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Mad Electricity Modern Marvels: Nikola Tesla - History Channel Documentary

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    Free world wide wireless energy, death rays
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    Earthquake machines
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    remote control and green power
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    all from the fertile mind of the genius
    who electrified the world
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    now
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    Nikola Tesla's mad electricity on
    Modern Marvels
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    An automotive moment sponsored by Hyundai
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    in the 15th century Leonardo da Vinci
    designed a precursor to the modern robot
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    it was a system a gears and pulleys that
    could actually give a hug
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    today Hyundai employs some of the most
    technologically advanced robots in the US
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    hundreds of these mechanical monsters
    perform intricate welds and connections
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    then complex optical sensors and cameras
    insure
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    accuracy to one thousandth of a millimeter. An automotive minute
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    presented by Hyundai in history we now
    return to Mad Electricity
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    on modern marvels
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    He was a true American hero
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    but after a while people forgot about
    what he did
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    I believe that he was the most important
    inventor
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    in human history some his neighbors
    did think he was absolutely crazy
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    they thought he was a danger
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    to their community. I think that he had a
    different version of what the future
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    would look like
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    he's responsible for the 20 century
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    for the power to change night into day
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    thank Nikola Tesla
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    it's clear where so many aspects of
    modern life
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    everyday life that is directly
    Influensed or created by Nikola Tesla
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    his alternating current for AC power
    system
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    paved the way for all of our modern
    electric conveniences
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    he's basically responsible for our
    entire
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    system of electricity, our entire modern
    world
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    But tragically in later years
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    his brilliance responsible for more than
    200 patents
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    was overshadowed my what some consider
    madness
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    He was often seen as sort of the mad scientist
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    who was out of control and would destroy
    the world when
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    he really wanted to improve the lot of
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    humanity. Because of Tesla
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    a turn on the switch brings power to our
    fingertips
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    yet the same intellect fanatically
    rescued injured veterans
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    was repulsed by women's jewelry and claimed to
    receive communications
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    from outer space
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    our virtues and our failings are
    inseparable
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    like force and matter
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    when they separate
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    man is no more
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    Nikola Tesla
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    at the beginning of the 20th century
    Tesla's amazing accomplishments were
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    celebrated
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    but he died in 1943 at the New Yorker
    Hotel
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    in this small room virtually destitute
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    and discredited
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    as he watched the world he helped create
    simply forget him
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    nevertheless the FBI amassed a secret
    file on Tesla
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    and when he died the United States
    government took charge of the scientific papers
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    if you listen to everything he talked
    about it so powerful
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    so frightening and so terrifying
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    that they just pounced upon all of his
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    posessions and whisked them away. What were the
    powerful and terrifying ideas that may
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    have threatened national security
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    Were they a madman's rantings or works
    have genius
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    there is still a place for Nikola
    Tesla's contributions
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    many people believe that he was actually
    onto something
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    maybe it's time to look back and
    reinvestigate what Tesla was really up to
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    we know one thing Tesla was up to
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    wireless energy that could be transmitted
    around the world
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    the wireless transmission of power would
    appear over and over again
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    even in Tesla's most exotic visions
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    the key to understanding this remarkable
    idea
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    was this peculiar yet powerful
    invention
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    first patented in 1891 by Tesla at age
    35
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    called the Tesla coil
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    nothing like it had ever been done
    before. Think of the Tesla coil as a giant
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    electrical pump. This is an example a
    modern-day Tesla coil
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    we're going to take power from a wall
    outlet feed it to the base to the unit
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    where we're gonna step of the voltage
    tremendously until it comes out the top
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    so I'm gonna step back we're gonna take
    a look
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    This Tesla coil steps up standard
    voltage from a wall outlet 120 volts
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    to more than 500,000 volts
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    imagine electricity flowing in a
    wire
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    the same way as water pumped thru a hose
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    the current can be likened to the
    flow of water, the voltage can be likened
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    to water pressure
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    If a nozzle is attached to the hose, the
    force of the water pressure is
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    dramatically increased
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    While the flow of water is decreased. A Tesla coil acts in the same way
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    by passing the current from a small primary
    coil
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    to a secondary much larger coil it steps
    up the voltage tremendously
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    and reduces the current. this makes the
    Tesla coil
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    a transformer
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    much like firefighters would connect
    a big hose to a fire hydrant
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    and then use the nozzle to spray that
    Water very far away
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    Tesla coil does the same thing
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    using an enormous Tesla coil the
    inventor wanted to pump the earth and
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    atmosphere full of electric energy
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    he believed you could use the Earth
    as a natural conductor of electricity
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    and send power around the world. in essence
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    the earth will become a giant electrical
    outlet
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    to prove his wildly original theory.
    Tesla left his home in New York City
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    and began experimenting with wireless
    power and 1899
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    at the age of 43 on the windswept
    prairies of Colorado
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    the believe that there was some specific
    frequency
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    which the earth could be stroke as with
    a half hour
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    tussle believe that the earth could be
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    wrong electrically just as a bill can be
    wrong
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    was a clapper he constructed a
    laboratory
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    and tower that soared eighty feet into
    the air inside the bar like structure
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    was an enormous Tesla coil
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    for Tesla to be creating these
    electrical
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    arcsin is laboratory was very unsettling
    to the people in Colorado
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    because they felt that he was conjuring
    the work of God
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    and
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    my tapping into the local electric power
    from Colorado Springs
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    test was call will produce more than 12
    million volts
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    he often demonstrated his wireless
    concept by eliminating a phosphorescent
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    ball
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    while holding it in his hand
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    when the machine is on the entire lab is
    filled with high voltage electricity
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    I'm gonna grab this fluorescent light
    ensure you to me room
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    the Tesla coil outputs electric energy
    without harming humans
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    similar to the way transmission towers
    bombard us with radio waves
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    what you're seeing is electricity fly
    through the air from the Tesla coil
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    to the ball lighting at that's the
    essence the tassels original idea
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    he wanted to transmit power globally so
    the people need only receive it
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    to use it
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    Tesla claimed his experiments in
    Colorado were a success
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    and he had achieved the wireless
    transmission of power illuminating like
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    bombs up to one mile away
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    honey I
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    in addition to pronouncements his
    Colorado electrical discoveries
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    Tesla also made in even more startling
    claim the receive messages
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    from outer space he got a lot of flak
    when he came back to new york
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    for saying I've spoken to marcia talking
    Immersion's
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    but it's interesting because the ideas
    if you are using
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    are exactly the idea is that we're using
    now to send messages out to other space
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    for sending radio waves into outer space
    to try to
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    see if anyone's out there to people that
    men really had some idea that he might
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    be crazy but here's actually probably
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    really ahead of his time I'm
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    Tesla believed he had crossed a
    threshold improvement you could send
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    power wirelessly
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    he just had to find more money to build
    an even bigger transmitter
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    Tesla return to the east coast on Long
    Island Sound
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    in the town of four the street sign
    marks the entrance to a now abandoned
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    and forgotten location
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    in 1901 based on his Colorado
    experiments
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    stressful began to build his visionary
    wireless power network here on this site
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    be called is morton Clinton
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    it was comprised of a laboratory in
    power plant
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    adjacent to it was a tremendous 187 for
    tower
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    power from the plant was into a giant
    Tesla coil in the tower
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    underneath the tower the inventor sank
    you chance 120 feet into the soil to
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    transmit the electrical current
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    into the earth
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    this was to be the first to many
    transmitters in a system that would
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    encircle the world
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    with wireless energy the vast amounts of
    electricity necessary would come from
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    huge hydroelectric projects
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    lot of people thought I was crazy
    because they couldn't understand what he
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    was seeing what he was envisioning for
    the future
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    he was able to conceive the things that
    other people weren't too was a visionary
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    I'm who but even visionaries need money
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    so in order to convince industrialist JP
    Morgan
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    to invest $250 thousand dollars to build
    warden cleanroom
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    Tesla promise the financier the tower
    would make millions
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    my also broadcasting messages news
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    music and even pictures to any part of
    the world
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    this is the original
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    foundation for tests with tower if you
    look you can see that it's
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    and eight sided figure it had a huge
    hole back on the ground right in front
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    of where i'm standing
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    101 twenty feet down in a spiral
    staircase
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    went around it and then I went to the
    sky 187mb
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    was attacked our the tower was attached
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    by huge timbers on bars like this
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    each of the points along the side
    foundation walls
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    it loomed over everything in me area on
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    it was overwhelming when you think that
    this fis in Scopus such a huge huge
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    construction
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    this is the actual lab in power plant at
    Wharton clip
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    were Tesla work for more than four years
    trying to develop his wireless concert
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    it was purchased by a photographic
    company more than sixty years ago
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    on
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    after remodeling only a part of the
    outside lab remains
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    really getting to go inside the house
    lighting have been offered on a while
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    although the building hasn't been used
    in more than a decade
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    the owners agreed to open the doors to
    modern marvels for a rare look inside
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    Wow I'm
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    oh this is incredible I'm
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    I'm this is amazing to be in here where
    test for work
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    where he spent time with his 15 from who
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    just amazing bedroom over 100 years ago
    Tesla was walking in rules
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    very walls his equipment he was here his
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    dreams were alive was looking forward to
    what he hoped would be a very glorious
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    future
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    who
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    import it was timing that ultimately
    doomed warden
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    want December 12 1901
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    this test was working as wireless
    network Julio Moammar going
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    beat him to the punch and successfully
    transmitted a radio signal
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    across the Atlantic me
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    well Marconi's achievement was indeed a
    first who in reality
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    be used 17 of Tesla's patents to
    accomplish this feat
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    with who Tesla was not only for garden
    is the bother radio who
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    Marconi's transmission sealed the fate
    of Wharton cliff
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    well working was no longer interested
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    in supporting test was work here marconi
    already did it why should we keep
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    supporting Tesla and of course test was
    plan was greater than
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    Morgan new test for could see reason to
    continue the funding and continue the
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    work
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    but it wasn't Morgans plant so would
    1905
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    well still under construction and after
    some amazing electrical display
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    the wooden with project was abandoned
    and later
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    destroyed
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    the world was not prepared for that was
    too far ahead of its time
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    but the same laws will prevail in the
    end make it
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    a triumphant success nikola Tesla
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    the who could Tesla have succeeded
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    the mainstream scientific community has
    grave doubts
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    Tesla schemes for worldwide
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    electrification was simply out of the
    question
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    it makes no sense from the standpoint of
    the energy involved and the
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    inefficiency of it still some are
    insured
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    I believe that the wireless transmission
    of power
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    is possible that chance that power could
    be transmitted around the globe without
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    wires
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    was to greet discover to pass up
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    gymboree see a high-voltage technician
    from KBA effects in Signal Hill
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    California
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    was part of a team that built the
    largest Tesla coil in modern times
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    the 13 down
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    the reason the 13 and was built was to
    give scientists the opportunity to
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    actually investigate some of Tesla's
    wireless transmission theories to see if
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    the practical
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    2:13 a.m. generates close to $12 million
    volts of power
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    in 1998 the team tested the giant Tesla
    coil
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    what we learned is that the machine
    rebuilt its not large enough it's
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    actually
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    quarter scale version of what Tesla made
    in Colorado Springs
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    and it seems a machine that large is
    really necessary we hope in the future
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    that will have the funding to be able to
    build a full scale tesla coil
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    and prove his spirits I
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    how can it be for the century after the
    failure awarded grant Tesla's ideas are
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    still so passionately considered
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    perhaps it's because long before warden
    cliff
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    Tesla had already changed the world
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    fun June 21st 1943 the United States
    Supreme Court reversed itself
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    reading patent rights to Tesla not
    marconi
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    for the invention over radio Matt
    electricity will return
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    on modern marvels
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    we now return to Matt electricity
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    on modern marvels
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    for today we take our electrified world
    for granted
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    energy that powers our needs
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    is as close as the nearest town
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    according to legend the man who made it
    happen was born in croatia
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    in 1856
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    at the stroke of midnight
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    during an electrical storm
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    just was immediately associated with
    thunder and lightning
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    with electricity the
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    Tesla began his career as an electrical
    engineer
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    with the telephone company in Budapest
    in 1881
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    one day as he was walking through a park
    with a friend Tesla suddenly envisioned
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    a groundbreaking concept for a new
    electric motor
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    into it out in the dirt
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    this simple illustration became the
    patent for the induction motor
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    which would go on to be the standard
    electric motor for the world
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    its use for everything from tools and
    appliances
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    the hybrid cars to industrial plants
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    there the induction motor works by
    energizing quarles wire placed around a
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    stationary frame
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    called the stator this induces the
    current in the coils
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    onto a rotor
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    the alternating current in the coils
    opposes the polls are the magnetic
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    fields around them to change
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    between north and south the resulting
    attraction and repulsion with the coils
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    as they alternate
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    causes the rotor to spend
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    and the exact same idea as a nickel a
    Tesla came up with a hundred years ago
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    are still use today induction motors
    such as this one
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    the motors made of two parts: I'm the
    rotor
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    and the coil within the quayle
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    in or sells magnetic field rotates and
    as a
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    magnetic field rotates the rotor follows
    it just like it did a hundred years ago
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    and it worked as a maid the first
    prototype
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    sheehy
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    of in 1884 aged 28
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    Tesla move to America with little money
    and only a little a recommendation from
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    his boss
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    to thomas edison the letter simply
    Randle
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    I know too great man then you are one of
    them this young man
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    is the other room
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    the medicine hired the brilliant young
    engineer and eventually asked him to
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    redesign is companies electric
    generators
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    for a fifty thousand dollar bonus the
    after Tesla developed a number of
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    enormously profitable new patents
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    the ass Medicine for his bonus the
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    that a census you gotta be kidding me
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    you got a lot to learn about an American
    sense a humor and he doesn't give a
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    fifty thousand dollars
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    a Tesla turns around immediately access
    for mister Anderson I resigns
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    so began a lifelong feud between the
    upstart young genius
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    a and the established inventor named
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    E
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    Tesla leaves edison's and he was digging
    ditches
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    in New York City for a year very very
    dark time
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    all his dreams are in shambles at this
    point from
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    well toiling to feed himself would raise
    capital for new inventions
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    Tesla was appalled at the web of power
    wires strung up in the city
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    the whole system was a nightmare of
    cables and wiring overhead
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    matter fact that some areas even blocked
    out the Sun
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    the electrical system be found deficient
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    was called direct current or DC
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    this is a test list former employer
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    was a major investor in DC power
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    Tesla knew there was a better way
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    and was determined to invent a new
    system it will become the global
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    standard
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    alternating current for Casey here's a
    direct current cable
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    that would carry about a million watts
    to light a typical new york city block
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    using alternating current estas a/c
    system
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    a small wire such as this could power
    the same amount of homes
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    same amount of power just look at the
    difference the difference between
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    AC and DC power is all about how
    electricity
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    or electrons flow
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    for DC current to work there must be a
    continuous and direct flow of electrons
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    along the wire
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    from negative to positive polls
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    when power supplied electrons as
    signified by the red band
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    move to the work do the work and then
    come all the way back to the generator
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    problem with this process is that the
    electrons
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    encounter resistance along these wires
    it's difficult for
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    electrons to travel this great distances
    some also the energy in the system is
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    lost
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    in the wire all the way thomas edison
    invasion to system
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    he would have to put a power plant just
    about every mile
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    to keep the voltage steady along his DC
    power grid
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    in 1887 Tesla filed seven US patents
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    for another more efficient and cheaper
    power system cold
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    alternating current
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    what Tesla discovered is a/c system
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    was it was not necessary to send the
    electrons all the way to the work and
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    back again
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    in fact he alternated the current
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    sending it back and forth Tesla develop
    a system a VC generators
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    before tornado electric current between
    negative and positive polls
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    its 60 cycles per second
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    by sending PC through a transformer with
    virtually no power lines
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    he could step up the voltage in lower
    the current
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    so the PC could be efficiently
    transmitted hundreds of miles further
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    than DC
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    I'm millionaire entrepreneur George
    Westinghouse
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    go Tesla's inventions could be the key
    to long distance power transmission I'm
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    he purchased the patents for sixty
    thousand dollars
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    and a healthy fear of stock in the
    westinghouse corporation give the new
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    a/c system was successful Tesla would be
    a rich man
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    nikola Tesla became a citizen of the
    United States
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    in 1891 on the same year
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    an all-out current war erupted between
    his AC
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    edison's DC power it is in launched a
    propaganda campaign
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    to show the dangers OBC the public
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    they had rather grotesque experiments
    where they went
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    take animals electrocute them with
    alternating current
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    medicine convince New York State
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    to use to us lose in westinghouse's AC
    power for the very first electrocution
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    in 1890
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    from reporter called it a gruesome
    spectacle far worse than hanging
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    status and up the technique westinghouse
    Inc
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    weather was electrocuting animals for
    electrocuting prisoners
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    the thrust was this is something you
    don't want to your house
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    so in 1893 despite the bad press
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    Tesla and the westinghouse corporation
    won the bid for eliminating the Chicago
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    World's Fair
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    the first all-electric fair in history
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    medicine who made an unsuccessful bid
    was frustrated over losing this
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    opportunity I refuse to let s lead uses
    patented like Boltzmann
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    so it s funny did that come up with a a
    new light ball
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    make two hundred fifty thousand up on in
    six months time
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    like the fair edison's ball pen a screw
    banks at the bottom
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    he patented the home after now powering
    the ball through this crew base and
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    how to seal the vacuum of inside Tesla
    solution was to have a ground glass
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    stopper in the bottom on the ball
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    the wires passed through the stopper and
    he was a winner
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    manufacturer involved didn't interfere
    with innocence patents
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    Tesla was able to be Dennis and his own
    game by producing
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    I'll out there was more easy to
    manufacture and he was a winner
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    to do so on a short amount of time on me
    first 1893
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    President Grover Cleveland pushed a
    button and more than 200,000
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    Tesla's incandescent lamps illuminated
    the fairgrounds
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    it was a monumental success and ushered
    in the era
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    modern electric lighting
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    Tesla was held the mastermind in the
    genius behind making this possible
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    and his name was known around the world
    after the service
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    Tesla filled with confidence after this
    victory over Edison
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    believed AC would be the current to the
    future
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    in order to prove it he would try to
    harness the power a one of the world's
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    greatest natural wonders
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    in 1898 Tesla invented the electrical
    igniter for gas engines
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    today it's used in more than 600 million
    cars worldwide
  • 26:16 - 26:21
    and is better known as the automobile
    ignition system
  • 26:21 - 26:27
    Matt electricity will return on modern
    marvels
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    we now return to Matt electricity
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    on modern marvels
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    millions have witnessed its stunning
    power
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    Niagara Falls consent more than 750,000
    gallons of water
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    over its crest every second
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    producing enough power to generate 2.4
    million kilowatts of electricity
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    at the break the falls could power have
    Las Vegas
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    on a hot summer night the ever since
    five years begin building sawmills along
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    the Niagara River in the seventeen
    hundreds
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    many had envisioned grand new ways to
    harness the fund respond our bones
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    in 1893 after witnessing test lookin
    westinghouse's triumph at the Chicago
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    World's Fair
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    the Niagara Falls Commission awarded
    them the contract
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    to tap the polls for generating
    alternating current
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    the big problem with using Niagara Falls
    for electricity was that the major
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    consumer on Sat electric power was
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    Buffalo of low is about 20 miles or so
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    and on using DC transmission
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    was totally impractical because Paul
    repeater station would have to have been
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    built
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    every two miles they see avoided all a
    vast of
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    at the Falls Tesla designed and
    engineered a complex system
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    generators and transformers to produce
    is AC power
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    on just love
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    didn't write down everything most of the
    stuff was in his head
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    he had to do it verbally Tesla was in
    his own little world more left he would
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    not explain things to
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    other people but his assistance would in
    1996
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    the first BC Hydro Electric station for
    long-distance power transmission went
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    online
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    and Buffalo became the freemen your city
    for PC powers potential
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    te sol was not here when they actually
    flip the switch but he has so much
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    confidence his own work that he no award
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    today new power plants have replaced s
    lewis structures
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    the buildings have one of the most
    important historical sites in the modern
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    world
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    now stand like dinosaurs forgot
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    for the man who envision it all only an
    isolated statue marx's extraordinary
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    achievement
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    I wonder how many people
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    cool come by here past the Statue
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    actually have any idea
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    full neck for Tesla was and what he did
  • 29:14 - 29:17
    to shape their world of
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    today our world is ablaze thanks to test
    was AC technology
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    he had won his final battle with its a
    but victory came
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    at an enormous cost westinghouse was
    financially drained by the war a bigger
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    rims
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    in a grand gesture to keep the company
    afloat tests were tore up his royalties
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    contract claiming better inventions lay
    ahead
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    have a contract been fulfilled Tesla
    would have been
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    a millionaire and been free I've
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    financial worries to rest of his life
    this money does not represent such a
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    value
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    as many placed upon it all my money has
    been invested in two experiments
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    with which I have made new discoveries
    enabling mankind to have
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    as it's an easy life
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    after the triumph over Edison and the
    successive is alternating current
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    nikola Tesla was a celebrity or
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    and he's friends with Mark Twain he's
    friends with all manner of ambassadors
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    and
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    ballerinas in prima donna is in he's
    really kind of the height of society
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    genius often comes with a price
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    this list suffered from bizarre
    compulsions
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    week is consuming me to rescue injured
    pigeons
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    and nursed him back to health he has an
    infirmary for them right outside his
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    bedroom window
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    where he's trying to heal you know some
    that are broken wings broken legs and in
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    fact
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    at one point he actually prefer to one
    bird has his wife
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    and he says you know when she died the
    inventive spirit
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    left him
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    Tesla had a fear of germs compelled him
    to wash his hands constantly world
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    he did things in three years that was
    adamant about living at the New Yorker
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    Hotel
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    in a room with
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    over divisible by 3 home he demanded the
    room my
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    3327 where he lived for ten years he
    always
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    requested nine Afghans and beer bread or
    something it could be cut and anime
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    three times three pieces even the
    numbers
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    dishes he had her the number tells the
    received in this room was using its
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    three-year $9
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    Tesla never married been claimed he was
    celebrating
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    he had a horrible affliction against
    women with pierced years she couldn't
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    stand the sight a pierced ears in
    jewelry
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    and pearl hearings he said just said his
    teeth on edge for some sixteen years on
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    a chalkboard for him to see pearl
    hearings
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    of even with this list of obsessions and
    compulsions
  • 31:47 - 31:50
    Tesla had always been able to tap into
    was remarkable
  • 31:50 - 31:53
    inventive intellect
  • 31:53 - 31:57
    in 1898 he gave birth to remote control
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    when he demonstrated a six foot long
    radio wave control book
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    at Madison Square Garden
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    as on
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    on a quiet lake in Riverside California
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    test was work is alive and well is a
    pleated remote-controlled model boats
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    set sail
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    this is very much like Tesla did a
    hundred years ago
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    cost inside these boats for the basic
    components a remote control Tesla
  • 32:32 - 32:39
    conceived at the turn of the 20th
    century
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    a battery inside the remote control
    device
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    since power to on select that converts
    it to do a radio wave pools
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    the radio waves transmitted to a small
    receiver on the books
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    which since the electrical storm over
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    burying the full so the radio waves from
    the transmitter to the receiver
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    causes the motors arms to move in
    different directions
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    using a joystick the operator controls
    the radio poll signal damn controls
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    about
  • 33:08 - 33:15
    just was remote control principles are
    seen today in everything from
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    televisions
  • 33:17 - 33:21
    to one man military Predator drones
  • 33:21 - 33:28
    use for battlefield reconnaissance to
    satellites operating in space
  • 33:28 - 33:34
    although many you Tesla's inventions
    would prove to be a benefit to society
  • 33:34 - 33:40
    his visionary thoughts also travel down
    a darker room
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    two more frightening and destructive
    destinations
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    this
  • 33:47 - 33:51
    in nineteen seventy Tesla propose the
    concept for
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    really awaits reflecting off object to
    determine position and speed
  • 33:55 - 34:00
    not was seventeen years before the
    invention
  • 34:00 - 34:03
    over 80 mad electricity will return
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    we now return to Matt electricity
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    on modern marvels
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    on for one of the most powerful forces
    in nature
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    use an earthquake this suppose that
    power was harnessed as a weapon
  • 34:28 - 34:31
    some believe test love may have
    discovered a way
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    but SRS quake which she was a mechanical
    oscillator
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    which is basically a machine that
    produces vibrations and by producing
  • 34:39 - 34:41
    these vibrations a machine could be made
  • 34:41 - 34:47
    to rest in a with different structures
    the also later machine is based on the
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    principle
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    fit every substance when stimulated as a
    resonant frequency
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    if the frequency is matched an amplified
    by an outside force
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    such as the oscillator machine with any
    material can be literally
  • 34:59 - 35:03
    with shaken to pieces the
  • 35:03 - 35:07
    the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows
    Bridge in washington in 1940
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    demonstrated this principle
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    the winds whipping around the bridge it
    just the right frequency
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    causing the steel bridge to sway
    violently
  • 35:15 - 35:22
    in a rhythmic pattern that finally
    broken apart
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    to demonstrate the power rests on us
    we're going to see what happens so wine
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    glass
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    as a vibrate so its breaking point first
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    also the glass vibrating and use a
    microphone
  • 35:34 - 35:38
    connected to an oscilloscope to see what
    frequency the glass vibrates at
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    all then set the frequency on a single
    generator
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    which is going to play back through an
    amplifier
  • 35:46 - 35:48
    into a speaker
  • 35:48 - 35:52
    because unless it's going to be moving
    more than four hundred times per second
  • 35:52 - 35:56
    will be using a strobe lights in order
    to slow down the motion
  • 35:56 - 36:00
    now this is going to be low also have to
    wear some protection
  • 36:00 - 36:05
    as the vibrations increase in intensity
    the classes start to move more and more
  • 36:05 - 36:07
    eventually can't take it anymore
  • 36:07 - 36:14
    so as I turn up the volume the class on
    break
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    p
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    so it's all was like a mini earthquake
    and tells us
  • 36:38 - 36:44
    earthquake machine will be able to do
    this but on a much larger scale
  • 36:44 - 36:49
    in 1898 Tesla claim to have created an
    oscillator with adjustable frequency
  • 36:49 - 36:53
    there was no bigger than an alarm clock
    been routed an attempt to use it on a
  • 36:53 - 36:58
    building under construction
  • 36:58 - 37:02
    in a few minutes I felt the building
    beginning to Trumbull 10 minutes more
  • 37:02 - 37:05
    and I could have laid it in the street
  • 37:05 - 37:08
    and with the same device I could have
    dropped the Brooklyn Bridge
  • 37:08 - 37:13
    into the east river in less than an hour
  • 37:13 - 37:17
    perhaps this opened a Pandora's box
    during later experiments with the device
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    I'm there's a a legend
  • 37:21 - 37:24
    that he started up his loss a waiter
  • 37:24 - 37:28
    for what some call the earthquake
    machine and he started vibrating warm it
  • 37:28 - 37:29
    happen
  • 37:29 - 37:33
    had thing call went out to the police
    department when the police came running
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    there pounding on the door they broke
    into his way out
  • 37:37 - 37:40
    and a song with a sledgehammer smashing
    machinists which got stuck and couldn't
  • 37:40 - 37:40
    turn off
  • 37:40 - 37:45
    any almost brought down some buildings
    and Naveen
  • 37:45 - 37:48
    in 1934 the Tesla conceived
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    a death rate his idea was to blast
    concentrated beam supporters
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    charged with millions a bolt of
    electricity through the years
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    which could down fleet Savannah meet
    aircraft at a distance
  • 38:01 - 38:06
    up to hun 50 months good
  • 38:06 - 38:09
    Tesla terrified people with this idea of
    the death rate
  • 38:09 - 38:12
    I'm even the name death rate sounds like
    a science fiction right
  • 38:12 - 38:17
    Tesla spent his later years in two small
    rooms
  • 38:17 - 38:20
    in the New Yorker Hotel today
  • 38:20 - 38:25
    room 3327 wannabes rooms shows the
    cramped space he occupied for the last
  • 38:25 - 38:27
    ten years of his life
  • 38:27 - 38:32
    Tesla died alone in his room at the
    Hotel
  • 38:32 - 38:35
    they weren't even sure exactly when he
    died because
  • 38:35 - 38:38
    people hadn't seen him for a couple days
    a chambermaid
  • 38:38 - 38:42
    finally entered his room I
  • 38:42 - 38:47
    the day after he died in found his body
    but when his death at age 86 was
  • 38:47 - 38:48
    discovered
  • 38:48 - 38:54
    the United States government took
    control of the scientific papers
  • 38:54 - 38:58
    there was a great deal of concern at the
    time of his death
  • 38:58 - 39:01
    as to what was the newspapers because
    we're in a world war two
  • 39:01 - 39:07
    there's a great deal concern for the
    nazis get homeless the government claims
  • 39:07 - 39:09
    that after inspecting Tesla's papers
  • 39:09 - 39:14
    they were released in 1952 and later
    sent to belgrade yugoslavia
  • 39:14 - 39:20
    where they now remain at the nickel a
    Tesla museum
  • 39:20 - 39:26
    however many believe some of these
    papers are still missing
  • 39:26 - 39:29
    who knows what we're in newspapers you
    know maybe they are very sensitive maybe
  • 39:29 - 39:31
    they are the plans for the death ray and
  • 39:31 - 39:34
    and you know I guess I shouldn't be
    public knowledge its
  • 39:34 - 39:38
    a terrific mystery who took Nikola
    Tesla's papers
  • 39:38 - 39:41
    we may never know what all these papers
    contained
  • 39:41 - 39:46
    we do know as his work is being
    reevaluated
  • 39:46 - 39:49
    that some of his ideas were essentially
    ahead of his time
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    in fact
  • 39:53 - 39:56
    more than a hundred years ago Tesla
  • 39:56 - 40:00
    was already greed
  • 40:00 - 40:05
    in 1887 tesla experimented with x-ray
    radiation
  • 40:05 - 40:08
    that was beat years before wilhelm
    Rincon document it is
  • 40:08 - 40:13
    own X-ray discovery which one reckon the
    Nobel Prize in Physics
  • 40:13 - 40:17
    man electricity will return on Modern
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    the United States consumes twenty
    million barrels of oil a day
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    and gasoline prices constantly reach new
    highs
  • 40:38 - 40:45
    a century ago the Tesla saw the future a
    fossil fuels
  • 40:45 - 40:48
    if we use fuel to get our power you're
    living on a comment
  • 40:48 - 40:51
    and exhausting and Robert
  • 40:51 - 40:55
    this method as barbarous and wantonly
    wasteful and will have to be stopped in
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    the interest of common generations
  • 40:59 - 41:03
    tusla was disturbed by the rate at which
  • 41:03 - 41:06
    society was burning up non-renewable
  • 41:06 - 41:10
    fuels coal oil was just coming in then
    and he
  • 41:10 - 41:13
    foresaw a time that you would need to go
    to some
  • 41:13 - 41:19
    other source home Tesla anticipated the
    development of what we now call
  • 41:19 - 41:22
    renewable energy in 1901
  • 41:22 - 41:26
    be patented and apparatus for the
    utilization
  • 41:26 - 41:29
    %uh radiant energy
  • 41:29 - 41:33
    the patent refers to the Sun as well as
    other sources of radiant energy
  • 41:33 - 41:37
    like cosmic rays nikola Tesla was
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    one of the first people to realize that
    we haven't almost endless supply of
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    energy coming in from space from our own
    Sun
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    I bet you wouldn't be surprised to find
    all that today all kinds of applications
  • 41:47 - 41:49
    to run your solar power
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    Tesla also championed geothermal power
  • 41:53 - 41:58
    in 1931 he wrote an article for The New
    York Times entitled
  • 41:58 - 42:02
    our future motive power which explored
    how to utilize the earth's natural
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    energy
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    all that is necessary
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    this to find it economic and speedy way
    of sinking
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    deep shafts to tap into these enormous
  • 42:14 - 42:20
    geothermal energy
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    one cutting edge carmakers paying homage
    to Tesla's grief or site
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    by adopting his name
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    Tesla Motors in San Carlos Calif makes a
    battery driven
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    Tesla Roadster that goes from zero to 60
    miles per hour
  • 42:37 - 42:42
    in 3.9 seconds
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    using a version of Tesla's AC induction
    motor
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    it travels more than 200 months without
    its local gas
  • 42:49 - 42:54
    site
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    Tesla was also a green lighting pioneer
  • 42:57 - 43:01
    at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
  • 43:01 - 43:05
    Tesla displayed a florescent Bowl the
    burn much cooler
  • 43:05 - 43:10
    and lasted longer than edison's
    incandescent alzheimer before runner-up
  • 43:10 - 43:12
    today's longer-lasting official later
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    this is an actual address in like mom
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    this filaments Mantova carbon and
    bypassing electricity throughout its
  • 43:21 - 43:22
    becomes heated
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    and this heat produces a white light for
  • 43:26 - 43:30
    more than half the energy that went into
    this light bulb from the ski
  • 43:30 - 43:34
    instead of light and that made it very
    inefficient Tesla
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    as a result developed a lamp on a
    different principle
  • 43:37 - 43:41
    that didn't produce heat produce light
    by a gas
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    inside a ball the electricity enters the
    ball through the ends and there's
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    electrodes inside
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    and as an end there's a bomb the gas
    would get excited
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    and ignite inside lighting the whole
    space
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    within the walls of the tomb the result
    was
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    the light was brighter it grand collar
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    and it was more efficient than a dozen
    small for the modern compact fluorescent
  • 44:07 - 44:07
    light
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    operates on the same principle there's
    gas inside that's it excited by I won't
  • 44:12 - 44:15
    mention
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    and missus Tesla's principle still
    yesterday
  • 44:20 - 44:23
    which either a test was ideas were too
    far ahead of his time
  • 44:23 - 44:27
    history may have neglected this genius
  • 44:27 - 44:32
    for today these being rediscovered
  • 44:32 - 44:36
    I believe that some day we will
    reinvestigate tussles work
  • 44:36 - 44:43
    and we will discover the secrets that he
    was so confident
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    nikola Tesla made the modern world what
    it is today
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    and although it took many years for a
    lot of people to finally realize that
  • 44:50 - 44:55
    I think perhaps so that is changing now
    the legacy of Tesla is really this
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    creative spirit of the inventor
  • 44:57 - 45:00
    to you have no bounds on
  • 45:00 - 45:05
    thought he really believed anything was
    possible
  • 45:05 - 45:08
    but the future tell the truth and
    evaluate each one
  • 45:08 - 45:11
    according to their work and
    accomplishments
  • 45:11 - 45:14
    the present is their house
  • 45:14 - 45:16
    the future for which I really worked
  • 45:16 - 45:19
    is mine nikola Tesla
Title:
Mad Electricity Modern Marvels: Nikola Tesla - History Channel Documentary
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Mad Electricity Modern Marvels: Nikola Tesla - History Channel Documentary

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Video Language:
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Duration:
45:20

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