1 00:00:52,125 --> 00:00:53,990 [WIND HOWLING] 2 00:01:26,625 --> 00:01:28,707 [WIND STOPS] 3 00:02:00,833 --> 00:02:02,915 [TRAIN ENGINE CHUGGING] 4 00:02:26,583 --> 00:02:28,164 [CLANG] 5 00:02:29,583 --> 00:02:31,039 [RUMBLING] 6 00:02:31,125 --> 00:02:33,116 [BRAKES SCREECHING] 7 00:02:52,542 --> 00:02:54,624 [PEOPLE MURMURING] 8 00:03:18,917 --> 00:03:20,282 [MAN] Boys! 9 00:03:31,792 --> 00:03:33,874 I hope you brought your Checkbooks. 10 00:03:35,708 --> 00:03:37,664 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 11 00:03:56,333 --> 00:03:58,995 [WOMAN] The air brakes pay for George's latest obsession. 12 00:03:59,083 --> 00:04:01,540 By changing the dimensions of his pipes, 13 00:04:01,625 --> 00:04:05,197 George can move natural gas over 20 miles from the well. 14 00:04:05,292 --> 00:04:07,032 Shooting, like a gun. 15 00:04:07,125 --> 00:04:09,832 Is that good or bad, Mrs. Westinghouse? 16 00:04:11,292 --> 00:04:13,954 - How is your daughter, Gladys? - Oh, quite well, thank you. 17 00:04:14,042 --> 00:04:15,907 She's met a financier. 18 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,286 The beading on your dress is exquisite. 19 00:04:19,375 --> 00:04:23,698 Mr. Westinghouse, I saw in The World Mr. Edison's new electric system 20 00:04:23,792 --> 00:04:26,408 is significantly cheaper than gas. 21 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:28,741 Does that keep you up at night? 22 00:04:28,833 --> 00:04:30,824 There's always more to see. 23 00:04:31,792 --> 00:04:34,499 Mr. and Mrs. Worthington, Mr. Manesberg, 24 00:04:34,583 --> 00:04:37,871 Dr. and Mrs. Burton, Reverend Vincent, Mr. McCoy, 25 00:04:37,958 --> 00:04:40,244 Mr. Faulk, Miss Faulk, enjoy your evening. 26 00:04:53,208 --> 00:04:56,905 Edison says he's months away from lighting up the world. 27 00:04:57,000 --> 00:05:00,913 It's impressive, but trust me, it's ten years away from being practical. 28 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,958 The papers make it sound as though this is something different. 29 00:05:06,292 --> 00:05:07,657 A miracle. 30 00:05:08,583 --> 00:05:11,199 As if you started to levitate off the carpet. 31 00:05:12,792 --> 00:05:15,033 I'd love to meet him. Could you arrange it? 32 00:05:15,125 --> 00:05:16,365 It's been several years... 33 00:05:16,458 --> 00:05:18,699 A dinner. Comfortable. Elegant. Substantive. 34 00:05:18,792 --> 00:05:22,410 Edison can't be bothered to tie his shoes, let alone attend a social event. 35 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:25,287 [CHUCKLES] Perhaps you're right. But try anyway. 36 00:05:28,875 --> 00:05:31,036 Anything fascinating? 37 00:05:31,125 --> 00:05:34,697 Mr. Pennoyer has found a bargain on a Beaux Arts shack in Newport. 38 00:05:34,792 --> 00:05:37,829 Mrs. Abernathy's mother has passed, and apparently Edison believes 39 00:05:37,917 --> 00:05:40,033 it may never be nighttime again. 40 00:05:43,125 --> 00:05:45,457 - Are you excited to meet the President? - Yes. 41 00:05:45,542 --> 00:05:47,578 Don't say a thing about JP. Morgan's nose. 42 00:05:47,667 --> 00:05:49,282 - What's wrong with his nose? - Nothing. 43 00:05:49,375 --> 00:05:52,822 - What's wrong with his nose? - It's huge. Huge! 44 00:05:52,917 --> 00:05:55,533 It's like someone took a hammer and slammed it into his face. 45 00:05:55,625 --> 00:05:57,268 [WOMAN] I thought you already got the money. 46 00:05:57,292 --> 00:05:58,623 [MAN] I only got half. 47 00:05:58,708 --> 00:06:00,309 [WOMAN] Does Morgan even know that you're coming? 48 00:06:00,333 --> 00:06:02,198 He'll invest as always. I hate this. 49 00:06:02,292 --> 00:06:04,052 - Mr. Edison, you have dinner with... - What? 50 00:06:04,125 --> 00:06:05,956 Dinner with Westinghouse. On your return. 51 00:06:06,042 --> 00:06:07,282 [GIRL] Why are barns red? 52 00:06:07,375 --> 00:06:09,059 [WOMAN] Maybe so you can see them in the snow. 53 00:06:09,083 --> 00:06:10,893 - [MAN] It's 'cause red paint's cheapest. - What happened to your shoes? 54 00:06:10,917 --> 00:06:13,283 Morgan will want to know the practicality of your system. 55 00:06:13,375 --> 00:06:14,535 [GIRL] I have money. 56 00:06:14,625 --> 00:06:16,741 Enough for two small buildings in Manhattan? 57 00:06:16,833 --> 00:06:17,868 Yes. 58 00:06:17,958 --> 00:06:18,993 Oh, good. 59 00:06:32,750 --> 00:06:34,536 This was intended to be my lunch. 60 00:06:34,625 --> 00:06:36,957 The President has asked to see the phonograph in person. 61 00:06:37,042 --> 00:06:39,875 - I had no idea you'd be here. - Mrs. Edison. 62 00:06:39,958 --> 00:06:41,573 Mr. Morgan. These are our children. 63 00:06:41,667 --> 00:06:44,374 Dot and Dash. Delightful. I know what you're doing. 64 00:06:44,458 --> 00:06:47,575 How much are you short? Just how much of my money do you want to wash away? 65 00:06:47,667 --> 00:06:50,079 Oh, as very, very much as possible. 66 00:06:50,167 --> 00:06:51,873 - Who's this? - Samuel lnsull. 67 00:06:51,958 --> 00:06:54,620 - Mr. Edison's personal secretary. - [DOOR OPENS] 68 00:06:54,708 --> 00:06:58,030 - Mr. Morgan, Mr. Edison. - Which one? He's also Mr. Edison. 69 00:06:58,125 --> 00:06:59,831 The President will see you now. 70 00:07:06,250 --> 00:07:07,410 Now. 71 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:10,742 On top of the Crumpetty Tree the Quangle Wangle sat, 72 00:07:10,833 --> 00:07:14,496 but his face you could not see, on account of his beaver hat. 73 00:07:15,125 --> 00:07:16,956 This is the sound of your voice. 74 00:07:19,542 --> 00:07:22,534 On top of the Crumpetty Tree the Quangle Wangle sat, 75 00:07:22,625 --> 00:07:24,832 but his face you could not see, 76 00:07:24,917 --> 00:07:27,659 - on account of his Beaver Hat. - Is that what I sound like? 77 00:07:27,750 --> 00:07:29,456 [GIGGLING] 78 00:07:29,542 --> 00:07:31,908 My men tell me you're turning down $5 million. 79 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,559 I'm grateful for the offer, Mr. President, 80 00:07:33,583 --> 00:07:37,121 but it's the type of science you're after that I find objectionable. 81 00:07:37,208 --> 00:07:39,601 - There's always money in guns. - The one device I shall never build 82 00:07:39,625 --> 00:07:41,741 is that which takes the life of another man. 83 00:07:41,833 --> 00:07:42,948 It's barbaric. 84 00:07:44,167 --> 00:07:46,874 But... take a look at this. 85 00:07:46,958 --> 00:07:50,155 One square mile of Manhattan, the First District. 86 00:07:50,250 --> 00:07:52,491 - And I'm gonna light it up. - Then you have done it. 87 00:07:52,583 --> 00:07:54,949 A star in a jar. It's a warm glow. 88 00:07:55,042 --> 00:07:58,330 No smell. No poison. Thirteen hours of light per globe. 89 00:07:58,417 --> 00:08:00,248 And it's cheaper than gas. Safer too. 90 00:08:00,333 --> 00:08:02,289 We bury the wires using my DC current, 91 00:08:02,375 --> 00:08:05,993 and those same wires will bring you energy and heat. 92 00:08:06,875 --> 00:08:09,833 I need two buildings to house six dynamos of my own construction. 93 00:08:09,917 --> 00:08:11,908 This won't even reach my house. 94 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:14,742 Morgan, let me make you so rich 95 00:08:14,833 --> 00:08:16,726 that you will look back at this moment and wonder, 96 00:08:16,750 --> 00:08:18,991 "Why was I ever so disgustingly poor?" 97 00:08:19,083 --> 00:08:20,289 [MORGAN CHUCKLES] 98 00:08:21,458 --> 00:08:23,498 [EDISON] It's all right there. Ferry to Wall Street. 99 00:08:23,583 --> 00:08:25,393 In case you missed my scribble, that's a big old circle 100 00:08:25,417 --> 00:08:27,453 around the New York Times... Free advertising. 101 00:08:27,542 --> 00:08:29,658 - One hundred fifty. - Half a million. 102 00:08:29,750 --> 00:08:32,867 I'm talking about $500,000, you buy the next century. 103 00:08:33,458 --> 00:08:34,868 Brighter, safer, yours. 104 00:08:34,958 --> 00:08:37,726 [PRESIDENT] Sounds rather grand to me, Pierpont. If I had your fortune... 105 00:08:37,750 --> 00:08:40,082 [MORGAN] With respect, you don't, Mr. President. 106 00:08:43,958 --> 00:08:45,914 - What is that? - That's not very nice. 107 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,286 - [EDISON] Morse code. - [DASH GIGGLES] 108 00:08:49,042 --> 00:08:50,452 [MORGAN] What did the boy say? 109 00:08:50,542 --> 00:08:51,976 - What did the boy say? - If there's nothing else, 110 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,440 - it's been a pleasure, Mr. President. - What did the boy say? 111 00:08:56,333 --> 00:08:57,994 Do you know what you've done? 112 00:08:59,083 --> 00:09:01,074 I always receive more by saying no. 113 00:09:03,125 --> 00:09:06,162 Set up the Manhattan offices and make them look professional. 114 00:09:06,250 --> 00:09:08,332 - What does that mean? - Oh, I don't know. Carpets. 115 00:09:09,708 --> 00:09:12,245 I don't know. Carpets. [MUMBLES] 116 00:09:12,333 --> 00:09:13,743 And the name? 117 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:18,822 Edison Electric, of course. Sir, why not build munitions? 118 00:09:18,917 --> 00:09:20,726 Five million dollars. It's hard to say no to... 119 00:09:20,750 --> 00:09:22,456 No. 120 00:09:22,542 --> 00:09:23,998 If it's Edison, it works. 121 00:09:24,083 --> 00:09:26,870 If it works, I'd strongly prefer it not kill anybody. 122 00:09:28,375 --> 00:09:29,455 Right. 123 00:09:58,375 --> 00:10:02,368 Thomas Edison has an unfavorable opinion of college graduates seeking employment 124 00:10:02,458 --> 00:10:05,530 because they cannot answer his examination questions. 125 00:10:06,375 --> 00:10:08,081 "Who composed ll Trovatore?" 126 00:10:08,167 --> 00:10:09,498 [MARGUERITE] Verdi. 127 00:10:09,583 --> 00:10:11,303 [WESTINGHOUSE] "What is the speed of sound?" 128 00:10:11,333 --> 00:10:12,476 [MARGUERITE] Oh, a trick question. 129 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:15,492 Sound travels at a constantly diminishing rate of speed. 130 00:10:15,583 --> 00:10:21,283 But I believe the fastest rate on record is 11,463 feet per second. 131 00:10:21,375 --> 00:10:23,036 [WESTINGHOUSE] How do you know all this? 132 00:10:23,125 --> 00:10:24,581 I read that this morning. 133 00:10:25,583 --> 00:10:26,618 [CHUCKLES] 134 00:10:29,292 --> 00:10:30,623 [MARGUERITE] This is different. 135 00:10:32,458 --> 00:10:33,948 I can feel it. 136 00:10:35,083 --> 00:10:37,495 You never requested a house guest before. 137 00:10:38,542 --> 00:10:39,622 Really? 138 00:10:41,375 --> 00:10:42,535 Hmm. 139 00:10:50,167 --> 00:10:52,954 - Eight minutes from the junction, sir. - Hmm? 140 00:10:53,042 --> 00:10:54,782 The Westinghouse dinner. 141 00:10:54,875 --> 00:10:58,663 We're going home. They're tired. I already shook enough hands today. 142 00:11:02,250 --> 00:11:03,990 [WESTINGHOUSE] Evening, Frank. 143 00:11:04,083 --> 00:11:05,664 George. 144 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:07,868 Pardon? 145 00:11:08,917 --> 00:11:10,282 I'm not stopping. 146 00:11:12,292 --> 00:11:13,372 Right. 147 00:11:21,125 --> 00:11:23,116 [TRAIN ENGINE CHUGGING] 148 00:11:25,333 --> 00:11:27,324 [POPE] Maybe the brakes are busted. 149 00:11:29,250 --> 00:11:30,865 [WESTINGHOUSE] I doubt that. 150 00:11:55,792 --> 00:11:56,998 [SIGHS] 151 00:11:57,083 --> 00:11:59,039 An emergency came up in New York. 152 00:12:04,042 --> 00:12:07,284 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 153 00:12:08,500 --> 00:12:09,865 [HORSE WHINNIES] 154 00:12:13,958 --> 00:12:15,573 [PISTOL CLICKS] 155 00:12:20,708 --> 00:12:22,573 [POPE] Don't let him agitate you. 156 00:12:23,333 --> 00:12:24,823 This is how he is. 157 00:12:25,958 --> 00:12:28,791 Before he was a wizard, I let him live in my basement. 158 00:12:29,750 --> 00:12:32,601 My wife wouldn't have him at the table with us unless he cleaned himself. 159 00:12:32,625 --> 00:12:35,162 And boy, given the ultimatum, the man ate alone. 160 00:12:35,250 --> 00:12:36,706 How does he work? 161 00:12:38,792 --> 00:12:42,080 You want to know his secret? He engineers his own reality, 162 00:12:42,167 --> 00:12:44,533 and he looks for needles in haystacks. 163 00:12:45,458 --> 00:12:48,245 But how does he know there's a needle in the hay to begin with? 164 00:12:48,333 --> 00:12:50,244 He doesn't. Neither do you. 165 00:12:50,333 --> 00:12:52,949 But he's so determined not to be the second person to find it, 166 00:12:53,042 --> 00:12:55,624 he'll go stalk by stalk, on a "what-do-you-know." 167 00:12:55,708 --> 00:12:58,950 I WILL SAY ONE GOOD THING ABOUT HIM: He could be the richest man on earth, 168 00:12:59,042 --> 00:13:01,283 but he doesn't give a damn about money. 169 00:13:03,875 --> 00:13:06,116 What does he give a damn about? 170 00:13:10,208 --> 00:13:12,199 Mary? Talk. 171 00:13:12,292 --> 00:13:14,476 - I just want to test the resistance... - Where's my barrette? 172 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:16,411 - On top of your bureau. - What's a bureau? 173 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:18,286 It's what's under your barrette. 174 00:13:18,375 --> 00:13:21,412 Can I get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence? 175 00:13:21,500 --> 00:13:23,741 Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw. 176 00:13:26,625 --> 00:13:28,240 [DOT] Look, you're missing it! 177 00:13:29,208 --> 00:13:31,620 It's a baby! Still has her spots! 178 00:13:37,208 --> 00:13:38,823 [MARY] Tom, come see this. 179 00:13:41,958 --> 00:13:44,370 - Tom? Tom? - [PHONE RINGS] 180 00:13:45,958 --> 00:13:49,030 You want half a million dollars, make me something with your name on it 181 00:13:49,125 --> 00:13:51,161 that I can sell to General Sherman. 182 00:13:51,250 --> 00:13:53,582 Counteroffer. How about I don't give you what you want, 183 00:13:53,667 --> 00:13:55,407 but you give me everything I want? 184 00:13:58,750 --> 00:14:02,493 We are gonna be big, big, big! 185 00:14:02,583 --> 00:14:05,700 - [DASH] Bigger than an elephant! - And no one stops an elephant! 186 00:14:05,792 --> 00:14:07,532 Whoo! {giggles} 187 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:23,456 [HORN BLARING] 188 00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:49,990 It'll work. 189 00:16:02,792 --> 00:16:05,408 Look, I've got to be honest. This might not work. 190 00:16:05,500 --> 00:16:07,240 [CROWD CHUCKLES] 191 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:10,951 Conventional wisdom has it, if you think you're gonna fall flat on your face, 192 00:16:11,042 --> 00:16:12,782 better not do it in front of a crowd. 193 00:16:12,875 --> 00:16:14,206 [CROWD LAUGHS] 194 00:16:16,208 --> 00:16:18,369 Tonight, things could change. 195 00:16:19,042 --> 00:16:20,907 I hope they do. 196 00:16:21,583 --> 00:16:23,119 And if they do... 197 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:26,456 they'll change there... 198 00:16:27,458 --> 00:16:28,914 and there. 199 00:16:30,750 --> 00:16:33,162 My boys and I caught in a jar 200 00:16:33,250 --> 00:16:36,572 what before now has only flashed across the night sky. 201 00:16:38,333 --> 00:16:41,245 What say we unscrew the lid and see what happens? 202 00:16:41,333 --> 00:16:44,040 - [CROWD CHEERING] - You ready? 203 00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:48,287 - Three, two... - [CROWD] Two, one! 204 00:16:48,375 --> 00:16:50,206 [CROWD CHEERING] 205 00:17:46,708 --> 00:17:50,656 [WESTINGHOUSE] The man has 100,000 feet of copper for 87 customers. 206 00:17:50,750 --> 00:17:52,741 It will never be profitable. 207 00:17:53,625 --> 00:17:56,947 [POPE] It's a hobby for the rich. Something to show off. 208 00:17:57,042 --> 00:17:58,657 It doesn't have to be. 209 00:18:01,125 --> 00:18:04,868 I'm securing patents on the Siemens dynamo and the Gaulard-Gibbs transformer. 210 00:18:04,958 --> 00:18:07,415 Transformer? That's more like a metal suitcase. 211 00:18:07,500 --> 00:18:09,866 How much did that cost? 212 00:18:09,958 --> 00:18:12,495 Edison, he picked the wrong horse. 213 00:18:13,500 --> 00:18:15,912 His current is like a hose with a knot in it. 214 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,036 He needs to sell one generator per mile. 215 00:18:18,125 --> 00:18:21,572 [POPE] You want to build an AC system. That's too powerful for motors. 216 00:18:21,667 --> 00:18:24,625 Put doubt out of your mind for one moment and tell me, 217 00:18:24,708 --> 00:18:26,994 what distance do you estimate one could get 218 00:18:27,083 --> 00:18:28,914 with a single alternating dynamo? 219 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:30,456 - A few thousand. - Yards? 220 00:18:30,542 --> 00:18:31,873 - Miles. - Mm-hmm. 221 00:18:31,958 --> 00:18:34,290 And how many houses could we reach? 222 00:18:34,375 --> 00:18:37,162 I suppose all of them. What about the bulbs? 223 00:18:37,250 --> 00:18:39,206 Hiram's agreed to license me his. 224 00:18:39,292 --> 00:18:42,455 If you're gonna rip off Edison, rip him off right. They glow bright gray. 225 00:18:42,542 --> 00:18:45,249 I just want to do a demonstration for Edison. 226 00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:47,540 Somewhere small. Small town. Rural. 227 00:18:47,625 --> 00:18:51,117 And then he'll see alternating is possible, 228 00:18:51,208 --> 00:18:53,574 and we partner... our system, his bulbs. 229 00:18:53,667 --> 00:18:57,831 In my opinion, which I will admit is based solely on physics and reality, 230 00:18:57,917 --> 00:19:00,078 what you want to do is fun to talk about. 231 00:19:00,167 --> 00:19:02,123 I really don't think it can be done. 232 00:19:02,208 --> 00:19:04,449 - Why? - Because he would've already done it. 233 00:19:12,792 --> 00:19:14,874 [MUTTERING] 234 00:19:34,917 --> 00:19:38,535 My Paris office seems to think you may be the only man on Earth to rival me. 235 00:19:38,625 --> 00:19:41,822 - How would you like to work for me? - Very much. 236 00:19:41,917 --> 00:19:45,205 I'm expanding to 12 cities, building direct-current systems... 237 00:19:45,292 --> 00:19:46,623 Direct current? 238 00:19:48,833 --> 00:19:50,744 Alternating current is far more efficient. 239 00:19:50,833 --> 00:19:53,415 - [DOLL] Hickory, dickory dock... - Higher voltage, 240 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:55,220 greater distance. Less copper conductors... 241 00:19:55,292 --> 00:19:58,284 It's lethal, and it's too much power for a motor to handle. 242 00:19:58,375 --> 00:20:00,115 I'm going to start you on $100 a month 243 00:20:00,208 --> 00:20:02,699 until you prove yourself worth more or less. 244 00:20:02,792 --> 00:20:04,976 - A hundred dollars? - If you can solve five things I can't, 245 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,537 I'll pay you $50,000, and then I'll have to fire you. 246 00:20:08,542 --> 00:20:10,498 Mr. Tesla, welcome to Edison Electric. 247 00:20:10,583 --> 00:20:12,665 We make a minor invention every ten days 248 00:20:12,750 --> 00:20:14,911 and a major one every six months or so. 249 00:20:18,583 --> 00:20:21,103 [WOMAN] I have a suspicion that though your husband's lab is but 250 00:20:21,167 --> 00:20:24,864 a hundred yards from your house, it must seem sometimes like a hundred miles. 251 00:20:24,958 --> 00:20:26,448 No, a million. 252 00:20:27,333 --> 00:20:30,700 I've tried to find a way to stop his brain, but it just runs and runs. 253 00:20:35,500 --> 00:20:39,038 I've heard Mr. Edison called "the worst husband in America" 254 00:20:39,125 --> 00:20:42,083 on account of him sleeping in his lab on your wedding night. 255 00:20:42,167 --> 00:20:44,078 I've heard the story myself. 256 00:20:47,917 --> 00:20:50,078 Well, on our wedding night, 257 00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:52,749 Tom and I left on the Albany, uh... 258 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:56,036 boat. 259 00:20:56,125 --> 00:20:59,538 - We spent a week in Niagara Falls. - [WOMAN WRITING] 260 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:01,832 I thought that one week of happiness would be enough 261 00:21:01,917 --> 00:21:04,784 to illuminate an entire lifetime. [CHUCKLES] 262 00:21:04,875 --> 00:21:07,912 He was a dashing inventor, and I worked for him. 263 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,581 You know. I was a... 264 00:21:09,667 --> 00:21:11,248 [WRITING] 265 00:21:11,333 --> 00:21:12,994 H was a... 266 00:21:14,333 --> 00:21:15,368 uh... 267 00:21:17,875 --> 00:21:19,365 Uh... [CHUCKLES] 268 00:21:19,458 --> 00:21:20,618 H was a... 269 00:21:22,042 --> 00:21:23,157 [WOMAN] Yes? 270 00:21:24,542 --> 00:21:26,999 Um... [CHUCKLES] 271 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,865 I'm sorry. 272 00:21:29,958 --> 00:21:31,698 L-I operated the... 273 00:21:37,083 --> 00:21:39,165 - Telegraph? - Yes. 274 00:21:39,250 --> 00:21:41,286 Yes. Telegraph. 275 00:21:43,667 --> 00:21:45,373 Forgive me. 276 00:21:49,250 --> 00:21:51,332 Does he have any hobbies? 277 00:21:51,417 --> 00:21:53,032 [TRAIN RUMBLING] 278 00:22:02,333 --> 00:22:04,619 You promised them Coney Island. 279 00:22:04,708 --> 00:22:06,494 At the very least, a walk. 280 00:22:07,292 --> 00:22:09,578 We'll go on three walks tomorrow, I promise. 281 00:22:12,917 --> 00:22:14,782 Here, why don't you take a picture? 282 00:22:33,667 --> 00:22:35,032 [MARY] Slow down! 283 00:22:36,042 --> 00:22:37,657 [INDISTINCT SHOUTING] 284 00:22:50,833 --> 00:22:54,155 It's neuralgia, brought on by eye strain. 285 00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:56,832 A good pair of spectacles is all that's required. 286 00:22:56,917 --> 00:22:59,033 Oh, no. I'll look awful. 287 00:22:59,125 --> 00:23:01,867 No, no. No, you won't. That's impossible. 288 00:23:01,958 --> 00:23:05,405 Are you sure that's all? She's been having terrible headaches. 289 00:23:05,500 --> 00:23:08,572 I'll leave her a vial of laudanum until her eyes adjust. 290 00:23:08,667 --> 00:23:10,623 Thank you. 291 00:23:10,708 --> 00:23:12,198 Can you... 292 00:23:12,292 --> 00:23:15,204 Would you mind delaying the bill for this visit? 293 00:23:16,125 --> 00:23:20,164 Well, my son would love an autograph. 294 00:23:23,375 --> 00:23:26,242 [TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS] 295 00:23:48,542 --> 00:23:50,328 Christ, it's primitive. 296 00:23:52,417 --> 00:23:53,998 How much did this cost? 297 00:23:54,083 --> 00:23:56,324 - He won't tell me. - What we need is here. 298 00:23:57,208 --> 00:24:00,245 [WESTINGHOUSE] Edison '3 current can't travel more than one mile, Frank. 299 00:24:00,333 --> 00:24:03,655 It peters out. He'll have to build so many DC motors 300 00:24:03,750 --> 00:24:06,537 and bury all his copper just to power one town. 301 00:24:06,625 --> 00:24:09,822 This country will look like a checkerboard of power plants. 302 00:24:09,917 --> 00:24:13,705 But with one AC dynamo, we can step-up the voltage 303 00:24:13,792 --> 00:24:15,999 and reach as far as the eye can see. 304 00:24:16,083 --> 00:24:18,449 We string the wires overhead on poles. 305 00:24:18,542 --> 00:24:20,703 Less copper, more electricity. 306 00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:23,078 We're 75 percent cheaper. 307 00:24:23,167 --> 00:24:26,284 The only thing that matters here is distance. 308 00:25:13,625 --> 00:25:17,163 Frank, this is as much yours as it is mine. 309 00:25:17,250 --> 00:25:19,707 - I'd be proud if you'd flip the... - I couldn't possibly. 310 00:25:19,792 --> 00:25:21,828 - Oh, don't be ridiculous. - No, it belongs to you. 311 00:25:21,917 --> 00:25:23,957 - But you spent hours... - George, it was your idea. 312 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:25,490 You were the instigator. 313 00:25:25,583 --> 00:25:28,120 - [MACHINE WHIRS] - Shall we go for a ride? 314 00:25:36,958 --> 00:25:40,075 [WESTINGHOUSE] "To the Wizard of Menlo Park." 315 00:25:41,125 --> 00:25:43,867 As it seems your brakes have issues, 316 00:25:43,958 --> 00:25:47,701 I would be delighted to send my car to deliver you 317 00:25:47,792 --> 00:25:50,750 to Great Barrington, Massachusetts... 318 00:25:51,875 --> 00:25:55,948 "where I have successfully transmitted current one full mile." 319 00:25:59,625 --> 00:26:01,240 - No! - [GLASS SHATTERS] 320 00:26:01,333 --> 00:26:03,198 How did he get the bulbs? 321 00:26:05,417 --> 00:26:08,375 What a roaring silence from the brightest minds of America. 322 00:26:08,458 --> 00:26:12,997 - [MAN] He's using Hiram's design. - Which Hiram stole from me! 323 00:26:15,292 --> 00:26:18,034 - Sue him. - We did. The court upheld his patent. 324 00:26:18,125 --> 00:26:19,851 I'm talking about Westinghouse. Find an angle. 325 00:26:19,875 --> 00:26:22,161 Take a trip to Barrington and see for yourself. 326 00:26:22,250 --> 00:26:24,582 Is anyone even slightly irked that 15 years of work 327 00:26:24,667 --> 00:26:26,498 is being filched from right under your eyes? 328 00:26:27,208 --> 00:26:28,414 Not again! 329 00:26:28,500 --> 00:26:31,947 I built a system here, and he goes shopping for patents 330 00:26:32,042 --> 00:26:35,079 to cobble together something to legally steal what is mine. 331 00:26:36,167 --> 00:26:39,614 If the bulbs are a battle, then nail him on the dynamos. 332 00:26:39,708 --> 00:26:41,039 We can't. 333 00:26:42,833 --> 00:26:44,744 He's not even using direct current, sir. 334 00:26:46,917 --> 00:26:48,703 He's using alternating? 335 00:26:51,375 --> 00:26:53,240 [INDISTINCT CONVERSATION] 336 00:27:00,583 --> 00:27:02,244 [HORSE AND BUGGY PASSES] 337 00:27:02,333 --> 00:27:03,573 [WOMAN] Mary? 338 00:27:04,167 --> 00:27:05,532 Mary? 339 00:27:05,625 --> 00:27:07,661 Yes, I think we should have some more tea. 340 00:27:07,750 --> 00:27:09,581 [CHUCKLES] Patricia? 341 00:27:09,667 --> 00:27:11,498 [MACHINES RUMBLING] 342 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:27,990 [MAN] George Westinghouse? 343 00:27:28,875 --> 00:27:31,617 - Can we help you? - I came from Thomas Edison. 344 00:27:32,542 --> 00:27:35,079 He wants me to buy one generator per mile. 345 00:27:38,750 --> 00:27:42,868 Your electricity would save 66 percent on Edison's. 346 00:27:44,750 --> 00:27:46,832 Well, it's a proposed saving. 347 00:27:47,417 --> 00:27:50,989 And it's not "my electricity." It's "electricity." 348 00:27:51,625 --> 00:27:54,162 I think it makes much more sense for the taxpayers of Columbus 349 00:27:54,250 --> 00:27:56,286 to go with Westinghouse Electric. 350 00:27:57,708 --> 00:28:00,905 I don't want to compete. I only intend to license my system. 351 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,161 - He's got the better bulbs. - Why not compete? 352 00:28:03,250 --> 00:28:05,411 By now he knows. Edison knows, I promise you. 353 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,992 The man doesn't care about getting it right, just about getting it. 354 00:28:09,083 --> 00:28:10,518 [WESTINGHOUSE] But he doesn't respond. 355 00:28:10,542 --> 00:28:12,999 [EDISON] Look, Westinghouse will never have a complete system. 356 00:28:13,083 --> 00:28:15,726 - He can't even power a sewing machine. - [TESLA] But I can solve that problem. 357 00:28:15,750 --> 00:28:18,913 Instead of again converting the currents to work with a commutator, 358 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:21,366 I would pass alternating current differing in phase 359 00:28:21,458 --> 00:28:23,119 through two or more energizing circuits. 360 00:28:23,208 --> 00:28:25,995 You're supposed to be working on commutators with DC dynamos. 361 00:28:26,083 --> 00:28:27,539 Well, I have. 362 00:28:27,625 --> 00:28:30,393 Look, I have done everything you have asked, but you are making a mistake. 363 00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:32,874 - What? - Direct current may be fine for cities 364 00:28:32,958 --> 00:28:36,746 when the buildings are close together, but most of your country is empty spaces. 365 00:28:36,833 --> 00:28:39,791 Only high voltage can span the distance. You are not thinking long-term. 366 00:28:39,875 --> 00:28:43,823 This technology is within your grasp. I can build you an efficient motor. 367 00:28:43,917 --> 00:28:45,202 Have you tried it? 368 00:28:45,292 --> 00:28:46,407 No. 369 00:28:47,500 --> 00:28:49,707 Look, in my head, it is nearly completed. 370 00:28:49,792 --> 00:28:51,952 Men claim to have heads full of sonnets and symphonies, 371 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,912 but their only problem seems to be they can't quite write it down. 372 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,663 - Let me try. - No, because I can't start again! 373 00:28:58,750 --> 00:29:01,184 I got orders from Michigan. I got a roomful of press waiting for me. 374 00:29:01,208 --> 00:29:02,914 Do what you were hired to do. 375 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:05,207 So, you will not honor your word about the remuneration? 376 00:29:05,292 --> 00:29:07,453 - What are you talking about? - Well, you said $50,000. 377 00:29:07,542 --> 00:29:10,784 - Are you unhappy with my contributions? - I'm not paying you $50,000. 378 00:29:10,875 --> 00:29:12,285 That was a joke. 379 00:29:13,458 --> 00:29:15,699 [FOOTSTEPS RETREATING] 380 00:29:15,792 --> 00:29:17,908 Coconut fibers and horn shavings, and fishing lines 381 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,241 and cork and celluloid and flax 382 00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:22,540 and platinum, iron, nickel, copper, steel. 383 00:29:22,625 --> 00:29:24,991 We scoured the earth, years and years, 384 00:29:25,083 --> 00:29:28,120 trying thousands, 10,000 different combinations. 385 00:29:28,208 --> 00:29:32,030 Then George Westinghouse saw howl did it and put on a pirate hat. 386 00:29:32,125 --> 00:29:34,616 - [REPORTERS LAUGH] - You get vultures in every venture, 387 00:29:34,708 --> 00:29:36,414 but you've just got to keep them away. 388 00:29:36,500 --> 00:29:39,663 - So this is just how it works? - Map-makers include mistakes in their work 389 00:29:39,750 --> 00:29:42,036 to see if anyone else is copying them. 390 00:29:42,125 --> 00:29:45,083 I don't have that luxury. I can't invent streets to lead the world down. 391 00:29:45,167 --> 00:29:47,533 - OthenNise we all end up in the dark. - [REPORTERS CHUCKLE] 392 00:29:47,625 --> 00:29:50,788 Good, and remember, write as much as you can about how he's infringing. 393 00:29:51,542 --> 00:29:53,908 Thank you, Mr. Edison, and thanks for this. 394 00:29:55,833 --> 00:29:57,539 [fiASHBULB POPS] 395 00:30:00,667 --> 00:30:02,828 Did I mention that his system's lethal? 396 00:30:03,542 --> 00:30:05,624 You reach out and touch 397 00:30:05,708 --> 00:30:09,075 a doorknob or a rail, and, well, you become the circuit. 398 00:30:09,792 --> 00:30:12,124 Just to be clear on that point... 399 00:30:14,125 --> 00:30:15,535 Well, you die. 400 00:30:16,750 --> 00:30:19,241 With DC current, you can reach out and touch anything 401 00:30:19,333 --> 00:30:21,995 at any stage of the line with your bare hands. 402 00:30:22,083 --> 00:30:25,200 It's safe. It works. And it bears the name of Edison, so it's pretty. 403 00:30:26,542 --> 00:30:30,364 Our government has been trying for some time now to get me to invent a weapon, 404 00:30:30,458 --> 00:30:33,450 but I won't use this brain to invent anything that hurts people. 405 00:30:33,542 --> 00:30:36,033 For that, you can shop in Pittsburgh. 406 00:30:36,125 --> 00:30:38,491 So you say Westinghouse wants to hurt people? 407 00:30:38,583 --> 00:30:41,996 No. I can't say that. But you can. 408 00:30:53,750 --> 00:30:55,911 [MARGUERITE] This is what he thinks of you. 409 00:30:57,083 --> 00:31:00,951 Issue a statement to the papers today. Refute his charges. 410 00:31:01,042 --> 00:31:02,828 I'm not going to engage with this. 411 00:31:02,917 --> 00:31:05,659 We have the better system. That speaks loudest. 412 00:31:11,833 --> 00:31:16,281 Westinghouse Electric Company was founded at a quarter past 9:00. 413 00:31:17,917 --> 00:31:20,374 Hello. I'm George Westinghouse. Do we have an appointment? 414 00:31:20,875 --> 00:31:22,206 North Dakota. 415 00:31:22,292 --> 00:31:23,577 New Orleans. 416 00:31:23,667 --> 00:31:24,952 Fort Worth. 417 00:31:25,042 --> 00:31:26,157 Sioux City. 418 00:31:26,250 --> 00:31:28,286 You want the good news or the good news? 419 00:31:28,375 --> 00:31:31,367 J' Hurrah, boys, hurrah J' 420 00:31:33,167 --> 00:31:35,434 [MAN ON PHONE] We've been spending all our time trying to nab him 421 00:31:35,458 --> 00:31:37,938 on what's in the glass bubble when we should've been looking at 422 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,241 is the clear opposite end of the bulb, the corkscrew. 423 00:31:40,333 --> 00:31:41,994 - I own that. - That you do. 424 00:31:43,375 --> 00:31:44,911 He's suing you. 425 00:31:45,583 --> 00:31:47,289 [MAN 2 ON PHONE] This is a massive lawsuit. 426 00:31:47,375 --> 00:31:49,616 This is Edison and Morgan. 427 00:31:49,708 --> 00:31:52,370 MY ADVICE: Is there any way that you can think of 428 00:31:52,458 --> 00:31:54,369 to beat gravity other than a corkscrew? 429 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,742 [MAN 1] Westinghouse designed a stopper to get around your corkscrew. 430 00:31:59,833 --> 00:32:01,913 It's only a matter of time before they're everywhere. 431 00:32:03,375 --> 00:32:07,243 To tell you the truth, I am mostly looking fonNard to using it at the lumber mills. 432 00:32:07,333 --> 00:32:09,745 Well, at the moment, we offer only light. 433 00:32:09,833 --> 00:32:13,451 In time, we'll move on to motorized tools and appliances. 434 00:32:13,542 --> 00:32:16,124 When? I don't care what light costs. 435 00:32:17,083 --> 00:32:21,031 My home's on gas. I'm after productivity. I don't understand. 436 00:32:21,125 --> 00:32:24,663 Edison said that electricity can already be used in factories. 437 00:32:25,958 --> 00:32:27,494 Well, his can. 438 00:32:31,125 --> 00:32:33,116 I need to see this needle move. 439 00:32:33,208 --> 00:32:35,893 I can't step the voltage down without blowing the whole thing to pieces. 440 00:32:35,917 --> 00:32:37,873 Come on. You must've made some progress. 441 00:32:37,958 --> 00:32:39,073 It's just not ready. 442 00:32:47,208 --> 00:32:49,119 [MACHINE HUMMING] 443 00:33:02,208 --> 00:33:04,119 - Kill it. Kill it! - [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING] 444 00:33:07,708 --> 00:33:09,118 [SIGHS] 445 00:33:11,625 --> 00:33:13,665 [WESTINGHOUSE] There has to be a solution out there. 446 00:33:18,792 --> 00:33:22,705 The Nikola Tesla Electric Light Company. How does that sound? 447 00:33:22,792 --> 00:33:25,534 - When can you bring arcs to production? - Arc lighting? 448 00:33:25,625 --> 00:33:29,038 I believe we agreed to compete for incandescents, motors and distribution. 449 00:33:29,125 --> 00:33:30,615 Leave that to Edison. 450 00:33:30,708 --> 00:33:33,370 I am working on advanced methods to surpass him. 451 00:33:33,458 --> 00:33:37,121 - To beat Edison? How soon? - Only a few years. 452 00:33:37,208 --> 00:33:39,290 I need a lab, engineers, supplies. 453 00:33:39,375 --> 00:33:41,036 There are, of course, expenses. 454 00:33:41,125 --> 00:33:43,662 Oh, where do you get the cash for those fancy silks? 455 00:33:43,750 --> 00:33:45,957 How I spend my income is my concern. 456 00:33:46,042 --> 00:33:50,035 Look, Mr. Tesla, if you need cash now, you should sell us your patents. 457 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:52,786 And what would I receive? 458 00:33:52,875 --> 00:33:54,035 Stock. 459 00:33:54,125 --> 00:33:56,832 And later, if you succeed, you can sell it for a killing. 460 00:33:56,917 --> 00:33:58,578 That means a fortune. 461 00:33:58,667 --> 00:34:02,285 - Yes, I know what an idiom is. - We'll take on two-thirds of the risk. 462 00:34:02,375 --> 00:34:05,117 It's a good price for the only thing you have to sell. 463 00:34:08,250 --> 00:34:11,572 [EDISON] Congestion of the brain? What does that even mean? 464 00:34:11,667 --> 00:34:15,364 [DOCTOR] There's a... an occlusion hidden, 465 00:34:15,458 --> 00:34:17,744 and it expands. 466 00:34:17,833 --> 00:34:20,165 Her eyesight will likely go first, 467 00:34:20,250 --> 00:34:22,662 and then her vocabulary will fall away. 468 00:34:22,750 --> 00:34:24,206 I can't lose her. 469 00:34:26,917 --> 00:34:30,080 Working on a raised alphabet, I'll make her a dictionary. 470 00:34:30,167 --> 00:34:32,954 [DOCTOR] She'll gradually lose her mobility. 471 00:34:33,042 --> 00:34:34,703 I'll build her an elevator. 472 00:34:35,708 --> 00:34:36,743 Mr. Edison, 473 00:34:37,708 --> 00:34:39,619 what your wife needs... 474 00:34:40,708 --> 00:34:42,494 no man can build. 475 00:34:43,333 --> 00:34:45,244 What my wife needs, according to you, 476 00:34:45,958 --> 00:34:47,744 is a simple pair of spectacles. 477 00:34:49,500 --> 00:34:51,331 Nature will take its course. 478 00:34:54,583 --> 00:34:55,618 I, uh... 479 00:34:57,042 --> 00:34:59,408 I have to leave for New York tonight. 480 00:35:00,292 --> 00:35:01,998 It can't be avoided. 481 00:35:03,667 --> 00:35:06,864 I will attend to her while you're away, but... 482 00:35:08,458 --> 00:35:09,664 dontfingen 483 00:35:20,708 --> 00:35:22,539 [TRAIN HORN BLOWS] 484 00:35:24,708 --> 00:35:26,348 [MORGAN] Ohio is going with Westinghouse. 485 00:35:26,375 --> 00:35:29,538 - Columbus. Zanesville. - Zanesville? Give it to him. 486 00:35:29,625 --> 00:35:30,740 That isn't funny. 487 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,787 We don't know something is a pattern till it happens again, 488 00:35:34,875 --> 00:35:36,911 which I sincerely hope it does not. 489 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:40,663 Now, you tell me, what is he doing right that you're doing wrong? 490 00:35:40,750 --> 00:35:43,617 He is successfully selling machines that will result 491 00:35:43,708 --> 00:35:46,165 in the accidental deaths of human beings. 492 00:35:46,250 --> 00:35:48,309 - And where are these deaths? - Where are these deaths? 493 00:35:48,333 --> 00:35:49,448 Why don't we switch now, 494 00:35:49,542 --> 00:35:51,726 and then you get to shoulder the inevitable suits of manslaughter. 495 00:35:51,750 --> 00:35:55,743 I think that people aren't dying because it's not as dangerous as you wish it were. 496 00:35:57,708 --> 00:36:00,620 All right, he's beating us on costs, but that is a temporary advantage. 497 00:36:00,708 --> 00:36:02,664 You give me enough time, I'll make ours so cheap 498 00:36:02,750 --> 00:36:04,832 that only the rich will burn candles. 499 00:36:04,917 --> 00:36:07,750 And until then, you bleed cities to Westinghouse. I'm not a bank. 500 00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:09,789 That is exactly what you are. 501 00:36:09,875 --> 00:36:13,493 We could've had this conversation by telephone instead of you wasting my time. 502 00:36:13,583 --> 00:36:16,541 When I want to see someone, he comes. Eye to eye. That's how it works. 503 00:36:16,625 --> 00:36:18,536 No. Here's how it works. 504 00:36:18,625 --> 00:36:22,538 I build miracles, and you continue to give me as much goddamn money as I want. 505 00:36:23,292 --> 00:36:25,453 Oh, what? Did I squander another town? 506 00:36:25,542 --> 00:36:27,248 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 507 00:36:27,333 --> 00:36:29,073 All right, what did I lose? 508 00:38:21,208 --> 00:38:23,290 [MACHINERY WHIRRING] 509 00:38:26,250 --> 00:38:29,322 - [MARY SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING] - [EDISON'S VOICE] Say something. 510 00:38:29,417 --> 00:38:32,909 [MARY'S VOICE] Can [get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence? 511 00:38:34,292 --> 00:38:36,453 [EDISON'S VOICE] Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw. 512 00:38:38,292 --> 00:38:39,953 [DOT'S VOICE] Look! You're missing it! 513 00:38:48,125 --> 00:38:49,456 [RECORDER CLICKS] 514 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:52,960 - [MARY SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY ON RECORDING] - [EDISON'S VOICE] Say something. 515 00:38:53,042 --> 00:38:56,455 [MARY'S VOICE] Can [get you to promise on here that you'll build me a fence? 516 00:38:56,542 --> 00:38:58,783 [EDISON'S VOICE] Ground's frozen. Needs to thaw. 517 00:39:00,292 --> 00:39:02,078 [DOT'S VOICE] Look! You're missing it! 518 00:39:04,542 --> 00:39:07,158 No. Now we move on to my motor, as agreed... 519 00:39:07,250 --> 00:39:09,832 Look, we don't... We don't want any of that. 520 00:39:09,917 --> 00:39:11,782 The arcs you built aren't selling anymore. 521 00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:14,116 We can't compete with Edison and Westinghouse! 522 00:39:14,208 --> 00:39:17,200 Then I will take my patents and wish you both a great misfortune. 523 00:39:17,292 --> 00:39:19,783 - Your patents? - Yes. My patents. 524 00:39:20,333 --> 00:39:22,324 [BELL TOLLING] 525 00:39:29,042 --> 00:39:30,907 [SIGHS] Can I get you anything, sir? 526 00:39:32,167 --> 00:39:33,748 [EDISON] A time machine. 527 00:39:34,250 --> 00:39:37,572 Well, if! Ever find one, I'll travel back to this moment and give it to you. 528 00:39:38,833 --> 00:39:40,414 Did you read over the proposal? 529 00:39:40,500 --> 00:39:44,163 I'm not diverting what I've got left of my resources in lighting up a fair. 530 00:39:44,250 --> 00:39:46,866 It's much more than a fair, sir. A third of this country 531 00:39:46,958 --> 00:39:51,281 will get on trains to Chicago to try and see this City of Light. 532 00:39:51,792 --> 00:39:54,283 Every window, every streetlamp, a sign that says, 533 00:39:54,375 --> 00:39:56,240 "The race is over, and we won." 534 00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:59,116 Why spend your final dollars traveling this country 535 00:39:59,208 --> 00:40:01,790 to show everyone your electricity when they're all 536 00:40:01,875 --> 00:40:04,366 traveling to the same place to try to see it anyway? 537 00:40:04,458 --> 00:40:05,976 Because in a year, they'll rip it down. 538 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,616 Only after 30 million people have seen it, yes. 539 00:40:15,833 --> 00:40:17,619 Westinghouse is placing a bid. 540 00:40:32,167 --> 00:40:34,783 [EDISON] Nice hat. Looks expensive. 541 00:40:34,875 --> 00:40:37,207 I owned this before I worked for you, Mr. Edison. 542 00:40:37,292 --> 00:40:40,614 I don't think you are working for me. He's still using my bulbs. 543 00:40:40,708 --> 00:40:42,949 [MAN] His patents are in order. 544 00:40:43,042 --> 00:40:44,578 Do you want my advice? 545 00:40:45,042 --> 00:40:47,454 You keep saying Westinghouse's current will kill people, 546 00:40:47,542 --> 00:40:50,739 so in lieu of evidence, why don't you provide it? 547 00:41:00,042 --> 00:41:03,614 We're doing this because when we have a complete system, 548 00:41:03,708 --> 00:41:06,871 it works, and it's Edison. 549 00:41:06,958 --> 00:41:08,368 Poor bastard. 550 00:41:09,333 --> 00:41:13,656 Well, he was gonna be slaughtered anyway. He's not going to feel any pain, right? 551 00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:16,082 At 3,000 volts, it'll be over before it begins. 552 00:41:16,167 --> 00:41:17,828 So there's nothing to worry about? 553 00:41:18,750 --> 00:41:21,537 But these are reporters, so you might want to liven up a little bit. 554 00:41:22,500 --> 00:41:24,582 [HORSES WHINNYING] 555 00:41:26,125 --> 00:41:28,832 - [EDISON] Welcome to Menlo Park. - [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 556 00:41:28,917 --> 00:41:31,203 Thank you for coming out on this cold morning. 557 00:41:31,292 --> 00:41:33,908 - Good to see you again. - Good morning. 558 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:36,036 - I'm Southwick Brown. - A pleasure. 559 00:41:36,125 --> 00:41:38,582 Now you, uh, you might all want to stand back a little bit. 560 00:41:38,667 --> 00:41:40,749 Gus is being connected to the same current 561 00:41:40,833 --> 00:41:43,199 that Westinghouse uses from his generator. 562 00:41:43,292 --> 00:41:46,989 But there's no word yet coined to define death by electricity, 563 00:41:47,083 --> 00:41:49,745 so I asked the men who write the dictionaries, and I heard back 564 00:41:49,833 --> 00:41:53,405 "electro-dite," "electro-cremate" and "dyna-mort." 565 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:57,413 Butjust as Joe Guillotine got his name on his invention, 566 00:41:58,083 --> 00:42:01,246 how could we rob the rightful inventor of death by electricity 567 00:42:01,333 --> 00:42:03,619 of his due credit? 568 00:42:03,708 --> 00:42:07,530 I ask you to please be respectful as we Westinghouse this horse. 569 00:42:29,125 --> 00:42:30,410 [SNORTS] 570 00:42:33,333 --> 00:42:35,164 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 571 00:42:37,458 --> 00:42:40,825 Mr. Edison, Southwick Brown, Capital Punishment Commission. 572 00:42:40,917 --> 00:42:43,954 You've read, no doubt, of the botched hangings throughout the Northeast. 573 00:42:44,042 --> 00:42:46,309 - The prisoners either choke to death... - [MAN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 574 00:42:46,333 --> 00:42:48,369 Or are violently decapitated. 575 00:42:48,458 --> 00:42:50,289 The spectacle is inhumane. 576 00:42:50,375 --> 00:42:54,163 But the horse... his death was so calm, you could call it... 577 00:42:56,458 --> 00:42:57,868 poetic. 578 00:42:57,958 --> 00:42:59,914 [GRUNTING, BONES SNAP] 579 00:43:01,125 --> 00:43:04,447 The governor of New York, upon my personal recommendation, 580 00:43:04,542 --> 00:43:06,624 would like to explore a death device 581 00:43:06,708 --> 00:43:09,199 which uses electricity on a human being. 582 00:43:09,833 --> 00:43:13,371 It would be our honor to award you the contract. 583 00:43:14,542 --> 00:43:16,999 - If nothing else, a pleasure. - I beg your pardon? 584 00:43:17,083 --> 00:43:21,497 To kill a human being under the guise of justice is... is cockeyed. 585 00:43:21,583 --> 00:43:24,040 There's a big difference between a horse and a person. 586 00:43:24,125 --> 00:43:27,242 God humanely brings us into this world. 587 00:43:27,833 --> 00:43:31,280 Why would you reject the opportunity to be the first man 588 00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:33,787 to humanely take us out of it? 589 00:44:33,917 --> 00:44:35,373 William. 590 00:44:37,583 --> 00:44:39,244 I killed my wife. 591 00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:48,661 [DOOR CLOSES] 592 00:44:51,125 --> 00:44:53,207 [MARY'S VOICE ON RECORDER] I'm turning the handle. 593 00:44:54,167 --> 00:44:56,078 Maybe there's more to it than that. 594 00:44:57,083 --> 00:44:59,495 If I'm doing it wrong, you'll never know I was fooling around 595 00:44:59,583 --> 00:45:02,370 with your phonograph or gramophone, 596 00:45:02,458 --> 00:45:04,540 whatever you end up calling it. 597 00:45:04,625 --> 00:45:06,707 And what is this thing really? 598 00:45:07,500 --> 00:45:11,072 Today's Mary is speaking to tomorrow's Thomas. 599 00:45:11,167 --> 00:45:12,498 Or from where you sit, 600 00:45:12,583 --> 00:45:15,040 today's Tom is listening to yesterday's Mary. 601 00:45:15,125 --> 00:45:17,832 [WIND GUSTING] 602 00:45:17,917 --> 00:45:20,283 I wonder what else you can do with it. 603 00:45:28,542 --> 00:45:30,203 Mr. Tesla, 604 00:45:30,292 --> 00:45:33,268 my son and his idiot friend tell me you don't want to make arc lights anymore. 605 00:45:33,292 --> 00:45:34,828 Is that true? 606 00:45:34,917 --> 00:45:37,329 Don't look at him, look at me. I'm your primary shareholder. 607 00:45:37,417 --> 00:45:39,954 No. I already completed the arc light project. 608 00:45:40,042 --> 00:45:43,785 Completed? You covered one city: Rahway, New Jersey. 609 00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:46,708 For the love of God, think bigger. Philadelphia. 610 00:45:46,792 --> 00:45:49,909 You design arc lights to outfit cities. That was your only job. 611 00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:53,072 No. My AC motor. Okay? We agreed... 612 00:45:53,167 --> 00:45:55,658 - No, I never agreed to anything. - In this office, you said... 613 00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:56,865 Uh! 614 00:45:56,958 --> 00:45:59,290 Lane, could you wait outside for a moment? 615 00:46:06,208 --> 00:46:08,699 I'm sorry. Don't you realize you're being fired here? 616 00:46:10,833 --> 00:46:14,621 No. Please, let me work through what I have in my head. 617 00:46:14,708 --> 00:46:17,871 I will make you the greatest provider of electrical power in the world. 618 00:46:17,958 --> 00:46:19,744 Better than Edison. 619 00:46:19,833 --> 00:46:22,165 I'm-I'm so close. Just a few months. 620 00:46:26,875 --> 00:46:29,662 You drop in here like you're from Neptune, 621 00:46:29,750 --> 00:46:32,492 like you got a great vision of the future 622 00:46:32,583 --> 00:46:34,684 - that no one understands but you. - No, please don't touch. 623 00:46:34,708 --> 00:46:36,744 But you're just an immigrant. 624 00:46:37,583 --> 00:46:40,541 Head full of notions, looking for a handout. You're not Edison. 625 00:46:40,625 --> 00:46:43,742 There's only one Edison. That's why he's in. There's millions of you. 626 00:46:43,833 --> 00:46:47,951 Big ideas, but you can't see the real force that moves things. 627 00:46:48,042 --> 00:46:51,000 And it's not AC/DC, it's not currents. 628 00:46:51,667 --> 00:46:53,032 It's currency. 629 00:46:53,625 --> 00:46:55,707 And that's the only motor I'm interested in. 630 00:46:58,833 --> 00:47:02,576 These patents belong to the Tesla Electric Light Company. 631 00:47:02,667 --> 00:47:06,239 This is now the Union Electric and Manufacturing Company, 632 00:47:06,333 --> 00:47:08,369 and I own everything in this office. 633 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,322 Patents, designs, engineers, all mine. 634 00:47:13,583 --> 00:47:16,245 Never going to be anything named Tesla ever again. 635 00:47:17,625 --> 00:47:21,823 You take your notions and go back where you came from. 636 00:47:27,375 --> 00:47:28,740 [DOOR CLOSES] 637 00:47:34,333 --> 00:47:36,324 He's snapping up town after town. 638 00:47:37,292 --> 00:47:40,830 Cats, dogs, sheep, 11 horses... What more do people need to see? 639 00:47:40,917 --> 00:47:43,329 The problem is, no one's actually dying from alternating, 640 00:47:43,417 --> 00:47:46,375 apart from your cats, dogs, sheep and 11 horses. 641 00:47:47,667 --> 00:47:50,374 - Sir, I realize I'm only your secretary... - Just say it. 642 00:47:50,458 --> 00:47:53,325 [SIGHS] Bring the phonograph to market. You can make your own money. 643 00:47:53,417 --> 00:47:56,124 - No, it needs too many improvements. - Make them. Sir. 644 00:47:57,167 --> 00:48:00,159 - Bell is ripping you off. - Graphophone? He just switched the name. 645 00:48:00,250 --> 00:48:03,226 Direct me to a store where I can buy yours, and I won't give him the business. 646 00:48:03,250 --> 00:48:05,366 You have a real offer on the table here. 647 00:48:06,042 --> 00:48:09,330 Half a million dollars. Sir, take the money. You need it. 648 00:48:10,458 --> 00:48:12,449 If Bell ripped you off with the telephone, 649 00:48:12,542 --> 00:48:14,533 he'll do it again with the graphophone. 650 00:48:14,625 --> 00:48:16,786 Did you just misspeak intentionally? 651 00:48:16,875 --> 00:48:18,866 Do you want Chicago? 652 00:48:23,250 --> 00:48:24,740 All right, I'm ready. 653 00:48:45,958 --> 00:48:47,323 A dollar a ball? 654 00:48:48,125 --> 00:48:49,786 So, what's your trade? 655 00:48:49,875 --> 00:48:53,197 Inventor. I fix problems for idiots. 656 00:48:54,292 --> 00:48:57,364 Imagine dictation without the aid of a stenographer. 657 00:48:59,125 --> 00:49:01,992 Phonographic books that will speak to blind people. 658 00:49:02,083 --> 00:49:04,665 Reproduction of music. Talking toys. 659 00:49:05,167 --> 00:49:08,000 Clocks that will announce the time. 660 00:49:08,083 --> 00:49:10,324 The preservation of dying languages. 661 00:49:10,417 --> 00:49:12,282 Teaching of elocution. 662 00:49:12,375 --> 00:49:14,912 - You hustled us. - Yes. No. 663 00:49:15,833 --> 00:49:17,226 I didn't come all this way to lose. 664 00:49:17,250 --> 00:49:20,572 The final capturing of the dying words of your loved ones. 665 00:49:24,500 --> 00:49:27,572 [WOMAN] Mary had a little lamb, his fleece was white as snow, 666 00:49:27,667 --> 00:49:30,784 and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. 667 00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:40,997 Well, it's either not possible, or I'm not the engineer I thought I was. 668 00:49:43,208 --> 00:49:46,746 And he's traveling around the country, cooking up cats. 669 00:49:46,833 --> 00:49:49,870 George, he's playing dirty. You can too. 670 00:49:49,958 --> 00:49:50,993 Mm. 671 00:49:52,625 --> 00:49:55,082 You know, when I was a boy, my father... 672 00:49:56,333 --> 00:49:58,324 tried to whip me with a branch. 673 00:49:59,375 --> 00:50:03,288 But after the first hit, it broke into three little pieces. 674 00:50:04,917 --> 00:50:08,239 And we just stood there, looking at this shattered stick on the ground. 675 00:50:09,875 --> 00:50:13,413 And then I noticed there was a leather strap hanging on the wall, 676 00:50:13,500 --> 00:50:15,707 so I pointed to it and said, 677 00:50:15,792 --> 00:50:19,205 "Look. That's the better one." 678 00:50:20,417 --> 00:50:21,873 And he stopped. 679 00:50:26,375 --> 00:50:31,039 I can take a beating, but I have no patience for shoddy craftsmanship. 680 00:50:33,667 --> 00:50:37,455 You are gonna have a working motor sitting next to your display in Chicago, 681 00:50:37,542 --> 00:50:40,784 come hell, high water, or the Wizard of Menlo Park. 682 00:50:47,542 --> 00:50:49,248 - Good night, Frank. - Good night. 683 00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:10,036 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 684 00:51:20,125 --> 00:51:21,990 [HORSE WHINNIES] 685 00:51:22,833 --> 00:51:24,789 [ELECTRICITY CRACKLES] 686 00:51:45,875 --> 00:51:47,490 [CLAMORING] 687 00:51:48,375 --> 00:51:50,366 [REPORTER] So you admit Edison was right? 688 00:52:18,875 --> 00:52:21,161 We will remember Franklin Pope... 689 00:52:22,083 --> 00:52:24,870 for his fearless dedication to moving us fonrvard. 690 00:52:25,625 --> 00:52:28,742 He tried to see what was hiding in plain sight. 691 00:52:28,833 --> 00:52:30,664 [VOICE FADES] 692 00:52:34,500 --> 00:52:36,161 Today, I am... 693 00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,956 filled less with grief than anger, 694 00:52:40,042 --> 00:52:42,499 because what happened could've been avoided. 695 00:52:44,917 --> 00:52:47,784 Hear me now as you have never heard me before. 696 00:52:48,625 --> 00:52:50,206 As I breathe... 697 00:52:51,792 --> 00:52:53,953 as long as Westinghouse stays in business... 698 00:52:55,375 --> 00:52:57,411 more people will die. 699 00:53:17,542 --> 00:53:19,282 My condolences. 700 00:53:21,625 --> 00:53:24,082 Sounds like he was more than just an employee. 701 00:53:29,167 --> 00:53:31,374 What was his name? Franklin Popes? 702 00:53:32,542 --> 00:53:34,624 Pope. Just one. 703 00:53:35,875 --> 00:53:37,957 - It's a shame. - Mm. 704 00:53:38,042 --> 00:53:39,578 But I'm here to help. 705 00:53:40,333 --> 00:53:42,198 Now, I know that you, uh, 706 00:53:42,292 --> 00:53:44,328 you wish Edison to quiet down. 707 00:53:47,083 --> 00:53:50,575 So let me combine your companies. Let me clean up the mess. 708 00:53:54,542 --> 00:53:58,364 You really think Westinghouse Electric is worth $5 million? 709 00:53:58,458 --> 00:54:01,746 The value of something is the highest number someone else is willing to pay. 710 00:54:01,833 --> 00:54:05,405 But 800 men will lose their livelihoods. 711 00:54:05,500 --> 00:54:07,661 I will keep your workers. 712 00:54:07,750 --> 00:54:11,288 I will not make the same promise for your five-day work week. 713 00:54:11,375 --> 00:54:12,410 Mm. 714 00:54:13,917 --> 00:54:15,999 Seems like you're amenable. 715 00:54:18,667 --> 00:54:19,747 Mm. 716 00:54:26,667 --> 00:54:28,623 Which current will you use? 717 00:54:30,125 --> 00:54:32,366 Whichever Edison selects, I suppose. 718 00:54:42,250 --> 00:54:43,581 [MARGUERITE] Absurdity. 719 00:54:44,208 --> 00:54:46,119 You think I'm being absurd? 720 00:54:47,292 --> 00:54:49,157 Yes, I do. 721 00:54:49,250 --> 00:54:51,457 We're overextended, Marguerite. 722 00:54:52,583 --> 00:54:54,494 There's no shame in selling. 723 00:54:58,375 --> 00:55:01,538 What I was always after was to partner with Edison... 724 00:55:02,583 --> 00:55:04,665 and I have the chance to do that now. 725 00:55:05,875 --> 00:55:09,823 We have no motor, so we're a train into a mountainside anyway. It's impossible. 726 00:55:09,917 --> 00:55:12,954 I thought "impossible" wasn't a word in your vocabulary. 727 00:55:19,083 --> 00:55:21,119 I am dissolving Westinghouse Electric. 728 00:55:21,208 --> 00:55:25,406 The proceeds will go to preserve our other failing enterprises, 729 00:55:25,500 --> 00:55:29,573 and time itself will mend Edison's mistakes. 730 00:55:29,667 --> 00:55:33,615 You are not a captain who changes his course with the sea. 731 00:55:33,708 --> 00:55:35,619 We are not on a course! 732 00:55:36,208 --> 00:55:38,039 We're drowning! 733 00:55:38,125 --> 00:55:41,037 This whole thing is costing us a fortune! 734 00:55:41,125 --> 00:55:43,662 - You don't care about money. - A fortune! 735 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,163 I lived in your parents' house while you went door-to-door. 736 00:55:48,792 --> 00:55:51,864 Do you want people saying you stand for everything you don't? 737 00:55:51,958 --> 00:55:54,040 Using your last name as a verb? 738 00:55:54,125 --> 00:55:57,413 Well, how exactly do you suggest I correct that, dear? 739 00:55:58,875 --> 00:56:01,992 I have you, and I had Frank. 740 00:56:03,583 --> 00:56:04,663 That's it. 741 00:56:05,917 --> 00:56:07,498 I loved the man. 742 00:56:09,292 --> 00:56:13,706 This is really nothing but a sensible business decision. 743 00:56:15,125 --> 00:56:17,161 - George... - That's all. 744 00:56:21,750 --> 00:56:22,990 That's all. 745 00:56:25,917 --> 00:56:27,828 [FOOTSTEPS DEPART] 746 00:56:29,708 --> 00:56:32,620 Say what you will about George Westinghouse, he sure is nice. 747 00:56:38,750 --> 00:56:40,536 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 748 00:56:51,458 --> 00:56:53,244 [HORSE WHINNIES] 749 00:57:04,208 --> 00:57:06,950 - [PISTOL CLICKS] - [HORSE WHINNIES] 750 00:57:08,625 --> 00:57:11,867 You've crossed into territory for the Confederacy. 751 00:57:13,875 --> 00:57:16,912 No, I, uh, I think you're mistaken. 752 00:57:17,458 --> 00:57:19,744 - According to my map here... - [PISTOL CLICKS] 753 00:57:19,833 --> 00:57:21,824 [WHINNIES] 754 00:57:30,917 --> 00:57:35,581 Though I mourn the loss of my colleague, misfortune does not trump progress. 755 00:57:37,792 --> 00:57:42,115 Now, it seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything 756 00:57:42,208 --> 00:57:45,120 because he's terrified of being forgotten. 757 00:57:46,292 --> 00:57:49,284 IF YOU WANT TO BE REMEMBERED, IT'S SIMPLE: Shoot a president. 758 00:57:50,250 --> 00:57:53,413 But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy, 759 00:57:53,500 --> 00:57:56,367 you leave the world a better place than you found it. 760 00:57:57,417 --> 00:58:00,739 Thomas Alva Edison is a charlatan 761 00:58:00,833 --> 00:58:04,496 who preys on the fears of the common man 762 00:58:04,583 --> 00:58:06,699 because I have the better system. 763 00:58:08,125 --> 00:58:13,199 And because I do have the better system, Westinghouse Electric shall endure. 764 00:58:13,292 --> 00:58:14,372 Good day. 765 00:58:15,625 --> 00:58:19,072 [MORGAN] Westinghouse has taken the lead. He's not going away. 766 00:58:19,167 --> 00:58:22,910 And while I appreciate your lights, Mr. Edison, I'm also your customer. 767 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:26,242 If something comes to my door and offers me something that I need 768 00:58:26,333 --> 00:58:29,496 that is better than what I have now, at a cheaper price, 769 00:58:29,583 --> 00:58:32,655 why, I'd be a tool not to invite him in for tea. 770 00:58:32,750 --> 00:58:35,662 - Is this an ultimatum? - More of a threat. 771 00:58:35,750 --> 00:58:37,786 If you maintain that fear is the best strategy, 772 00:58:37,875 --> 00:58:39,957 then you'd better hurry up and try harder. 773 00:58:41,542 --> 00:58:42,577 Time's up. 774 00:58:46,167 --> 00:58:48,249 [MARY'S VOICE] man who was handsome and clever 775 00:58:48,333 --> 00:58:50,824 built a box with a crank and a lever 776 00:58:50,917 --> 00:58:54,409 to store his wife's voice, though he made a poor choice, 777 00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:58,163 because now she can tease him forever. 778 00:58:58,250 --> 00:59:00,536 [BRAKES SCREECH] 779 00:59:00,625 --> 00:59:04,038 [MAN] I couldn't stop it if I wanted to, 780 00:59:04,542 --> 00:59:06,282 which I don't, 781 00:59:06,375 --> 00:59:09,822 because I... I think it's a remarkable gift. 782 00:59:11,292 --> 00:59:15,205 Electricity will kill that man in Buffalo. 783 00:59:15,292 --> 00:59:18,079 We don't know the voltage. 784 00:59:18,167 --> 00:59:21,864 Too much, and he ignites. Too little, and he's still alive. 785 00:59:22,458 --> 00:59:24,824 [VOICE ECHOES] All we need is your advice. 786 00:59:24,917 --> 00:59:28,284 How much is humane? Where to put the electrode? 787 00:59:28,375 --> 00:59:33,244 And in exchange, I will promise you something that I know you want. 788 00:59:35,250 --> 00:59:39,573 I will put the Westinghouse name right out front 789 00:59:39,667 --> 00:59:43,615 as the official electricity used to kill human beings. 790 00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:49,993 I even think we can get this chair on display at the Chicago World's Fair. 791 00:59:51,708 --> 00:59:53,369 The future. 792 01:00:01,375 --> 01:00:03,457 My name must never be associated with this. 793 01:00:03,542 --> 01:00:06,375 I did not provide any consultation, and you will advertise 794 01:00:06,458 --> 01:00:09,416 that Westinghouse is the best way to take a human life. 795 01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:12,161 You guarantee your assistance? 796 01:00:14,125 --> 01:00:16,491 You ask a question, and I'll reply. 797 01:00:20,208 --> 01:00:21,789 Burn the correspondence. 798 01:00:23,250 --> 01:00:24,786 Absolutely. 799 01:00:27,958 --> 01:00:31,280 Fauteuils and blue painted bergere. 800 01:00:31,375 --> 01:00:33,707 I sold three sets of these last week alone. 801 01:00:36,083 --> 01:00:38,870 Oh, uh, this is your classic spindle back. 802 01:00:38,958 --> 01:00:41,870 Oh, yes. And these are framed cockpen. 803 01:00:41,958 --> 01:00:43,619 Quite popular. 804 01:00:49,958 --> 01:00:52,040 Oh, deportment style. 805 01:00:54,875 --> 01:00:57,708 Would you like four, six, eight, 12? 806 01:00:57,792 --> 01:00:58,827 Just one. 807 01:01:00,583 --> 01:01:04,451 [EDISON'S VOICE] Mr. Brown, the apparatus consists of a stationary engine, 808 01:01:04,542 --> 01:01:08,364 a Westinghouse alternating dynamo capable of generating 3, 000 volts, 809 01:01:08,458 --> 01:01:11,871 wood chair with headrest, binding straps and adjustable electrodes. 810 01:01:11,958 --> 01:01:14,165 Burn. TAE. 811 01:01:22,667 --> 01:01:25,158 The voltmeter, ammeter and switchboard controlling the current 812 01:01:25,250 --> 01:01:28,242 should be located in the execution room for monitoring. 813 01:01:28,333 --> 01:01:29,914 Burn. TAE. 814 01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:33,447 The dynamo room is communicated by electric signals. Burn. TAE. 815 01:01:33,542 --> 01:01:36,989 The most effective machines manufactured by Westinghouse... Burn. TAE. 816 01:01:37,083 --> 01:01:41,156 I authorize payment of $3, 600 for your efforts. 817 01:01:41,250 --> 01:01:42,865 Burn. TAE. 818 01:01:42,958 --> 01:01:46,075 The only argument which can be urged against "Westinghousing" 819 01:01:46,167 --> 01:01:48,249 on the score of cruel punishment is that 820 01:01:48,333 --> 01:01:50,449 the flesh may burn at the points of contact, 821 01:01:50,542 --> 01:01:53,222 and the amount of current which can be given without such mutilation 822 01:01:53,292 --> 01:01:55,157 is not yet known. 823 01:01:55,250 --> 01:01:57,491 Burn. TAE. 824 01:02:07,708 --> 01:02:09,948 For someone who's trying to compete for the World's Fair, 825 01:02:10,000 --> 01:02:11,706 this death-trap business doesn't look good. 826 01:02:11,792 --> 01:02:16,035 Yeah, I know. It's just Edison trying to smear me, as usual. 827 01:02:16,125 --> 01:02:18,036 - Can you prove it? - No. 828 01:02:18,125 --> 01:02:20,582 But I was thinking maybe I could stop it. 829 01:02:21,375 --> 01:02:22,740 You mean me? 830 01:02:23,875 --> 01:02:26,992 You want my advice? Don't hire me. Save your money. 831 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:31,242 But I do know a man who could determine 832 01:02:31,333 --> 01:02:34,575 whether Edison has an exploitable connection with the death chair. 833 01:02:34,667 --> 01:02:38,034 No, I was thinking we could stop him via legal means. 834 01:02:39,292 --> 01:02:41,749 - You want me to put Edison on trial? - No. 835 01:02:41,833 --> 01:02:44,165 The chair itself. The Eighth Amendment. 836 01:02:44,250 --> 01:02:46,707 So I'm to get an ax murderer 837 01:02:46,792 --> 01:02:49,329 who readily admits he slaughtered his wife 838 01:02:49,417 --> 01:02:51,248 a what... a sustainment? 839 01:02:51,333 --> 01:02:53,164 This is about showing, 840 01:02:53,250 --> 01:02:55,992 what kind of a man is Thomas Edison? 841 01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,116 You just keep my name out of it. 842 01:03:00,208 --> 01:03:02,415 Does your wife know you're paying for this? 843 01:03:02,500 --> 01:03:04,331 It was her idea. 844 01:03:07,833 --> 01:03:11,246 [MAN] What precisely makes electricity not cruel and not inhumane? 845 01:03:11,333 --> 01:03:13,369 The velocity of the current is so great 846 01:03:13,458 --> 01:03:16,495 that the brain is instantaneously paralyzed. 847 01:03:16,583 --> 01:03:18,289 The subject is dead 848 01:03:18,375 --> 01:03:20,991 before the nerves can communicate any shock. 849 01:03:21,083 --> 01:03:22,948 How can you know if you haven't proof? 850 01:03:23,042 --> 01:03:24,327 I tested it... 851 01:03:25,083 --> 01:03:27,290 on a gorilla from London Zoo. 852 01:03:27,375 --> 01:03:30,913 Are you connected in any way with any of the electric lighting companies? 853 01:03:31,000 --> 01:03:32,536 No, sir. 854 01:03:32,625 --> 01:03:36,197 The State calls Thomas Alva Edison. 855 01:03:36,292 --> 01:03:38,704 Will you explain generally 856 01:03:38,792 --> 01:03:41,283 the difference between your continuous current 857 01:03:41,375 --> 01:03:45,072 and Mr. Westinghouse's alternating electricity? 858 01:03:45,667 --> 01:03:48,909 A continuous current flows like water through a pipe, 859 01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:51,207 and alternating current flows in both directions. 860 01:03:51,292 --> 01:03:53,157 Water. That doesn't sound so dangerous. 861 01:03:53,250 --> 01:03:55,115 - Not until you drown. - [PEOPLE CHUCKLE] 862 01:03:55,208 --> 01:03:57,995 Why don't you use Mr. Westinghouse's current? 863 01:03:58,083 --> 01:04:00,415 - I don't like it. - You think it's dangerous. 864 01:04:00,500 --> 01:04:01,706 Yes, I do. 865 01:04:01,792 --> 01:04:04,033 Suppose you took this... 866 01:04:05,083 --> 01:04:07,495 wicked Westinghouse current... 867 01:04:07,583 --> 01:04:10,325 the one that is going to be used on Mr. Kemmler here... 868 01:04:11,292 --> 01:04:14,455 now, suppose you kept it up for five or six minutes. 869 01:04:15,250 --> 01:04:17,707 At 1,500 volts, 870 01:04:17,792 --> 01:04:20,283 how long would it take before he would feel the heat? 871 01:04:20,375 --> 01:04:23,492 Well, the temperature might rise 872 01:04:23,583 --> 01:04:25,619 four or five degrees above normal 873 01:04:25,708 --> 01:04:28,415 and continue until he was mummified. 874 01:04:29,167 --> 01:04:31,533 And this wouldn't cause considerable pain? 875 01:04:31,625 --> 01:04:33,286 - It would not. - How do you know? 876 01:04:33,375 --> 01:04:35,741 Because I personally observed such electricity 877 01:04:35,833 --> 01:04:37,869 being used to execute a thousand-pound horse. 878 01:04:37,958 --> 01:04:40,184 - And did the horse feel pain? - If he did, he didn't mention it. 879 01:04:40,208 --> 01:04:42,073 [CROWD CHUCKLES] 880 01:04:43,167 --> 01:04:45,624 Now, Mr. Edison, there is a great degree of feeling 881 01:04:45,708 --> 01:04:47,699 between you and Mr. Westinghouse. 882 01:04:47,792 --> 01:04:50,625 [EDISON] I do not dislike Mr. Westinghouse. 883 01:04:50,708 --> 01:04:52,828 [MAN] There is a contest between you two, isn't there? 884 01:04:52,917 --> 01:04:54,873 That is not what this is about. 885 01:04:56,083 --> 01:04:58,244 I've been asked as a dispassionate scientist 886 01:04:58,333 --> 01:05:01,370 to advise on the simple question of whether death by electricity 887 01:05:01,458 --> 01:05:04,245 is a violation of the Eighth Amendment and is cruel and unusual. 888 01:05:04,333 --> 01:05:07,655 In my expert opinion, the only humane method of execution 889 01:05:07,750 --> 01:05:09,741 is Westinghouse alternating current. 890 01:05:09,833 --> 01:05:12,184 [MAN] Your Honor, Mr. Edison knows that any current over 30 amperes... 891 01:05:12,208 --> 01:05:15,746 Milliamperes. If you're gonna interrupt, do so in the proper denominations. 892 01:05:18,333 --> 01:05:19,789 Oh, thank you, Your Honor. 893 01:05:19,875 --> 01:05:21,351 - [JUDGE] It's my honor. - [GAVEL RAPS] 894 01:05:21,375 --> 01:05:23,707 [JUDGE] All right, that's all I need to hear. 895 01:05:32,375 --> 01:05:34,616 [CLAMORING] 896 01:05:34,708 --> 01:05:36,869 [EDISON] What do you two lowlifes want, huh? 897 01:05:36,958 --> 01:05:38,823 [WESTINGHOUSE] Mr. Edison. Mr. Edison. 898 01:05:38,917 --> 01:05:39,952 Huh? 899 01:05:43,208 --> 01:05:44,368 Now look... 900 01:05:44,458 --> 01:05:46,351 I thought you were gonna leave before I had a chance. 901 01:05:46,375 --> 01:05:50,038 - Mr. Edison, can I get your autograph? - Uh, yeah, sure, I... 902 01:05:50,125 --> 01:05:52,116 William, do you mind? 903 01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,367 I should warn you, there's one thing that always beats justice. 904 01:06:06,458 --> 01:06:07,573 Money? 905 01:06:07,667 --> 01:06:08,702 Fame. 906 01:06:23,625 --> 01:06:26,697 - [THUNDER RUMBLES] - [HORSE WHINNIES] 907 01:06:29,833 --> 01:06:32,324 Oh, is that a New Model Army revolver? 908 01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,241 What a lovely machine that is. 909 01:06:36,167 --> 01:06:38,624 - Do you know how it works? - You want me to show you? 910 01:06:38,708 --> 01:06:42,246 Oh, I didn't mean how it fires. I simply meant how it works. 911 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,457 It's quite a device. You should have a look. 912 01:06:45,542 --> 01:06:48,784 You see, they designed the cylinder so the hammer 913 01:06:48,875 --> 01:06:51,241 doesn't have to sit in an empty chamber. 914 01:06:51,333 --> 01:06:54,200 So I could shoot you six times instead of five. 915 01:06:54,292 --> 01:06:57,079 - Well, I suppose. - [HORSE WHINNIES] 916 01:06:58,542 --> 01:07:00,749 [MAN] They both lied on the stand. 917 01:07:01,667 --> 01:07:05,239 If you're gonna take your shot, now is the last time to fire. 918 01:07:05,333 --> 01:07:08,530 Sometimes we have to work outside of the rules to get what's right. 919 01:07:10,542 --> 01:07:12,533 It would be nice if we didn't have to. 920 01:07:14,250 --> 01:07:15,330 Wouldn't it? 921 01:07:16,583 --> 01:07:19,199 - This doesn't make you like him. - Mm. 922 01:07:22,167 --> 01:07:23,577 So, what will it be? 923 01:08:00,542 --> 01:08:02,407 [PIANO PLAYING] 924 01:08:08,500 --> 01:08:10,832 [PLAYING HALTINGLY] 925 01:08:19,833 --> 01:08:21,664 [PHONE RINGS] 926 01:08:21,750 --> 01:08:24,241 In my bad ear, it sounded extraordinary. 927 01:08:24,333 --> 01:08:25,493 [DASH] Father... 928 01:08:29,042 --> 01:08:30,077 Hello. 929 01:08:30,167 --> 01:08:33,000 [WESTINGHOUSE] The apparatus consists of a stationary engine, 930 01:08:33,083 --> 01:08:35,540 a Westinghouse alternating dynamo 931 01:08:35,625 --> 01:08:38,082 capable of generating 3, 000 volts. 932 01:08:38,167 --> 01:08:40,203 Wood chair with headrest, 933 01:08:40,292 --> 01:08:43,079 - [EDISON] Where did you get that? - I'm sending them to the paper. 934 01:08:43,167 --> 01:08:46,239 Those letters are stolen. You can't publish them. 935 01:08:46,333 --> 01:08:48,790 - Why not? - Because they're private correspondences. 936 01:08:48,875 --> 01:08:52,663 Mr. Edison, if you say something about me or my company again, 937 01:08:52,750 --> 01:08:54,911 I would ask that you tell the truth. 938 01:08:56,458 --> 01:08:58,790 That would be the decent thing to do. 939 01:09:00,750 --> 01:09:01,865 Wouldn't it? 940 01:09:04,250 --> 01:09:07,947 - [EDISON] Why didn't you burn the letters? - [BROWN] They were from Thomas Edison. 941 01:09:08,042 --> 01:09:10,829 I don't think you appreciate that this chair is something 942 01:09:10,917 --> 01:09:13,158 to be proud of and remembered for. 943 01:09:13,250 --> 01:09:15,536 I don't even know how much electricity you need to use. 944 01:09:15,625 --> 01:09:19,243 - You said 1,500 volts. - I said I think 1,500 volts. 945 01:09:19,333 --> 01:09:21,995 But if all the water in his body evaporates, then he may ignite. 946 01:09:22,083 --> 01:09:24,790 - So we lower the amount. - Then you slowly roast him to death. 947 01:09:24,875 --> 01:09:28,413 Listen. You must listen to me. What you're going to do is wrong. 948 01:09:28,500 --> 01:09:31,287 Now you said that it's inevitable and somebody else will do it. 949 01:09:31,375 --> 01:09:34,617 But just because somebody else is gonna do it doesn't mean that you have to. 950 01:09:35,667 --> 01:09:39,865 The State thanks you for your expert opinion and your help. 951 01:09:59,375 --> 01:10:00,455 What? 952 01:10:03,458 --> 01:10:05,540 - It's not my place to say. - Say it. 953 01:10:06,292 --> 01:10:08,999 You said you'd never build a device that would kill anyone. 954 01:10:18,292 --> 01:10:21,204 I make something impossible, and they rip it away from me, 955 01:10:21,292 --> 01:10:23,578 so I do it again and they do it again. 956 01:10:23,667 --> 01:10:25,908 And again. And again. 957 01:10:28,333 --> 01:10:30,164 This isn't like everything else. 958 01:10:31,917 --> 01:10:33,623 This is everything else. 959 01:10:34,917 --> 01:10:38,785 Our future is not gonna be paved with bricks but with copper. 960 01:10:40,667 --> 01:10:44,740 Automation, transportation, communication, and the man that controls that current 961 01:10:44,833 --> 01:10:46,789 controls that future. 962 01:10:47,958 --> 01:10:49,914 But you know Westinghouse is right. 963 01:10:51,625 --> 01:10:53,616 You don't actually believe that a few accidents 964 01:10:53,708 --> 01:10:55,619 rule out the viability of his current. 965 01:10:55,708 --> 01:10:57,851 - You just don't want to lose. - I have merely amplified 966 01:10:57,875 --> 01:10:59,957 what no one else was willing to take seriously. 967 01:11:00,042 --> 01:11:02,374 No, what you did was run him over with a 12-ton train. 968 01:11:02,458 --> 01:11:04,768 Oh, well, he's the one that's supposed to only make brakes, 969 01:11:04,792 --> 01:11:06,783 so, who's to blame here? 970 01:11:06,875 --> 01:11:08,536 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 971 01:11:09,458 --> 01:11:11,619 Switch tonight, and you win. 972 01:11:11,708 --> 01:11:13,790 His current kills people. 973 01:11:13,875 --> 01:11:15,240 Only because you said it will! 974 01:11:15,333 --> 01:11:18,120 Listen, I either stop complaining about the scavengers in my garden 975 01:11:18,208 --> 01:11:21,746 or build a wall so damn high that people will never even dare to scale it. 976 01:11:21,833 --> 01:11:23,664 You are the smartest man I know. 977 01:11:23,750 --> 01:11:26,992 Beyond building miracles out of thin air, 978 01:11:27,083 --> 01:11:29,495 I was most impressed by your principles. 979 01:11:31,458 --> 01:11:34,825 You didn't invent the incandescent. People just think you did. 980 01:11:42,125 --> 01:11:46,915 Let me welcome you to the reality of how things come into existence. 981 01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:50,037 We all contribute. That's what invention is. 982 01:11:50,125 --> 01:11:53,913 The salt. The grain. The heat. The heart. 983 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:57,538 But only one man makes the bread rise. 984 01:11:59,500 --> 01:12:02,037 That's the one that puts it all together 985 01:12:02,125 --> 01:12:05,037 and makes it taste so damn good that people will go out there 986 01:12:05,125 --> 01:12:09,368 and hand over their hard-won dollars to buy it. 987 01:12:09,458 --> 01:12:12,450 Mr. Edison, I want you to succeed. I do. 988 01:12:14,750 --> 01:12:17,742 But you have to switch tonight, or you'll die as PT Barnum 989 01:12:17,833 --> 01:12:19,789 rather than Sir Isaac Newton. 990 01:12:44,542 --> 01:12:46,999 [UPTON] Though he may be unfamiliar to you, 991 01:12:47,083 --> 01:12:50,871 his studies have demonstrated an understanding of electrical matters 992 01:12:50,958 --> 01:12:54,951 unlike anyone I have ever known, with respect to the assembled. 993 01:12:55,042 --> 01:12:58,580 Gentlemen and lady, Nikola Tesla. 994 01:12:58,667 --> 01:13:00,328 [APPLAUSE] 995 01:13:02,042 --> 01:13:04,579 [TESLA] Straight to our ultimate question, 996 01:13:05,333 --> 01:13:06,823 yes or no-... 997 01:13:07,667 --> 01:13:10,374 Can alternating currents operate a motor? 998 01:13:12,125 --> 01:13:13,365 Yes. 999 01:13:15,042 --> 01:13:17,158 Now anyone who builds an alternating system 1000 01:13:17,250 --> 01:13:20,663 will be able to do what Edison can for only a third of the cost. 1001 01:13:20,750 --> 01:13:22,991 In figure two of my polyphase system, the armature coils 1002 01:13:23,083 --> 01:13:24,948 are shown in a more advanced position. 1003 01:13:25,042 --> 01:13:27,249 2-A illustrates the corresponding magnetic condition... 1004 01:13:27,333 --> 01:13:29,268 Synchronous motor obtained by winding a laminated ring 1005 01:13:29,292 --> 01:13:30,601 provided with pole projections... 1006 01:13:30,625 --> 01:13:32,456 The induction is of an ideal character, 1007 01:13:32,542 --> 01:13:34,908 being always maintained at its maximum action. 1008 01:13:35,000 --> 01:13:38,492 Mr. Tesla, have you actually built the motor to test your theories? 1009 01:13:38,583 --> 01:13:41,495 But they are not theories. No, I have not built it. 1010 01:13:41,583 --> 01:13:43,448 But that would prove your beliefs. 1011 01:13:43,542 --> 01:13:46,375 But they are not beliefs, and it is absolutely immaterial to me 1012 01:13:46,458 --> 01:13:48,449 whether I run the motor in my mind or in a shop, 1013 01:13:48,542 --> 01:13:51,375 for I have built it already in my imagination, and it is perfect. 1014 01:13:51,458 --> 01:13:53,699 - [MAN] Are you serious? - Almost always. 1015 01:13:59,375 --> 01:14:01,661 [KNOCK AT DOOR] 1016 01:14:03,083 --> 01:14:05,574 Hello. I'm George Westinghouse. 1017 01:14:15,667 --> 01:14:17,373 - George Westinghouse? - Mm-hmm. 1018 01:14:17,458 --> 01:14:20,165 An engine that compresses air into a tank 1019 01:14:20,250 --> 01:14:23,322 which is taken via pipe to each brake on the train, 1020 01:14:23,417 --> 01:14:25,703 allowing them to operate simultaneously. 1021 01:14:29,375 --> 01:14:30,581 Thank you. 1022 01:14:38,958 --> 01:14:40,198 Please. 1023 01:14:55,750 --> 01:14:58,332 I think this entire room is slanted two degrees. 1024 01:15:02,625 --> 01:15:06,573 I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to meet with me. 1025 01:15:06,667 --> 01:15:09,033 Are-Are you going somewhere? 1026 01:15:10,917 --> 01:15:12,498 [RUMMAGING] 1027 01:15:20,667 --> 01:15:21,702 Oh. 1028 01:15:23,625 --> 01:15:25,866 - This is it? - [TESLA] It's Niagara Falls. 1029 01:15:25,958 --> 01:15:27,118 [WESTINGHOUSE] Yeah. 1030 01:15:27,208 --> 01:15:30,200 And ever since my school days, I have pictured in my imagination 1031 01:15:30,292 --> 01:15:32,624 a big wheel spinning out lightning. 1032 01:15:34,292 --> 01:15:37,534 Did you know that when I first came to this country, I worked for Mr. Edison? 1033 01:15:37,625 --> 01:15:39,456 - I did not. - Tea? 1034 01:15:39,542 --> 01:15:41,078 Sure. 1035 01:15:41,917 --> 01:15:44,829 I fixed two of his DC generators in one night, 1036 01:15:44,917 --> 01:15:47,033 and he called me a damn good man. 1037 01:15:48,125 --> 01:15:50,241 So, why did he not treat me that way? 1038 01:15:50,333 --> 01:15:53,496 I quit. Tried my own company and was deceived. 1039 01:15:53,583 --> 01:15:55,869 Who was I? Some immigrant. 1040 01:15:56,917 --> 01:15:59,579 SO I TOOK THE ONLYJOB I COULD fiND: Digging a ditch. 1041 01:16:00,917 --> 01:16:04,455 The men laughed at my fine clothes, but at the end of the day, I had $2. 1042 01:16:07,458 --> 01:16:09,870 What was the ditch to be used for? 1043 01:16:10,875 --> 01:16:12,615 Edison Electric. 1044 01:16:13,958 --> 01:16:15,823 It felt like digging my own grave. 1045 01:16:17,458 --> 01:16:21,406 If Mr. Edison succeeds, he will set us back so far, we may never recover. 1046 01:16:21,500 --> 01:16:23,832 The Fair must be alternating. 1047 01:16:23,917 --> 01:16:25,498 It must be my motor. 1048 01:16:26,208 --> 01:16:28,950 I have watched as the world talks of Chicago as a symbol, 1049 01:16:29,042 --> 01:16:30,407 a City of Light. 1050 01:16:31,250 --> 01:16:34,413 All cities will have light in your lifetime, 1051 01:16:34,500 --> 01:16:39,039 but harnessing the power of Niagara, that is to see our future. 1052 01:16:39,125 --> 01:16:42,788 The Falls? I'm here to talk about Chicago. 1053 01:16:42,875 --> 01:16:44,285 Think beyond Chicago. 1054 01:16:44,375 --> 01:16:48,072 Energy is as fundamental as food, as water, as air. 1055 01:16:48,167 --> 01:16:51,284 You can... You cannot say that only those with money can eat 1056 01:16:51,375 --> 01:16:53,081 or can breathe. 1057 01:16:53,167 --> 01:16:54,976 Yes, the Falls will light up the Eastern Seaboard. 1058 01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,893 Yes, there is a great fortune to be made, and I covet a very nice walking stick 1059 01:16:57,917 --> 01:17:00,249 I saw on 63rd and Madison, but Niagara is the proof 1060 01:17:00,333 --> 01:17:02,369 that one day we may detach power from profit. 1061 01:17:02,458 --> 01:17:04,995 - That is how you truly win. - Mm. 1062 01:17:05,917 --> 01:17:10,081 - How do I know you will not cheat me? - Well, you don't. 1063 01:17:12,625 --> 01:17:15,367 But the fact is, Mr. Tesla, I need your motor. 1064 01:17:15,458 --> 01:17:18,905 I may be able to light up the Fair, but I still can't move a machine. 1065 01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,413 If we cannot reach an agreement today, my company will die 1066 01:17:22,500 --> 01:17:24,365 right here in your hotel room. 1067 01:17:26,875 --> 01:17:30,618 But if it does perish, so might your dream of harnessing power from Niagara. 1068 01:17:35,083 --> 01:17:37,074 So, do we have a deal? 1069 01:17:38,958 --> 01:17:40,323 Five thousand. 1070 01:17:48,083 --> 01:17:49,368 One thousand. 1071 01:17:50,833 --> 01:17:52,698 [SCOFFS, LAUGHS] 1072 01:17:58,667 --> 01:18:00,328 [COUGHING] 1073 01:18:01,375 --> 01:18:02,410 Yeah. 1074 01:18:05,167 --> 01:18:07,249 I'll give you $2.50... 1075 01:18:11,708 --> 01:18:13,073 per horsepower. 1076 01:18:14,583 --> 01:18:18,405 I'm no genius myself, but that should be millions. 1077 01:18:21,333 --> 01:18:23,699 - May I treat you to dinner at Delmonico's? - [DOOR OPENS] 1078 01:18:25,125 --> 01:18:27,036 All right, Mr. Tesla, time to go. 1079 01:18:27,125 --> 01:18:30,445 - No, I will not leave your slanted room. - He hasn't paid his bill in over a month. 1080 01:18:30,500 --> 01:18:33,788 Well, how much would it cost to keep him here for the year? 1081 01:18:33,875 --> 01:18:35,706 [TRAIN ENGINE CHUGGING] 1082 01:18:38,750 --> 01:18:41,787 I need to shed 300 men from the gas company. 1083 01:18:45,042 --> 01:18:47,124 There's no way around it. 1084 01:18:47,917 --> 01:18:50,717 [MARGUERITE] So we pay their salaries and move them to the electricity. 1085 01:18:50,792 --> 01:18:52,783 We can't keep doing this. 1086 01:18:53,833 --> 01:18:56,040 If we win, we won't have to. 1087 01:18:58,083 --> 01:18:59,914 You have truth on your side. 1088 01:19:02,125 --> 01:19:06,243 And whatever happens, you'll know you never did anything but play fair. 1089 01:19:18,208 --> 01:19:19,823 I stole the letters 1090 01:19:19,917 --> 01:19:22,283 linking Edison to the death chair. 1091 01:19:23,667 --> 01:19:25,999 I gave them to the papers to smudge him. 1092 01:19:28,750 --> 01:19:30,615 I know you're disappointed in me. 1093 01:20:00,958 --> 01:20:02,789 [MORGAN] What am I looking at here? 1094 01:20:02,875 --> 01:20:06,288 An 80-foot tall tower covered with 16,000 Edison bulbs, 1095 01:20:06,375 --> 01:20:08,206 topped with an eight-foot lighthouse. 1096 01:20:08,292 --> 01:20:10,499 That signals to the world that we are the victors. 1097 01:20:10,583 --> 01:20:12,619 Otherwise, how will people know that we won? 1098 01:20:13,333 --> 01:20:14,664 It's an idol. 1099 01:20:15,583 --> 01:20:17,289 It's a... signature. 1100 01:20:18,708 --> 01:20:22,030 And you'll get something that no one's ever received from Thomas Edison before. 1101 01:20:22,125 --> 01:20:24,332 - Oh, yes? What's that? - An apology. 1102 01:20:24,417 --> 01:20:28,456 I admit that spending has been, well, more than anticipated, 1103 01:20:28,542 --> 01:20:31,705 but now, more than ever, it's important you must push through. 1104 01:20:31,792 --> 01:20:35,580 Whatever Westinghouse is bidding for the Fair, we... you must bid more. 1105 01:20:35,667 --> 01:20:36,873 I must. 1106 01:20:38,333 --> 01:20:39,368 "Must." 1107 01:20:41,625 --> 01:20:43,035 Who's Nikola Tesla? 1108 01:20:46,042 --> 01:20:47,157 What about him? 1109 01:20:47,250 --> 01:20:49,662 Well, he gave a talk at Columbia. 1110 01:20:49,750 --> 01:20:53,948 Word is, the Serb is building Westinghouse a polyphase motor. 1111 01:20:54,542 --> 01:20:58,364 Light and power. You can do both. He now may as well. 1112 01:20:58,458 --> 01:21:01,143 Who even knows how long it'll take them to build a functioning model... 1113 01:21:01,167 --> 01:21:04,409 As of this morning, you have ceded, I have here, 1114 01:21:04,500 --> 01:21:06,957 nine more cities to Westinghouse. 1115 01:21:07,042 --> 01:21:09,158 So, here's what's happening. 1116 01:21:10,208 --> 01:21:14,281 I am merging Edison Electric with some of the other ankle-biters. 1117 01:21:14,750 --> 01:21:16,741 You are out. 1118 01:21:17,667 --> 01:21:18,873 You know why. 1119 01:21:19,750 --> 01:21:23,288 And I'm happy to tell you, if you require this moment to be even more unpleasant. 1120 01:21:23,375 --> 01:21:25,582 You will receive stock, 1121 01:21:25,667 --> 01:21:28,033 and you will retain a seat on the board. 1122 01:21:34,708 --> 01:21:36,073 Who's gonna present? You? 1123 01:21:36,167 --> 01:21:38,783 - Good God, no. - You tell me now? 1124 01:21:38,875 --> 01:21:40,976 I was here. I thought you deserved to hear it face-to-face. 1125 01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:44,117 No, you didn't. You just wanted to waste my time 1126 01:21:44,208 --> 01:21:46,324 and get me to sign autographs for children. 1127 01:21:47,458 --> 01:21:49,601 - What are you going to call it then? - That's your concern? 1128 01:21:49,625 --> 01:21:51,286 Edison Electric. It has to be. 1129 01:21:51,375 --> 01:21:54,867 Edison and electricity are synonymous, Morgan. The bulb... 1130 01:21:54,958 --> 01:21:57,870 I do not attach a losing name to a fledgling enterprise. 1131 01:21:57,958 --> 01:22:00,324 Now that your letters have leaked, you've lost credibility. 1132 01:22:00,417 --> 01:22:01,537 - So, what is it? - The name? 1133 01:22:01,583 --> 01:22:03,198 Yes, the goddamn name! 1134 01:22:03,292 --> 01:22:06,079 The contractjust says General Electric, but I'll think of something. 1135 01:22:06,167 --> 01:22:07,282 I can be creative too. 1136 01:22:12,958 --> 01:22:14,038 Yeah. 1137 01:22:16,875 --> 01:22:17,955 [MORGAN] Mr. lnsull. 1138 01:22:20,292 --> 01:22:21,407 A moment. 1139 01:22:55,125 --> 01:22:56,456 [KNOCK AT DOOR] 1140 01:22:56,542 --> 01:22:57,998 - [GLASS SHATTERS] - [EDISON SHOUTS] 1141 01:23:00,708 --> 01:23:03,666 He said they'd keep your name attached as long as you didn't pursue action 1142 01:23:03,750 --> 01:23:05,911 or speak negatively to the press about the merger. 1143 01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:07,331 What did he offer you? 1144 01:23:08,458 --> 01:23:10,418 - Tell me. - Vice president, but I turned it down. 1145 01:23:10,458 --> 01:23:11,618 - You should take it. - Why? 1146 01:23:11,708 --> 01:23:13,601 Alternating current... What's the transmission voltage? 1147 01:23:13,625 --> 01:23:14,831 230,000 volts. 1148 01:23:14,917 --> 01:23:16,657 What's the filament on a 12,000-hour lamp? 1149 01:23:16,750 --> 01:23:18,851 - Carbonized Japanese bamboo. - What do I eat for breakfast? 1150 01:23:18,875 --> 01:23:20,101 - Pie. - So, what's the surprise? 1151 01:23:20,125 --> 01:23:22,958 Of course he needs you. You're me, but a human being. 1152 01:23:31,958 --> 01:23:33,619 Look around the room. 1153 01:23:33,708 --> 01:23:35,118 - Hmm? - Who's missing? 1154 01:23:37,208 --> 01:23:40,405 - [DOOR OPENS] - Edison General Electric Company, please. 1155 01:23:40,500 --> 01:23:42,240 General Electric? 1156 01:23:42,333 --> 01:23:44,949 - Edison General Electric Company. - Yes. 1157 01:23:45,042 --> 01:23:46,873 - Ah! - [MARGUERITE WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY] 1158 01:24:00,083 --> 01:24:01,323 He's 12. 1159 01:24:01,417 --> 01:24:04,955 Mr. Insull, these are the committee members of... 1160 01:24:05,042 --> 01:24:07,579 Listen closely. Focus on the quality of the light. 1161 01:24:07,667 --> 01:24:09,749 I don't care what the courts say. 1162 01:24:09,833 --> 01:24:11,414 Westinghouse ripped off my bulbs, 1163 01:24:11,500 --> 01:24:14,116 and the good news for you is he did a terrible job. 1164 01:24:14,208 --> 01:24:17,405 They are outdoor bulbs, so they have a life of about two hours. 1165 01:24:17,500 --> 01:24:19,411 So focus on the replacement time. 1166 01:24:20,500 --> 01:24:24,163 Talk about the superiority of ours, as if there's no competition. 1167 01:24:24,750 --> 01:24:27,287 Use terms like "standard," "purest," 1168 01:24:27,375 --> 01:24:29,366 "the most beautiful light," et cetera. 1169 01:24:29,458 --> 01:24:32,101 Find out what kind of men they are. There are really only two types. 1170 01:24:32,125 --> 01:24:35,538 The first believe themselves to be practical, but they're secret dreamers. 1171 01:24:35,625 --> 01:24:37,536 They're the ones who'll take the risks. 1172 01:24:37,625 --> 01:24:40,037 The second, well, they'll smile and thank you for the show, 1173 01:24:40,125 --> 01:24:41,831 but they'll vote with their wallets. 1174 01:24:41,917 --> 01:24:45,705 Unless Westinghouse is mortgaging everything he's worth on this bid, 1175 01:24:45,792 --> 01:24:47,748 Morgan has you in good stead with the money men. 1176 01:24:47,833 --> 01:24:50,449 So your only real job is to look the dreamers in the eye 1177 01:24:50,542 --> 01:24:52,248 and promise them magic. 1178 01:24:52,333 --> 01:24:55,370 Now, explain back to me everything that you remember about a parallel 1179 01:24:55,458 --> 01:24:57,893 and series of electric circuits using none of the words I just said. 1180 01:24:57,917 --> 01:24:59,748 [SIGHS] 1181 01:24:59,833 --> 01:25:02,495 Though I am young, I am an expert in these matters, 1182 01:25:02,583 --> 01:25:05,575 rivaled only really by Mr. Edison himself. 1183 01:25:05,667 --> 01:25:08,374 Should you choose Westinghouse, then... 1184 01:25:08,458 --> 01:25:10,949 then yes, there is a possibility 1185 01:25:11,042 --> 01:25:14,079 you'll be putting in jeopardy the lives of 28 million people. 1186 01:25:15,333 --> 01:25:19,246 Even if Westinghouse were to make even the smallest of errors, 1187 01:25:19,333 --> 01:25:21,574 unintentional, of course, 1188 01:25:21,667 --> 01:25:23,658 a visiting politician, a wife, 1189 01:25:23,750 --> 01:25:25,991 even a seven-year-old girl may lean against a lamppost 1190 01:25:26,083 --> 01:25:27,994 and be struck dead immediately. 1191 01:25:28,667 --> 01:25:29,998 There you have it. 1192 01:25:30,083 --> 01:25:33,325 Mr. Westinghouse's brand of electricity is fatal. 1193 01:25:33,417 --> 01:25:35,829 Thank you, Mr. lnsull. 1194 01:25:35,917 --> 01:25:37,498 Just to be clear, sir, 1195 01:25:37,583 --> 01:25:40,746 any electrical current over 200 milliamperes can be deadly. 1196 01:25:40,833 --> 01:25:42,243 Even yours? 1197 01:25:50,208 --> 01:25:52,290 Mr. Westinghouse, these are the committee members. 1198 01:25:52,375 --> 01:25:54,115 OF GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS: 1199 01:25:54,208 --> 01:25:56,790 Charles Schwab, Craig Cannon, 1200 01:25:56,875 --> 01:25:58,991 - Mayor Cregier, of course. - Oh, of course. 1201 01:25:59,083 --> 01:26:01,540 Victor Lawson of the Chicago Daily News, 1202 01:26:01,625 --> 01:26:03,957 and the Honorable Judge Tree. 1203 01:26:04,042 --> 01:26:05,452 I'm Daniel Burnham. 1204 01:26:05,542 --> 01:26:09,740 Respectfully, we ask that you please keep your remarks to one hour. 1205 01:26:09,833 --> 01:26:11,494 That won't be necessary. 1206 01:26:12,208 --> 01:26:14,449 - Here you go. Sir. - Thank you. 1207 01:26:16,042 --> 01:26:17,202 Hmm. 1208 01:26:18,042 --> 01:26:19,122 [CHUCKLES] 1209 01:26:19,833 --> 01:26:21,573 My bid. 1210 01:26:21,667 --> 01:26:23,373 These are all your figures? 1211 01:26:23,458 --> 01:26:25,699 Yes, sir. Independent estimates. 1212 01:26:25,792 --> 01:26:29,114 Before we, uh, get into the messy business, 1213 01:26:29,208 --> 01:26:32,325 let us begin with this most general question: 1214 01:26:32,417 --> 01:26:37,207 Why should we grant Westinghouse Electric the contract for the World's Fair? 1215 01:26:37,292 --> 01:26:41,956 Well, I guess because our system works significantly better, 1216 01:26:42,042 --> 01:26:43,202 and, uh... 1217 01:26:45,542 --> 01:26:48,579 because our system is significantly cheaper. 1218 01:26:53,750 --> 01:26:56,617 Mr. Schwab, Mr. Higinbotham, Mr. Cannon, 1219 01:26:56,708 --> 01:26:59,905 Mayor Cregier, Mr. Lawson, Judge Tree, 1220 01:27:00,000 --> 01:27:01,285 and Mr. Burnham, 1221 01:27:02,042 --> 01:27:04,954 thank you very much for your time and your consideration. 1222 01:27:18,875 --> 01:27:21,207 Financially, it's clear. We just take the better bid. 1223 01:27:21,292 --> 01:27:24,204 - Look, Westinghouse is dangerous. - Potentially dangerous. 1224 01:27:24,292 --> 01:27:26,283 You even printed it in your own paper. 1225 01:27:26,375 --> 01:27:29,788 Alternating will be used to kill that man in Buffalo. 1226 01:27:42,042 --> 01:27:43,828 [MAN] They both light up lights, right? 1227 01:27:43,917 --> 01:27:46,909 Westinghouse saves us some money. Thomas Edison sells tickets. 1228 01:27:50,375 --> 01:27:53,208 [WESTINGHOUSE] What I wouldn't give to flip through that. 1229 01:27:53,292 --> 01:27:55,954 It's like a handbook to the future, isn't it? 1230 01:27:59,833 --> 01:28:02,666 - We need a clear majority, gentlemen. - Don't you have stock in GE? 1231 01:28:02,750 --> 01:28:04,115 That's irrelevant. 1232 01:28:05,667 --> 01:28:08,579 [TESLA] No one has ever done what you have done for me. 1233 01:28:08,667 --> 01:28:12,114 The value of something isn't what someone's willing to pay, 1234 01:28:12,208 --> 01:28:15,371 but the value of something is what it contributes. 1235 01:28:15,458 --> 01:28:19,076 When we vote again, Burnham, you can telephone the winner tonight. 1236 01:28:23,625 --> 01:28:26,116 Is it true you were born during a lightning storm? 1237 01:28:27,208 --> 01:28:28,823 - It is true. - [CHUCKLES] 1238 01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,412 All right. Tell me one thing in that book. 1239 01:28:35,792 --> 01:28:38,909 Look, you and Mr. Edison, you spend all your time on either end of the system, 1240 01:28:39,000 --> 01:28:40,911 the dynamos and the lamps. 1241 01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:43,082 But what about what is in between? 1242 01:28:43,167 --> 01:28:44,577 - The wires? - Mm. 1243 01:28:45,667 --> 01:28:48,374 - Do we need them? - [BILLIARD BALLS CLATTER] 1244 01:28:55,375 --> 01:28:57,081 [PHONE RINGS] 1245 01:29:03,583 --> 01:29:07,576 [WESTINGHOUSE] The problem is, despite all the advantages of the Remington... 1246 01:29:12,000 --> 01:29:15,413 it doesn't fix the fact that you just dampened the gunpowder. 1247 01:29:16,125 --> 01:29:18,582 [GUNSHOT ECHOES] 1248 01:29:34,417 --> 01:29:36,408 [PROJECTOR WHIRRING] 1249 01:29:47,417 --> 01:29:48,953 What's this? 1250 01:29:51,833 --> 01:29:55,451 This is gonna do for the eye what the phonograph did for the ear. 1251 01:30:01,875 --> 01:30:02,955 Dot? 1252 01:30:14,000 --> 01:30:15,706 [CLATTERING] 1253 01:30:19,542 --> 01:30:20,577 Again. 1254 01:30:23,958 --> 01:30:25,038 Again! 1255 01:31:00,958 --> 01:31:03,040 [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS] 1256 01:31:36,875 --> 01:31:38,957 [APPLAUSE] 1257 01:31:57,833 --> 01:31:59,744 Do you have any final words? 1258 01:32:02,042 --> 01:32:04,408 [WILLIAM] I believe I'm going to a better place. 1259 01:32:06,792 --> 01:32:08,202 Goodbye, William. 1260 01:32:16,750 --> 01:32:20,197 We live in a higher civilization... 1261 01:32:21,167 --> 01:32:22,623 from this day. 1262 01:32:32,500 --> 01:32:35,116 [APPLAUSE] 1263 01:33:06,708 --> 01:33:08,573 [CHEERING] 1264 01:33:22,792 --> 01:33:25,408 [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING] 1265 01:33:27,042 --> 01:33:29,078 [PEOPLE CLAMORING] 1266 01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:44,413 [LNSULL] "An awful spectacle, far worse than hanging." 1267 01:33:44,500 --> 01:33:48,618 GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE: 'They would have done better with an ax.' 1268 01:33:48,708 --> 01:33:50,824 Sizzling sound. A billow of smoke 1269 01:33:50,917 --> 01:33:53,249 "that filled the room with the odor of burning hair." 1270 01:33:54,750 --> 01:33:56,832 Well, at least it happened to a murderer. 1271 01:33:58,708 --> 01:34:01,324 [EDISON] At least they'll never use it again to kill anyone. 1272 01:34:04,500 --> 01:34:05,615 [SIGHS] 1273 01:34:08,917 --> 01:34:10,908 Soon all these people will have electric light, 1274 01:34:11,000 --> 01:34:13,286 and no one will even remember it ever happened. 1275 01:34:14,833 --> 01:34:17,074 I have books so full of ideas 1276 01:34:17,167 --> 01:34:20,239 it would take me more than 12 lifetimes to execute them. 1277 01:34:21,750 --> 01:34:24,116 So let the man have his fair and waterfall. 1278 01:34:29,417 --> 01:34:31,032 Well, for what's it's worth, 1279 01:34:31,583 --> 01:34:35,121 I'd much rather have worked for you than Westinghouse any day. 1280 01:34:35,208 --> 01:34:36,368 Why is that? 1281 01:34:37,292 --> 01:34:39,578 Well, I wouldn't have had as much fun, would I? 1282 01:35:40,708 --> 01:35:42,824 Have you seen much of the fair? 1283 01:35:42,917 --> 01:35:46,159 - A Muybridge lecture, Little Egypt. - Oh, the dancer. 1284 01:35:46,250 --> 01:35:47,615 - You saw her? - No. 1285 01:35:48,500 --> 01:35:51,617 Well, she was... If you get the time. 1286 01:35:52,542 --> 01:35:53,577 Hmm. 1287 01:35:58,583 --> 01:36:01,245 Don't you think a fence is a unique creation? 1288 01:36:03,042 --> 01:36:06,079 Your neighbor puts one up, and suddenly one becomes two. 1289 01:36:07,000 --> 01:36:10,413 You also have a fence. There's only one problem. 1290 01:36:10,500 --> 01:36:13,742 You see, one person on one side of the fence designed it, 1291 01:36:13,833 --> 01:36:16,040 one person on one side built it, 1292 01:36:16,125 --> 01:36:18,286 and one person paid for it, 1293 01:36:18,375 --> 01:36:22,118 and yet the other person receives a fine, free fence. 1294 01:36:24,833 --> 01:36:26,789 I didn't take your ideas. 1295 01:36:27,625 --> 01:36:28,865 Mr. Edison? 1296 01:36:30,125 --> 01:36:31,160 Sure. 1297 01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:34,115 Thank you. 1298 01:36:35,125 --> 01:36:38,242 - I was wondering about one thing. - Oh, I'm sure there were many. 1299 01:36:38,333 --> 01:36:42,201 I was gonna invite you to dinner again, 1300 01:36:42,292 --> 01:36:44,704 but I suppose now is as good a time as any. 1301 01:36:44,792 --> 01:36:46,268 You want to know what was in the 13-hour bulb? 1302 01:36:46,292 --> 01:36:48,453 - I know how it works. - Yeah, I know you do. 1303 01:36:48,542 --> 01:36:50,533 I only wondered what it felt like. 1304 01:36:52,583 --> 01:36:53,948 - Pardon? - The bulb. 1305 01:36:54,958 --> 01:36:56,323 When you knew. 1306 01:36:56,875 --> 01:36:59,241 What was the feeling in that moment? 1307 01:37:07,667 --> 01:37:09,282 I can't tell you. I mean... 1308 01:37:11,125 --> 01:37:15,824 It's impossible to describe the feeling because it was impossible. 1309 01:37:16,750 --> 01:37:19,708 Years of work. Ten thousand different filaments. 1310 01:37:20,208 --> 01:37:22,494 When the thread went in the bulb, as usual, 1311 01:37:22,583 --> 01:37:25,495 we placed our bets and the generator sputtered to life 1312 01:37:25,583 --> 01:37:29,326 and the ball began to glow, we didn't expect anything but another failure. 1313 01:37:31,458 --> 01:37:33,414 Then something started to happen. 1314 01:37:37,083 --> 01:37:39,870 See, our best filament only lasted ten minutes, 1315 01:37:40,583 --> 01:37:43,700 and this fluke was rounding 20, 1316 01:37:43,792 --> 01:37:45,953 so people started to chatter. 1317 01:37:46,042 --> 01:37:49,830 And 30 minutes, 40 minutes, an hour, two hours. 1318 01:37:49,917 --> 01:37:52,033 Then people started to shout. 1319 01:37:52,125 --> 01:37:54,787 And remember, we hadn't got past ten minutes. 1320 01:37:55,583 --> 01:37:58,871 The boys were climbing up the walls, tearing their hair out, and... 1321 01:38:00,708 --> 01:38:02,573 because it was impossible. 1322 01:38:03,625 --> 01:38:06,992 Seven hours. Eight hours. Nine. 1323 01:38:08,500 --> 01:38:10,331 We were silent when we hit ten. 1324 01:38:12,667 --> 01:38:15,033 Just sat around that glowing bubble, 1325 01:38:15,125 --> 01:38:18,197 drunk on our own magic, staring at it like it... 1326 01:38:18,292 --> 01:38:21,329 I don't know, like it was the baby Jesus playing Mozart. 1327 01:38:25,000 --> 01:38:28,322 After 13 and a half hours, the glass cracked, and I knew it. 1328 01:38:30,667 --> 01:38:32,532 The world would never be the same. 1329 01:38:34,667 --> 01:38:37,739 I'm working on something now, something so new that... 1330 01:38:39,375 --> 01:38:43,118 people will forget that my name was ever associated with electricity. 1331 01:38:43,208 --> 01:38:45,324 I wonder if you know what it is yet. 1332 01:38:51,500 --> 01:38:53,582 You know, I think the solution is... 1333 01:38:54,250 --> 01:38:56,286 to divide the cost of the fence. 1334 01:38:58,708 --> 01:39:01,825 Or you cannot build a fence at all. 1335 01:39:04,708 --> 01:39:06,744 Your garden would be twice as big. 1336 01:39:07,500 --> 01:39:09,491 Wouldn't it, Tom? 1337 01:39:16,958 --> 01:39:18,914 If nothing else, a pleasure. 1338 01:39:21,167 --> 01:39:22,703 Enjoy the fair, George. 1339 01:39:29,333 --> 01:39:31,540 [INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS] 1340 01:39:40,792 --> 01:39:44,489 [TESLA] We build monuments to speak to the future, to say, "We were here." 1341 01:39:46,208 --> 01:39:47,664 "We have lived." 1342 01:39:49,000 --> 01:39:52,743 A true legacy isn't what we build up to the heavens 1343 01:39:52,833 --> 01:39:54,915 or carve deep into stone. 1344 01:39:56,083 --> 01:39:58,244 Rocks will crumble, 1345 01:39:58,333 --> 01:39:59,948 paper disintegrates, 1346 01:40:04,458 --> 01:40:07,416 Only that which isn't in the physical realm 1347 01:40:07,500 --> 01:40:10,037 and reaches in both directions can be eternal. 1348 01:40:11,875 --> 01:40:13,285 Our ideas. 1349 01:40:15,250 --> 01:40:17,241 They are what we leave behind. 1350 01:40:18,708 --> 01:40:21,120 And only they are what can push us forward. 1351 01:41:21,583 --> 01:41:23,744 [WATER RUSHING, WIND GUSTING] 1352 01:41:49,833 --> 01:41:51,698 [PROJECTOR WHIRRING]