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there are statements I made and when I

believed people would listen to me

at least as regards certain things which

are important for us all but now it

makes no difference but how come you are

here at all I mean in my hotel room I

haven't been visited by anyone for a

very long time which paper will you be

publishing listen as a matter of fact

I'm a freelance reporter mr. Tesla

you were once a very wealthy man you

worked with JP Morgan didn't you we were

given a great opportunity and what was

that opportunity it had to do with the

course mankind had chosen and the one

that might have chosen which would have

led in a very different direction

mr. Tesla is it true that you once

received some unidentified signals from

space in Colorado Springs I have already

made a very full statement on that and

when was that at a press conference that

they rolled off a story a hotel that was

in 1890 just one more question if you

don't mind at one time you worked very

closely with George Westinghouse and

Thomas Edison is it true that you gave

up ten million dollars owed to you by

Westinghouse young man Edison and

Westinghouse are very different men

George and I still see each other often

mr. Tesla George Westinghouse is dead he

died a long time ago I suppose you're

going to tell me that Mark Twain is dead

too he's been dead for over 30 years mr.

Tesla it's 1943 you know well you see

I was speaking to him just yesterday but

the man I really want to talk to his

Morgan and now young man I should be

grateful if you would leak

thank you very much mr. Tesla Morrigan

the others they were always happy to

speak with me but Morgan after all these

years he still refuses to answer all

these terrible things they need never

have happened I told him that I showed

him what the world could be he'd let me

know he said when he was ready I'm still

living

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the United States of America thank

yourself mu2t Bimini Son of Sam

so no just like a visit at integers with

your Oscar to dinner a service on

seniority

my niece uno de la nostra familia esta -

mulatto echo quick kiss oh no - tio

Kumaran thank you

it's all relevant data initiative our

responsibility to request even deeper

Kodama kr200 tribal cooperate him a big

welcome to the Bimini advise to submit

American Tequesta Laura Doster

born in million Croatia Austria and how

big a family of you gotta know somebody

it's all I have all right you're all set

welcome to the United States of America

mr. Tesla thank you very much all right

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it's just like magic Tom every time I

hear that voice right of yours it just

seems more wonderful than ever yeah

Thank You Katherine I've got a new name

for it a phonograph what do you think

whatever you call it it's another one of

your miracles maybe the greatest you

know Bob your old friends you wouldn't

Katherine I feel I can confide in you

I've got a hunch that this Niagara

project could be about as important as

anything I've ever done you're the only

man on earth who could pull it off we

can be sure of that

sorry to bother you folks yes al what is

it it's that fellow from France he was

here yesterday but you were too busy

now he's back again well I'm busy again

tell him to try early next week poor man

don't put him off because of us yeah it

seems like every inventor in Europe is

heading straight for America he has a

letter for you from the manager of your

company in Paris oh well ok ok I'll let

him in mr. Tesla

mr. Edison will see you now hey young

fella

mr. letter yes mr. Edison

now it says here this will introduce mr.

Nikola Tesla ok Tesla consider yourself

introduced mr. Tesla welcome to America

thank you miss it's mrs. I'm mrs. Robert

Johnson and this is my husband

maybe he'd rather see you alone oh no I

would be happy if you would stay mrs.

Johnson but I would like to talk about

can be of benefit to the whole of

humanity

if you said that anywhere else mr. Tesla

I might not be inclined to believe you

but this is the birthplace of many

wonderful things here we've become

accustomed to seeing the impossible come

true

better mind your P's and Q's Sonny this

man is none other than the editor of

century magazine well I don't suppose

mr. Tesla has even heard a century where

he comes from you're French aren't you

I've been working there but I was born

in Lika when who knows maybe Lika is

another birthplace of wonderful things

what do you say Tom never heard of the

place it's on the border between Austria

and Turkey Lika is the province Smee

Leon is the top well you know what it

says here this is from the manager of my

company in Paris there's a dear mr.

Edison I know of only two really great

men in this world you are one of them

and young Nikola Tesla is the other okay

Tesla has come down out of the clouds

you got something to show me here mr.

Mason

as you see this is a rotating magnetic

field north before it cuts the coils at

Point a and induces a current which

flows to the contact rings at point B

you expect that to start your motor of

course and there is no wasted power from

long-distance transmission you seem to

forgotten something sorry you don't have

a commutator there's no need for one

this is alternating current mr. Edison

alternating yes using direct current

you'd need over a hundred power stations

to light up the city of New York and

even then the outskirts are left in

darkness because direct current cannot

reach that far but with my system I

guarantee that just one power station

can light the whole city and the whole

state as well we are throwing the power

given to us by nature to the winds

electric power in its present form is

not only imperfect it's unnatural as I

know you will agree mr. Edison we are

out of step with nature's harmony with

alternating current we are talking about

energy and a nun dreamt of degree we

would build new power stations and

demolish old ones it's giant step

forward it will transform the whole

world demolish all my power stations

just because of this little motor of

yours but Tom you know what they called

me Tesla they called me the king of

electricity I've transformed the world

already and everything I have

accomplished has been based on direct

electric current you're heading up the

wrong street with this thing believe me

it's it's it's a dead end where you

going I'm sorry

I'm very sorry to have taken up your

time well I thought you wanted to work

for me you'll have an original mind

maybe even a brilliant one that's

because you made one little mistake

doesn't mean I got a three out of your

ear I can use all the bright people I

can get they'll be here tomorrow morning

7 o'clock sharp thank you I'm so

grateful goodbye I'm sure we'll be

seeing more of each other mr. Tesla I

hope so

so do I

Tom you're a big man huh yes I'm glad

you were so generous he's a very young

and interesting person and he came all

the way to America just to work with you

I would have hated to see him lose the

chance well I've got an eye for brains

Catherine he's a bit wrongheaded but got

something all the same

oh well knock some sense into him you'll

see

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mr. Tesla

good afternoon mr. Johnson mrs. Johnson

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is this some kind of a scientific

experiment or are you actually doing

what it looks like you're doing I am

digging a ditch mr. Johnson that's

fairly obvious then you must no longer

be with Edison that's obvious - what

happened there were differences between

us I'll go see him right away then fix

it up Thank You mr. Johnson but in some

ways this is better than the place I

left if you are really through with

Edison Bob will find something for you

on the magazine won't you Bob give him

your card and please mr. Tesla come up

out of that ditch we don't stop work

until 5:00 mrs. Johnson then seven will

be fine we'll see where our house the

addresses on the card

you promise yes I promise

has Katherine fully explained what I had

in mind for you it's most kind of you

and indeed I am very grateful you don't

want the job is that what you're telling

me

I'm afraid so do you really prefer

digging those ditches to ping on the

editorial staff of century magazine

anyone would be honored mr. John slab

Bob but it could only be temporary and

it wouldn't be fair to you

well I don't go yet Nicky stay for a

moment don't tell Bob some of the things

you've been telling me about that first

induction water about you and your

family in that place where you were born

Bleeker

isn't it yes Nicky spoke five languages

when he was only a child and his mother

has invented all kinds of things too but

she can't beat all right can you imagine

and his father was a priest of course in

the Orthodox Church they're allowed to

marry you aren't married are you Nicky

not yet if I ever did marry it could

only be with someone like you that's of

course that's impossible

good night thank you both please see mr.

Tesla to the door he must be very poor

yet he bought me these flowers

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he's working in that ditch over there

let's go see him there that's Tesla my

name is Hiram Braun president of Western

Union Telegraph Company nice to meet you

mr. brown

I'm prepared to finance the development

of your motor mr. Tesla are you prepared

to finance all further work on

alternating current as well I hadn't

really thought about that let's see what

happens with the motor first I will

construct it only in my own workshop

which you'd expect me to build for you

I'll build admissable you just pay for

it you're pretty cocky aren't you Tess

they told me it would be exactly how

much would you be needing $30,000 and my

own workshop well then quit playing

ditch-digger and get up here I'll make

out a check yeah not so I'm Daniel

Nicole

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grants machine ever lived Zef eternity

this bin Zika the says in the natal time

Arup incipient energy given given spots

leases here beta tester for off magazine

the dancin Abdullah leaked for alien me

much fermented in Atlas extensiveness

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anta across honest apologies

not assistance power min Jae Hong got at

solution ho lock you go mag Nikolai's at

the Thule say can shake it as hell for

muy muy hecho la cebolla sauna sweat

rumia-chan ago Draghi dude

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Batroc TV in urban zone a glute the

Green Goblin hittin sinner direct invite

the tag is developed that I see him

infer that noise level of all sorts of

other combination be boiled rotted

karate today driven more attention

attractive a velocity magnetism are you

related to car Zingo suits

or tsunamis

I could overlook to magnet Nepal a crazy

woman perhaps still get cheated she wore

tonight Rebecca meet up to his ministers

through an Tao to resolution in our gear

Espinosa idioms way it is vitally

territory or harmony period

reading tow a slattern

ladies and gentlemen to convince you

that this theory will work I'll turn off

the direct current for a moment and

we'll light up this hall with my system

turn out the lights

this ladies and gentlemen is alternating

current

you'll see how much power was produced

with this small generator and now

imagine what it would be like if we had

a an enormous generator that could fill

up this hole why we'd be able to light

the entire state of New York more even

than that we could have power for the

factories all of public transportation

all of Industry once we accomplished

that greater discoveries lie ahead just

as long as we keep in step with the

nature each new discovery will lead to

another and we will revolutionize life

on our planet

look mr. Tesla can you back up your 30s

with a few guarantees you don't really

believe that we put up our money without

knowing the results gentlemen I can make

no guarantees other than my discoveries

I am NOT an insurance company you must

take my word you will have to rely on

instinct intuition and imagination

now I shall switch back to direct

current

mr. Edison what is your opinion of mr.

Tesla oh very very extremely capable

engineer what could be the practical

application of his generator well I'm

sorry to say it has no practical

application at all I said before

gentlemen that I do not consider fantasy

to be any kind of conception at least of

all the scientific one

that'll be all another time if the thing

had any value you can bet Edison would

have grabbed it I'd bet on the wrong

horse

mr. Tesla Thomas Edison claims your

electrical system has no practical

application do you have any comment mr.

Edison is a very practical man I'm sorry

he feels that way it was a real pleasure

to meet you mr. Tesla let me

congratulate you once again I wish you

good luck yes so do I thanks for your

demonstration it was most impressive

even if it isn't practical thank you

gentlemen

mr. Tesla could you explain a little

more clearly oh I don't think I have

anything more to say that's all for

today thank you gentlemen

thank you gentlemen

mr. Tesla allow me to introduce myself

I'm George Westinghouse president of

Pittsburgh electric how do you do I'd be

happy if you'd have dinner with me at

the Waldorf that would be a pleasure mr.

Westinghouse call me George

call me Nicola Nicola

all right Nicola

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delicious so to put it in a nutshell

mr. Tesla I am prepared to buy all your

patents for alternating current for a

million dollars the important thing is

that you'll be able to decide for

yourself how your invention is to be

used well I will function as a kind of

money bag and open money bag what do you

think of that

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bring me a dozen napkins what you place

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that doesn't napkin so in fact that's

fine

I hope you find the dinner to your

satisfaction mr. Tesla

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I think you are being somewhat hasty mr.

Westinghouse possibly there to be no

scientific progress without some risk

people have been known to risk their

lives what then is my money to that you

really sincerely believe in the project

I wouldn't be here if I didn't

what if on top of that million-dollar

son I asked you to pay me $1 for every

horsepower we produce I would agree you

will put it in the contract don't be so

quick to agree you realize that we are

talking about countless units of

horsepower and how about Edison he won't

take it without a fight as long as he is

opposed to it how do you introduce our

system I'll be able to manage it with

your patents the point is you have truth

on your side

tell me the truth mr. Westinghouse are

you helping me because you believe this

will be a value to science and

civilization or are you in it for the

profit listen to me my friend I'm an

inventor myself but I never forget that

without money I cannot put my inventions

into practice so what if I do hope to

make a little profit by a map you got

angry I'm beginning to believe you some

Swiss cheese and an apple and make sure

the Apple is washed with boiling water a

cream here some fruit coffee of course

and chairs test to your health you know

seem to be drinking my wife you're right

I'm so sorry

you're confusing me Tesla can I assume

then that we have an agreement that you

accept I was joking

what do you mean no charge for

horsepower

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but I wasn't joking you will get a

dollar for every horsepower generated

you've got to be rich Tesla so that you

can be free and independent what's wrong

test you just please take them away and

make me down Beach's away no desert

gentlemen I would suggest a short break

those in favor I could use a break

George now why do you think Adams wanted

a break at this point come on Willie

don't pretend such innocence it isn't

chairing this meeting but one who is

more conspicuous by his absence oh yes

don't do well can you hear me yeah I

hear you Adams Edison made his speech

yet no George Westinghouse not yet well

call on Edison to speak first then

Westinghouse and then put forward

proposals umber to enclose the meeting

is that clear

yes yes proposal two gentlemen we are

fortunate to have mr. Thomas Alva Edison

here in the capacity of advisor it would

be most helpful to hear his opinion

Thank You mr. chairman

now gentlemen I'll say this but whether

we pipe water to the plant or build the

plant near Niagara Falls is a matter to

be discussed but there's only one system

direct current has already been adopted

throughout the world mr. chairman mr.

chairman mr. Westinghouse direct-current

is not the only system in existence

there is also mr. Nikola Tesla's

alternating current it could guarantee

the transmission of power over enormous

distances it is simple it is practical

it is the system that mr. Tesla himself

has perfected along with 40 registered

patents now I have here a repair that

system is nothing but pure fantasy that

dangerous fantasy at that that it's a

subject for discussion mr. Evans it's a

subject that would be happy to discuss

with you

we're discussing a matter of great

importance I think it would be best to

have a neater

national competition mr. Edison you are

the best qualified among us to name the

man who would head the panel of judges

Thank You mr. chairman gentlemen there's

only one such man in the world

I'm sure you'll all agree physicist

mathematician and great inventor Lord

Kelvin of Great Britain will the

International Exposition in Paris be

another triumph for you mr. Edison

well my electrical current will light up

the whole fair and will your principles

be applied at Niagara Falls I was not

aware of the possibility of any other

principles being applied young-ran the

whole of Europe uses my system the whole

world in fact

Oh what about alternating current well

that system shouldn't even be considered

alternating current is a danger to human

life start the generator

ladies and gentlemen you have just seen

alternating currents in action now it is

a cruel fact that we had to kill this

little dog but we did it as a preventive

measure in order to ensure that in the

future people will not fall victim to

alternating current in the same way now

we need devices to help improve humanity

not kill it I'm going to ask Congress to

put a ban on the use of alternating

current

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Edison nicked that damned Edison what's

happened oh the committee the committee

is to be chaired by Lord Kelvin he said

us some stooge that's why I victim but

listen to this alternating current used

at sing-sing

the condemned man William Kemmler did

not have a painless death after all the

electric current had to be switched on

several times those who constructed the

electric chair failed to calculate the

voltage required now isn't that

disgusting let me take let them busy

it's not their fault George get together

all the people you know as quickly as

possible and bring them here tell them

Tesla is going to torture his guests

with electricity they've all come you

will see mr. Enrico Caruso

mr. Nikola Tesla

mr. Ignacio wretzky mr. Nikola Tesla you

do mr. Samuel Clemens alias Mark Twain

mr. Nikola Tesla for the pleasure mr.

Tesla for all the pleasure you have

given me in your books I am very much

indebted to you mr. Clemens I'm glad

here I have one debtor mostly I'm

blessed with creditors is there anything

you need mr. Clemens I had hoped I'd see

a few of my critics here I was thinking

I'd recommend them for the electric

chair won't you sit down

thank you George

Catherine hello

I'm curious Nikki what is it that you

plan to do this evening Catherine I am

now considered an execution

I've never believed that for a moment

good mr. Jack Wilson mr. Nikola Tesla

what is a charge

ladies and gentlemen here in front of

may you see two electrons when I switch

on the electric current there will be a

tension of 1 million volts between them

that is alternating current now if I

touch the electrodes with my hands what

do you think will happen ladies and

gentlemen if my electric current kills

then I deserve to be its victim myself

Nick don't please

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mr. Morgan is wait-listed

he's here come to mr. Tesla

you don't shake hands they tell me what

for reasons I've had come daughter

Edison here tells me you're always

washing your hands twenty times a day

and every time there's got to be a fresh

towel I don't have to ask if you two

know each other oh we know each other

alright you also tell me you don't take

any coffee or tea so what can I offer

you some whiskey perhaps oh it makes you

sound almost human Tom give a friend

here some whiskey you know some people

are sure that you're crazy

others think you're a faker

now both those things could be true and

you still could be some kind of a genius

sit down mr. Tesla

I'd like to know what makes you tick you

know what Edison says about genius yes

one of his pet quotations genius is 1%

inspiration and 99% perspiration he says

you don't perspire enough and for a

scientific conclusion he says he don't

use any brain work at all instead how

did you put a tongue my last Tesla

according to him he says he gets mental

pictures mental pictures that's the word

with everything complete down to the

smallest detail

is that how it happened with that

brushless commutator 'less motor of

yours sincere Tom that the whole thing

just appeared to mr. Tesla some kind of

vision it was really more like a flash

of lightning and you got this vision or

flash suddenly in the middle of a poem

you have to be reciting out in the

street somewhere in Hungary yes it was

good that what he's a German author I'll

send you a translation if you like well

thank you very much mr. Tesla

the motor I was turning in a huge have

yet whiskey mr. Tesla oh thank you very

much the motor has spun in a huge

whirlwind of electricity a rotating

magnetic field tremendous energy

produced by a balance of alternating

currents alternating current yeah II got

the patent six years later and every

detail was just the way it appeared to

him in that first mental picture Adams

got the whole story for me what is that

thing you're reading there yeah it's the

file we put together on mr. Tesla I

never go into anything blind tom you

know me well enough to know that it says

here he's still working for you you gave

mr. Tesla no problem to solve for you Oh

what of it I give my people problems all

the time well this one mr. it important

maybe something you couldn't work out

for yourself who says so where'd you get

that story we talked to people in your

shop

I could have solved that thing easily

but it so happens I was busy with a lot

of other problems at the time like I

always am the way we heard it - you told

mr. Tesla if he'd work it out here you

give him $50,000 and then when he did

you said he didn't understand the

American sense of humor that is not the

reason required I am NOT interested in

money aren't you well I am

the point is that you quit working for

Edison now it's been suggested you start

working for me sit down Tom I might

finish it yes

frankly Commodore I'm beginning to

wonder what the hell I'm doing here

I didn't think it would be fair to hold

this meeting without you what am i right

it's about the steelworks in Pittsburgh

well I'm still waiting for the electric

parts arm they can't wait neither can i

it's been over five months now since I

submitted my plans to the committee mr.

Tesla so different ideas different yeah

well I guess that's one word for it you

know what he did it the Chicago World's

Fair it's all in here yes up to that

time there were no large polyphase

generators in existence I'd rather hear

it from mr. Chesser sorry well I took 24

500-horsepower generators a single-phase

generators that is cup of them all in

pairs and then hook them up so the

circuits would be 90 degrees out of

phase translate that into English it

means I made the equivalent of 12

two-phase generators each with a

thousand horsepower it was the first

World Fair in history to be lit by

electricity oh isn't that funny right up

to this very minute I was always under

the impression that Electric Light was

something that I invented of course and

now I find that mr. Tesla here

discovered it where the hell do you come

off with a report like that on a subject

that you couldn't even begin to

comprehend I just collected information

mr. Edison I certainly don't pretend to

be an educated man of science educated

like Tesla you mean he is educated and

I'm not Tom nobody said that well you

don't have to say it everybody knows it

no you're a self-made man so Tesla came

to this country for cents a book of

poetry

yeah well I never got near university I

had to teach myself as I went along

yes and the first thing I learned was

respect for the scientific process

reasoning based on provable assumptions

controlled experiment

trial and error but educated man of

science he does everything by guesswork

he doesn't even have ideas he has

hunches I wonder he's going haywire over

this they see business AC alternating

current right there's nothing right

about it at all mr. Edison's whole

system has been based right from the

beginning on direct current Tesla

despite all evidence he is convinced the

system of alternating current will never

work oh I see the man of visions and

lightning flashes feels that Thomas

Edison is suffering from delusions

simmer down huh tell us about Frankfurt

Frankfurt Germany Tom why don't you know

what happened in Frankfurt atoms tell

mr. Edison what happened at Frankfurt

Germany

a man called Olivo another man called

the hell with the names just telling

what they did they've just managed to

transmit electricity over a distance of

a hundred sixty kilometers and they were

using Tesla system

and that's over in Europe for God's sake

we've got tested right here under our

noses you get together with General

Electric I'll take care of the financial

side we're gonna build that prostitution

in Niagara right away and what system me

you're going to use what's wrong with

giving it a try but it's a useless

complication that's what's wrong with it

and besides that is dangerous if I had

my way I'd have a god damn thing

prohibited by law I hope you aren't

leaving we haven't finished our card

game just don't slam the door he does it

every time my friend and Edison's too

stubborn man Tesla he's also the

greatest inventor in the history of the

world and if you can prove him wrong

just once I won't say I'll be happy but

I'll tell you this you and I are in

business

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incredible things are happening Nick

Edison has had to join up with General

Electric but they won't swallow us up

Nick will swallow them

we got the patents Nick the Niagara

project can't be started without us you

realize that it's quite possible to get

a hundred thousand or even a million

electrical impulses per second

can't you see what fantastic

possibilities that could open to us for

the use of energy Nick did you hear what

I said about General Electric about

Edison about Niagara I know what Morgan

told me don't listen to a Nick he plays

with people like their child playing

with dolls and he breaks them like dolls

to hell with Morgan electrical impulses

per second all right Nick all right

dream as much as you want to but just be

sure you wake up in time for the opening

of the Power Station after that just let

somebody try to stop you George how

could anything stop me mm-hmm

well I guess I don't have an answer for

that all the same for a man who's that

damn sure of himself you don't look very

happy how can I be George what's wrong

Nick for several days now I've been

seeing the truth

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would you please ring up mr. Tesla it's

very urgent I have to see him

immediately I cannot disturb him if I

wake him now I will hold you responsible

mrs. Ito nothing can save it I guess we

may as well let him sleep in peace while

they still can I'll tell him later can I

ask where the trouble is mrs. ito after

all this hotels at home it'll break mr.

Tesla's heart his laboratories on fire

it's going to be completely burnt all

his work will be gone his inventions his

equipment his plans everything up in

smoke

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ladies and gentlemen America has today

put into operation her first electric

power station generating alternating

current we must thank all those who have

helped to create this power station

however ladies and gentlemen we should

not forget that without Nikola Tesla the

great visionary and inventor none of

this would exist

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the celebration women waiting for Bravo

Nick

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waiting

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when all is said and done this power

station is not terribly important it

simply makes practical use of theories

we have long known about rather than

congratulate ourselves we should all

feel ashamed that it was not built

earlier the real work is yet to come

now we must destroy a distance our

senses tell us about things that are

close by to know what is happening far

away we must be able to transmit scenes

from other places over long distances

pictures the news and the regime why not

matter to now we must liberate thought

we must set it free of limitations that

space and time impose on it and yet keep

its principal characteristics now and in

future centuries here on earth and

thousands of light years into the

unknown

excuse me place a

Tesla Tesla what am I supposed to tell

the comfortable tell him that I'm going

to Europe Europe who's in Europe a

mother and sister

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George what is it

Thank You Katherine yes no please this

way

why don't you go in he won't let me I've

explained to mr. Westinghouse I'm not to

let anyone in the laboratory but this is

ridiculous

those are mr. Tesla's orders I'm

desperate Catherine I've simply got to

see him my whole future is at stake but

why did you send for me because of

Nikola he's in the terrible state ever

since his mother died then I'm afraid he

may have gone out of his mind

I'm serious Catherine

Zito I know how much you love mr. Tesla

so do we

you must know that and don't you think

he's in need of our help now yes I admit

I've been worried about him mrs. Johnson

then open the door Zito

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attraction and repulsion Catherine a

strange effect very stimulating and

exciting electricity and magnetism

George our unique forces in nature how

are you Nick

Nik please listen to me I'm well I'm at

the end of my rope there's nothing left

for me but to ask for your help

Nik there's a crisis on Pullman is laid

off four thousand workers in Chicago

yesterday the National Guard was out

shooting people down in the streets I

can't get any more credit Nick everybody

is pulling out they're charging me with

a debt of over ten million dollars now

that's the money I owe you Nick remember

a dollar for every horsepower General

Electric is behind it all

Morgan wants to swallow the episode is

Edison I can't let him do it Nick

my company is my whole life and I

thought Nick if we could share the loss

a little

this is the contract George yes Nick I

can't let you do that I owe you that

money it's yours you don't owe me

anything George when nobody listened you

believed in me you held out your hand

when others turn their backs Thank You

Katherine

thank you my friend

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that was generous Nikki maybe a little

too generous of course you want to help

George Westinghouse when he's in such

trouble but how can you just tear up ten

million dollars I don't have a family

Catherine I just need to get on with my

work

all that money would only get in my way

put it to the right

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now to the left

can you make it go down to the end and

then back toward us

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but where are the wires mr. Tesla by

this time mr. Adams I thought you

understood I'm afraid I don't what do

you want me to tell the Commodore just

tell him what you've seen and about the

wires tell him there are ten

Tesla this little boat of yours

Adams been telling you all the tricks

that you do the same thing I'll work on

a bigger scale you can actually move

energy electrical energy from one place

to another you can take the power you

harness from Niagara and move it to my

steel works in Pittsburgh there is no

limit to the possibilities communication

over great distances anywhere Europe

even and without using cables I didn't

call you on the phone Adams let me hear

it from Tesla ships at sea Tesla

everything the human voice pictures

they're all just electrical impulses and

what's this place where you want to go

and work on Colorado Springs it's rich

in natural electricity look Tesla you

fix it so I can send words without wires

from one city to another and over the

ocean without a cable just give me that

and you go to Colorado Springs or

Timbuktu sooner you get started the

better that was Morgan he's agreed

this is really a turning point Nikki

isn't it pictures and voices moving

through the air without wires you really

want me to swallow that you must believe

it yourself Commodore why else would you

be investing your money giving money to

Teslas my playing roulette it's a game I

play it to amuse myself and not have a

certain curiosity is he a lunatic or a

Buncombe artist he promises miracles i

guy see now if he can deliver them

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if in a thunderstorm the earth is struck

by lightning the first creates

concentric waves which slowly expand to

circle the world until they come back to

where they started this proves to us

that the Earth's crust is a conductor of

electrical energy now if we were to

produce large quantities of electrical

energy and if we directed it into the

Earth's crust then that energy would

travel in concentric waves there were

rumors you went to Colorado Springs in

order to contact Mars is that true it is

possible for us to send out waves which

can travel around the world there are

waves as well which can travel into

space how are you going to talk with

them I never intended to however I

recorded certain electrical impulses of

unknown origin and these were repeated

at constantly timed intervals it's

possible they were a kind of signal from

space and did you in turn send them a

message ask the Martians that question

but you did send some sort of signal a

signal which might not be received for a

million years

therefore mr. Tesla you do believe

communication with distant worlds may

someday be possible perhaps they've been

sending us messages for ages but we

aren't aware of it mr. Tesla what's that

big pile of papers down there on the

floor my file on the work in Colorado

Springs can you tell us what's in it

it's a new electrical system completely

different as yet it hasn't been finished

in just what way is it different

how will that affect us well a great

deal of it is merely guesswork but it

might have an important impact on the

future I hope it will lead to a decisive

answer to the problem of energy good day

gentlemen I can't tell you how much it

means to me that I can once again have

the opportunity to see the greatest of

the great genius Nicorette

I'm terribly sorry but I don't recall

having met you mr. Tesla my name won't

mean much to you I'm a humble follower

of your work

I heard you lecture in London when I was

a student it's my greatest memory you've

been a big influence permit me to

introduce myself

Marquez again for Marconi there's too

much American service mr. Tesla I've

receive ideas which I know are true but

I can't formula you seem aware of such

things I think I might be of some use in

the field of telecommunications if that

is what interest you mr. Marconi then

you have chosen wisely lead you astray

it can be deceptive mr. Tesla I came all

the way to America to meet you would it

be possible to come and watch you while

you're working well certainly it would

be very welcome my laboratory and all my

notes are your disposition

Thank You mr. Tesla it's a great would

you please look after mr. Marco tell me

the truth Tesla does anybody really

understand what this is about I

certainly hope so Commodore I ought to

after all these years

let's see energy according to you energy

is the big problem of the future a life

and death problem and what we're using

now the sources of energy are not

inexhaustible and they are poisoning our

planet I hadn't noticed that believe me

you will perhaps we can survive the

poison but there will come a day when

these sources of energy will dry up and

then what the whole shebang is gonna run

down like a clock not with my project I

can give the world all the power it can

use clean power yeah I was afraid of

that

afraid yes I was afraid that after all

this time I was really going to begin to

understand what you're talking about but

this

psychic business pardon me I don't

understand these weird stories about you

they keep getting into the papers like

the the train wreck and this fella

what's his name

mr. Tesla is supposed to have told him

that he mustn't any account take the

certain train and he didn't

the train was wrecked and everybody on

it was killed that really happened

people say that it could have been a

coincidence I don't care what it was to

the public mind science and the

supernatural don't make sure either a

serious inventor or a gypsy

fortune-teller with a crystal ball I

don't presume to tell people's fortunes

and I am NOT an inventor what the hell

are you I am a Discoverer Columbus yes I

I guess he must have sounded quite a bit

like you sometimes before his discovery

and there must have been quite a lot of

Columbus's we don't know about who just

sailed away into the wild blue yonder

and never heard of again

is that where you're going to go Tesla

to get lost in the wild blue yonder or

Mars for God's sake you told me I could

reach a ship by Wireless and now you're

telling the newspapers that you're

reaching outer space somewhere out there

in the Stars there is a strong

possibility that the hell with your

possibilities Tesla keep all that wild

guessing yourself

it's just kissing Commodore oh well as

long as I'm backing you I can't afford

to let the world think I'm associated

with a nut

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you're having whiskey as usually I'll

have champagne with you Bob with

pleasure

good let's drink to this new project of

yours well do you are a new ambassador

in row boat sales early tomorrow morning

and I wouldn't dream of leaving till you

tell us all about it

there isn't much to tell what he means

is there's not much he wants to do why

all the secrecy it's Morgan's idea he

made it a condition you two are playing

cat and mouse together I think Morgan's

afraid of you it's late maybe you ought

to be I think Nick is still sure that

he's going to change the world and I

hope he's right of course I'm right

you're an incurable optimist I wouldn't

want to cure what you mean is that you

wouldn't ever want to see an end to all

those beautiful dreams of his but

darling you know yourself that you're

always asking him to face reality my

tower that is reality you would say

we're on the verge of World War whoa

what's all this about war

I hope Tesla isn't concentrating on that

subject he's much too clever

he'll invent some fool thing to blow us

to kingdom come just the opposites mr.

Twain instead of sending human armies

marching out to the battlefields we

could make robots to do the fighting

force look Destler if you ever invent a

robot to do our drinking for us then I

for one will fight you to the death

I really think there is going to be a

war there doesn't have to be no not if

people use their heads and who knows

someday if we are lucky and there isn't

war perhaps we'll be able to get away

for long enough to pay a visit to that

far-off place where you were born

talika well you see I still remember the

name I wish I could have known my mother

I wish I could have known you Nikki I

mean in ways that haven't been possible

there were times when I thought that

everything was possible

I remember what your mother said that

time when you made yourself a pair of

wings and climbed up on the roof of your

house and tried to fly you're not a bird

Nicola she told you you're a man

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don't bother me about money the workers

should know that they'll be paid we've

got Morgan behind us

yes mr. Tesla

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mr. Tesla I've been instructed to show

you this just in case you didn't happen

to see

mr. Tesla he wants to see you right away

there was one promise with all the damn

visions and lightning flashes of yours

one hard promise I thought I could count

on I was gonna be able to send messages

to distant places without any wires and

now sure enough the things been invented

but not by you Tesla no by some Italian

ears Marconi whatever well he's made

some kind of box he's talking to England

with it and I've got to buy patents from

him what if he did steal it from you

you're not the only one with ideas you

know there's a there's a Jew over in

Germany Einstein the whole scientific

world is talking about that new theory

and in Paris what's that about Paris

they have split the atom whatever that

means it could mean a whole new source

of energy

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such energy is created by destroying

natural elements that is a serious crime

against nature and one day it is going

to bring on catastrophe the world is at

a crossroads right now and if we pass up

this chance we shall be held responsible

by future generations chance just

rewards Commodore we send energy all

energy to the outer shell of the earth

the ionosphere energy from the sea the

wind and chi from the Sun we no longer

need to burn or destroy anything we

simply take what already exists and put

it to our use in unlimited quantities

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you want me to believe all this is

possible but I have proved it already

everything is in that fight all we have

to do is apply it Adams yes you've seen

always yes one single source of energy

that's what this means right Jessica yes

that's right and anyone can draw on it

anyway

the earth dr. celery number goes around

the whole planet yes power would belong

to everyone like the air we breathe

those are some financial details we

ought to go over Tesla

I'll keep you any longer I know anxious

you ought to get back to your work we'll

send this stuff on dear I forgot you let

me shake hands

supposing just supposing he isn't crazy

that man could turn the world upside

down standard on its head yes I do

believe he could it's a wonderful

prospect wonderful listen if that

lunatic can really do what he says he

can do be any idea what's gonna happen

no sir

one source of energy that's what's gonna

happen just one so anybody anybody at

all just stick it on turn up in his

backyard and okay undo it and we won't

have anything left to sell the antennas

we'll be producing the power and anyone

who feels like it can milk our cow for

free well no thank you mr. Tesla I'm not

contributing to that charity write him a

letter Adams haven't ready for me to

sign in the morning

yes Commodore what should I tell him

tell him tell him goodbye

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after all these years he still refuses

to answer

I showed him what the world could be

he'd let me know he said when he was

ready I'm still living

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