Tesla Subtitles

At 00:00:01,120, Character said: When you think of electricity
you think of Edison.

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At 00:00:05,600, Character said: When you think of radio
you think of Marconi.

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At 00:00:10,240, Character said: But there is one electrical
genius who is nearly forgotten,

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At 00:00:14,680, Character said: a man who dreamed of giving the
world an unlimited supply of energy.

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At 00:00:20,640, Character said: His name was Nikola Tesla

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At 00:00:23,320, Character said: and he was the master of lightning.

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At 00:00:30,640, Character said: This program was made possible
by contributions

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At 00:00:33,360, Character said: to your PBS station from
viewers like you.

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At 00:00:36,600, Character said: Thank You.

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At 00:00:49,760, Character said: The progressive development of man
is vitally dependent on invention.

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At 00:00:55,640, Character said: Its ultimate purpose is
the complete mastery of mind

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At 00:01:00,000, Character said: over the material world,

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At 00:01:02,320, Character said: the harnessing of the forces
of nature to human needs.

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At 00:01:08,600, Character said: Nikola Tesla, 1919

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At 00:01:15,520, Character said: This is the story of a modern Prometheus

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At 00:01:18,440, Character said: who changed the world with electricity.

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At 00:01:21,600, Character said: It was Nikola Tesla who captured
the power of Niagara Falls

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At 00:01:25,560, Character said: with his alternating current system
and made it possible

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At 00:01:29,800, Character said: to transmit electricity
to all of America and the world.

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At 00:01:35,560, Character said: It was Tesla who patented the
technology for wireless communications

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At 00:01:40,680, Character said: that is used in all radio
and television broadcasting.

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At 00:01:45,760, Character said: His incredible legacy can be seen
in everything from remote control

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At 00:01:51,080, Character said: to neon and fluorescent lighting

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At 00:01:54,080, Character said: X-rays

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At 00:01:55,600, Character said: guided missiles

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At 00:01:58,520, Character said: and even the Strategic
Defense Initiative.

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At 00:02:03,280, Character said: Yet somehow history has
overlooked this remarkable man.

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At 00:02:08,720, Character said: Tesla was indeed a genius
of the first magnitude.

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At 00:02:11,000, Character said: He was a technological visionary.

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At 00:02:13,920, Character said: He could envision great
things and make them work.

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At 00:02:19,320, Character said: He was a foreigner,

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At 00:02:20,560, Character said: an immigrant who arrived in
America with only his dreams.

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At 00:02:26,320, Character said: A proud and sometimes arrogant man,

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At 00:02:29,480, Character said: he worked and locked horns with some
of the most powerful people of his day.

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At 00:02:35,520, Character said: Thomas Edison, who resented his ideas

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At 00:02:41,440, Character said: Guglielmo Marconi, who
capitalized on his inventions

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At 00:02:47,880, Character said: George Westinghouse, who created
the Westinghouse Electric Company

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At 00:02:52,280, Character said: with Tesla's patents

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At 00:02:56,680, Character said: and the great financier,
J. Pierpont Morgan,

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At 00:03:00,360, Character said: who supported and then abandoned him.

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At 00:03:06,560, Character said: At the height of his career, Tesla was one
of the most famous men in the world.

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At 00:03:13,200, Character said: His inventions helped America grow
into a powerful industrial nation.

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At 00:03:18,560, Character said: His ideas created
billion-dollar corporations.

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At 00:03:23,800, Character said: But Tesla was not a practical man.

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At 00:03:26,960, Character said: Always driven toward the
next great breakthrough

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At 00:03:29,960, Character said: he failed to protect his
commercial interests.

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At 00:03:33,720, Character said: In the end, others made fortunes
with his inventions

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At 00:03:37,480, Character said: and he wound up
penniless and rejected.

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At 00:03:41,920, Character said: Money does not mean to me
what it does to other men.

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At 00:03:46,400, Character said: All my money has been
invested in inventions

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At 00:03:49,920, Character said: to make man's life a little easier.

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At 00:03:54,600, Character said: He was a visionary genius.
There aren't many of them,

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At 00:03:59,640, Character said: and he was willing to give
his life to his visions.

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At 00:04:03,520, Character said: We have to evolve means

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At 00:04:05,520, Character said: for obtaining energy from stores
that are forever inexhaustible.

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At 00:04:11,840, Character said: What I intend to show you now,
step-by-step,

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At 00:04:16,200, Character said: is how I finally reached my dream.

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At 00:04:37,880, Character said: This is the house in which,
by coincidence bizarre,

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At 00:04:41,880, Character said: I was born on the stroke of midnight

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At 00:04:44,740, Character said: between July 9 and 10, 1856.

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At 00:04:49,040, Character said: A fierce electrical storm
raged that night.

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At 00:04:54,560, Character said: Nikola Tesla was born of Serbian
parents on the eastern edge

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At 00:04:58,640, Character said: of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
in what is today Croatia.

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At 00:05:04,680, Character said: His father, Milutin, was an
Orthodox priest

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At 00:05:08,120, Character said: who expected his son to follow
him in the clergy.

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At 00:05:12,120, Character said: There were only two choices
for children in those days

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At 00:05:15,320, Character said: one being to go in the army and
the other being to become a priest.

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At 00:05:20,440, Character said: Tesla was not attracted by
either of them,

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At 00:05:23,400, Character said: which was very distressing
to his father.

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At 00:05:27,640, Character said: My father was a very erudite man.

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At 00:05:30,680, Character said: The training he gave me comprised
of guessing one another's thoughts

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At 00:05:35,440, Character said: and repeating long passages of verse.

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At 00:05:41,960, Character said: My mother descended from one of the
oldest Serbian families in the country.

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At 00:05:47,480, Character said: She invented and constructed
all kinds of tools and devices

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At 00:05:51,880, Character said: and wove the finest designs
from thread.

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At 00:05:55,960, Character said: Her fingers were nimble enough
to tie three knots in an eyelash.

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At 00:06:04,800, Character said: Early on, Tesla began to demonstrate
an extraordinary imagination.

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At 00:06:11,200, Character said: In my boyhood I suffered from
a peculiar affliction

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At 00:06:15,520, Character said: due to the appearance of images

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At 00:06:18,200, Character said: often accompanied by
strong flashes of light.

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At 00:06:21,720, Character said: I was quite unable to
distinguish whether what
I saw was tangible or not.

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At 00:06:28,520, Character said: To give an example, I was
fascinated by a description of Niagara

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At 00:06:34,200, Character said: and I pictured in my imagination
a big wheel run by the falls.

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At 00:06:41,920, Character said: I told my uncle that one day
I would go to America

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At 00:06:46,440, Character said: and carry out this scheme.

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At 00:06:51,120, Character said: Then, at the age of 17, while
preparing for the seminary,

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At 00:06:55,960, Character said: Tesla contracted cholera and a brush
with death changed his life forever.

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At 00:07:03,360, Character said: In one of the spells, which
was thought to be my last,

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At 00:07:06,400, Character said: my father rushed into the room.

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At 00:07:08,880, Character said: Perhaps, I said, I may get well if
you will let me study engineering.

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At 00:07:14,440, Character said: You will go to the best technical
institution in the world,

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At 00:07:18,480, Character said: he solemnly said.

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At 00:07:21,480, Character said: I came to life,
like another Lazarus,

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At 00:07:25,240, Character said: to the utter amazement
of everyone.

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At 00:07:32,040, Character said: In 1877, at the age of 21,

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At 00:07:35,870, Character said: I travelled to Graz, Austria
to begin my college education.

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At 00:07:40,680, Character said: Here I quickly became obsessed
with the science of electricity.

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At 00:07:46,960, Character said: I wanted to know more of
this wonderful force.

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At 00:07:51,600, Character said: Every spark produced a
thousand echoes in my brain.

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At 00:07:58,560, Character said: In 1831, in England,

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At 00:08:01,360, Character said: Michael Faraday had discovered the
principal of electro-magnetic induction,

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At 00:08:05,800, Character said: which made it possible to
generate electricity.

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At 00:08:09,560, Character said: Faraday discovered that if
you have an electric circuit

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At 00:08:13,280, Character said: in a changing magnetic field,
it would induce an electric
current to run in the wire.

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At 00:08:17,260, Character said: So this was the invention of the
method of inducing, of creating,

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At 00:08:20,360, Character said: oscillating or AC electric currents.
And it was that invention that Tesla

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At 00:08:25,480, Character said: later harnessed into the electrical
system that drives our civilization.

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At 00:08:30,440, Character said: Early electric motors operated
on direct current electricity

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At 00:08:34,760, Character said: but required a system of
sparking connections to induce
a rotary effect in the machine.

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At 00:08:41,640, Character said: I remarked to my professor that
the design of generators and motors

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At 00:08:46,040, Character said: could be greatly improved by
using currents that alternated.

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At 00:08:52,760, Character said: He embarrassed me, greatly,
in front of my classmates saying:

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At 00:08:57,280, Character said: Mr. Tesla...