:02,316 --> 00:32:04,360
We'll take on two-thirds of the risk.
496
00:32:04,443 --> 00:32:06,946
It's a good price for the only thing you have to sell.
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EDISON: "Congestion of the brain?"
498
00:32:12,076 --> 00:32:13,327
Well, what does that even mean?
499
00:32:13,452 --> 00:32:18,624
DOCTOR: There's a... An occlusion, hidden, and it expands.
500
00:32:19,542 --> 00:32:22,128
Her eyesight will likely go first,
501
00:32:22,211 --> 00:32:24,338
and then her vocabulary will fall away.
502
00:32:24,421 --> 00:32:25,881
I can't lose her.
503
00:32:28,592 --> 00:32:31,428
I'm working on a raised alphabet.
I'll make her a dictionary.
504
00:32:31,971 --> 00:32:34,890
She'll gradually lose her mobility.
505
00:32:34,974 --> 00:32:36,725
I'll build her an elevator.
506
00:32:37,434 --> 00:32:38,727
Mr. Edison,
507
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,108
what your wife needs, no man can build.
508
00:32:44,859 --> 00:32:46,944
What my wife needs, according to you,
509
00:32:47,820 --> 00:32:49,572
is a simple pair of spectacles.
510
00:32:51,490 --> 00:32:53,492
Nature will take its course.
511
00:32:56,287 --> 00:32:57,538
I, uh...
512
00:32:58,831 --> 00:33:01,500
l have to leave for New York tonight.
513
00:33:02,293 --> 00:33:03,836
It can't be avoided.
514
00:33:04,336 --> 00:33:07,006
DOCTOR: I will attend to her while you're away, but...
515
00:33:08,549 --> 00:33:10,050
Don't linger.
516
00:33:14,346 --> 00:33:15,890
(TRAIN HORN BLOWS)
517
00:33:17,474 --> 00:33:19,560
MORGAN: Ohio is going with Westinghouse.
518
00:33:19,643 --> 00:33:21,687
Columbus, Zanesville.
EDISON: Zanesville?
519
00:33:21,770 --> 00:33:23,981
Give it to him.
That isn't funny.
520
00:33:25,357 --> 00:33:28,110
We don't know something is a pattern until it happens again,
521
00:33:28,194 --> 00:33:30,196
which I sincerely hope it does not.
522
00:33:30,279 --> 00:33:33,908
Now, you tell me, what is he doing right that you're doing wrong?
523
00:33:33,991 --> 00:33:39,455
He is successfully selling machines that will result in the accidental deaths of human beings.
525
00:33:39,538 --> 00:33:41,415
Where are these deaths?
Where are these deaths?
526
00:33:41,498 --> 00:33:44,960
Why don't we switch now and then you get to shoulder the inevitable suits of manslaughter?
528
00:33:45,044 --> 00:33:49,006
I think that people aren't dying because it's not as dangerous as you wish it were.
530
00:33:50,716 --> 00:33:53,928
All right, he's beating us on costs but that is a temporary advantage.
532
00:33:54,011 --> 00:33:57,848
You give me enough time, I'll make ours so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
534
00:33:57,932 --> 00:34:00,142
And until then, you bleed cities to Westinghouse.
535
00:34:00,226 --> 00:34:03,103
I'm not a bank. That is exactly what you are.
536
00:34:03,187 --> 00:34:06,774
We could have had this conversation by telephone instead of you wasting my time.
538
00:34:06,857 --> 00:34:08,400
Well, when I want to see someone, he comes.
539
00:34:08,484 --> 00:34:09,944
Eye to eye.
That's how it works.
540
00:34:10,361 --> 00:34:15,449
No, here's how it works.
I build miracles, and you continue to give me as much goddamn money as I want.
542
00:34:16,450 --> 00:34:18,744
Oh, what?
Did I squander another town?
543
00:34:20,537 --> 00:34:21,872
All right, what did I lose?
544
00:35:11,547 --> 00:35:12,756
(INAUDIBLE)
545
00:36:19,615 --> 00:36:21,742
DOT: What's a bureau? MARY: It's what's under your barrette.
546
00:36:21,825 --> 00:36:23,118
EDISON: It's started.
Say something.
547
00:36:23,202 --> 00:36:25,954
MARY: Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence?
548
00:36:27,748 --> 00:36:30,167
EDISON: The ground's frozen.
Needs to thaw.
549
00:36:31,960 --> 00:36:33,504
DOT: Look, you're missing it!
550
00:36:41,929 --> 00:36:44,932
DOT: What's a bureau? MARY: It's what's under your barrette.
551
00:36:45,015 --> 00:36:46,600
EDISON: It's started.
Say something.
552
00:36:46,683 --> 00:36:49,937
MARY: Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence?
553
00:36:50,020 --> 00:36:51,480
(BELL TOLLING)
554
00:37:05,828 --> 00:37:07,704
Can I get you anything, sir?
555
00:37:09,039 --> 00:37:10,374
A time machine.
556
00:37:10,916 --> 00:37:12,000
Yes, well, if I ever find one,
557
00:37:12,084 --> 00:37:14,545
I'll travel back to this moment and give it to you.
559
00:37:15,754 --> 00:37:17,256
Did you read over the proposal?
560
00:37:17,339 --> 00:37:21,176
I'm not diverting what I've got left of my resources in lighting up a fair.
561
00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:22,803
It's much more than a fair, sir.
562
00:37:22,886 --> 00:37:28,142
A third of this country will get on trains to Chicago to try and see this city of light.
564
00:37:28,225 --> 00:37:30,185
Every window, every streetlamp,
565
00:37:30,269 --> 00:37:33,105
a sign that says the race is over and we won.
566
00:37:33,897 --> 00:37:37,609
Why spend your final dollars traveling this country to show everyone your electricity
568
00:37:37,693 --> 00:37:41,280
when they're all traveling to the same place to try and see it anyway?
570
00:37:41,363 --> 00:37:42,865
Because in a year, they'll rip it down.
571
00:37:42,948 --> 00:37:45,534
Only after 30 million people have seen it, yes.
572
00:37:52,749 --> 00:37:54,793
Westinghouse is placing a bid.
573
00:38:06,889 --> 00:38:09,141
Nice hat.
Looks expensive.
574
00:38:09,224 --> 00:38:11,477
I owned this before I worked for you, Mr. Edison.
575
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,395
I don't think you are working for me.
576
00:38:13,479 --> 00:38:16,815
He's still using my bulbs.
His patents are in order.
577
00:38:17,441 --> 00:38:18,984
Do you want my advice?
578
00:38:19,067 --> 00:38:21,904
You keep saying Westinghouse's current will kill people.
579
00:38:21,987 --> 00:38:25,199
So, in lieu of evidence, why don't you provide it?
580
00:38:34,583 --> 00:38:38,962
EDISON: We're doing this because when we have a complete system, it works,
582
00:38:39,046 --> 00:38:40,464
and it's Edison...
583
00:38:41,507 --> 00:38:42,883
Poor bastard.
584
00:38:43,634 --> 00:38:45,969
Well, he was going to be slaughtered anyway.
585
00:38:46,053 --> 00:38:48,096
He's not going to feel any pain, right?
586
00:38:48,180 --> 00:38:50,432
At 3,000 volts, it'll be over before it begins.
587
00:38:50,516 --> 00:38:51,934
So there's nothing to worry about.
588
00:38:52,935 --> 00:38:56,313
But these are reporters, so you might want to liven up a little bit.
590
00:38:57,147 --> 00:38:58,815
(HORSE WHINNIES)
591
00:39:00,609 --> 00:39:03,028
Welcome to Menlo Park.
How are you, sir?
592
00:39:03,111 --> 00:39:05,447
Thank you for coming out on this cold morning.
593
00:39:05,531 --> 00:39:06,865
Good to see you again.
594
00:39:06,949 --> 00:39:08,325
Good morning.
MAN: Morning.
595
00:39:08,408 --> 00:39:10,160
I'm Southwick Brown.
A pleasure.
596
00:39:10,244 --> 00:39:12,329
Now, you you might all want to stand back a little bit.
597
00:39:13,121 --> 00:39:17,668
Gus is being connected to the same current that Westinghouse uses for his generator,
599
00:39:17,751 --> 00:39:21,588
but there's no word yet coined to define death by electricity.
600
00:39:21,672 --> 00:39:23,382
So, I asked the men who write the dictionaries
601
00:39:23,465 --> 00:39:25,801
and I heard back "electro-dite,"
602
00:39:25,884 --> 00:39:27,928
"electro-cremate," and "dyno-mort."
603
00:39:28,011 --> 00:39:31,890
Butjust as Joe Guillotin got his name on his invention,
604
00:39:31,974 --> 00:39:37,396
how could we rob the rightful inventor of death by electricity of his due credit?
606
00:39:38,438 --> 00:39:41,984
I ask you to please be respectful as we Westinghouse this horse.
607
00:39:57,207 --> 00:39:58,375
(SNORT5)
608
00:40:08,010 --> 00:40:09,428
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
609
00:40:11,722 --> 00:40:13,890
Mr. Edison, Southwick Brown.
610
00:40:13,974 --> 00:40:15,475
Capital Punishment Commission.
611
00:40:15,559 --> 00:40:17,019
You've read, no doubt,
612
00:40:17,102 --> 00:40:18,520
of the botched hangings throughout the Northeast.
613
00:40:18,854 --> 00:40:20,856
The prisoners either choke to death
614
00:40:20,981 --> 00:40:23,025
or are violently decapitated.
(MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
615
00:40:23,108 --> 00:40:24,693
The spectacle is inhumane.
616
00:40:24,776 --> 00:40:28,697
But the horse, his death was so calm, you could call it...
617
00:40:28,780 --> 00:40:30,157
(CLATTERING)
618
00:40:31,033 --> 00:40:32,034
...poetic.
619
00:40:32,701 --> 00:40:34,661
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(BONES SNAP)
620
00:40:35,495 --> 00:40:38,874
The governor of New York, upon my personal recommendation,
622
00:40:38,957 --> 00:40:43,754
would like to explore a death device, which uses electricity on a human being.
624
00:40:44,338 --> 00:40:47,841
It would be our honor to award you the contract.
625
00:40:48,842 --> 00:40:51,011
If nothing else, a pleasure.
I beg your pardon.
626
00:40:51,637 --> 00:40:54,681
To kill a human being under the guise of justice is...
627
00:40:54,765 --> 00:40:56,099
ls cockeyed.
628
00:40:56,183 --> 00:40:58,560
There's a big difference between a horse and a person.
629
00:40:58,644 --> 00:41:01,813
God humanely brings us into this world.
630
00:41:02,356 --> 00:41:04,441
Why would you reject the opportunity
631
00:41:04,524 --> 00:41:08,362
to be the first man to humanely take us out of it?
632
00:42:08,422 --> 00:42:09,548
William.
633
00:42:12,217 --> 00:42:13,760
I killed my wife.
634
00:42:22,352 --> 00:42:23,437
(DOOR CLOSES)
635
00:42:28,734 --> 00:42:30,736
MARY ON RECORDER: I'm turning the handle.
636
00:42:31,570 --> 00:42:33,488
Maybe there's more to it than that.
637
00:42:34,531 --> 00:42:35,615
If I'm doing it wrong,
638
00:42:35,699 --> 00:42:39,745
you'll never know I was fooling around with your phonogram or gramophone,
639
00:42:39,828 --> 00:42:41,705
whatever you end up calling it.
640
00:42:41,955 --> 00:42:44,082
And what is this thing, really?
641
00:42:44,875 --> 00:42:48,003
Today's Mary is speaking to tomorrow's Tom.
642
00:42:48,670 --> 00:42:52,591
Or from where you sit, today's Tom is listening to yesterday's Mary.
643
00:42:54,593 --> 00:42:56,803
I wonder what else you can do with it.
644
00:43:03,351 --> 00:43:04,644
Mr. Tesla,
645
00:43:05,187 --> 00:43:08,106
my son and his idiot friend tell me you don't want to make arc: lights anymore.
646
00:43:08,190 --> 00:43:09,357
Is that true?
647
00:43:09,441 --> 00:43:11,026
Well, don't look at him, look at me.
648
00:43:11,109 --> 00:43:12,360
I'm your primary shareholder.
649
00:43:12,444 --> 00:43:15,113
No, I already completed the are light project.
650
00:43:15,197 --> 00:43:17,157
Completed?
You covered one city.
651
00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:18,700
Rahway, New Jersey.
652
00:43:18,784 --> 00:43:21,244
(CHUCKLES) For the love of God, think bigger. Philadelphia.
653
00:43:21,328 --> 00:43:24,790
You design aro lights to outfit cities.
That was your only job.
654
00:43:24,873 --> 00:43:27,167
No. My AC motor.
655
00:43:27,250 --> 00:43:29,419
Okay? We agreed... No, I never agreed to anything.
656
00:43:29,503 --> 00:43:30,754
In this office,
you said...
657
00:43:30,837 --> 00:43:32,047
Ah.
658
00:43:32,130 --> 00:43:34,424
Lane, could you wait outside for a moment?
659
00:43:40,931 --> 00:43:43,767
I'm sorry. Don't you realize you're being fired here?
660
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:46,728
No.
661
00:43:46,812 --> 00:43:49,731
Please, let me work through what I have in my head.
662
00:43:49,856 --> 00:43:52,943
I will make you the greatest provider of electrical power in the world.
663
00:43:53,026 --> 00:43:54,528
Better than Edison.
664
00:43:54,611 --> 00:43:57,197
I'm so close, just a few months.
665
00:44:01,535 --> 00:44:04,287
I mean, you drop in here like you're from Neptune,
666
00:44:04,371 --> 00:44:09,459
like you got a great vision of the future no one understands butyou.
668
00:44:09,543 --> 00:44:11,002
You're just an immigrant.
669
00:44:12,587 --> 00:44:14,673
Head full of notions, looking for a handout.
670
00:44:14,756 --> 00:44:16,508
You're not Edison, there's only one Edison.
671
00:44:16,591 --> 00:44:18,802
That's why he's him.
There's millions of you.
672
00:44:18,885 --> 00:44:20,512
Big ideas.
673
00:44:20,595 --> 00:44:22,889
But you can't see the real force that moves things,
674
00:44:22,973 --> 00:44:26,142
and it's not AC/DC, it's not currents.
675
00:44:26,226 --> 00:44:27,936
It's currency.
676
00:44:28,562 --> 00:44:30,772
And that's the only motor I'm interested in.
677
00:44:33,275 --> 00:44:37,696
These patents belong to the Tesla Electric Light Company.
678
00:44:37,779 --> 00:44:44,035
Which is now the Union Electric and Manufacturing Company, and I own everything in this office.
680
00:44:44,119 --> 00:44:47,539
Patents, designs, engineers, all mine.
681
00:44:48,748 --> 00:44:51,459
Never going to be anything named Tesla ever again.
682
00:44:52,919 --> 00:44:56,840
You take your notions and go back where you came from.
683
00:45:02,762 --> 00:45:04,931
MARY ON RECORDER: Someday I'd like to see Niagara Falls,
684
00:45:05,015 --> 00:45:08,602
when it is frozen over, like someone stopped the...
685
00:45:08,685 --> 00:45:12,022
He's snapping up town after town.
686
00:45:12,230 --> 00:45:15,400
Cats, dogs, sheep, 11 horses.
What more do people need to see?
687
00:45:15,483 --> 00:45:18,403
The problem is, is no one's actually dying from alternating,
688
00:45:18,486 --> 00:45:21,364
apart from your cats, dogs, sheep, and 11 horses.
689
00:45:22,741 --> 00:45:25,535
Shglreanze I'm only your secretary...
Justsayit
690
00:45:25,619 --> 00:45:27,412
(SIGHS) Bring the phonograph to market.
691
00:45:27,495 --> 00:45:28,455
You can make your own money.
692
00:45:28,580 --> 00:45:31,124
No, it needs too many improvements.
Make them, sir.
693
00:45:31,875 --> 00:45:33,335
Bell is ripping you off.
694
00:45:33,418 --> 00:45:35,295
Graphophone?
He just switched the name.
695
00:45:35,378 --> 00:45:37,130
Then direct me to a store where I can buy yours,
696
00:45:37,213 --> 00:45:38,423
and I won't give him the business.
697
00:45:38,506 --> 00:45:40,634
You have a real offer on the table here.
698
00:45:41,092 --> 00:45:42,385
Half a million dollars.
699
00:45:42,469 --> 00:45:44,471
Sir, take the money.
You need it.
700
00:45:45,639 --> 00:45:48,141
If Bell ripped you off with the telephone,
701
00:45:48,224 --> 00:45:49,434
he'll do it again with the graphophone.
702
00:45:49,809 --> 00:45:51,978
Did you just misspeak intentionally?
703
00:45:52,062 --> 00:45:53,605
Do you want Chicago?
704
00:45:56,608 --> 00:45:58,193
All right, I'm ready.
705
00:46:19,965 --> 00:46:20,966
A dollar a ball?
706
00:46:22,092 --> 00:46:23,969
So, what's your trade?
707
00:46:24,052 --> 00:46:25,261
Inventor.
708
00:46:25,345 --> 00:46:27,222
I fix problems for idiots.
709
00:46:28,556 --> 00:46:31,476
Imagine dictation without the aid of a stenographer.
710
00:46:33,395 --> 00:46:36,147
Phonographic: books that will speak to blind people.
711
00:46:36,231 --> 00:46:38,775
Reproduction of music, talking toys.
712
00:46:39,734 --> 00:46:42,153
Clocks that will announce the time.
713
00:46:42,237 --> 00:46:46,449
Preservation of dying languages.
Teaching of elocution...
714
00:46:46,533 --> 00:46:48,952
You hustled us.
Yes. No.
715
00:46:49,828 --> 00:46:51,538
I didn't come all this way to lose.
716
00:46:51,621 --> 00:46:55,166
EDISON: The final capturing of the dying words of your loved ones.
717
00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:58,795
MARY: Mary had a little lamb, whose fleece was white as snow.
718
00:46:58,878 --> 00:47:02,465
And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
719
00:47:04,009 --> 00:47:06,428
Well, it's either not possible,
720
00:47:06,511 --> 00:47:08,430
or I'm not the engineer I thought I was.
721
00:47:10,473 --> 00:47:14,269
He's traveling around the country, cooking up cats.
722
00:47:14,352 --> 00:47:16,521
George, he's playing dirty.
You can, too.
723
00:47:17,355 --> 00:47:18,440
Mmm.
724
00:47:20,108 --> 00:47:22,569
You know, when I was a boy, my father...
725
00:47:23,820 --> 00:47:25,697
He tried to whip me with a branch.
726
00:47:26,823 --> 00:47:30,785
But after the first hit, it broke into three little pieces.
727
00:47:32,037 --> 00:47:33,455
And we just stood there,
728
00:47:33,538 --> 00:47:35,749
looking at this shattered stick on the ground.
729
00:47:37,292 --> 00:47:40,754
And then I noticed there was a leather strap hanging on the wall.
730
00:47:40,879 --> 00:47:46,342
Sol pointed to it and said, "Look, that's the better one."
731
00:47:47,844 --> 00:47:49,345
And he stopped.
732
00:47:53,641 --> 00:47:54,934
I can take a beating,
733
00:47:55,018 --> 00:47:57,854
but I have no patience for shoddy craftsmanship.
734
00:48:01,107 --> 00:48:02,942
You are going to have a working motor
735
00:48:03,026 --> 00:48:04,986
sitting next to your display in Chicago,
736
00:48:05,070 --> 00:48:08,323
come hell, high water, or the Wizard of Menlo Park.
737
00:48:15,121 --> 00:48:16,998
GEORGE: Good night, Frank.
Good night.
738
00:48:20,543 --> 00:48:21,586
(BLOWS)
739
00:48:32,013 --> 00:48:33,389
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
740
00:48:47,862 --> 00:48:49,197
(HORSE WHINNIES)
741
00:48:50,198 --> 00:48:51,491
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLES)
742
00:49:14,806 --> 00:49:16,141
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
743
00:49:16,641 --> 00:49:18,685
REPORTER: So, you admit Edison was right?
744
00:49:41,166 --> 00:49:47,172
We will remember Franklin Pope for his fearless dedication to moving us forward.
746
00:49:47,964 --> 00:49:50,967
He tried to see what was hiding in plain sight...
747
00:49:51,217 --> 00:49:52,635
(VOICE FADES)
748
00:49:55,638 --> 00:49:57,265
EDISON: Today, I am...
749
00:49:59,225 --> 00:50:04,439
...filled less with grief than anger, because what happened could have been avoided.
751
00:50:06,608 --> 00:50:09,652
Hear me now as you have never heard me before.
752
00:50:10,153 --> 00:50:19,078
As I breathe, as long as Westinghouse stays in business, more people will die.
755
00:50:28,379 --> 00:50:29,839
My condolences.
756
00:50:32,675 --> 00:50:35,303
Sounds like he was more than just an employee.
757
00:50:40,058 --> 00:50:41,976
What was his name?
Franklin Popes?
758
00:50:43,269 --> 00:50:45,188
Pope. Just one.
759
00:50:46,564 --> 00:50:47,774
It's a shame.
760
00:50:47,857 --> 00:50:48,983
Mmm.
761
00:50:49,067 --> 00:50:50,443
But I'm here to help.
762
00:50:51,110 --> 00:50:54,864
Now, I know that you, uh... You wish Edison would quiet down.
763
00:50:57,951 --> 00:51:01,120
So let me combine your companies.
Let me clean up the mess.
764
00:51:05,416 --> 00:51:09,295
You really think Westinghouse Electric is worth $5 million?
765
00:51:09,379 --> 00:51:11,214
The value of something is the highest number
766
00:51:11,297 --> 00:51:12,674
someone else is willing to pay.
767
00:51:12,757 --> 00:51:16,219
But 800 men will lose their livelihoods.
768
00:51:16,302 --> 00:51:17,845
I will keep your workers.
769
00:51:18,596 --> 00:51:21,641
I will not make the same promise for your five-day workweek.
770
00:51:22,100 --> 00:51:23,184
Mmm.
771
00:51:24,894 --> 00:51:26,938
Seems like you're amenable.
772
00:51:37,615 --> 00:51:39,575
Which current will you use?
773
00:51:40,785 --> 00:51:43,079
Whichever Edison selects,
I suppose.
774
00:51:51,754 --> 00:51:53,381
(GUN CLICKS)
(HORSE WHINNIES)
775
00:51:55,383 --> 00:51:58,511
SOLDIER: You've crossed into territory for the Confederacy.
776
00:51:59,304 --> 00:52:00,305
GEORGE: No, I, uh...
777
00:52:01,097 --> 00:52:04,309
I think you're mistaken.
According to my map here...
778
00:52:04,517 --> 00:52:05,601
(GUN CLICKS)
779
00:52:24,620 --> 00:52:29,417
Though I mourn the loss of my colleague, misfortune does not trump progress.
781
00:52:31,878 --> 00:52:39,177
Now, it seems to me that Mr.
Edison puts his name on everything because he's terrified of being forgotten.
783
00:52:40,511 --> 00:52:43,514
If you want to be remembered, it's simple.
Shoot a president.
784
00:52:44,265 --> 00:52:47,518
But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy,
785
00:52:47,602 --> 00:52:50,563
you leave the world a better place than you found it.
786
00:52:51,189 --> 00:52:54,609
Thomas Alva Edison is a charlatan
787
00:52:54,692 --> 00:53:00,698
who preys on the fears of the common man because I have the better system.
789
00:53:01,949 --> 00:53:04,744
And because I do have the better system,
790
00:53:04,827 --> 00:53:07,121
Westinghouse Electric shall endure.
791
00:53:07,205 --> 00:53:08,456
Good day.
792
00:53:09,791 --> 00:53:11,501
MORGAN ON PHONE: Westinghouse has taken the lead.
793
00:53:11,918 --> 00:53:13,294
He's not going away.
794
00:53:13,378 --> 00:53:15,421
And while I appreciate your lights, Mr. Edison,
795
00:53:15,505 --> 00:53:16,923
I'm also your customer.
796
00:53:17,298 --> 00:53:20,426
If someone comes to my door and offers me something that I need
797
00:53:20,510 --> 00:53:23,471
that is better than what I have now, at a cheaper price,
798
00:53:23,554 --> 00:53:26,808
why, I'd be a fool not to invite him in for tea.
799
00:53:26,891 --> 00:53:29,477
Is this an ultimatum?
More of a threat.
800
00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,938
If you maintain that fear is the best strategy,
801
00:53:32,021 --> 00:53:34,023
then you'd better hurry up and try harder.
802
00:53:35,483 --> 00:53:36,651
Time's up.
803
00:53:40,321 --> 00:53:42,031
MARY: A man who is handsome and clever
804
00:53:42,115 --> 00:53:46,411
built a box with a crank and a lever to store his wife's voice.
805
00:53:46,494 --> 00:53:48,371
But he made a poor choice,
806
00:53:48,454 --> 00:53:51,707
because now she can tease him forever.
807
00:53:52,125 --> 00:53:53,209
(BRAKES SCREECH)
808
00:53:54,836 --> 00:53:56,879
SOUTHWICK: I couldn't stop it if I wanted to.
809
00:53:58,589 --> 00:54:03,719
Which I don't, because I think it's a remarkable gift.
811
00:54:05,221 --> 00:54:09,267
Electricity will kill that man in Buffalo.
812
00:54:10,184 --> 00:54:13,104
All we need is your advice, Mr. Edison.
813
00:54:13,187 --> 00:54:16,941
Where to put the electrodes.
How much is humane?
814
00:54:17,650 --> 00:54:21,863
And in exchange, I promise you something that I know you want.
815
00:54:21,946 --> 00:54:24,282
Otherwise, you wouldn't let me talk to you.
816
00:54:26,784 --> 00:54:29,829
I will put the Westinghouse name
817
00:54:29,912 --> 00:54:35,543
right out front as the official electricity used to kill human beings.
819
00:54:43,468 --> 00:54:45,678
My name must never be associated with this.
820
00:54:45,761 --> 00:54:47,555
I did not provide any consultation,
821
00:54:47,638 --> 00:54:51,767
and you will advertise that Westinghouse is the best way to take a human life.
822
00:54:52,435 --> 00:54:54,520
You guarantee your assistance?
823
00:54:56,397 --> 00:54:58,316
If you ask a question, I'll reply.
824
00:55:02,653 --> 00:55:04,030
Burn the correspondence.
825
00:55:05,656 --> 00:55:06,908
Absolutely.
826
00:55:10,203 --> 00:55:13,498
Fauteuils and blue-painted bergére.
827
00:55:13,581 --> 00:55:16,042
I sold three sets of these last week alone.
828
00:55:18,586 --> 00:55:22,256
Oh, uh, this is your classic spindle back. Oh, yes.
829
00:55:22,882 --> 00:55:26,219
And these are framed Cockpen.
Yeah, quite popular.
830
00:55:32,808 --> 00:55:34,352
Oh, deportment style.
831
00:55:34,435 --> 00:55:35,478
(CHAIR CREAKS)
832
00:55:37,188 --> 00:55:39,690
Would you like four, six, eight, twelve?
833
00:55:40,024 --> 00:55:41,234
Just one.
834
00:55:42,693 --> 00:55:46,614
EDISON: Mr. Brown, the apparatus consists of a stationary engine,
835
00:55:46,697 --> 00:55:50,576
a Westinghouse alternating dynamo capable of generating 3,000 volts,
836
00:55:50,660 --> 00:55:54,330
wood chair with headrest, binding straps, and adjustable electrodes.
837
00:55:54,413 --> 00:55:56,999
Burn. TAE.
838
00:56:05,132 --> 00:56:07,885
"The voltmeter, ammeter, and switchboard controlling the current
839
00:56:07,969 --> 00:56:10,555
"should be located in the execution room for monitoring.
840
00:56:10,638 --> 00:56:12,598
"Burn. TAE. "
841
00:56:12,682 --> 00:56:14,684
"The dynamo room is communicated by electric signals.
842
00:56:14,767 --> 00:56:16,185
"Burn. TAE. "
843
00:56:16,269 --> 00:56:17,270
”The most effective machines...
844
00:56:17,353 --> 00:56:18,396
”manufactured by Westinghouse...
845
00:56:18,479 --> 00:56:19,689
"Burn. TAE. "
846
00:56:19,772 --> 00:56:23,693
"I authorize payment of $3, 600 for your efforts.
847
00:56:23,776 --> 00:56:25,361
"Burn. TAE. "
848
00:56:25,444 --> 00:56:27,613
"Mr. Brown, the only argument which can be urged
849
00:56:27,697 --> 00:56:30,241
"against Westinghouse on the score of cruel punishment”
850
00:56:30,324 --> 00:56:32,535
is that the flesh may burn at the points of contact
851
00:56:32,618 --> 00:56:34,412
”and the amount of current which can be given”
852
00:56:34,495 --> 00:56:37,248
without such mutilation is not yet known.
853
00:56:37,331 --> 00:56:40,167
"Burn. TAE. "
854
00:56:51,012 --> 00:56:53,222
For someone who's trying to compete for the World's Fair,
855
00:56:53,306 --> 00:56:54,849
this death chair business doesn't look good.
856
00:56:54,932 --> 00:56:55,975
GEORGE: Yeah, I know.
857
00:56:56,058 --> 00:56:59,228
It's just Edison trying to smear me as usual.
858
00:56:59,312 --> 00:57:01,314
Can you prove it?
No.
859
00:57:01,397 --> 00:57:03,816
But I was thinking maybe I could stop it.
860
00:57:03,899 --> 00:57:05,359
You mean me?
861
00:57:07,069 --> 00:57:10,239
If you want my advice, don't hire me.
Save your money.
862
00:57:11,282 --> 00:57:15,286
But I do know a man who could determine whether Edison
863
00:57:15,369 --> 00:57:17,872
has an exploitable connection with the death chair.
864
00:57:17,955 --> 00:57:21,334
No, I was thinking we could stop him via legal means.
865
00:57:22,710 --> 00:57:25,046
You want me to put Edison on trial? No.
866
00:57:25,129 --> 00:57:27,465
The chair itself.
The Eighth Amendment.
867
00:57:27,548 --> 00:57:32,511
So I'm to get an axe murderer who readily admits he slaughtered his wife
868
00:57:32,595 --> 00:57:34,513
a what? A sustainment?
869
00:57:34,597 --> 00:57:39,185
This is about showing what kind of a man is Thomas Edison.
870
00:57:41,312 --> 00:57:43,064
You just keep my name out of it.
871
00:57:43,147 --> 00:57:45,149
Does your wife know you're paying for this?
872
00:57:45,691 --> 00:57:46,984
It was her idea.
873
00:57:47,693 --> 00:57:51,697
MAN: The State calls Thomas Alva Edison.
874
00:57:51,781 --> 00:57:53,949
Will you explain, generally,
875
00:57:54,033 --> 00:57:56,577
the difference between your continuous current
876
00:57:56,661 --> 00:58:00,539
and Mr. Westinghouse's alternating electricity?
877
00:58:00,623 --> 00:58:04,085
A continuous current flows like water through a pipe,
878
00:58:04,168 --> 00:58:06,504
and alternating current flows in both directions.
879
00:58:06,587 --> 00:58:08,464
Water? That doesn't sound so dangerous.
880
00:58:08,547 --> 00:58:10,424
Not until you drown.
(PEOPLE CHUCKLE)
881
00:58:10,508 --> 00:58:15,638
Suppose you took this wicked Westinghouse current,
882
00:58:16,097 --> 00:58:19,058
the one that is going to be used on Mr.
Kemmler here.
883
00:58:20,017 --> 00:58:22,937
Now, suppose you kept it up for five or six minutes
884
00:58:23,771 --> 00:58:26,065
at 1,500 volts,
885
00:58:26,816 --> 00:58:29,360
how long would it take before he would feel the heat?
886
00:58:29,443 --> 00:58:32,363
Well, the temperature might rise
887
00:58:32,530 --> 00:58:34,699
four or five degrees above normal
888
00:58:34,782 --> 00:58:37,743
and continue until he was mummified.
889
00:58:37,993 --> 00:58:39,954
And this wouldn't cause considerable pain?
890
00:58:40,037 --> 00:58:42,206
It would not.
How do you know?
891
00:58:42,331 --> 00:58:44,667
Because I personally observed such electricity
892
00:58:44,750 --> 00:58:46,961
being used to execute a thousand-pound horse.
893
00:58:47,044 --> 00:58:48,129
And did the horse feel pain?
894
00:58:48,212 --> 00:58:49,255
If he did, he didn't mention it.
895
00:58:49,463 --> 00:58:50,881
(PEOPLE CHUCKLE)
896
00:58:52,216 --> 00:58:56,846
BOURKE: Now, Mr. Edison, there is a great degree of feeling between you and Mr. Westinghouse.
898
00:58:56,929 --> 00:58:59,682
EDISON: I do not dislike Mr. Westinghouse.
899
00:58:59,765 --> 00:59:01,934
BOURKE: There's a contest between you two, isn't there?
900
00:59:02,017 --> 00:59:03,936
That is not what this is about.
901
00:59:05,104 --> 00:59:07,314
I've been asked as a dispassionate scientist
902
00:59:07,398 --> 00:59:08,858
to advise on the simple question
903
00:59:08,941 --> 00:59:10,067
of whether death by electricity
904
00:59:10,151 --> 00:59:13,279
is a violation of the Eighth Amendment and is cruel and unusual.
905
00:59:13,362 --> 00:59:14,697
In my expert opinion,
906
00:59:14,780 --> 00:59:16,824
the only humane method ofexecuflon
907
00:59:16,907 --> 00:59:18,367
is Westinghouse alternating current.
908
00:59:18,451 --> 00:59:21,245
BOURKE: Your Honor, Mr. Edison knows that any current over 30 amperes...
909
00:59:21,328 --> 00:59:22,747
Milliamperes.
If you're going to interrupt,
910
00:59:22,830 --> 00:59:24,999
at least do so in the proper denominations.
911
00:59:27,460 --> 00:59:29,754
Well, thank you, Your Honor.
It's my honor.
912
00:59:30,045 --> 00:59:32,923
(GAVE I BAN GS) JUDGE: All right.
That's all I need to hear.
913
00:59:41,307 --> 00:59:43,768
REPORTER: Mr. Edison, can I get a comment?
914
00:59:43,851 --> 00:59:45,436
EDISON: What do you two lowlifes want, huh?
915
00:59:46,020 --> 00:59:47,229
MAN: Mr. Edison.
EDISON: What?
916
00:59:47,313 --> 00:59:49,064
Mr. Edison.
Huh?
917
00:59:52,359 --> 00:59:53,527
Now, look...
918
00:59:53,611 --> 00:59:55,488
I thought you were going to leave before I had a chance.
919
00:59:55,571 --> 00:59:57,114
Mr. Edison, can I get your autograph?
920
00:59:57,990 --> 00:59:59,200
Yeah, sure, I...
921
00:59:59,283 --> 01:00:01,744
William, do you mind?
922
01:00:01,827 --> 01:00:03,829
Thank you. Thank you.
923
01:00:06,957 --> 01:00:08,000
Use this.
924
01:00:12,296 --> 01:00:13,506
(CLAMORING)
925
01:00:13,839 --> 01:00:14,882
BOURKE: I should warn you,
926
01:00:14,965 --> 01:00:17,218
there's one thing that always beats justice.
927
01:00:17,301 --> 01:00:18,302
Money?
928
01:00:18,385 --> 01:00:19,386
Fame.
929
01:00:34,443 --> 01:00:35,694
(THUNDER RUMBLES)
930
01:00:38,113 --> 01:00:41,075
Oh, is that a New Model Army revolver?
931
01:00:41,158 --> 01:00:43,494
What a lovely machine that is.
932
01:00:43,911 --> 01:00:46,497
You know how it works?
You want me to show you?
933
01:00:46,580 --> 01:00:50,167
Oh, I didn't mean how it fires.
I simply meant how it works.
934
01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:53,420
It's quite a device.
You should have a look.
935
01:00:53,504 --> 01:00:55,005
You see, they designed the cylinder
936
01:00:55,089 --> 01:00:58,968
so the hammer doesn't have to sit in an empty chamber.
937
01:00:59,093 --> 01:01:00,302
(HORSE WHINNIES)
938
01:01:02,721 --> 01:01:04,974
BOURKE: Edison lied on the stand.
939
01:01:05,558 --> 01:01:09,311
If you're going to take your shot, now is the last time to fire.
940
01:01:09,395 --> 01:01:12,857
Sometimes, we have to work outside of the rules to get what's right.
941
01:01:14,650 --> 01:01:16,569
It would be nice if we didn't have to.
942
01:01:18,195 --> 01:01:19,321
Wouldn't it?
943
01:01:20,489 --> 01:01:22,700
Look, this doesn't make you like him.
944
01:01:22,783 --> 01:01:23,826
Mmm.
945
01:01:25,911 --> 01:01:27,538
So, what will it be?
946
01:02:07,077 --> 01:02:08,370
(PIANO PLAYING)
947
01:02:19,715 --> 01:02:21,050
(PLAYING HALTINGLY)
948
01:02:24,553 --> 01:02:25,930
(PHONE RINGS)
949
01:02:26,013 --> 01:02:28,349
In my bad ear, it sounded extraordinary.
950
01:02:28,432 --> 01:02:29,516
DASH: Father.
951
01:02:33,395 --> 01:02:34,396
Hello.
952
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:37,316
GEORGE: "The apparatus consists of a stationary engine,
953
01:02:37,399 --> 01:02:42,488
”a Westinghouse alternating dynamo capable of generating 3,000 volts,
954
01:02:42,571 --> 01:02:44,198
”wood chair with headrest. ”
955
01:02:44,281 --> 01:02:45,574
EDISON: Where did you get that?
956
01:02:45,658 --> 01:02:47,451
GEORGE: I'm sending them to the paper.
957
01:02:47,534 --> 01:02:48,619
EDISON: Those letters are stolen.
958
01:02:48,702 --> 01:02:51,246
You can't publish them.
Why not?
959
01:02:51,330 --> 01:02:52,998
Because they're private correspondences.
960
01:02:53,082 --> 01:02:57,211
Mr. Edison, you say something about me or my company again,
961
01:02:57,294 --> 01:02:59,296
I would ask that you tell the truth.
962
01:03:00,798 --> 01:03:03,300
That would be the decent thing to do.
963
01:03:04,176 --> 01:03:05,302
Wouldn't it?
964
01:03:06,679 --> 01:03:08,180
EDISON: Why didn't you burn the letters?
965
01:03:08,263 --> 01:03:10,140
SOUTHWICK: They were from Thomas Edison.
966
01:03:10,599 --> 01:03:13,268
I don't think you appreciate that this chair is something
967
01:03:13,352 --> 01:03:15,354
to be proud of and remembered for.
968
01:03:15,437 --> 01:03:17,982
I don't even know how much electricity you need to use.
969
01:03:18,065 --> 01:03:21,485
You said 1,500 volts.
I said I think 1,500 volts.
970
01:03:21,568 --> 01:03:23,362
But if all the water in his body evaporates,
971
01:03:23,445 --> 01:03:25,364
then he may ignite.
So we lower the amount.
972
01:03:25,447 --> 01:03:27,282
And then you slowly roast him to death.
973
01:03:27,366 --> 01:03:29,034
Listen, you must listen to me.
974
01:03:29,118 --> 01:03:30,911
What you're going to do is wrong.
975
01:03:30,995 --> 01:03:33,706
Now, you said that it's inevitable and somebody else will do it.
976
01:03:33,789 --> 01:03:35,416
Butjust because somebody else is gonna do it
977
01:03:35,499 --> 01:03:37,001
doesn't mean that you have to.
978
01:03:37,876 --> 01:03:42,047
The state thanks you for your expert opinion and your help.
979
01:04:00,065 --> 01:04:01,108
What?
980
01:04:03,861 --> 01:04:05,821
It's not my place to say.
Say it.
981
01:04:06,697 --> 01:04:09,491
You said you'd never build a device that would kill anyone.
982
01:04:18,751 --> 01:04:21,795
I make something impossible, and they rip it away from me,
983
01:04:21,879 --> 01:04:26,592
so I do it again, and they do it again and again and again.
985
01:04:29,094 --> 01:04:30,971
But this isn't like everything else.
986
01:04:32,264 --> 01:04:34,099
This is everything else.
987
01:04:35,350 --> 01:04:37,603
Our future's not going to be paved with bricks,
988
01:04:38,479 --> 01:04:39,855
but with copper.
989
01:04:41,190 --> 01:04:43,484
Automation, transportation, communication.
990
01:04:43,567 --> 01:04:47,112
And the man that controls that current controls that future.
991
01:04:48,489 --> 01:04:50,491
But you know Westinghouse is right.
992
01:04:52,076 --> 01:04:57,206
You don't actually believe that a few accidents rule out the viability of his current.
You just don't want to lose.
994
01:04:57,289 --> 01:05:00,626
I have merely amplified what no one else was willing to take seriously.
995
01:05:00,709 --> 01:05:02,127
No, what you did was run him over
996
01:05:02,211 --> 01:05:03,587
with a 12-ton train.
Oh, well.
997
01:05:03,670 --> 01:05:05,547
He's the one that's supposed to only make brakes,
998
01:05:05,631 --> 01:05:06,965
so who's to blame here?
999
01:05:10,219 --> 01:05:12,596
Switch tonight, and you win.
1000
01:05:12,679 --> 01:05:14,681
His current kills people.
1001
01:05:14,765 --> 01:05:16,016
Only because you said it will!
1002
01:05:16,100 --> 01:05:18,602
Listen, I either stop complaining about the scavengers in my garden
1003
01:05:18,685 --> 01:05:20,229
or build a wall so damn high
1004
01:05:20,312 --> 01:05:22,397
that people will never even dare to scale it.
1005
01:05:22,481 --> 01:05:24,399
You are the smartest man
I know.
1006
01:05:24,483 --> 01:05:27,611
Beyond building miracles out of thin air,
1007
01:05:27,694 --> 01:05:29,613
I was most impressed by your principles.
1008
01:05:32,032 --> 01:05:33,700
You didn't invent theincandescent
1009
01:05:33,784 --> 01:05:35,452
People just think you did.
1010
01:05:42,918 --> 01:05:47,756
Let me welcome you to the reality of how things come into existence.
1011
01:05:47,840 --> 01:05:50,259
We all contribute.
That's what invention is.
1012
01:05:50,801 --> 01:05:54,680
The salt, the grain, the heat, the heart.
1013
01:05:54,763 --> 01:05:58,308
But only one man makes the bread rise.
1014
01:06:00,018 --> 01:06:02,146
That's the one that puts it all together,
1015
01:06:02,855 --> 01:06:05,774
makes it taste so damn good that people will go out there
1016
01:06:05,858 --> 01:06:09,736
and hand over their hard-won dollars to buy it.
1017
01:06:10,112 --> 01:06:13,157
Mr. Edison, I want you to succeed, I do.
1018
01:06:15,534 --> 01:06:16,952
But you have to switch tonight,
1019
01:06:17,035 --> 01:06:20,539
or you'll die as P.T. Barnum rather than Sir Isaac Newton.
1020
01:06:22,749 --> 01:06:23,917
(FOOTSTEPS DEPART)
1021
01:06:42,978 --> 01:06:45,230
MAN: Though he may be unfamiliar to you,
1022
01:06:45,314 --> 01:06:49,193
his studies have demonstrated an understanding of electrical matters
1023
01:06:49,276 --> 01:06:53,322
unlike anyone I have ever known, with respect to the assembled.
1024
01:06:53,405 --> 01:06:55,699
Gentlemen and lady,
1025
01:06:55,782 --> 01:06:57,451
Nikola Tesla.
1026
01:06:57,951 --> 01:06:59,620
(APPLAUSE)
1027
01:07:00,704 --> 01:07:02,831
TESLA: Straight to our ultimate question.
1028
01:07:03,373 --> 01:07:05,083
Yes or no,
1029
01:07:05,751 --> 01:07:08,670
can alternating currents operate a motor?
1030
01:07:10,088 --> 01:07:11,089
Yes.
1031
01:07:12,841 --> 01:07:15,135
Now, anyone who builds an alternating system
1032
01:07:15,219 --> 01:07:19,056
will be able to do what Edison can for only a third of the cost.
1033
01:07:19,139 --> 01:07:20,641
In Figure 2 of my polyphase system,
1034
01:07:20,724 --> 01:07:22,976
the armature coils are shown in a more advanced position.
1035
01:07:23,227 --> 01:07:24,728
2A illustrates the corresponding magnetic
1036
01:07:24,811 --> 01:07:26,563
condition of the ring.
A synchronous motor...
1037
01:07:26,647 --> 01:07:28,482
...a laminated ring provided with pole projections...
1038
01:07:28,690 --> 01:07:33,612
Theinducflonis of an ideal character, being always maintained at its maximum action.
1040
01:07:33,695 --> 01:07:36,907
Mr. Tesla, have you actually built the motor to test yourtheofles?
1041
01:07:36,990 --> 01:07:39,785
Well, they are not theories.
No, I have not built it.
1042
01:07:39,910 --> 01:07:43,080
But that would prove your beliefs.
But they are not beliefs.
1043
01:07:43,163 --> 01:07:44,706
And it is absolutely immaterial to me
1044
01:07:44,790 --> 01:07:46,750
whether I run the motor in my mind or in a shop,
1045
01:07:46,833 --> 01:07:48,919
for I have built it already in my imagination,
1046
01:07:49,002 --> 01:07:50,045
and it is perfect.
1047
01:07:50,128 --> 01:07:52,130
Are you serious?
Almost always.
1048
01:07:57,803 --> 01:07:58,971
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1049
01:08:01,515 --> 01:08:03,558
Hello, I'm George Westinghouse.
1050
01:08:13,735 --> 01:08:15,737
George Westinghouse.
Mmm-hmm.
1051
01:08:15,821 --> 01:08:18,573
An engine that compresses air into a tank,
1052
01:08:18,657 --> 01:08:21,785
which is taken via pipe to each brake on the train,
1053
01:08:21,868 --> 01:08:24,371
allowing them to operate simultaneously.
1054
01:08:25,789 --> 01:08:27,040
Smart design.
1055
01:08:27,916 --> 01:08:28,959
Thank you.
1056
01:08:37,175 --> 01:08:38,176
Please.
1057
01:08:54,276 --> 01:08:56,653
I think this entire room is slanted two degrees.
1058
01:09:01,074 --> 01:09:05,412
I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to meet with me.
1060
01:09:05,495 --> 01:09:07,831
Are you going somewhere?
1061
01:09:08,290 --> 01:09:09,333
(C LATTER)
1062
01:09:19,343 --> 01:09:20,469
Oh.
1063
01:09:22,220 --> 01:09:23,430
This is it?
1064
01:09:23,513 --> 01:09:25,766
It's Niagara Falls.
Yeah.
1065
01:09:25,932 --> 01:09:28,810
And ever since my school days, I have pictured in my imagination
1066
01:09:28,894 --> 01:09:31,271
a big wheel spinning out lightning.
1067
01:09:32,939 --> 01:09:34,775
Did you know that when I first came to this country,
1068
01:09:34,858 --> 01:09:37,235
I worked for Mr. Edison?
I did not.
1069
01:09:37,319 --> 01:09:39,154
Tea?
Sure.
1070
01:09:40,197 --> 01:09:42,908
I fixed two of his DC generators in one night,
1071
01:09:42,991 --> 01:09:45,243
and he called me "a damn good man."
1072
01:09:46,870 --> 01:09:49,581
So, why did he not treat me that way? I quit.
1073
01:09:49,664 --> 01:09:53,210
Tried my own company and was deceived.
Who was I?
1074
01:09:53,293 --> 01:09:54,669
Some immigrant.
1075
01:09:55,462 --> 01:09:58,131
So I took the onlyjob I could find, digging a ditch.
1076
01:09:59,508 --> 01:10:00,842
The men laughed at my fine clothes,
1077
01:10:00,926 --> 01:10:03,053
but at the end of the day, I had two dollars.
1078
01:10:05,931 --> 01:10:08,141
What was the ditch to be used for?
1079
01:10:09,267 --> 01:10:11,144
Edison Electric.
1080
01:10:12,646 --> 01:10:14,481
It felt like digging my own grave.
1081
01:10:16,149 --> 01:10:18,693
If Mr. Edison succeeds, he will set us back so far,
1082
01:10:18,777 --> 01:10:20,070
we may never recover.
1083
01:10:20,153 --> 01:10:24,241
The fair must be alternating.
It must be my motor.
1084
01:10:24,783 --> 01:10:27,244
I have watched as the world talks of Chicago as a symbol,
1085
01:10:27,327 --> 01:10:29,079
a city of light.
1086
01:10:29,788 --> 01:10:32,582
All cities will have light in your lifetime,
1087
01:10:33,041 --> 01:10:37,504
but harnessing the power of Niagara, that is to see our future.
1089
01:10:37,587 --> 01:10:38,713
The falls?
1090
01:10:38,797 --> 01:10:41,550
I'm here to talk about Chicago.
1091
01:10:41,633 --> 01:10:42,968
Think beyond Chicago.
1092
01:10:43,051 --> 01:10:46,972
Energy is as fundamental as food, as water, as air.
1093
01:10:47,055 --> 01:10:51,101
You can... You cannot say that only those with money can eat or can breathe.
1095
01:10:51,518 --> 01:10:53,520
Yes, the falls will light up the Eastern Seaboard.
1096
01:10:53,603 --> 01:10:55,021
Yes, there is a great fortune to be made,
1097
01:10:55,105 --> 01:10:58,108
and I covet a very nice walking stick I saw on 63rd and Madison,
1098
01:10:58,191 --> 01:11:01,111
but Niagara is the proof that one day we may detaoh power from profit.
1099
01:11:01,194 --> 01:11:03,196
That is how you truly win. Mmm.
1100
01:11:04,531 --> 01:11:06,950
How do I know you will not cheat me?
Well...
1101
01:11:08,118 --> 01:11:09,202
You don't.
1102
01:11:11,163 --> 01:11:13,415
But the fact is, Mr. Tesla, I need your motor.
1103
01:11:14,207 --> 01:11:17,669
I may be able to light up the fair, but I still can't move a machine.
1104
01:11:17,752 --> 01:11:19,713
If we cannot reach an agreement today,
1105
01:11:19,796 --> 01:11:22,841
my company will die right here in your hotel room.
1106
01:11:25,427 --> 01:11:29,723
But if it does perish, so might your dream of harnessing power from Niagara.
1108
01:11:33,477 --> 01:11:35,937
So, do we have a deal?
1109
01:11:37,230 --> 01:11:39,065
Five thousand.
1110
01:11:46,656 --> 01:11:48,325
One thousand.
1111
01:11:49,659 --> 01:11:51,286
(LAUGHS)
1112
01:11:57,584 --> 01:11:58,877
(COUGHING)
1113
01:11:59,920 --> 01:12:01,046
Yeah.
1114
01:12:03,798 --> 01:12:06,009
I'll give you $2.50.
1115
01:12:10,180 --> 01:12:11,848
Per horsepower.
1116
01:12:13,308 --> 01:12:17,395
I'm no genius myself, but that should be millions.
1117
01:12:19,940 --> 01:12:22,692
May I treat you to dinner at DelmOnicO's?
(DOOR OPENS)
1118
01:12:23,652 --> 01:12:25,820
All right, Mr. Tesla, time to go.
1119
01:12:25,904 --> 01:12:27,489
No, I will not leave your slanted room.
1120
01:12:27,572 --> 01:12:29,157
He hasn't paid his bill in over a month.
1121
01:12:29,241 --> 01:12:32,160
Well, how much would it cost to keep him here for the year?
1122
01:12:33,620 --> 01:12:35,372
(TRAIN ENGINE CHUGGING)
1123
01:12:37,832 --> 01:12:41,336
I need to shed 300 men from the gas company.
1124
01:12:44,422 --> 01:12:46,341
There's no way around it.
1125
01:12:47,217 --> 01:12:50,220
MARGUERITE: So, we pay their salaries and move them to electricity.
1126
01:12:50,303 --> 01:12:52,222
We can't keep doing this.
1127
01:12:53,306 --> 01:12:55,684
If we win, we won't have to.
1128
01:12:57,602 --> 01:12:59,521
You have truth on your side.
1129
01:13:01,648 --> 01:13:02,774
And whatever happens,
1130
01:13:02,857 --> 01:13:04,150
you know you never did anything
1131
01:13:04,234 --> 01:13:05,610
but play fair.
1132
01:13:17,414 --> 01:13:19,374
I stole the letters
1133
01:13:19,457 --> 01:13:22,085
linking Edison to the death chair.
1134
01:13:23,003 --> 01:13:25,589
I gave them to the papers to smudge him.
1135
01:13:28,258 --> 01:13:30,010
I know you're disappointed in me.
1136
01:13:55,201 --> 01:13:56,661
(INDISTINCT TALKING)
1137
01:13:59,164 --> 01:14:01,082
MORGAN: What am I looking at here?
1138
01:14:01,207 --> 01:14:02,792
An 80-foot-tall tower,
1139
01:14:02,876 --> 01:14:06,630
covered with 16,000 Edison bulbs, topped with an eight-foot lighthouse,
1140
01:14:06,713 --> 01:14:09,090
that signals to the world that we are the victors.
1141
01:14:09,174 --> 01:14:11,176
Otherwise, how will people know that we won?
1142
01:14:11,259 --> 01:14:12,677
It's an idol.
1143
01:14:14,054 --> 01:14:16,139
It's a signature.
1144
01:14:16,765 --> 01:14:19,267
And you'll get something that no one's ever received
1145
01:14:19,351 --> 01:14:20,602
from Thomas Edison before.
1146
01:14:20,685 --> 01:14:22,479
Oh, yes? What's that?
An apology.
1147
01:14:23,063 --> 01:14:27,067
I admit the spending has been more than I anticipated,
1148
01:14:27,150 --> 01:14:28,234
but now more than ever,
1149
01:14:28,318 --> 01:14:29,944
it's important you must push through.
1150
01:14:30,028 --> 01:14:32,489
Whatever Westinghouse is bidding for the fair, we...
1151
01:14:32,947 --> 01:14:34,157
You must bid more.
1152
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:35,241
I must?
1153
01:14:36,701 --> 01:14:37,827
"Must."
1154
01:14:40,163 --> 01:14:41,665
Who's Nikola Tesla?
1155
01:14:44,668 --> 01:14:45,710
What about him?
1156
01:14:45,794 --> 01:14:47,545
Well, he gave a talk at Columbia.
1157
01:14:48,338 --> 01:14:52,550
Word is the Serb is building Westinghouse a polyphase motor.
1158
01:14:52,634 --> 01:14:54,511
Light and power.
1159
01:14:54,594 --> 01:14:56,971
You can do both.
He now may as well.
1160
01:14:57,055 --> 01:14:59,849
Who even knows how long it'll take them to build a functioning model...
1161
01:14:59,933 --> 01:15:02,477
As of this morning, you have ceded, I have here,
1162
01:15:03,019 --> 01:15:05,480
nine more cities to Westinghouse.
1163
01:15:05,563 --> 01:15:07,774
So,
here's what's happening.
1164
01:15:08,733 --> 01:15:13,321
I am merging Edison Electric with some of the other ankle biters.
1165
01:15:13,405 --> 01:15:15,532
You are out.
1166
01:15:15,990 --> 01:15:17,492
Do you know why?
1167
01:15:18,243 --> 01:15:19,411
And I'm happy to tell you,
1168
01:15:19,494 --> 01:15:21,955
if you require this moment to be even more unpleasant.
1169
01:15:22,038 --> 01:15:26,376
You will receive stock and you will retain a seat on the board.
1171
01:15:33,133 --> 01:15:34,592
Who's going to present? You?
1172
01:15:34,676 --> 01:15:35,677
Good God, no.
1173
01:15:35,760 --> 01:15:37,470
You tell me now.
I was here.
1174
01:15:37,554 --> 01:15:39,389
I thought you deserved to hear it face-to-face.
1175
01:15:39,472 --> 01:15:40,557
No, you didn't.
1176
01:15:40,640 --> 01:15:44,978
You just wanted to waste my time and get me to sign autographs for children.
1178
01:15:45,979 --> 01:15:47,021
What are you going to call it, then?
1179
01:15:47,147 --> 01:15:50,024
That's your concern? Edison Electric.
It has to be.
1180
01:15:50,108 --> 01:15:52,610
Edison and electricity are synonymous, Morgan.
1181
01:15:52,694 --> 01:15:56,072
Do not attach a losing name to a fledgling enterprise.
1182
01:15:56,156 --> 01:15:57,490
Now that your letters haveleaked,
1183
01:15:57,574 --> 01:15:59,033
you've lost credibility.
So, what is it?
1184
01:15:59,159 --> 01:16:01,411
The name?
Yes, the goddamn name!
1185
01:16:01,494 --> 01:16:03,288
On the contracts, it just says "General Electric,"
1186
01:16:03,371 --> 01:16:05,498
but I'll think of something.
I can be creative, too.
1187
01:16:06,207 --> 01:16:07,542
(LAUGHS)
1188
01:16:11,171 --> 01:16:12,213
Yeah.
1189
01:16:14,716 --> 01:16:16,009
MORGAN: Mr. Insull.
1190
01:16:17,761 --> 01:16:19,012
A word.
1191
01:16:53,421 --> 01:16:54,506
(KNOCK ON DOOR)
1192
01:16:54,798 --> 01:16:55,882
(GLASS SHATTERS)
EDISON: Damn it!
1193
01:16:58,593 --> 01:17:01,805
He said they'd keep your name attached as long as you didn't pursue aotion
1194
01:17:01,888 --> 01:17:04,265
or speak negatively to the press about the merger.
1195
01:17:04,349 --> 01:17:05,558
What did he offer you?
1196
01:17:06,351 --> 01:17:07,352
Tell me.
1197
01:17:07,435 --> 01:17:08,645
Vice president, but I turned it down.
1198
01:17:08,728 --> 01:17:09,938
You should take it.
Why?
1199
01:17:10,021 --> 01:17:11,815
Alternating current, what's the transmission voflage?
1200
01:17:11,898 --> 01:17:12,941
230,000 volts.
1201
01:17:13,024 --> 01:17:14,943
What's the filament on a 12,000-hour lamp?
1202
01:17:15,026 --> 01:17:17,070
Carbonized Japanese bamboo.
What do I eat for breakfast?
1203
01:17:17,153 --> 01:17:18,321
Pie.
So, what's the surprise?
1204
01:17:18,404 --> 01:17:21,115
Of course, he needs you.
You're me but a human being.
1205
01:17:30,500 --> 01:17:32,085
Look around the room.
1206
01:17:32,168 --> 01:17:33,378
Who's missing?
1207
01:17:36,130 --> 01:17:38,633
Edison General Electric Company, please.
1208
01:17:38,716 --> 01:17:40,051
General Electric?
1209
01:17:40,802 --> 01:17:42,762
MAN: Edison General Electric Company?
1210
01:17:42,846 --> 01:17:43,847
Yes.
MAN: Ah.
1211
01:17:43,930 --> 01:17:45,139
Hi. Excuse me.
1212
01:17:58,027 --> 01:17:59,654
He's 12.
1213
01:17:59,737 --> 01:18:02,198
MAN: Mr. lnsull, these are the committee members
1214
01:18:02,282 --> 01:18:04,492
of Grounds and Buildings...
EDISON: Listen closely.
1215
01:18:04,576 --> 01:18:05,910
Focus on the quality of the light.
1216
01:18:05,994 --> 01:18:08,037
I don't care what the courts say.
1217
01:18:08,162 --> 01:18:09,831
Westinghouse ripped off my bulbs,
1218
01:18:09,914 --> 01:18:12,417
and the good news for you is he did a terrible job.
1219
01:18:12,500 --> 01:18:16,004
They're outdoor bulbs, so they have a life of about two hours.
1220
01:18:16,087 --> 01:18:18,214
So, focus on the replacement time.
1221
01:18:18,840 --> 01:18:22,218
Talk about the superiority of ours as if there's no competition.
1222
01:18:22,969 --> 01:18:27,724
Use terms like, "standard," "purest," and "the most beautiful light," etc.
1223
01:18:27,807 --> 01:18:30,393
Find out what kind of men they are.
There are really only two types.
1224
01:18:30,476 --> 01:18:32,395
The first believe themselves to be practical,
1225
01:18:32,478 --> 01:18:33,897
but they're secret dreamers.
1226
01:18:33,980 --> 01:18:35,899
They're the ones who will take the risks.
1227
01:18:35,982 --> 01:18:38,735
The second, well, they'll smile and thank you for the show,
1228
01:18:38,818 --> 01:18:40,320
but they'll vote with their wallets.
1229
01:18:40,403 --> 01:18:44,407
Now, unless Westinghouse is mortgaging
everything he's worth on this bid,
1230
01:18:44,490 --> 01:18:46,034
Morgan has you in good stead with the moneymen.
1231
01:18:46,117 --> 01:18:49,871
So, your only realjob is to look the dreamers in the eye and promise them magic.
1233
01:18:50,663 --> 01:18:53,750
Now, explain back to me everything that you remember about a parallel
1235
01:18:53,833 --> 01:18:56,210
and series of electric circuits using none of the words I just said.
1236
01:18:56,544 --> 01:18:57,670
(EXHALES)
1237
01:18:58,504 --> 01:19:01,132
Should you choose Westinghouse, then...
1238
01:19:01,215 --> 01:19:04,844
Then,yes, there is a possibility you'll be putting in jeopardy
1239
01:19:04,928 --> 01:19:07,013
the lives of 28 million people.
1240
01:19:08,014 --> 01:19:11,351
Evenifvvesfinghouse were to make even the smallest of errors,
1241
01:19:11,935 --> 01:19:13,561
unintentional, of course,
1242
01:19:14,228 --> 01:19:17,482
a visiting politician, a wife, even a seven-year-old girl
1243
01:19:17,565 --> 01:19:20,568
may lean against a lamp post and be struck dead immediately.
1244
01:19:21,027 --> 01:19:22,070
MAN: There you have it.
1245
01:19:22,654 --> 01:19:26,115
Mr. Westinghouse's brand of electricity is fatal.
1246
01:19:26,199 --> 01:19:28,284
Thank you, Mr. Insull.
1247
01:19:28,785 --> 01:19:33,373
Just to be clear, sir, any electrical current over 200 milliamperes can be deadly.
1249
01:19:33,456 --> 01:19:34,666
Even yours?
1250
01:19:41,798 --> 01:19:48,471
Mr. Westinghouse, these are the committee members of Grounds and Buildings, Charles Schwab, Craig Cannon,
1252
01:19:48,554 --> 01:19:50,765
Mayor Cregier, of course.
Of course.
1253
01:19:50,932 --> 01:19:53,267
Victor Lawson of the Chicago Daily News,
1254
01:19:53,351 --> 01:19:55,561
and the Honorable Judge Tree.
1255
01:19:55,645 --> 01:19:59,148
Respectfully, we ask that you please keep your remarks to one hour.
1256
01:20:00,066 --> 01:20:01,567
That won't be necessary.
1257
01:20:02,360 --> 01:20:04,487
There you go. Sir.
Thank you.
1258
01:20:06,447 --> 01:20:07,615
GEORGE: Hmm.
1259
01:20:08,032 --> 01:20:09,075
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
1260
01:20:09,492 --> 01:20:10,660
My bid.
1261
01:20:11,536 --> 01:20:14,163
These are all your figures?
Yes, sir.
1262
01:20:14,247 --> 01:20:15,832
Independent estimates.
1263
01:20:15,915 --> 01:20:18,751
Let us begin with this most general question.
1264
01:20:19,127 --> 01:20:23,673
Why should we grant Westinghouse Electric the contract for the World's Fair?
1266
01:20:23,798 --> 01:20:28,469
VVeH,lguess because our system works significantly better.
1267
01:20:28,553 --> 01:20:29,762
And, uh...
1268
01:20:31,889 --> 01:20:34,767
Because our system is significantly cheaper.
1269
01:20:40,565 --> 01:20:43,192
Mr. Schwab, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Cannon,
1270
01:20:43,276 --> 01:20:45,111
Mayor Cregier, Mr. Lawson,
1271
01:20:45,194 --> 01:20:47,947
Judge Tree, and Mr. Burnham,
1272
01:20:48,698 --> 01:20:51,367
thank you very much for your time and your consideration.
1273
01:21:07,717 --> 01:21:10,511
MAN: Financially, it's clear.
We just take the better bid.
1274
01:21:10,636 --> 01:21:13,473
Look, Westinghouse is dangerous.
Potentially dangerous.
1275
01:21:13,556 --> 01:21:15,099
You even printed it in your own paper.
1276
01:21:15,183 --> 01:21:19,103
Alternating will be used to kill that man in Buffalo.
1277
01:21:19,187 --> 01:21:20,855
(KEYS JANGLE)
(DOOR OPENS)
1278
01:21:31,074 --> 01:21:33,201
MAN 1: They both light up lights, right?
1279
01:21:33,284 --> 01:21:34,911
Westinghouse will save us some money.
1280
01:21:34,994 --> 01:21:36,579
MAN 2: Thomas Edison sells tickets.
1281
01:21:39,290 --> 01:21:42,251
GEORGE: What I wouldn't give to flip through that.
1282
01:21:42,960 --> 01:21:45,296
It's like a handbook to the future, isn't it?
1283
01:21:49,258 --> 01:21:51,135
MAN 3: We need a clear majority, gentlemen.
1284
01:21:51,260 --> 01:21:52,970
Don't you have stock in GE?
That's irrelevant.
1285
01:21:55,014 --> 01:21:57,475
TESLA: No one has ever done what you have done for me.
1286
01:21:58,059 --> 01:22:01,395
Well, the value of something isn't what someone's willing to pay,
1287
01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,190
but the value of something is what it contributes.
1288
01:22:04,857 --> 01:22:05,858
When we vote again,
1289
01:22:05,942 --> 01:22:07,777
Burnham, you can telephone the winner tonight.
1290
01:22:13,074 --> 01:22:15,493
Is it true you were born during a lightning storm?
1291
01:22:16,202 --> 01:22:17,286
It is true.
1292
01:22:17,662 --> 01:22:18,746
Hmm.
1293
01:22:20,456 --> 01:22:22,917
All right. Tell me one thing in that book.
1294
01:22:25,294 --> 01:22:28,339
Look, you and Mr. Edison, you spend all your time on either end of the system,
1295
01:22:28,422 --> 01:22:30,216
the dynamos and the lamps.
1296
01:22:30,299 --> 01:22:32,260
But what about what is in between?
1297
01:22:32,343 --> 01:22:33,511
The wires?
Mmm.
1298
01:22:34,887 --> 01:22:36,055
Do we need them?
1299
01:22:36,389 --> 01:22:37,598
(BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER)
1300
01:22:45,106 --> 01:22:46,357
(PHONE RINGS)
1301
01:22:51,154 --> 01:22:53,865
GEORGE: Is that a New Model Army revolver?
1302
01:22:53,948 --> 01:22:55,283
You know how it works?
1303
01:22:55,366 --> 01:23:01,330
You see, they designed the cylinder so the hammer doesn't have to sit in an empty chamber.
1305
01:23:01,414 --> 01:23:04,709
The problem is, despite all the advantages of the Remington,
1306
01:23:04,792 --> 01:23:08,129
it doesn't fix the fact that you just dampened your gunpowder.
1308
01:23:09,255 --> 01:23:10,464
(GUNSHOT ECHOES)
1309
01:23:27,273 --> 01:23:28,524
(PROJECTOR WHIRRING)
1310
01:23:47,376 --> 01:23:48,711
What's this?
1311
01:23:49,503 --> 01:23:50,963
EDISON: This is gonna do for the eye
1312
01:23:51,047 --> 01:23:52,924
what the phonograph did for the ear.
1313
01:23:55,593 --> 01:23:57,011
(WHIRRING)
1314
01:24:11,943 --> 01:24:13,444
(CLATTERING)
1315
01:24:16,489 --> 01:24:17,490
Again.
1316
01:24:20,910 --> 01:24:21,911
Again!
1317
01:24:58,572 --> 01:25:00,157
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
1318
01:25:35,276 --> 01:25:36,652
(ALL CHEERING)
1319
01:25:54,670 --> 01:25:56,797
Do you have any final words?
1320
01:25:59,175 --> 01:26:01,010
WILLIAM: I believe I'm going to a better place.
1321
01:26:03,429 --> 01:26:04,972
Goodbye, William.
1322
01:26:13,606 --> 01:26:17,401
We live in a higher civilization
1323
01:26:18,110 --> 01:26:19,403
from this day.
1324
01:26:31,374 --> 01:26:32,666
(APPLAUSE)
1325
01:26:48,849 --> 01:26:50,726
(ELECTRICITY CRACKLING)
1326
01:27:24,051 --> 01:27:25,845
(PEOPLE CLAMORING)
1327
01:27:34,019 --> 01:27:37,231
SAMUEL: "An awful spectacle, far worse than hanging.
1328
01:27:37,314 --> 01:27:38,858
"George Westinghouse,
1329
01:27:38,941 --> 01:27:41,110
"'They would have done better with an axe.'
1330
01:27:41,193 --> 01:27:42,486
"Sizzling sound.
1331
01:27:42,570 --> 01:27:46,073
"A billow of smoke that filled the room with the odor of burning hair."
1332
01:27:47,366 --> 01:27:49,326
Well, at least it happened to a murderer.
1333
01:27:50,953 --> 01:27:53,914
EDISON: At least they'll never use it again to kill anyone.
1334
01:27:57,334 --> 01:27:58,419
(SIGHS)
1335
01:28:01,213 --> 01:28:03,757
And soon all these people will have electric light,
1336
01:28:03,841 --> 01:28:06,051
and no one will even remember iteverhappened.
1337
01:28:07,136 --> 01:28:09,555
I have books so full of ideas,
1338
01:28:09,638 --> 01:28:12,725
it would take me more than 12 lifetimes to execute them.
1339
01:28:14,059 --> 01:28:16,812
So let the man have his fair and waterfall.
1340
01:28:21,984 --> 01:28:23,444
Well, for what it's worth,
1341
01:28:23,819 --> 01:28:26,238
I'd much rather have worked for you than Westinghouse any day.
1342
01:28:27,615 --> 01:28:28,866
Why is that?
1343
01:28:29,742 --> 01:28:31,952
Well, I wouldn't have had as much fun, would I?
1344
01:29:00,606 --> 01:29:01,982
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
1345
01:29:30,261 --> 01:29:32,596
Have you seen much of the fair?
1346
01:29:32,680 --> 01:29:34,557
A Muybridge lecture, "Little Egypt."
1347
01:29:34,640 --> 01:29:35,975
Oh, the dancer?
1348
01:29:36,058 --> 01:29:37,351
You saw her?
No.
1349
01:29:38,143 --> 01:29:39,228
Oh, she was...
1350
01:29:40,396 --> 01:29:41,397
If you get the time.
1351
01:29:42,273 --> 01:29:43,440
Hmm.
1352
01:29:48,195 --> 01:29:50,739
Don't you think a fence is a unique creation?
1353
01:29:52,575 --> 01:29:55,911
Your neighbor puts one up, and suddenly one becomes two.
1354
01:29:56,745 --> 01:29:58,247
You also have a fence.
1355
01:29:59,790 --> 01:30:01,000
There's only one problem.
1356
01:30:01,083 --> 01:30:03,502
See, one person on one side of the fence designed it,
1357
01:30:03,586 --> 01:30:05,879
one person on one side built it,
1358
01:30:05,963 --> 01:30:11,969
and one person paid for it, and yet the other person receives a fine, free fence.
1360
01:30:14,597 --> 01:30:16,015
I didn't take your ideas.
1361
01:30:17,224 --> 01:30:18,684
Mr. Edison?
1362
01:30:19,852 --> 01:30:20,853
Sure.
1363
01:30:22,855 --> 01:30:24,023
Thank you.
1364
01:30:24,815 --> 01:30:26,817
You know, I was wondering about one thing.
1365
01:30:26,900 --> 01:30:28,527
Oh, I'm sure there were many.
1366
01:30:28,611 --> 01:30:30,237
I was gonna invite you to dinner.
1367
01:30:30,321 --> 01:30:31,363
Again.
1368
01:30:31,822 --> 01:30:34,533
But I suppose now is as good a time as any.
1369
01:30:34,617 --> 01:30:36,452
You want to know what was in the 13-hour bulb?
1370
01:30:36,535 --> 01:30:38,412
I know how it works.
Yeah, I know you do.
1371
01:30:38,495 --> 01:30:40,205
I only wondered what it felt like.
1372
01:30:42,207 --> 01:30:43,751
What?
The bulb.
1373
01:30:44,752 --> 01:30:45,878
When you knew.
1374
01:30:46,545 --> 01:30:49,048
What was the feeling in that moment?
1375
01:30:57,473 --> 01:30:59,016
I can't tell you.
I mean...
1376
01:31:01,018 --> 01:31:05,648
It's impossible to describe the feeling, because it was impossible.
1378
01:31:06,357 --> 01:31:07,608
Years of work.
1379
01:31:07,691 --> 01:31:09,610
10,000 different filaments.
1380
01:31:10,069 --> 01:31:12,237
When the thread went in the bulb, as usual,
1381
01:31:12,321 --> 01:31:16,617
we placed our bets, and the generator sputtered to life, and the ball began to glow,
1383
01:31:16,700 --> 01:31:19,203
we didn't expect anything but another failure.
1384
01:31:21,121 --> 01:31:22,873
Then something started to happen.
1385
01:31:26,669 --> 01:31:33,509
See, our best filament only lasted ten minutes, and this fluke was rounding 20,
1387
01:31:33,592 --> 01:31:35,844
so people started to chatter.
1388
01:31:35,928 --> 01:31:39,765
And 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour, two hours...
1389
01:31:39,848 --> 01:31:41,809
Then people started to shout.
1390
01:31:42,184 --> 01:31:45,145
And remember, we hadn't got past ten minutes.
1391
01:31:45,229 --> 01:31:47,189
The boys were climbing up the walls,
1392
01:31:47,272 --> 01:31:48,649
tearing their hair out...
1393
01:31:50,693 --> 01:31:52,444
Because it was impossible.
1394
01:31:53,445 --> 01:31:56,865
Seven hours, eight hours, nine.
1395
01:31:58,283 --> 01:32:00,119
We were silent when we hit ten.
1396
01:32:02,204 --> 01:32:04,957
Just sat around that glowing bubble,
1397
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:07,543
drunk on our own magic, staring at it like...
1398
01:32:08,335 --> 01:32:11,130
I don't know, like it was the baby Jesus playing Mozart.
1399
01:32:15,217 --> 01:32:18,178
After 13 and a half hours, the glass cracked, and I knew it.
1400
01:32:20,723 --> 01:32:22,725
The world would never be the same.
1401
01:32:24,476 --> 01:32:25,894
I'm working on something now,
1402
01:32:25,978 --> 01:32:27,771
something so new that...
1403
01:32:29,064 --> 01:32:32,776
People will forget my name was ever associated with electricity.
1404
01:32:33,152 --> 01:32:35,154
I wonder if you know what it is yet.
1405
01:32:41,326 --> 01:32:46,248
You know, I think the solution is to divide the cost of the fence.
1407
01:32:48,542 --> 01:32:51,628
Or you could not build a fence at all.
1408
01:32:54,590 --> 01:32:56,675
Your garden would be twice as big.
1409
01:32:57,384 --> 01:32:59,094
Wouldn't it, Tom?
1410
01:33:06,852 --> 01:33:08,312
If nothing else, a pleasure.
1411
01:33:10,773 --> 01:33:12,649
Enjoy the fair, George.
1412
01:33:17,404 --> 01:33:18,822
MAN: Mr. Edison.
1413
01:33:19,490 --> 01:33:20,908
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
1414
01:33:30,292 --> 01:33:37,216
TESLA: We build monuments to speak to the future, to say we were here, we have lived.
1417
01:33:38,550 --> 01:33:42,930
Our true legacy isn't what we build up to the heavens
1418
01:33:43,055 --> 01:33:45,265
or carve deep into stone.
1419
01:33:45,808 --> 01:33:52,314
Rocks will crumble, paper disintegrates, and bone turns to powder.
1422
01:33:54,066 --> 01:34:00,030
Only that which isn't in the physical realm andreaches in both directions can be eternal.
1424
01:34:01,740 --> 01:34:02,908
Our ideas.
1425
01:34:05,118 --> 01:34:07,079
They are what we leave behind.
1426
01:34:08,622 --> 01:34:11,416
And only they are what can push us forward.
1427
01:35:15,022 --> 01:35:16,648
(WIND HOWLING)
1428
01:35:43,467 --> 01:35:45,093
(PROJECTOR WHIRRING)
1429
01:40:06,146 --> 01:40:08,106
(MAN SPEAKING SPANISH)
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