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02:00Mary had a little lamb. Its fleece was white as snow. And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
02:14Well done, Tom. Fantastisch.
02:17Jolly good work, Tom.
02:18This phonograph here is my baby. And I expect it to grow up and be a big feller and support me in my old age.
02:28They're calling you the Wizard of Menlo Park. What do you say to that?
02:34Is it true?
02:35If I'm a wizard at anything, it's surrounding myself with the best.
02:39Charles Batchelor here helped me to come up with the idea.
02:42John Crucy built it.
02:44What we do here, we do together.
02:46The world wants to know what's next, Mr. Edison.
02:50What can we say you're working on?
02:53Well, can you keep a secret, boys?
02:56Well, we're not exactly known for it.
02:59Good. Gather round.
03:04How soon do you think you can do it?
03:11Edison says his electric light will be cleaner, safer, and more reliable than gas,
03:18and predicts that the era of gaslighting is coming to an end.
03:26What's the word in the streets?
03:28The people believe him.
03:30Our stock prices have been falling all day.
03:34Why, that little pest?
03:37Edison can say whatever he wants,
03:40and the press just eats it up, just gobbles it down whole.
03:43Why, I'm tempted to...
03:45Yes, yes, two can play this game.
03:53I want you to find me the most famous name in electricity.
03:59Um, that would be Edison, sir.
04:04All right, then find me the second most famous.
04:09Just find him and bring him to me.
04:13Up to now, this is the best thing anyone's come up with.
04:19The arc light.
04:22Not very practical.
04:24But what we're doing is completely different.
04:27An incandescent lamp.
04:29Batch?
04:30The trick is finding an element that will glow without burning up.
04:35Platinum makes a jolly good show of it.
04:37Eventually, though, as you can see, it gets too hot.
04:44Cruci.
04:45So, Tom, he say.
04:47Cruci?
04:48Make it so when the filament get too hot, it turn off.
04:52When it cool down, it come back on again.
04:55Draw the curtains, Batch.
04:57Now, watch this, Grove.
04:59That's it?
05:05Well, it needs work, but...
05:07Tom, people think you're on the verge of lighting up the world.
05:11You can't even light up this room.
05:14Well, give me some time, Grove.
05:17I don't even know what I'm doing.
05:19You what?
05:20This is all math.
05:23I'm not a mathematician.
05:24I'm an inventor.
05:26How could you make such a boast?
05:29You're miles away from the solution.
05:31And furthermore, you don't have any money.
05:33That's your job, Grovesner.
05:35All you have to do is scare up a measly $50,000.
05:39Fifty?
05:42Keep working on it, Tom.
05:44When you're closer, I'll take it to J.P.
05:47Grove, Grove, Grove, Grove, Grove.
05:49You're missing the picture, Grove.
05:52I'm not talking about just one invention.
05:55I'm talking about lamps and lamp holders,
05:58switches, meters, dynamos, power stations.
06:01I'm talking about an entire electrical industry.
06:05I am going to light up the world, Grove,
06:08but I need your help.
06:10You know I can do it.
06:13Oof!
06:19If you don't provide him with the money, J.P.,
06:24someone else will.
06:26But an electric light?
06:28He gets, Lowry.
06:30It's impossible.
06:32That's what they said about the electric pen,
06:34and the quadruplex,
06:36and the telephone transmitter,
06:37the phonograph, and all...
06:39All right, ma'am, you've made your point.
06:42But I'll tell you this.
06:44If it was anyone other than Edison
06:46making such outlandish claims,
06:49we'd laugh him off the face of the planet.
06:51I'll run for him!
07:01All right!
07:03Okay, Krusey.
07:05The gas.
07:07We're not going to let this thing beat us.
07:10We're going to figure it out
07:11if it's the last thing we do.
07:13At this rate,
07:15it will be the last thing we do.
07:16I'm not, but
07:20you must be Mr. Edison.
07:23I'm Edison.
07:25Oh, I was expecting...
07:28My name is Upton.
07:31Francis Upton.
07:33I've read about your experiments,
07:36and I...
07:37Well, I'd like a job.
07:40I'm a graduate of Princeton,
07:42and I've also studied with Herr Hemholtz in Germany.
07:45Electricity?
07:48A little,
07:49but mostly mathematics.
07:51We work all the time,
07:53and the pace stinks.
07:55When can I start?
07:58Krusey,
07:59go downstairs
08:01and give Mr. Upton a hand with his things.
08:03Thanks.
08:15Krusey.
08:26It should work.
08:29It should,
08:30but it doesn't.
08:33Platinum,
08:34platinum,
08:35platinum,
08:35platinum.
08:37An infusible metal.
08:39It shouldn't melt.
08:40It does melt.
08:42The book is wrong.
08:44Hmm.
08:46May I see your calculations
08:48and mathematical theories?
08:50I don't really use theories.
08:52I just experiment.
08:54Well,
08:54surely you understand Ohm's law.
08:58George Ohm.
08:59Voltage equals current times resistance.
09:03Oh.
09:04Oh,
09:04is that what they call that?
09:06We always call it
09:07the finger.
09:09Unbelievable.
09:11You just pull these things
09:12out of thin air.
09:14Of course,
09:14I understand Ohm's law,
09:16but...
09:17Wait a second.
09:21Thin air.
09:23Thin air.
09:26Batch.
09:26Batch,
09:27what's inside this bulb?
09:28Platinum.
09:29What else?
09:30Krusey?
09:31Nothing.
09:32Just air.
09:33Air.
09:33Air.
09:39Oxygen.
09:40It's feeding the fire.
09:42All we have to do
09:43is get the air
09:44out of the bulb.
09:46Create a vacuum.
09:49We'll need a pump.
09:50They've got one at Princeton.
09:52I'm sure they'd let me borrow it.
09:54What are you waiting for?
09:56Gold.
09:58Lipton tells me
09:59you have great experience
10:01in the field of electricity.
10:04Cornell train, sir.
10:06Good.
10:07Good.
10:09Then you're well qualified
10:11to advise me.
10:12Now,
10:12this matter of Edison
10:14and his electric light,
10:17is such a thing possible?
10:19Oh, yes.
10:20I myself have dabbled
10:21with the idea.
10:22It's very possible indeed.
10:31Is the electric light
10:35possible?
10:38Uh,
10:39yes.
10:41Very.
10:43You're a respected scientist,
10:46Mr. Warwick.
10:47People will believe
10:48what you say.
10:50Now think
10:51carefully.
10:53Is the electric light
10:56possible?
10:58It's becoming
11:01less so
11:03by the moment.
11:05Very near impossible,
11:06I'd say.
11:08I'm sure the press
11:09will be interested
11:10to hear your opinions
11:12on the matter.
11:15The electric light
11:17is impossible.
11:20But, Doctor,
11:21weren't you just
11:22experimenting
11:23with the light yourself?
11:25Uh,
11:25yes.
11:27And my conclusions
11:28are based on
11:29such experiments.
11:31Edison claims
11:32to be onto
11:32something new.
11:34Duh.
11:35Edison can claim
11:36all he likes.
11:37But he can no more
11:38change the laws
11:39of nature
11:39than he can turn
11:40himself into
11:41a chimpanzee.
11:44The world
11:45will soon see
11:46that Edison
11:46is a braggart
11:47and a scoundrel
11:49making a living
11:50off wealthy backers
11:51who believe
11:52his childish dreams.
11:55On New Year's Eve,
11:57I will light up
11:58this place
11:58with 2,000
12:00electric lights.
12:03Until then,
12:04gentlemen.
12:10Whew.
12:11You didn't give us
12:11much time, Tom.
12:13We shouldn't need it.
12:14If Upton ever gets here
12:16with that pump.
12:16As the mercury
12:32travels through
12:33the tube,
12:34it removes
12:35the air
12:36from the bulb.
12:44It's working.
12:45We've got it, Tom.
12:49Not a particle
12:50of oxygen left.
12:52By this time tomorrow,
12:53we all be famous.
12:56We best shade our eyes.
12:58It may work too well.
13:00Well,
13:21tomorrow's another day.
13:23Yeah,
13:25not a day.
13:27Good night, then.
13:28Cheerio.
13:29Night, John.
13:31Guten night, Charles.
13:32IGHT liked w Rusks.
13:54What am I?
13:56Welcome,
13:56to my roof.
13:57Listen to each other for us.
13:58What do I pray?
13:59이거,
13:59it may be bigger now,
13:59it may be better.
13:59Come here.
14:00It may be better.
14:00Listen to each other alive,
14:00it may be better.
14:02I found it.
14:24Found what, Tom?
14:26Upton, Crucy, Batch.
14:29Carbon.
14:30Carbon.
14:30Oh, no.
14:32We'll use it as an insulator.
14:34Batch, scrape this thing clean and make some carbon soup.
14:39Crucy, gather up every metal you can find.
14:42Anything that can be dipped into Batch's soup.
14:44Upton.
14:45Tom, I don't think...
14:47What?
14:48It withstands high heat.
14:50It's a great resistor.
14:51All we have to do now is find the right filament.
14:54But, Tom, it says right here, carbon.
14:57Upton, you read too much.
15:00Put an ad in the paper for a good glass blower.
15:03I'm gonna need a thousand new bulbs.
15:05This isn't very scientific.
15:08I don't care about science.
15:10I need results.
15:17Don.
15:18Don.
15:18Number one, certi van, Boron.
15:23Oh, my fingers.
15:33Keep up the good work, Batch.
15:34And they'll need quite a few.
15:46Fifty a day, for starters.
15:47I need you to make them just like this.
15:52A thousand things wie drei.
16:05Und still, nothing.
16:08At least we know a thousand things that won't work.
16:11The trick is going on to a thousand and one.
16:15Let's go.
16:17No substitute for hard work.
16:19Seems like such a long time
16:37I've been waiting for the dawning
16:40Waiting in the dark
16:44For a spark to say it's coming
16:48Wide awake and watching
16:51And a hoping and a praying
16:55Listening in the stillness
16:59To my mama's voices saying
17:03Hold on
17:06Hold on
17:06The light will come
17:08Hold on
17:10The night will never
17:12Last forever
17:14Cause the morning mists are lifting
17:19And the sun insists on sifting
17:22Down the sky
17:24Hold on
17:28The light is coming
17:30By and by
17:34Edison in darkness
17:49No light in sight
17:51Hopes dim for electric light
17:55And this one's my favorite
17:57And this one's my favorite
17:57Scientist's degree
17:59Edison's a fraud
18:01Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
18:03What did I tell you?
18:06Impossible
18:07I don't know how I let myself get talked into these things
18:12Hold on
18:14The light is coming
18:16J-5-O-2
18:42Horsehair
18:43No good
18:44Maybe we try a different horse
18:48Ha ha ha ha ha
18:50Here goes J-5-0-3
19:12What is it?
19:28J-5-O-3
19:30Tread
19:32Common tread
19:34It's beautiful
19:38It's not going out
19:42I think you've done it, Tom
19:46No
19:48We all did it
19:50It's now October 21st
19:54And we still got a lot of work to do
19:56Tread
20:13Tread
20:16Tread
20:16Let's go.
20:46Let's go.
20:53Congratulations, Thomas.
20:54Well done.
20:55Congratulations.
21:02Bravo!
21:03Bravo, Mr. Edison!
21:13Congratulations, Mr. Edison.
21:15Nelson, you're an inspired genius.
21:19Well, I don't know about that.
21:21Well, from my experience, genius is about 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.
21:29If anything, I'm a perspired genius.
21:3152 years later, very near the anniversary of the invention of the electric light, Thomas Edison passed away.
21:4952 years later, very near the anniversary of the invention of the electric light, Thomas Edison passed away.
22:01His country paid a final and fitting tribute to the man who had changed the world.
22:07Yeah.
22:08Good night, baby.
22:13Yeah.
22:14Will you see all of your possibilities?
22:16Yeah.
22:16Through the
22:37Seems like such a long time
22:50I've been waiting for the dawning
22:53Waiting in the dark
22:57For a spark to say it's coming
23:01Wide awake and watching
23:04And a hoping and a praying
23:07Listening in the stillness
23:11To my mama's voice of saying
23:15Hold on, the light will come
23:20Hold on, the night will never last forever
23:25Cause the morning mists are lifting
23:30And the sun insists on sifting
23:33Down the sky
23:36Hold on, the light is coming
23:41By and by
23:45Hold on, the light is coming
23:53Hold on, the light is coming
23:57Hold on, the light is coming
24:00Hold on, the light is coming
24:02By and by
24:04Hold on
24:05By and by
24:07Hold on
24:09By and by
24:11Hold on, the light is coming
24:13Hold on, the light is coming
24:14Hold on, the light is coming
24:15Hold on, the light is coming
24:16Hold on, the light is coming
24:17Hold on, the light is coming
24:18Hold on, the light is coming
24:19Hold on, the light is coming
24:19Hold on, the light is coming
24:20Hold on, the light is coming
24:21Hold on, the light is coming
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24:27Hold on, the light is coming