Mad Electricity Modern Marvels: Nikola Tesla - History Channel Documentary
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0:01 - 0:06Free world wide wireless energy, death rays
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0:06 - 0:08Earthquake machines
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0:08 - 0:14remote control and green power
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0:14 - 0:17all from the fertile mind of the genius
who electrified the world -
0:17 - 0:20now
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0:20 - 0:27Nikola Tesla's mad electricity on
Modern Marvels -
0:37 - 0:40An automotive moment sponsored by Hyundai
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0:40 - 0:44in the 15th century Leonardo da Vinci
designed a precursor to the modern robot -
0:44 - 0:48it was a system a gears and pulleys that
could actually give a hug -
0:48 - 0:52today Hyundai employs some of the most
technologically advanced robots in the US -
0:52 - 0:52
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0:52 - 0:57hundreds of these mechanical monsters
perform intricate welds and connections -
0:57 - 1:00then complex optical sensors and cameras
insure -
1:00 - 1:04accuracy to one thousandth of a millimeter. An automotive minute
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1:04 - 1:10presented by Hyundai in history we now
return to Mad Electricity -
1:10 - 1:13on modern marvels
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1:13 - 1:17He was a true American hero
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1:17 - 1:21but after a while people forgot about
what he did -
1:21 - 1:24I believe that he was the most important
inventor -
1:24 - 1:28in human history some his neighbors
did think he was absolutely crazy -
1:28 - 1:29they thought he was a danger
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1:29 - 1:33to their community. I think that he had a
different version of what the future -
1:33 - 1:35would look like
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1:35 - 1:42he's responsible for the 20 century
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1:46 - 1:51for the power to change night into day
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1:51 - 1:53thank Nikola Tesla
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1:53 - 1:56it's clear where so many aspects of
modern life -
1:56 - 2:03everyday life that is directly
Influensed or created by Nikola Tesla -
2:03 - 2:06his alternating current for AC power
system -
2:06 - 2:10paved the way for all of our modern
electric conveniences -
2:10 - 2:13he's basically responsible for our
entire -
2:13 - 2:16system of electricity, our entire modern
world -
2:16 - 2:20But tragically in later years
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2:20 - 2:24his brilliance responsible for more than
200 patents -
2:24 - 2:27was overshadowed my what some consider
madness -
2:27 - 2:30He was often seen as sort of the mad scientist
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2:30 - 2:34who was out of control and would destroy
the world when -
2:34 - 2:38he really wanted to improve the lot of
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2:38 - 2:41humanity. Because of Tesla
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2:41 - 2:46a turn on the switch brings power to our
fingertips -
2:46 - 2:50yet the same intellect fanatically
rescued injured veterans -
2:50 - 2:55was repulsed by women's jewelry and claimed to
receive communications -
2:55 - 2:59from outer space
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2:59 - 3:02our virtues and our failings are
inseparable -
3:02 - 3:06like force and matter
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3:06 - 3:07when they separate
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3:07 - 3:10man is no more
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3:10 - 3:15Nikola Tesla
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3:15 - 3:20at the beginning of the 20th century
Tesla's amazing accomplishments were -
3:20 - 3:22celebrated
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3:22 - 3:25but he died in 1943 at the New Yorker
Hotel -
3:25 - 3:30in this small room virtually destitute
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3:30 - 3:32and discredited
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3:32 - 3:38as he watched the world he helped create
simply forget him -
3:39 - 3:44nevertheless the FBI amassed a secret
file on Tesla -
3:44 - 3:48and when he died the United States
government took charge of the scientific papers -
3:49 - 3:53if you listen to everything he talked
about it so powerful -
3:53 - 3:57so frightening and so terrifying
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3:57 - 4:01that they just pounced upon all of his
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4:01 - 4:06posessions and whisked them away. What were the
powerful and terrifying ideas that may -
4:06 - 4:08have threatened national security
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4:08 - 4:13Were they a madman's rantings or works
have genius -
4:13 - 4:16there is still a place for Nikola
Tesla's contributions -
4:16 - 4:19many people believe that he was actually
onto something -
4:19 - 4:23maybe it's time to look back and
reinvestigate what Tesla was really up to -
4:23 - 4:27we know one thing Tesla was up to
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4:27 - 4:32wireless energy that could be transmitted
around the world -
4:32 - 4:35the wireless transmission of power would
appear over and over again -
4:35 - 4:39even in Tesla's most exotic visions
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4:39 - 4:43the key to understanding this remarkable
idea -
4:43 - 4:46was this peculiar yet powerful
invention -
4:46 - 4:52first patented in 1891 by Tesla at age
35 -
4:52 - 4:57called the Tesla coil
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4:57 - 5:01nothing like it had ever been done
before. Think of the Tesla coil as a giant -
5:01 - 5:05electrical pump. This is an example a
modern-day Tesla coil -
5:05 - 5:09we're going to take power from a wall
outlet feed it to the base to the unit -
5:09 - 5:13where we're gonna step of the voltage
tremendously until it comes out the top -
5:13 - 5:17so I'm gonna step back we're gonna take
a look -
5:21 - 5:26This Tesla coil steps up standard
voltage from a wall outlet 120 volts -
5:26 - 5:29to more than 500,000 volts
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5:29 - 5:34imagine electricity flowing in a
wire -
5:34 - 5:37the same way as water pumped thru a hose
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5:37 - 5:42the current can be likened to the
flow of water, the voltage can be likened -
5:42 - 5:44to water pressure
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5:44 - 5:47If a nozzle is attached to the hose, the
force of the water pressure is -
5:47 - 5:49dramatically increased
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5:49 - 5:54While the flow of water is decreased. A Tesla coil acts in the same way
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5:54 - 5:58by passing the current from a small primary
coil -
5:58 - 6:03to a secondary much larger coil it steps
up the voltage tremendously -
6:03 - 6:07and reduces the current. this makes the
Tesla coil -
6:07 - 6:10a transformer
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6:10 - 6:14much like firefighters would connect
a big hose to a fire hydrant -
6:14 - 6:17and then use the nozzle to spray that
Water very far away -
6:17 - 6:21Tesla coil does the same thing
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6:21 - 6:25using an enormous Tesla coil the
inventor wanted to pump the earth and -
6:25 - 6:28atmosphere full of electric energy
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6:28 - 6:31he believed you could use the Earth
as a natural conductor of electricity -
6:31 - 6:35and send power around the world. in essence
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6:35 - 6:41the earth will become a giant electrical
outlet -
6:41 - 6:45to prove his wildly original theory.
Tesla left his home in New York City -
6:45 - 6:49and began experimenting with wireless
power and 1899 -
6:49 - 6:56at the age of 43 on the windswept
prairies of Colorado -
6:56 - 6:59the believe that there was some specific
frequency -
6:59 - 7:03which the earth could be stroke as with
a half hour -
7:03 - 7:07tussle believe that the earth could be
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7:07 - 7:11wrong electrically just as a bill can be
wrong -
7:11 - 7:15was a clapper he constructed a
laboratory -
7:15 - 7:21and tower that soared eighty feet into
the air inside the bar like structure -
7:21 - 7:23was an enormous Tesla coil
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7:23 - 7:26for Tesla to be creating these
electrical -
7:26 - 7:31arcsin is laboratory was very unsettling
to the people in Colorado -
7:31 - 7:36because they felt that he was conjuring
the work of God -
7:36 - 7:40and
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7:40 - 7:43my tapping into the local electric power
from Colorado Springs -
7:43 - 7:48test was call will produce more than 12
million volts -
7:48 - 7:52he often demonstrated his wireless
concept by eliminating a phosphorescent -
7:52 - 7:53ball
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7:53 - 7:56while holding it in his hand
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7:56 - 8:01when the machine is on the entire lab is
filled with high voltage electricity -
8:01 - 8:08I'm gonna grab this fluorescent light
ensure you to me room -
8:11 - 8:15the Tesla coil outputs electric energy
without harming humans -
8:15 - 8:21similar to the way transmission towers
bombard us with radio waves -
8:21 - 8:25what you're seeing is electricity fly
through the air from the Tesla coil -
8:25 - 8:29to the ball lighting at that's the
essence the tassels original idea -
8:29 - 8:33he wanted to transmit power globally so
the people need only receive it -
8:33 - 8:36to use it
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8:36 - 8:40Tesla claimed his experiments in
Colorado were a success -
8:40 - 8:43and he had achieved the wireless
transmission of power illuminating like -
8:43 - 8:45bombs up to one mile away
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8:45 - 8:49honey I
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8:49 - 8:53in addition to pronouncements his
Colorado electrical discoveries -
8:53 - 8:58Tesla also made in even more startling
claim the receive messages -
8:58 - 9:01from outer space he got a lot of flak
when he came back to new york -
9:01 - 9:04for saying I've spoken to marcia talking
Immersion's -
9:04 - 9:08but it's interesting because the ideas
if you are using -
9:08 - 9:12are exactly the idea is that we're using
now to send messages out to other space -
9:12 - 9:15for sending radio waves into outer space
to try to -
9:15 - 9:19see if anyone's out there to people that
men really had some idea that he might -
9:19 - 9:21be crazy but here's actually probably
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9:21 - 9:25really ahead of his time I'm
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9:25 - 9:29Tesla believed he had crossed a
threshold improvement you could send -
9:29 - 9:31power wirelessly
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9:31 - 9:38he just had to find more money to build
an even bigger transmitter -
9:41 - 9:46Tesla return to the east coast on Long
Island Sound -
9:46 - 9:50in the town of four the street sign
marks the entrance to a now abandoned -
9:50 - 9:54and forgotten location
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9:54 - 9:57in 1901 based on his Colorado
experiments -
9:57 - 10:04stressful began to build his visionary
wireless power network here on this site -
10:04 - 10:09be called is morton Clinton
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10:09 - 10:13it was comprised of a laboratory in
power plant -
10:13 - 10:19adjacent to it was a tremendous 187 for
tower -
10:19 - 10:24power from the plant was into a giant
Tesla coil in the tower -
10:24 - 10:30underneath the tower the inventor sank
you chance 120 feet into the soil to -
10:30 - 10:31transmit the electrical current
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10:31 - 10:35into the earth
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10:35 - 10:38this was to be the first to many
transmitters in a system that would -
10:38 - 10:39encircle the world
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10:39 - 10:44with wireless energy the vast amounts of
electricity necessary would come from -
10:44 - 10:47huge hydroelectric projects
-
10:47 - 10:50lot of people thought I was crazy
because they couldn't understand what he -
10:50 - 10:52was seeing what he was envisioning for
the future -
10:52 - 10:56he was able to conceive the things that
other people weren't too was a visionary -
10:56 - 11:01I'm who but even visionaries need money
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11:01 - 11:04so in order to convince industrialist JP
Morgan -
11:04 - 11:09to invest $250 thousand dollars to build
warden cleanroom -
11:09 - 11:12Tesla promise the financier the tower
would make millions -
11:12 - 11:15my also broadcasting messages news
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11:15 - 11:21music and even pictures to any part of
the world -
11:21 - 11:23this is the original
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11:23 - 11:28foundation for tests with tower if you
look you can see that it's -
11:28 - 11:33and eight sided figure it had a huge
hole back on the ground right in front -
11:33 - 11:34of where i'm standing
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11:34 - 11:38101 twenty feet down in a spiral
staircase -
11:38 - 11:42went around it and then I went to the
sky 187mb -
11:42 - 11:46was attacked our the tower was attached
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11:46 - 11:49by huge timbers on bars like this
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11:49 - 11:52each of the points along the side
foundation walls -
11:52 - 11:55it loomed over everything in me area on
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11:55 - 12:00it was overwhelming when you think that
this fis in Scopus such a huge huge -
12:00 - 12:02construction
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12:02 - 12:06this is the actual lab in power plant at
Wharton clip -
12:06 - 12:11were Tesla work for more than four years
trying to develop his wireless concert -
12:11 - 12:14it was purchased by a photographic
company more than sixty years ago -
12:14 - 12:16on
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12:16 - 12:20after remodeling only a part of the
outside lab remains -
12:20 - 12:24really getting to go inside the house
lighting have been offered on a while -
12:24 - 12:28although the building hasn't been used
in more than a decade -
12:28 - 12:33the owners agreed to open the doors to
modern marvels for a rare look inside -
12:33 - 12:36Wow I'm
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12:36 - 12:41oh this is incredible I'm
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12:41 - 12:45I'm this is amazing to be in here where
test for work -
12:45 - 12:50where he spent time with his 15 from who
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12:50 - 12:54just amazing bedroom over 100 years ago
Tesla was walking in rules -
12:54 - 12:58very walls his equipment he was here his
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12:58 - 13:02dreams were alive was looking forward to
what he hoped would be a very glorious -
13:02 - 13:03future
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13:03 - 13:05who
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13:05 - 13:08import it was timing that ultimately
doomed warden -
13:08 - 13:11want December 12 1901
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13:11 - 13:15this test was working as wireless
network Julio Moammar going -
13:15 - 13:19beat him to the punch and successfully
transmitted a radio signal -
13:19 - 13:22across the Atlantic me
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13:22 - 13:25well Marconi's achievement was indeed a
first who in reality -
13:25 - 13:29be used 17 of Tesla's patents to
accomplish this feat -
13:29 - 13:34with who Tesla was not only for garden
is the bother radio who -
13:34 - 13:37Marconi's transmission sealed the fate
of Wharton cliff -
13:37 - 13:40well working was no longer interested
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13:40 - 13:45in supporting test was work here marconi
already did it why should we keep -
13:45 - 13:48supporting Tesla and of course test was
plan was greater than -
13:48 - 13:53Morgan new test for could see reason to
continue the funding and continue the -
13:53 - 13:53work
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13:53 - 13:58but it wasn't Morgans plant so would
1905 -
13:58 - 14:02well still under construction and after
some amazing electrical display -
14:02 - 14:06the wooden with project was abandoned
and later -
14:06 - 14:11destroyed
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14:11 - 14:15the world was not prepared for that was
too far ahead of its time -
14:15 - 14:18but the same laws will prevail in the
end make it -
14:18 - 14:21a triumphant success nikola Tesla
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14:21 - 14:26the who could Tesla have succeeded
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14:26 - 14:30the mainstream scientific community has
grave doubts -
14:30 - 14:34Tesla schemes for worldwide
-
14:34 - 14:37electrification was simply out of the
question -
14:37 - 14:42it makes no sense from the standpoint of
the energy involved and the -
14:42 - 14:46inefficiency of it still some are
insured -
14:46 - 14:49I believe that the wireless transmission
of power -
14:49 - 14:54is possible that chance that power could
be transmitted around the globe without -
14:54 - 14:55wires
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14:55 - 14:59was to greet discover to pass up
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14:59 - 15:03gymboree see a high-voltage technician
from KBA effects in Signal Hill -
15:03 - 15:04California
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15:04 - 15:11was part of a team that built the
largest Tesla coil in modern times -
15:11 - 15:16the 13 down
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15:16 - 15:20the reason the 13 and was built was to
give scientists the opportunity to -
15:20 - 15:24actually investigate some of Tesla's
wireless transmission theories to see if -
15:24 - 15:26the practical
-
15:26 - 15:322:13 a.m. generates close to $12 million
volts of power -
15:32 - 15:39in 1998 the team tested the giant Tesla
coil -
15:39 - 15:43what we learned is that the machine
rebuilt its not large enough it's -
15:43 - 15:44actually
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15:44 - 15:47quarter scale version of what Tesla made
in Colorado Springs -
15:47 - 15:51and it seems a machine that large is
really necessary we hope in the future -
15:51 - 15:55that will have the funding to be able to
build a full scale tesla coil -
15:55 - 15:59and prove his spirits I
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15:59 - 16:04how can it be for the century after the
failure awarded grant Tesla's ideas are -
16:04 - 16:07still so passionately considered
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16:07 - 16:10perhaps it's because long before warden
cliff -
16:10 - 16:17Tesla had already changed the world
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16:17 - 16:23fun June 21st 1943 the United States
Supreme Court reversed itself -
16:23 - 16:26reading patent rights to Tesla not
marconi -
16:26 - 16:30for the invention over radio Matt
electricity will return -
16:30 - 16:36on modern marvels
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16:36 - 16:38we now return to Matt electricity
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16:38 - 16:44on modern marvels
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16:44 - 16:49for today we take our electrified world
for granted -
16:49 - 16:51energy that powers our needs
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16:51 - 16:56is as close as the nearest town
-
16:56 - 16:59according to legend the man who made it
happen was born in croatia -
16:59 - 17:01in 1856
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17:01 - 17:03at the stroke of midnight
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17:03 - 17:07during an electrical storm
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17:07 - 17:10just was immediately associated with
thunder and lightning -
17:10 - 17:17with electricity the
-
17:17 - 17:20Tesla began his career as an electrical
engineer -
17:20 - 17:25with the telephone company in Budapest
in 1881 -
17:25 - 17:29one day as he was walking through a park
with a friend Tesla suddenly envisioned -
17:29 - 17:32a groundbreaking concept for a new
electric motor -
17:32 - 17:37into it out in the dirt
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17:37 - 17:40this simple illustration became the
patent for the induction motor -
17:40 - 17:47which would go on to be the standard
electric motor for the world -
17:47 - 17:50its use for everything from tools and
appliances -
17:50 - 17:55the hybrid cars to industrial plants
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17:55 - 18:01there the induction motor works by
energizing quarles wire placed around a -
18:01 - 18:02stationary frame
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18:02 - 18:07called the stator this induces the
current in the coils -
18:07 - 18:10onto a rotor
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18:10 - 18:13the alternating current in the coils
opposes the polls are the magnetic -
18:13 - 18:15fields around them to change
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18:15 - 18:20between north and south the resulting
attraction and repulsion with the coils -
18:20 - 18:21as they alternate
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18:21 - 18:28causes the rotor to spend
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18:28 - 18:32and the exact same idea as a nickel a
Tesla came up with a hundred years ago -
18:32 - 18:35are still use today induction motors
such as this one -
18:35 - 18:39the motors made of two parts: I'm the
rotor -
18:39 - 18:43and the coil within the quayle
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18:43 - 18:46in or sells magnetic field rotates and
as a -
18:46 - 18:53magnetic field rotates the rotor follows
it just like it did a hundred years ago -
18:53 - 18:55and it worked as a maid the first
prototype -
18:55 - 18:59sheehy
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18:59 - 19:02of in 1884 aged 28
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19:02 - 19:06Tesla move to America with little money
and only a little a recommendation from -
19:06 - 19:07his boss
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19:07 - 19:12to thomas edison the letter simply
Randle -
19:12 - 19:17I know too great man then you are one of
them this young man -
19:17 - 19:19is the other room
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19:19 - 19:23the medicine hired the brilliant young
engineer and eventually asked him to -
19:23 - 19:25redesign is companies electric
generators -
19:25 - 19:31for a fifty thousand dollar bonus the
after Tesla developed a number of -
19:31 - 19:33enormously profitable new patents
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19:33 - 19:36the ass Medicine for his bonus the
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19:36 - 19:39that a census you gotta be kidding me
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19:39 - 19:43you got a lot to learn about an American
sense a humor and he doesn't give a -
19:43 - 19:45fifty thousand dollars
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19:45 - 19:50a Tesla turns around immediately access
for mister Anderson I resigns -
19:50 - 19:54so began a lifelong feud between the
upstart young genius -
19:54 - 19:57a and the established inventor named
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19:57 - 19:58E
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19:58 - 20:01Tesla leaves edison's and he was digging
ditches -
20:01 - 20:05in New York City for a year very very
dark time -
20:05 - 20:08all his dreams are in shambles at this
point from -
20:08 - 20:13well toiling to feed himself would raise
capital for new inventions -
20:13 - 20:19Tesla was appalled at the web of power
wires strung up in the city -
20:19 - 20:23the whole system was a nightmare of
cables and wiring overhead -
20:23 - 20:27matter fact that some areas even blocked
out the Sun -
20:27 - 20:30the electrical system be found deficient
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20:30 - 20:33was called direct current or DC
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20:33 - 20:36this is a test list former employer
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20:36 - 20:41was a major investor in DC power
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20:41 - 20:43Tesla knew there was a better way
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20:43 - 20:47and was determined to invent a new
system it will become the global -
20:47 - 20:49standard
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20:49 - 20:55alternating current for Casey here's a
direct current cable -
20:55 - 20:59that would carry about a million watts
to light a typical new york city block -
20:59 - 21:03using alternating current estas a/c
system -
21:03 - 21:07a small wire such as this could power
the same amount of homes -
21:07 - 21:12same amount of power just look at the
difference the difference between -
21:12 - 21:16AC and DC power is all about how
electricity -
21:16 - 21:21or electrons flow
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21:21 - 21:25for DC current to work there must be a
continuous and direct flow of electrons -
21:25 - 21:26along the wire
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21:26 - 21:30from negative to positive polls
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21:30 - 21:34when power supplied electrons as
signified by the red band -
21:34 - 21:39move to the work do the work and then
come all the way back to the generator -
21:39 - 21:43problem with this process is that the
electrons -
21:43 - 21:47encounter resistance along these wires
it's difficult for -
21:47 - 21:52electrons to travel this great distances
some also the energy in the system is -
21:52 - 21:53lost
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21:53 - 21:57in the wire all the way thomas edison
invasion to system -
21:57 - 22:00he would have to put a power plant just
about every mile -
22:00 - 22:03to keep the voltage steady along his DC
power grid -
22:03 - 22:08in 1887 Tesla filed seven US patents
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22:08 - 22:12for another more efficient and cheaper
power system cold -
22:12 - 22:17alternating current
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22:17 - 22:19what Tesla discovered is a/c system
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22:19 - 22:23was it was not necessary to send the
electrons all the way to the work and -
22:23 - 22:24back again
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22:24 - 22:28in fact he alternated the current
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22:28 - 22:34sending it back and forth Tesla develop
a system a VC generators -
22:34 - 22:38before tornado electric current between
negative and positive polls -
22:38 - 22:41its 60 cycles per second
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22:41 - 22:45by sending PC through a transformer with
virtually no power lines -
22:45 - 22:48he could step up the voltage in lower
the current -
22:48 - 22:52so the PC could be efficiently
transmitted hundreds of miles further -
22:52 - 22:55than DC
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22:55 - 22:58I'm millionaire entrepreneur George
Westinghouse -
22:58 - 23:04go Tesla's inventions could be the key
to long distance power transmission I'm -
23:04 - 23:08he purchased the patents for sixty
thousand dollars -
23:08 - 23:12and a healthy fear of stock in the
westinghouse corporation give the new -
23:12 - 23:16a/c system was successful Tesla would be
a rich man -
23:16 - 23:21nikola Tesla became a citizen of the
United States -
23:21 - 23:25in 1891 on the same year
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23:25 - 23:29an all-out current war erupted between
his AC -
23:29 - 23:34edison's DC power it is in launched a
propaganda campaign -
23:34 - 23:39to show the dangers OBC the public
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23:39 - 23:42they had rather grotesque experiments
where they went -
23:42 - 23:49take animals electrocute them with
alternating current -
23:50 - 23:51medicine convince New York State
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23:51 - 23:56to use to us lose in westinghouse's AC
power for the very first electrocution -
23:56 - 23:59in 1890
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23:59 - 24:06from reporter called it a gruesome
spectacle far worse than hanging -
24:06 - 24:09status and up the technique westinghouse
Inc -
24:09 - 24:13weather was electrocuting animals for
electrocuting prisoners -
24:13 - 24:17the thrust was this is something you
don't want to your house -
24:17 - 24:21so in 1893 despite the bad press
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24:21 - 24:25Tesla and the westinghouse corporation
won the bid for eliminating the Chicago -
24:25 - 24:26World's Fair
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24:26 - 24:31the first all-electric fair in history
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24:31 - 24:35medicine who made an unsuccessful bid
was frustrated over losing this -
24:35 - 24:42opportunity I refuse to let s lead uses
patented like Boltzmann -
24:43 - 24:46so it s funny did that come up with a a
new light ball -
24:46 - 24:50make two hundred fifty thousand up on in
six months time -
24:50 - 24:53like the fair edison's ball pen a screw
banks at the bottom -
24:53 - 24:58he patented the home after now powering
the ball through this crew base and -
24:58 - 25:02how to seal the vacuum of inside Tesla
solution was to have a ground glass -
25:02 - 25:04stopper in the bottom on the ball
-
25:04 - 25:07the wires passed through the stopper and
he was a winner -
25:07 - 25:10manufacturer involved didn't interfere
with innocence patents -
25:10 - 25:14Tesla was able to be Dennis and his own
game by producing -
25:14 - 25:17I'll out there was more easy to
manufacture and he was a winner -
25:17 - 25:22to do so on a short amount of time on me
first 1893 -
25:22 - 25:27President Grover Cleveland pushed a
button and more than 200,000 -
25:27 - 25:32Tesla's incandescent lamps illuminated
the fairgrounds -
25:32 - 25:36it was a monumental success and ushered
in the era -
25:36 - 25:39modern electric lighting
-
25:39 - 25:43Tesla was held the mastermind in the
genius behind making this possible -
25:43 - 25:48and his name was known around the world
after the service -
25:48 - 25:51Tesla filled with confidence after this
victory over Edison -
25:51 - 25:58believed AC would be the current to the
future -
25:58 - 26:02in order to prove it he would try to
harness the power a one of the world's -
26:02 - 26:07greatest natural wonders
-
26:07 - 26:12in 1898 Tesla invented the electrical
igniter for gas engines -
26:12 - 26:16today it's used in more than 600 million
cars worldwide -
26:16 - 26:21and is better known as the automobile
ignition system -
26:21 - 26:27Matt electricity will return on modern
marvels -
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26:29 - 26:35on modern marvels
-
26:35 - 26:38millions have witnessed its stunning
power -
26:38 - 26:43Niagara Falls consent more than 750,000
gallons of water -
26:43 - 26:47over its crest every second
-
26:47 - 26:52producing enough power to generate 2.4
million kilowatts of electricity -
26:52 - 26:55at the break the falls could power have
Las Vegas -
26:55 - 27:02on a hot summer night the ever since
five years begin building sawmills along -
27:03 - 27:06the Niagara River in the seventeen
hundreds -
27:06 - 27:13many had envisioned grand new ways to
harness the fund respond our bones -
27:14 - 27:19in 1893 after witnessing test lookin
westinghouse's triumph at the Chicago -
27:19 - 27:20World's Fair
-
27:20 - 27:23the Niagara Falls Commission awarded
them the contract -
27:23 - 27:27to tap the polls for generating
alternating current -
27:27 - 27:33the big problem with using Niagara Falls
for electricity was that the major -
27:33 - 27:36consumer on Sat electric power was
-
27:36 - 27:40Buffalo of low is about 20 miles or so
-
27:40 - 27:44and on using DC transmission
-
27:44 - 27:48was totally impractical because Paul
repeater station would have to have been -
27:48 - 27:49built
-
27:49 - 27:54every two miles they see avoided all a
vast of -
27:54 - 27:59at the Falls Tesla designed and
engineered a complex system -
27:59 - 28:02generators and transformers to produce
is AC power -
28:02 - 28:05on just love
-
28:05 - 28:09didn't write down everything most of the
stuff was in his head -
28:09 - 28:13he had to do it verbally Tesla was in
his own little world more left he would -
28:13 - 28:14not explain things to
-
28:14 - 28:19other people but his assistance would in
1996 -
28:19 - 28:24the first BC Hydro Electric station for
long-distance power transmission went -
28:24 - 28:26online
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28:26 - 28:32and Buffalo became the freemen your city
for PC powers potential -
28:32 - 28:36te sol was not here when they actually
flip the switch but he has so much -
28:36 - 28:39confidence his own work that he no award
-
28:39 - 28:44today new power plants have replaced s
lewis structures -
28:44 - 28:49the buildings have one of the most
important historical sites in the modern -
28:49 - 28:49world
-
28:49 - 28:52now stand like dinosaurs forgot
-
28:52 - 28:58for the man who envision it all only an
isolated statue marx's extraordinary -
28:58 - 28:59achievement
-
28:59 - 29:02I wonder how many people
-
29:02 - 29:07cool come by here past the Statue
-
29:07 - 29:10actually have any idea
-
29:10 - 29:14full neck for Tesla was and what he did
-
29:14 - 29:17to shape their world of
-
29:17 - 29:23today our world is ablaze thanks to test
was AC technology -
29:23 - 29:27he had won his final battle with its a
but victory came -
29:27 - 29:32at an enormous cost westinghouse was
financially drained by the war a bigger -
29:32 - 29:32rims
-
29:32 - 29:37in a grand gesture to keep the company
afloat tests were tore up his royalties -
29:37 - 29:40contract claiming better inventions lay
ahead -
29:40 - 29:44have a contract been fulfilled Tesla
would have been -
29:44 - 29:48a millionaire and been free I've
-
29:48 - 29:52financial worries to rest of his life
this money does not represent such a -
29:52 - 29:53value
-
29:53 - 29:58as many placed upon it all my money has
been invested in two experiments -
29:58 - 30:02with which I have made new discoveries
enabling mankind to have -
30:02 - 30:06as it's an easy life
-
30:06 - 30:10after the triumph over Edison and the
successive is alternating current -
30:10 - 30:14nikola Tesla was a celebrity or
-
30:14 - 30:18and he's friends with Mark Twain he's
friends with all manner of ambassadors -
30:18 - 30:19and
-
30:19 - 30:23ballerinas in prima donna is in he's
really kind of the height of society -
30:23 - 30:27genius often comes with a price
-
30:27 - 30:30this list suffered from bizarre
compulsions -
30:30 - 30:33week is consuming me to rescue injured
pigeons -
30:33 - 30:37and nursed him back to health he has an
infirmary for them right outside his -
30:37 - 30:38bedroom window
-
30:38 - 30:42where he's trying to heal you know some
that are broken wings broken legs and in -
30:42 - 30:42fact
-
30:42 - 30:46at one point he actually prefer to one
bird has his wife -
30:46 - 30:50and he says you know when she died the
inventive spirit -
30:50 - 30:52left him
-
30:52 - 30:57Tesla had a fear of germs compelled him
to wash his hands constantly world -
30:57 - 31:01he did things in three years that was
adamant about living at the New Yorker -
31:01 - 31:02Hotel
-
31:02 - 31:03in a room with
-
31:03 - 31:07over divisible by 3 home he demanded the
room my -
31:07 - 31:113327 where he lived for ten years he
always -
31:11 - 31:17requested nine Afghans and beer bread or
something it could be cut and anime -
31:17 - 31:20three times three pieces even the
numbers -
31:20 - 31:24dishes he had her the number tells the
received in this room was using its -
31:24 - 31:26three-year $9
-
31:26 - 31:29Tesla never married been claimed he was
celebrating -
31:29 - 31:34he had a horrible affliction against
women with pierced years she couldn't -
31:34 - 31:36stand the sight a pierced ears in
jewelry -
31:36 - 31:40and pearl hearings he said just said his
teeth on edge for some sixteen years on -
31:40 - 31:43a chalkboard for him to see pearl
hearings -
31:43 - 31:47of even with this list of obsessions and
compulsions -
31:47 - 31:50Tesla had always been able to tap into
was remarkable -
31:50 - 31:53inventive intellect
-
31:53 - 31:57in 1898 he gave birth to remote control
-
31:57 - 32:01when he demonstrated a six foot long
radio wave control book -
32:01 - 32:05at Madison Square Garden
-
32:05 - 32:10as on
-
32:10 - 32:13on a quiet lake in Riverside California
-
32:13 - 32:18test was work is alive and well is a
pleated remote-controlled model boats -
32:18 - 32:22set sail
-
32:22 - 32:26this is very much like Tesla did a
hundred years ago -
32:26 - 32:32cost inside these boats for the basic
components a remote control Tesla -
32:32 - 32:39conceived at the turn of the 20th
century -
32:39 - 32:41a battery inside the remote control
device -
32:41 - 32:47since power to on select that converts
it to do a radio wave pools -
32:47 - 32:50the radio waves transmitted to a small
receiver on the books -
32:50 - 32:54which since the electrical storm over
-
32:54 - 32:57burying the full so the radio waves from
the transmitter to the receiver -
32:57 - 33:03causes the motors arms to move in
different directions -
33:03 - 33:08using a joystick the operator controls
the radio poll signal damn controls -
33:08 - 33:08about
-
33:08 - 33:15just was remote control principles are
seen today in everything from -
33:16 - 33:17televisions
-
33:17 - 33:21to one man military Predator drones
-
33:21 - 33:28use for battlefield reconnaissance to
satellites operating in space -
33:28 - 33:34although many you Tesla's inventions
would prove to be a benefit to society -
33:34 - 33:40his visionary thoughts also travel down
a darker room -
33:40 - 33:46two more frightening and destructive
destinations -
33:46 - 33:47this
-
33:47 - 33:51in nineteen seventy Tesla propose the
concept for -
33:51 - 33:55really awaits reflecting off object to
determine position and speed -
33:55 - 34:00not was seventeen years before the
invention -
34:00 - 34:03over 80 mad electricity will return
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34:09 - 34:11we now return to Matt electricity
-
34:11 - 34:13on modern marvels
-
34:13 - 34:19on for one of the most powerful forces
in nature -
34:19 - 34:26use an earthquake this suppose that
power was harnessed as a weapon -
34:28 - 34:31some believe test love may have
discovered a way -
34:31 - 34:35but SRS quake which she was a mechanical
oscillator -
34:35 - 34:39which is basically a machine that
produces vibrations and by producing -
34:39 - 34:41these vibrations a machine could be made
-
34:41 - 34:47to rest in a with different structures
the also later machine is based on the -
34:47 - 34:47principle
-
34:47 - 34:51fit every substance when stimulated as a
resonant frequency -
34:51 - 34:55if the frequency is matched an amplified
by an outside force -
34:55 - 34:59such as the oscillator machine with any
material can be literally -
34:59 - 35:03with shaken to pieces the
-
35:03 - 35:07the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows
Bridge in washington in 1940 -
35:07 - 35:09demonstrated this principle
-
35:09 - 35:12the winds whipping around the bridge it
just the right frequency -
35:12 - 35:15causing the steel bridge to sway
violently -
35:15 - 35:22in a rhythmic pattern that finally
broken apart -
35:23 - 35:26to demonstrate the power rests on us
we're going to see what happens so wine -
35:26 - 35:26glass
-
35:26 - 35:30as a vibrate so its breaking point first
-
35:30 - 35:34also the glass vibrating and use a
microphone -
35:34 - 35:38connected to an oscilloscope to see what
frequency the glass vibrates at -
35:38 - 35:44all then set the frequency on a single
generator -
35:44 - 35:46which is going to play back through an
amplifier -
35:46 - 35:48into a speaker
-
35:48 - 35:52because unless it's going to be moving
more than four hundred times per second -
35:52 - 35:56will be using a strobe lights in order
to slow down the motion -
35:56 - 36:00now this is going to be low also have to
wear some protection -
36:00 - 36:05as the vibrations increase in intensity
the classes start to move more and more -
36:05 - 36:07eventually can't take it anymore
-
36:07 - 36:14so as I turn up the volume the class on
break -
36:24 - 36:31p
-
36:35 - 36:38so it's all was like a mini earthquake
and tells us -
36:38 - 36:44earthquake machine will be able to do
this but on a much larger scale -
36:44 - 36:49in 1898 Tesla claim to have created an
oscillator with adjustable frequency -
36:49 - 36:53there was no bigger than an alarm clock
been routed an attempt to use it on a -
36:53 - 36:58building under construction
-
36:58 - 37:02in a few minutes I felt the building
beginning to Trumbull 10 minutes more -
37:02 - 37:05and I could have laid it in the street
-
37:05 - 37:08and with the same device I could have
dropped the Brooklyn Bridge -
37:08 - 37:13into the east river in less than an hour
-
37:13 - 37:17perhaps this opened a Pandora's box
during later experiments with the device -
37:17 - 37:21I'm there's a a legend
-
37:21 - 37:24that he started up his loss a waiter
-
37:24 - 37:28for what some call the earthquake
machine and he started vibrating warm it -
37:28 - 37:29happen
-
37:29 - 37:33had thing call went out to the police
department when the police came running -
37:33 - 37:37there pounding on the door they broke
into his way out -
37:37 - 37:40and a song with a sledgehammer smashing
machinists which got stuck and couldn't -
37:40 - 37:40turn off
-
37:40 - 37:45any almost brought down some buildings
and Naveen -
37:45 - 37:48in 1934 the Tesla conceived
-
37:48 - 37:53a death rate his idea was to blast
concentrated beam supporters -
37:53 - 37:57charged with millions a bolt of
electricity through the years -
37:57 - 38:01which could down fleet Savannah meet
aircraft at a distance -
38:01 - 38:06up to hun 50 months good
-
38:06 - 38:09Tesla terrified people with this idea of
the death rate -
38:09 - 38:12I'm even the name death rate sounds like
a science fiction right -
38:12 - 38:17Tesla spent his later years in two small
rooms -
38:17 - 38:20in the New Yorker Hotel today
-
38:20 - 38:25room 3327 wannabes rooms shows the
cramped space he occupied for the last -
38:25 - 38:27ten years of his life
-
38:27 - 38:32Tesla died alone in his room at the
Hotel -
38:32 - 38:35they weren't even sure exactly when he
died because -
38:35 - 38:38people hadn't seen him for a couple days
a chambermaid -
38:38 - 38:42finally entered his room I
-
38:42 - 38:47the day after he died in found his body
but when his death at age 86 was -
38:47 - 38:48discovered
-
38:48 - 38:54the United States government took
control of the scientific papers -
38:54 - 38:58there was a great deal of concern at the
time of his death -
38:58 - 39:01as to what was the newspapers because
we're in a world war two -
39:01 - 39:07there's a great deal concern for the
nazis get homeless the government claims -
39:07 - 39:09that after inspecting Tesla's papers
-
39:09 - 39:14they were released in 1952 and later
sent to belgrade yugoslavia -
39:14 - 39:20where they now remain at the nickel a
Tesla museum -
39:20 - 39:26however many believe some of these
papers are still missing -
39:26 - 39:29who knows what we're in newspapers you
know maybe they are very sensitive maybe -
39:29 - 39:31they are the plans for the death ray and
-
39:31 - 39:34and you know I guess I shouldn't be
public knowledge its -
39:34 - 39:38a terrific mystery who took Nikola
Tesla's papers -
39:38 - 39:41we may never know what all these papers
contained -
39:41 - 39:46we do know as his work is being
reevaluated -
39:46 - 39:49that some of his ideas were essentially
ahead of his time -
39:49 - 39:53in fact
-
39:53 - 39:56more than a hundred years ago Tesla
-
39:56 - 40:00was already greed
-
40:00 - 40:05in 1887 tesla experimented with x-ray
radiation -
40:05 - 40:08that was beat years before wilhelm
Rincon document it is -
40:08 - 40:13own X-ray discovery which one reckon the
Nobel Prize in Physics -
40:13 - 40:17man electricity will return on Modern
Marvels -
40:17 - 40:24here on history we now return to Matt
electricity on modern marvels -
40:29 - 40:33the United States consumes twenty
million barrels of oil a day -
40:33 - 40:38and gasoline prices constantly reach new
highs -
40:38 - 40:45a century ago the Tesla saw the future a
fossil fuels -
40:45 - 40:48if we use fuel to get our power you're
living on a comment -
40:48 - 40:51and exhausting and Robert
-
40:51 - 40:55this method as barbarous and wantonly
wasteful and will have to be stopped in -
40:55 - 40:59the interest of common generations
-
40:59 - 41:03tusla was disturbed by the rate at which
-
41:03 - 41:06society was burning up non-renewable
-
41:06 - 41:10fuels coal oil was just coming in then
and he -
41:10 - 41:13foresaw a time that you would need to go
to some -
41:13 - 41:19other source home Tesla anticipated the
development of what we now call -
41:19 - 41:22renewable energy in 1901
-
41:22 - 41:26be patented and apparatus for the
utilization -
41:26 - 41:29%uh radiant energy
-
41:29 - 41:33the patent refers to the Sun as well as
other sources of radiant energy -
41:33 - 41:37like cosmic rays nikola Tesla was
-
41:37 - 41:41one of the first people to realize that
we haven't almost endless supply of -
41:41 - 41:44energy coming in from space from our own
Sun -
41:44 - 41:47I bet you wouldn't be surprised to find
all that today all kinds of applications -
41:47 - 41:49to run your solar power
-
41:49 - 41:53Tesla also championed geothermal power
-
41:53 - 41:58in 1931 he wrote an article for The New
York Times entitled -
41:58 - 42:02our future motive power which explored
how to utilize the earth's natural -
42:02 - 42:03energy
-
42:03 - 42:07all that is necessary
-
42:07 - 42:10this to find it economic and speedy way
of sinking -
42:10 - 42:14deep shafts to tap into these enormous
-
42:14 - 42:20geothermal energy
-
42:20 - 42:24one cutting edge carmakers paying homage
to Tesla's grief or site -
42:24 - 42:29by adopting his name
-
42:29 - 42:33Tesla Motors in San Carlos Calif makes a
battery driven -
42:33 - 42:37Tesla Roadster that goes from zero to 60
miles per hour -
42:37 - 42:42in 3.9 seconds
-
42:42 - 42:45using a version of Tesla's AC induction
motor -
42:45 - 42:49it travels more than 200 months without
its local gas -
42:49 - 42:54site
-
42:54 - 42:57Tesla was also a green lighting pioneer
-
42:57 - 43:01at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
-
43:01 - 43:05Tesla displayed a florescent Bowl the
burn much cooler -
43:05 - 43:10and lasted longer than edison's
incandescent alzheimer before runner-up -
43:10 - 43:12today's longer-lasting official later
-
43:12 - 43:16this is an actual address in like mom
-
43:16 - 43:21this filaments Mantova carbon and
bypassing electricity throughout its -
43:21 - 43:22becomes heated
-
43:22 - 43:26and this heat produces a white light for
-
43:26 - 43:30more than half the energy that went into
this light bulb from the ski -
43:30 - 43:34instead of light and that made it very
inefficient Tesla -
43:34 - 43:37as a result developed a lamp on a
different principle -
43:37 - 43:41that didn't produce heat produce light
by a gas -
43:41 - 43:45inside a ball the electricity enters the
ball through the ends and there's -
43:45 - 43:46electrodes inside
-
43:46 - 43:50and as an end there's a bomb the gas
would get excited -
43:50 - 43:53and ignite inside lighting the whole
space -
43:53 - 43:59within the walls of the tomb the result
was -
43:59 - 44:03the light was brighter it grand collar
-
44:03 - 44:07and it was more efficient than a dozen
small for the modern compact fluorescent -
44:07 - 44:07light
-
44:07 - 44:12operates on the same principle there's
gas inside that's it excited by I won't -
44:12 - 44:15mention
-
44:15 - 44:20and missus Tesla's principle still
yesterday -
44:20 - 44:23which either a test was ideas were too
far ahead of his time -
44:23 - 44:27history may have neglected this genius
-
44:27 - 44:32for today these being rediscovered
-
44:32 - 44:36I believe that some day we will
reinvestigate tussles work -
44:36 - 44:43and we will discover the secrets that he
was so confident -
44:43 - 44:46nikola Tesla made the modern world what
it is today -
44:46 - 44:50and although it took many years for a
lot of people to finally realize that -
44:50 - 44:55I think perhaps so that is changing now
the legacy of Tesla is really this -
44:55 - 44:57creative spirit of the inventor
-
44:57 - 45:00to you have no bounds on
-
45:00 - 45:05thought he really believed anything was
possible -
45:05 - 45:08but the future tell the truth and
evaluate each one -
45:08 - 45:11according to their work and
accomplishments -
45:11 - 45:14the present is their house
-
45:14 - 45:16the future for which I really worked
-
45:16 - 45:19is mine nikola Tesla
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