WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:00.634 --> 00:00:03.671 (film reel spinning) 2 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 3 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:10.411 --> 00:00:13.314 (slow organ music) 5 00:00:25.426 --> 00:00:28.096 Narrator: Our civilization is built on AC power, 6 00:00:28.096 --> 00:00:31.432 remote control, and radio waves for wireless communications. 7 00:00:32.766 --> 00:00:35.436 Imagine our lives without these technologies, 8 00:00:35.436 --> 00:00:38.038 without the internet and mobile telephones 9 00:00:38.038 --> 00:00:40.941 and the connectedness that they have brought us. 10 00:00:40.941 --> 00:00:43.144 Looking back at the beginning of the 20th century, 11 00:00:43.144 --> 00:00:46.180 the technologies that shape our lives today 12 00:00:46.180 --> 00:00:48.882 were invented by one inspired man. 13 00:00:49.550 --> 00:00:51.119 - He pretty much single handedly jump started 14 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.121 the Second Industrial Revolution. 15 00:00:54.988 --> 00:00:58.326 He was called 'the inventor of the 20th century' back then 16 00:00:58.326 --> 00:00:59.827 when the 20th century started. 17 00:00:59.827 --> 00:01:02.163 And then, all of a sudden, we all forgot about him 18 00:01:02.163 --> 00:01:06.500 and he got excluded from school books and everything. 19 00:01:06.500 --> 00:01:10.003 (quirky electronic music) 20 00:01:12.706 --> 00:01:15.843 Nikola: My name is Nikola Tesla. 21 00:01:23.016 --> 00:01:25.819 (slow folk music) 22 00:01:26.887 --> 00:01:28.656 Narrator: Tesla believed that electric energy 23 00:01:28.656 --> 00:01:31.892 should be considered the same as the air that we breathe 24 00:01:31.892 --> 00:01:35.396 because, in nature, it is present in unlimited quantities. 25 00:01:40.434 --> 00:01:42.336 - Tesla's articles were published 26 00:01:42.336 --> 00:01:45.273 and republished by many magazines and newspapers. 27 00:01:47.107 --> 00:01:49.677 He was widely quoted, widely followed. 28 00:01:49.677 --> 00:01:53.013 He was, here in New York, socially very well-known. 29 00:01:53.013 --> 00:01:57.551 He was the ultimate gentleman; a black tie, white tailed. 30 00:01:58.686 --> 00:02:01.289 He was a great admirer of Sarah Bernhardt 31 00:02:01.289 --> 00:02:03.257 and other New York figures. 32 00:02:03.257 --> 00:02:05.593 He was known on the social scene. 33 00:02:05.593 --> 00:02:09.096 Tesla was a combination of a gentleman, 34 00:02:09.096 --> 00:02:13.567 a combination of society figure, scientist, 35 00:02:13.567 --> 00:02:15.769 and a great engineer. 36 00:02:15.769 --> 00:02:17.605 - Well, during Tesla's life, 37 00:02:17.605 --> 00:02:21.409 he was one of the most famous people in the entire world. 38 00:02:21.409 --> 00:02:24.545 His fame for electricity 39 00:02:24.545 --> 00:02:27.748 overshadowed Thomas Edison's fame, I'm sure. 40 00:02:29.317 --> 00:02:31.419 Narrator: When all the newspapers were only writing about 41 00:02:31.419 --> 00:02:34.755 Nikola Tesla's new inventions and achievements, 42 00:02:34.755 --> 00:02:38.926 Edison began to execute animals on the streets of New York 43 00:02:38.926 --> 00:02:42.730 to show how dangerous Nikola Tesla's electricity was. 44 00:02:45.165 --> 00:02:47.601 Edison's hatred of Nikola Tesla 45 00:02:47.601 --> 00:02:50.838 and his electromagnetic motor got him to the point 46 00:02:50.838 --> 00:02:54.007 where Edison's company invented the electric chair. 47 00:02:56.244 --> 00:02:59.747 (quirky electronic music) 48 00:03:05.353 --> 00:03:09.189 Nikola: If you to find the secrets of the universe, 49 00:03:09.189 --> 00:03:13.961 think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. 50 00:03:21.869 --> 00:03:24.204 Narrator: But his biggest project was to provide us 51 00:03:24.204 --> 00:03:27.975 with free wireless power transmission on Earth. 52 00:03:27.975 --> 00:03:30.878 The project was called Wardenclyffe Tower. 53 00:03:55.303 --> 00:03:59.139 (speaking foreign language) 54 00:04:17.591 --> 00:04:18.859 He is enigmatic. 55 00:04:18.859 --> 00:04:20.494 He is mysterious. 56 00:04:20.494 --> 00:04:22.530 His ideas are mysterious. 57 00:04:22.530 --> 00:04:26.834 And that, of course, also perhaps made the committee 58 00:04:26.834 --> 00:04:33.607 that is more traditional in its view of scientific problems 59 00:04:33.674 --> 00:04:35.843 and so on that they thought, 60 00:04:37.010 --> 00:04:39.513 "Interesting, but let's wait and see." 61 00:04:45.619 --> 00:04:48.589 But his vision for the system of communication 62 00:04:48.589 --> 00:04:51.759 is, for example, exactly what we're doing. 63 00:05:06.874 --> 00:05:11.812 - Nikola Tesla was given this strange diagnosis 64 00:05:11.812 --> 00:05:14.147 by many writers. 65 00:05:14.147 --> 00:05:15.949 I disagree with them. 66 00:05:15.949 --> 00:05:18.386 As a psychologist, I get to see a lot of people 67 00:05:18.386 --> 00:05:20.888 with obsessive-compulsive disorder. 68 00:05:20.888 --> 00:05:24.958 Nikola Tesla, for example, I would say, was a creative. 69 00:05:24.958 --> 00:05:29.730 He was somebody who could get so involved 70 00:05:29.730 --> 00:05:34.502 in all of his projects that he would be consumed totally. 71 00:05:34.502 --> 00:05:38.906 And whenever a creative person is creating, 72 00:05:38.906 --> 00:05:41.274 they're creating something totally new, 73 00:05:41.274 --> 00:05:43.811 something totally different. 74 00:05:43.811 --> 00:05:44.745 It's an escape. 75 00:05:44.745 --> 00:05:46.814 It's not the reality we know. 76 00:05:46.814 --> 00:05:48.516 When he talked about 77 00:05:48.516 --> 00:05:51.351 you might be able to carry this instrument 78 00:05:51.351 --> 00:05:53.921 in your pocket or your hands 79 00:05:53.921 --> 00:05:57.491 and you could see a loved one from way across the world 80 00:05:59.159 --> 00:06:01.595 and talk to them at the same time 81 00:06:01.595 --> 00:06:05.599 and put it in your back pocket, people at that time, 82 00:06:05.599 --> 00:06:09.603 they weren't ready for his kind of genius. 83 00:06:11.038 --> 00:06:15.509 This was a man who was known to speak over six languages. 84 00:06:15.509 --> 00:06:18.178 This was a man who was very well-read. 85 00:06:19.513 --> 00:06:22.450 You need a certain kinda divergent thinking 86 00:06:22.450 --> 00:06:26.554 in order for you to be able to think outside the box. 87 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:34.795 - In the year 1900, 88 00:06:34.795 --> 00:06:38.832 he forecast that you and I would have a cell phone. 89 00:06:38.832 --> 00:06:43.504 In 1900, he knew that you could wirelessly communicate 90 00:06:43.504 --> 00:06:45.138 and he knew that at some point 91 00:06:45.138 --> 00:06:48.408 not only would you wirelessly be able to communicate voice 92 00:06:48.408 --> 00:06:51.311 but you could wirelessly be able to communicate pictures. 93 00:06:52.813 --> 00:06:55.749 He saw all of that going into the future. 94 00:07:01.421 --> 00:07:02.656 Narrator: In his patent 95 00:07:02.656 --> 00:07:05.425 A Method of Signaling and System of Signaling, 96 00:07:05.425 --> 00:07:09.497 he describes in 1900 how messages of information 97 00:07:09.497 --> 00:07:13.000 should be wirelessly transferred with radio waves, 98 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:14.334 but that electric waves 99 00:07:14.334 --> 00:07:16.870 would not be electromagnetic, as hertz waves. 100 00:07:16.870 --> 00:07:18.405 His observation and work 101 00:07:18.405 --> 00:07:21.842 was to make the transmission of information highly private, 102 00:07:21.842 --> 00:07:23.911 that messages could not be interfered with, 103 00:07:23.911 --> 00:07:26.279 intercepted, or disturbed in any way, 104 00:07:26.279 --> 00:07:28.782 which is not the case with Hertzian waves. 105 00:07:37.390 --> 00:07:40.894 - Transmission of electricity by wirelessly 106 00:07:42.429 --> 00:07:44.932 is theoretically possible. 107 00:07:44.932 --> 00:07:49.402 There are all kinds of practical issues with it. 108 00:07:49.402 --> 00:07:51.539 There are political issues with it. 109 00:07:51.539 --> 00:07:54.708 We already have people who are very concerned 110 00:07:54.708 --> 00:07:58.045 about the electromagnetics given off by cell phones. 111 00:07:59.246 --> 00:08:01.214 Man: The wavelengths of the Tesla frequencies 112 00:08:01.214 --> 00:08:04.484 are extremely long, so there's no way that your body 113 00:08:04.484 --> 00:08:06.620 can get any electromagnetism out of it. 114 00:08:06.620 --> 00:08:08.055 It's just the electrostatic. 115 00:08:09.289 --> 00:08:11.659 The electrostatic is very closely related 116 00:08:11.659 --> 00:08:14.562 to the orgone or the life force. 117 00:08:14.562 --> 00:08:18.398 (speaking foreign language) 118 00:08:29.509 --> 00:08:32.279 - Tesla's frequencies, they behave in a different manner. 119 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.315 They actually have been found to be beneficial 120 00:08:35.315 --> 00:08:38.151 and were used for medical purposes for quite some time. 121 00:08:38.151 --> 00:08:41.021 But that's how Tesla continued to make money 122 00:08:41.021 --> 00:08:43.757 after the Wardenclyffe dive, 123 00:08:43.757 --> 00:08:48.128 because he worked for these electrotherapeutic companies 124 00:08:48.128 --> 00:08:51.865 like Fischer that made all of these Tesla transmitters 125 00:08:51.865 --> 00:08:54.434 and then they would apply the frequencies to the body 126 00:08:54.434 --> 00:08:56.036 and they were found to be beneficial 127 00:08:56.036 --> 00:08:58.806 because they're a different type of frequency. 128 00:08:58.806 --> 00:09:02.475 (broken radio transmission) 129 00:09:04.778 --> 00:09:07.347 - I mean, they had nothing to work with hardly. 130 00:09:07.347 --> 00:09:09.549 They had some wire and silk wrap 131 00:09:09.549 --> 00:09:12.285 and some wooden blocks and some brass screws, 132 00:09:12.285 --> 00:09:15.956 and they built this whole theory and proved everything 133 00:09:15.956 --> 00:09:17.557 with virtually nothing. 134 00:09:17.557 --> 00:09:20.160 Now, what kind of intellect can do that? 135 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:23.030 There's nobody on the planet today that could do that. 136 00:09:23.030 --> 00:09:25.298 Outta six billion people, there isn't one. 137 00:09:25.298 --> 00:09:26.566 (radio static crackling) 138 00:09:26.566 --> 00:09:28.301 - He didn't sleep much. 139 00:09:28.301 --> 00:09:29.469 He didn't need to sleep 140 00:09:29.469 --> 00:09:32.572 because he was nurtured by the prana, 141 00:09:32.572 --> 00:09:36.309 by life energy, by frequency, 142 00:09:36.309 --> 00:09:38.311 and that's what he was all about. 143 00:09:38.311 --> 00:09:40.180 He was all about frequency. 144 00:09:42.315 --> 00:09:43.751 Narrator: Everything in our reality 145 00:09:43.751 --> 00:09:45.552 has its own frequency. 146 00:09:45.552 --> 00:09:50.557 As we know, we can see between 440 and 770 terahertz. 147 00:09:51.058 --> 00:09:53.493 We hear between 20 and 20,000 hertz. 148 00:09:54.194 --> 00:09:58.498 Our heart beats at a frequency of 1 to 1.67 hertz. 149 00:09:58.498 --> 00:09:59.700 And our brain functions 150 00:09:59.700 --> 00:10:03.737 at a frequency between 0.5 and 30 hertz. 151 00:10:03.737 --> 00:10:05.873 The higher the frequency of the brain, 152 00:10:05.873 --> 00:10:08.776 the more alert or stressed we are. 153 00:10:08.776 --> 00:10:12.612 Now, Earth also has its own frequency, 154 00:10:12.612 --> 00:10:15.115 and it is the same as our brain 155 00:10:15.115 --> 00:10:18.218 when it is in a state of telepathic possibilities 156 00:10:18.218 --> 00:10:20.287 or state of global awareness. 157 00:10:20.287 --> 00:10:22.522 It is 7.83 hertz. 158 00:10:28.195 --> 00:10:31.564 Nikola: The gift of mental power comes from God, 159 00:10:31.564 --> 00:10:33.233 divine being. 160 00:10:33.233 --> 00:10:36.770 And if we concentrate our minds on the truth, 161 00:10:36.770 --> 00:10:39.740 we become in-tune with this great power. 162 00:10:48.148 --> 00:10:51.484 Narrator: Nikola Tesla's father was an orthodox priest, 163 00:10:51.484 --> 00:10:54.487 and the same fate was waiting for young Tesla. 164 00:10:55.622 --> 00:10:58.625 However, his mother inspired him to invent. 165 00:10:59.492 --> 00:11:01.094 She came from an inventor's family 166 00:11:01.094 --> 00:11:03.463 and was an inventor herself. 167 00:11:03.463 --> 00:11:05.598 From an early age, she played memory 168 00:11:05.598 --> 00:11:08.168 and telepathic games with her children. 169 00:11:08.168 --> 00:11:12.339 That is how she encouraged a special kind of thinking. 170 00:11:13.240 --> 00:11:16.744 At a very young age, he constructed a water turbine. 171 00:11:16.744 --> 00:11:19.579 He was fascinated by description of Niagara Falls 172 00:11:19.579 --> 00:11:21.114 that he found in books. 173 00:11:21.114 --> 00:11:22.515 In his imagination, 174 00:11:22.515 --> 00:11:25.753 he pictured a big wheel powered by the falls. 175 00:11:25.753 --> 00:11:30.190 30 years later, his childhood dream would come true. 176 00:11:32.492 --> 00:11:36.329 (speaking foreign language) 177 00:12:13.033 --> 00:12:14.567 - All of his inventions would come, 178 00:12:14.567 --> 00:12:17.838 he said it would come with a flash of light in his head 179 00:12:17.838 --> 00:12:21.541 and a big migraine, and then he would see the device. 180 00:12:21.541 --> 00:12:23.643 He was able to visualize the device 181 00:12:23.643 --> 00:12:27.014 that came with this flash of light in such detail 182 00:12:27.014 --> 00:12:30.050 that he didn't need to make a blueprint to build it. 183 00:12:30.050 --> 00:12:32.585 - And he'd see the schematic and that's all he'd see. 184 00:12:32.585 --> 00:12:34.654 He couldn't see people, he couldn't see anything else 185 00:12:34.654 --> 00:12:35.923 until that went away. 186 00:12:35.923 --> 00:12:37.590 But it was frozen in his mind long enough 187 00:12:37.590 --> 00:12:40.060 for once it went away, he could sit down and draw it out, 188 00:12:40.060 --> 00:12:42.662 all the detail, dimensions, everything. 189 00:12:42.662 --> 00:12:46.266 It was really weird, but in his way, he used it as a tool. 190 00:12:46.266 --> 00:12:49.169 (slow piano music) 191 00:12:51.504 --> 00:12:54.741 - His thought, his thinking, his genius 192 00:12:54.741 --> 00:12:58.045 rose above his origin 193 00:12:58.045 --> 00:13:00.881 and the tiny little village in which he was born 194 00:13:00.881 --> 00:13:05.718 and the country in which we were born, 195 00:13:05.718 --> 00:13:10.023 a country that (sighing) I would say is 196 00:13:11.691 --> 00:13:15.028 an unhappy place historically. 197 00:13:16.964 --> 00:13:21.034 Nikola: I am equally proud of my Serbian origin 198 00:13:21.034 --> 00:13:22.635 and Croatian homeland. 199 00:13:23.971 --> 00:13:27.040 - He invented radio control robots 200 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:29.943 so that people wouldn't have to go to war anymore. 201 00:13:29.943 --> 00:13:32.712 They could just send the machines to fight each other! 202 00:13:36.816 --> 00:13:38.418 But that didn't work. 203 00:13:39.953 --> 00:13:44.958 But he was not naive about the problems of human nature 204 00:13:45.458 --> 00:13:49.762 and what humanity as a group has to go through 205 00:13:49.762 --> 00:13:55.135 to emerge at this higher level of maturity. 206 00:14:04.444 --> 00:14:06.079 Woman: His big dream was that planet Earth 207 00:14:06.079 --> 00:14:08.415 will be endless source of energy 208 00:14:08.415 --> 00:14:10.951 and we will not need any gas, oil, 209 00:14:10.951 --> 00:14:14.621 any corporations, any wars, and all the bullshit. 210 00:14:14.621 --> 00:14:17.324 - So, in his vision, it would be a society 211 00:14:17.324 --> 00:14:20.793 that's not driven by material gain. 212 00:14:20.793 --> 00:14:25.798 It would be a society that's driven by connecting mankind 213 00:14:25.832 --> 00:14:28.035 to the highest possible level. 214 00:14:29.302 --> 00:14:31.671 - But I think the kind of ideal world he had, 215 00:14:31.671 --> 00:14:33.140 we are not ready for it. 216 00:14:33.140 --> 00:14:34.975 We have to change consciousness. 217 00:14:34.975 --> 00:14:38.878 It's all about how the human can change his consciousness. 218 00:14:38.878 --> 00:14:40.147 By changing consciousness, 219 00:14:40.147 --> 00:14:42.515 we can change the rest of the world 220 00:14:42.515 --> 00:14:45.352 with our own consciousness. 221 00:14:45.352 --> 00:14:47.054 - Because consciousness 222 00:14:47.054 --> 00:14:50.157 is not something you're manufacturing in your brain. 223 00:14:50.157 --> 00:14:52.625 Consciousness is your brain 224 00:14:52.625 --> 00:14:55.828 and your whole body acting as an antenna, 225 00:14:55.828 --> 00:14:58.031 tapping into this field of information. 226 00:14:58.031 --> 00:15:00.033 And I think Tesla knew this 227 00:15:00.033 --> 00:15:04.837 and he was very, very protective of that field 228 00:15:04.837 --> 00:15:08.075 so that he could download incredible information 229 00:15:08.075 --> 00:15:10.410 and apply it to technologies. 230 00:15:17.717 --> 00:15:20.387 - I think a lot of this personality of Tesla, 231 00:15:20.387 --> 00:15:27.227 that he tells the press that he's counting his silverware, 232 00:15:27.260 --> 00:15:29.896 he's polishing this, he doesn't wanna shake hands, 233 00:15:29.896 --> 00:15:32.265 he doesn't like pearls, things of that nature. 234 00:15:32.265 --> 00:15:35.568 And I thought, "This is his way 235 00:15:35.568 --> 00:15:37.770 "of fooling the press a little bit." 236 00:15:40.040 --> 00:15:42.942 (slow piano music) 237 00:15:45.278 --> 00:15:46.779 - When you become aware 238 00:15:46.779 --> 00:15:49.882 that you're bathing in this field of information 239 00:15:49.882 --> 00:15:52.785 and you become better at controlling it 240 00:15:52.785 --> 00:15:56.956 and expecting and extracting information from it, 241 00:15:58.358 --> 00:16:02.895 you become more sensitive to what's around you, 242 00:16:03.763 --> 00:16:05.632 the people that are around you, 243 00:16:05.632 --> 00:16:09.702 what they're thinking, how they influence the field. 244 00:16:09.702 --> 00:16:13.606 And that's why he didn't like to shake hands with people. 245 00:16:13.606 --> 00:16:18.445 He was very aware of any energies 246 00:16:18.445 --> 00:16:21.114 that were not of the highest. 247 00:16:21.114 --> 00:16:23.150 When he was trying to concentrate 248 00:16:23.150 --> 00:16:25.618 and download the information, 249 00:16:25.618 --> 00:16:30.123 he didn't necessarily want somebody around him 250 00:16:30.123 --> 00:16:33.260 that was kind of messing up the field. 251 00:16:33.260 --> 00:16:34.794 - That's also the reason why 252 00:16:34.794 --> 00:16:36.963 he probably didn't wanna get involved with a woman ever, 253 00:16:36.963 --> 00:16:40.567 because he could see the patterns of that into the future. 254 00:16:40.567 --> 00:16:42.502 He could see what it would entail 255 00:16:42.502 --> 00:16:44.504 for him to have a relationship with, 256 00:16:44.504 --> 00:16:47.340 any kind of intimate relationship with a person, 257 00:16:48.508 --> 00:16:51.078 how much it would take away from inventing 258 00:16:51.078 --> 00:16:53.180 all the stuff that we now take for granted. 259 00:16:56.783 --> 00:16:58.751 - He castrated himself not to have sex, 260 00:17:00.019 --> 00:17:04.457 'cause all this energy, he will dedicate it to science. 261 00:17:04.924 --> 00:17:08.295 I think, when you are such a degree of genius, 262 00:17:08.295 --> 00:17:11.831 solitude is something that you have to deal with 263 00:17:11.831 --> 00:17:13.100 all your life. 264 00:17:18.004 --> 00:17:20.773 Nikola: My brain is only a receiver. 265 00:17:20.773 --> 00:17:22.675 In the universe, there is a core 266 00:17:22.675 --> 00:17:27.147 from which we obtain knowledge, strength, and inspiration. 267 00:17:27.147 --> 00:17:31.451 I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, 268 00:17:31.451 --> 00:17:34.154 but I know that it exists. 269 00:17:41.828 --> 00:17:44.497 (phone ringing) 270 00:17:45.665 --> 00:17:47.066 - Yeah, basically, he was the first one 271 00:17:47.066 --> 00:17:49.536 to come up with a workable radio system. 272 00:17:51.838 --> 00:17:54.307 Radio, as he usually conceived it, 273 00:17:54.307 --> 00:17:56.876 was probably very similar to what we do now, 274 00:17:56.876 --> 00:17:59.212 but he realized very quickly 275 00:17:59.212 --> 00:18:01.848 that it's extremely inefficient. 276 00:18:01.848 --> 00:18:04.517 And you have to understand that Tesla's focus 277 00:18:04.517 --> 00:18:06.753 was totally on efficiency 278 00:18:06.753 --> 00:18:09.989 of the energy economics of the system. 279 00:18:12.759 --> 00:18:16.363 His electrodes were actually virtual antenna 280 00:18:16.363 --> 00:18:18.598 that was strictly for the storage of charge 281 00:18:18.598 --> 00:18:19.999 on a temporary basis. 282 00:18:19.999 --> 00:18:22.335 The actual signal was sent into the Earth. 283 00:18:25.205 --> 00:18:26.773 Narrator: He discovered that the Earth 284 00:18:26.773 --> 00:18:29.542 is a conductor of unlimited dimensions, 285 00:18:29.542 --> 00:18:31.711 like a vast reservoir, 286 00:18:31.711 --> 00:18:34.214 and behaves like an ocean when disturbed. 287 00:18:35.348 --> 00:18:36.883 No matter how much along its axis 288 00:18:36.883 --> 00:18:39.186 the Earth is disturbed with electric waves, 289 00:18:39.186 --> 00:18:42.789 it always keeps the same natural frequency. 290 00:18:50.096 --> 00:18:53.933 (speaking foreign language) 291 00:19:14.554 --> 00:19:16.789 Narrator: He discovered the natural frequency 292 00:19:16.789 --> 00:19:17.724 of the Earth. 293 00:19:17.890 --> 00:19:19.826 And not only that, he also discovered 294 00:19:19.826 --> 00:19:22.662 that the frequency that the Earth harmonizes with 295 00:19:22.662 --> 00:19:23.763 is an odd number. 296 00:19:25.398 --> 00:19:28.601 Nikola: If you only knew the magnificence 297 00:19:28.601 --> 00:19:32.472 of the three, six, and nine, 298 00:19:32.472 --> 00:19:35.242 then you would have a key to the universe. 299 00:19:37.910 --> 00:19:40.980 Woman: Attention: You're in ether. 300 00:19:40.980 --> 00:19:42.249 Narrator: In Tesla's time 301 00:19:42.249 --> 00:19:44.417 of discovering radio wave transmission, 302 00:19:44.417 --> 00:19:47.954 it was believed that they were traveling through ether. 303 00:19:49.989 --> 00:19:51.524 - All the way up to 1905, 304 00:19:51.524 --> 00:19:54.861 there's an energetic ether or an energetic substrate. 305 00:19:54.861 --> 00:19:59.432 It's absent for 25 years from 1905 to 1930, 306 00:19:59.432 --> 00:20:02.435 where the belief of the scientific community was it's empty. 307 00:20:02.435 --> 00:20:03.936 From 1930 on, 308 00:20:03.936 --> 00:20:06.506 when quantum electric dynamics became accepted, 309 00:20:06.506 --> 00:20:09.942 it came back as a far more energetic model. 310 00:20:09.942 --> 00:20:11.944 So, it's ironic that our beliefs today 311 00:20:11.944 --> 00:20:15.882 are dominated from such a small little window of history. 312 00:20:15.882 --> 00:20:18.217 - And a lotta people look at empty space 313 00:20:18.217 --> 00:20:19.486 and they think it's actually empty 314 00:20:19.486 --> 00:20:21.454 when it's filled with infinite potential. 315 00:20:23.856 --> 00:20:26.859 Narrator: He also wrote a formula for human energy 316 00:20:26.859 --> 00:20:29.962 that is the mass squared of velocity. 317 00:20:29.962 --> 00:20:32.332 He said, "Velocity is a force 318 00:20:32.332 --> 00:20:34.233 "governing everything in nature." 319 00:20:35.902 --> 00:20:39.339 If we look to Einstein's famous formula of relativity, 320 00:20:39.339 --> 00:20:43.242 it is the same, just that Einstein defined velocity 321 00:20:43.242 --> 00:20:46.212 as the speed of light instead of ether. 322 00:20:53.019 --> 00:20:55.422 He discovered that the discharged electricity 323 00:20:55.422 --> 00:20:56.656 of lightning in Earth 324 00:20:56.656 --> 00:20:58.858 travel from one side of the Earth to another 325 00:20:58.858 --> 00:21:03.863 at a speed of 471,240 kilometers per second. 326 00:21:08.234 --> 00:21:11.771 That is how he proved that the speed of light 327 00:21:11.771 --> 00:21:15.274 was not the ultimate speed in our reality. 328 00:21:17.944 --> 00:21:22.549 - What we have not yet managed to do is to unite gravity, 329 00:21:23.215 --> 00:21:25.785 which is the classical theory still, 330 00:21:25.785 --> 00:21:27.787 the classical theory of Einstein, 331 00:21:27.787 --> 00:21:31.023 and the quantum physical description 332 00:21:31.023 --> 00:21:33.593 of our other interactions. 333 00:21:33.593 --> 00:21:36.629 The basic question is can you find one law 334 00:21:36.629 --> 00:21:40.700 which contains all the different interactions in nature 335 00:21:40.700 --> 00:21:43.770 in one single expression? 336 00:21:43.770 --> 00:21:47.607 (speaking foreign language) 337 00:22:25.311 --> 00:22:27.847 Narrator: In 1900, he describes the importance 338 00:22:27.847 --> 00:22:32.284 of producing electrical power from renewable energy sources. 339 00:22:32.284 --> 00:22:35.254 He also described a wireless power transmission 340 00:22:35.254 --> 00:22:38.858 and transfer through a natural medium: Earth. 341 00:22:44.363 --> 00:22:47.366 Woman: Every year, the level of temperatures 342 00:22:47.366 --> 00:22:49.836 of our planet are rising 343 00:22:49.836 --> 00:22:54.373 because of the enormous usage of fossil fuels and coal. 344 00:22:54.373 --> 00:22:58.511 But if we would listen to Nikola Tesla 345 00:22:58.511 --> 00:23:00.513 and his plan for our future, 346 00:23:01.781 --> 00:23:05.885 we would not deal with climate changes now. 347 00:23:05.885 --> 00:23:08.855 - I believe that mankind has looked at climate change 348 00:23:08.855 --> 00:23:12.459 in that same way, as if it were a fiction, 349 00:23:12.459 --> 00:23:15.495 as if pretending that climate change wasn't real 350 00:23:15.495 --> 00:23:17.229 would somehow make it go away. 351 00:23:18.397 --> 00:23:20.900 But I think we all know better than that now. 352 00:23:20.900 --> 00:23:24.904 Every week, we're seeing new and undeniable climate events, 353 00:23:24.904 --> 00:23:29.041 evidence that accelerated climate change is here right now. 354 00:23:29.041 --> 00:23:30.910 Droughts are intensifying, 355 00:23:30.910 --> 00:23:33.546 our oceans are acidifying with methane plumes 356 00:23:33.546 --> 00:23:35.748 rising up from the ocean floor. 357 00:23:35.748 --> 00:23:37.884 We are seeing extreme weather events 358 00:23:37.884 --> 00:23:40.152 in the West Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets 359 00:23:40.152 --> 00:23:42.722 melting at unprecedented rates, 360 00:23:42.722 --> 00:23:45.658 decades ahead of scientific projections. 361 00:23:45.658 --> 00:23:49.596 The time to answer humankind's greatest challenge is now. 362 00:23:51.263 --> 00:23:54.501 - There are about seven billion people in the world. 363 00:23:54.501 --> 00:23:58.104 And so, now, not only do we have to find energy for people, 364 00:23:58.104 --> 00:24:00.372 but we have to do it in such a way 365 00:24:00.372 --> 00:24:05.277 so that it will not continue adding carbon dioxide 366 00:24:05.277 --> 00:24:08.447 and other greenhouse gases. 367 00:24:11.083 --> 00:24:14.921 (speaking foreign language) 368 00:24:41.313 --> 00:24:43.282 - What's incredible to me 369 00:24:43.282 --> 00:24:50.723 is that his name is now a brand of a car. (laughing) 370 00:24:51.090 --> 00:24:53.660 And that's how the majority of people know him. 371 00:24:56.829 --> 00:24:58.998 - But that was not Martin Abrahams idea. 372 00:24:58.998 --> 00:25:01.500 He was a fan of Nikola Tesla, 373 00:25:01.500 --> 00:25:03.102 particularly because Nikola Telsa 374 00:25:03.102 --> 00:25:06.606 invented the three-phase motor and three-phase electricity. 375 00:25:06.606 --> 00:25:08.340 And all of these motors that we use 376 00:25:08.340 --> 00:25:11.010 to drive these vehicles are three-phase motors. 377 00:25:11.010 --> 00:25:12.444 And it's one of those things 378 00:25:12.444 --> 00:25:15.114 that it seems it's obviously a very good idea 379 00:25:15.114 --> 00:25:16.683 after somebody thought of it, 380 00:25:16.683 --> 00:25:18.150 but somebody had to think of it first, 381 00:25:18.150 --> 00:25:19.451 and that was Nikola Tesla. 382 00:25:23.189 --> 00:25:27.093 - Tesla was studying three years in Graz. 383 00:25:28.294 --> 00:25:30.529 In the first two years, he was very successful. 384 00:25:30.529 --> 00:25:33.666 He was really good in mathematics and physics. 385 00:25:33.666 --> 00:25:36.135 Narrator: But one day, a new invention of that time 386 00:25:36.135 --> 00:25:37.637 came from Paris. 387 00:25:37.637 --> 00:25:40.039 It was Gramme's dynamo. 388 00:25:40.039 --> 00:25:42.942 While Professor Poeschl was making demonstrations, 389 00:25:42.942 --> 00:25:46.713 the brushes caused a problem, sparking badly. 390 00:25:46.713 --> 00:25:49.015 Tesla commented that it might be possible 391 00:25:49.015 --> 00:25:51.718 to operate a motor without these appliances. 392 00:25:52.819 --> 00:25:54.854 Professor Poeschl remarked that Mr. Tesla 393 00:25:54.854 --> 00:25:56.623 might accomplish great things, 394 00:25:56.623 --> 00:26:00.026 but that he would certainly never achieve that. 395 00:26:00.026 --> 00:26:01.894 It would be the equivalent of converting 396 00:26:01.894 --> 00:26:04.731 a steadily-pulling force like that of gravity 397 00:26:04.731 --> 00:26:06.565 into a rotary effort. 398 00:26:06.565 --> 00:26:10.169 It is a perpetual motion scheme, an impossible idea. 399 00:26:11.838 --> 00:26:14.573 Being humiliated in front of the whole class 400 00:26:14.573 --> 00:26:18.678 made Tesla shift his thinking to accept the challenge 401 00:26:18.678 --> 00:26:22.314 and prove that the impossible was possible. 402 00:26:23.149 --> 00:26:24.851 He left the university. 403 00:26:26.318 --> 00:26:27.854 He needed money. 404 00:26:27.854 --> 00:26:31.257 That is why he went to an industrial town, Maribor, 405 00:26:33.092 --> 00:26:36.195 where Nikola Tesla met Karl Scherbaum, 406 00:26:36.195 --> 00:26:38.865 who was trying to construct a little power station 407 00:26:38.865 --> 00:26:41.200 to produce electricity out of his bakery. 408 00:26:41.200 --> 00:26:43.770 Tesla got involved with this project. 409 00:26:43.770 --> 00:26:47.273 After he shared his ideas of the dynamo improvement 410 00:26:47.273 --> 00:26:50.042 and how to connect it to a steam mill, 411 00:26:50.042 --> 00:26:52.411 the police arrested him. 412 00:26:52.411 --> 00:26:56.783 The official police report from the 24th of March, 1879, 413 00:26:56.783 --> 00:27:01.287 says, "Nikola Tesla had to be escorted by police guard 414 00:27:01.287 --> 00:27:03.022 "to his hometown, Gospic. 415 00:27:04.456 --> 00:27:08.127 "The reason: no money, no job, 416 00:27:08.127 --> 00:27:11.230 "and no vision for the future." 417 00:27:11.230 --> 00:27:14.233 Only he knew that he was close to an invention 418 00:27:14.233 --> 00:27:16.568 that could change the whole world, 419 00:27:16.568 --> 00:27:18.137 but no one believed him anymore. 420 00:27:22.308 --> 00:27:24.977 Nikola: Energy of a single thought 421 00:27:24.977 --> 00:27:28.280 may determine the motion of a universe. 422 00:27:30.316 --> 00:27:32.618 Narrator: To fulfill the last wish of his father, 423 00:27:32.618 --> 00:27:36.155 he went to Prague and signed up for philosophical studies 424 00:27:36.155 --> 00:27:37.656 at the Charles University. 425 00:27:38.891 --> 00:27:41.160 In Prague, he spent most of the time 426 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:42.661 in the Klementinum Library. 427 00:27:44.596 --> 00:27:45.898 Earth's magnetic field 428 00:27:45.898 --> 00:27:49.001 makes the moon rotate around our planet. 429 00:27:49.001 --> 00:27:51.603 The sun makes the Earth and moon rotate 430 00:27:51.603 --> 00:27:54.640 by its strong magnetic field around the sun. 431 00:27:54.640 --> 00:27:58.410 But how to imitate that magnetic field from the cosmos 432 00:27:58.410 --> 00:28:00.646 into the rotation of a motor. 433 00:28:02.148 --> 00:28:05.651 In Budapest, he was focusing so much on his invention 434 00:28:05.651 --> 00:28:07.854 that he got sensitive to any vibration. 435 00:28:09.021 --> 00:28:11.791 The whistle of a locomotive 30 miles away 436 00:28:11.791 --> 00:28:13.860 made vibrations so strong 437 00:28:13.860 --> 00:28:16.996 that the pain in his body was unbearable. 438 00:28:16.996 --> 00:28:20.800 The ground under his feet trembled continuously. 439 00:28:20.800 --> 00:28:23.002 And then, one day, 440 00:28:24.370 --> 00:28:26.839 his motor appeared in his mind. 441 00:28:28.274 --> 00:28:31.010 (ethereal music) 442 00:28:35.882 --> 00:28:38.985 (folksy piano music) 443 00:28:40.452 --> 00:28:41.287 1884. 444 00:28:42.321 --> 00:28:44.490 Nikola Tesla arrives in America. 445 00:28:45.792 --> 00:28:48.327 - Tesla, who came on his own volition 446 00:28:48.327 --> 00:28:55.034 with essentially no family or no money available to him, 447 00:28:55.234 --> 00:28:59.738 only a letter of credit from the Edison functions in Paris. 448 00:29:04.710 --> 00:29:07.980 Narrator: Edison gives him a job, but is not interested 449 00:29:07.980 --> 00:29:11.250 in Tesla's electromagnetic motor invention. 450 00:29:11.250 --> 00:29:14.686 He is there to improve Edison direct current motors. 451 00:29:16.255 --> 00:29:19.358 Edison promises him $50,000 for that. 452 00:29:20.659 --> 00:29:21.928 - And Edison had all these problems 453 00:29:21.928 --> 00:29:23.362 with these big DC systems 454 00:29:23.362 --> 00:29:27.033 'cause they are creating these massive magnetic fields; 455 00:29:27.033 --> 00:29:29.368 I mean, just massive. 456 00:29:29.368 --> 00:29:33.105 You're running DC current down from one end of Manhattan 457 00:29:33.105 --> 00:29:36.742 to the other through cables; I mean, cables this big. 458 00:29:36.742 --> 00:29:39.211 Thousands of amps at just 100 volts 459 00:29:39.211 --> 00:29:41.580 'cause Edison didn't like voltage. 460 00:29:41.580 --> 00:29:43.582 So, he worked with everything at 100 volts, 461 00:29:43.582 --> 00:29:47.286 which is, from an engineering standpoint, is brain-dead, 462 00:29:47.286 --> 00:29:50.422 but he was convinced 100 volts wouldn't kill anybody. 463 00:29:54.726 --> 00:29:57.964 Narrator: Tesla makes 24 new designs for him, 464 00:29:57.964 --> 00:30:02.134 but the payment turns out to be just a joke. 465 00:30:03.802 --> 00:30:06.305 Tesla answered Edison's joke 466 00:30:06.305 --> 00:30:09.475 by patenting all the improvements he did for Edison 467 00:30:09.475 --> 00:30:14.046 so that Edison could not legally use Tesla's unpaid work. 468 00:30:14.046 --> 00:30:18.817 This sets off a rivalry between Tesla and Edison. 469 00:30:21.320 --> 00:30:23.322 The climax of their competition 470 00:30:23.322 --> 00:30:26.225 was when Nikola Tesla, together with Westinghouse, 471 00:30:26.225 --> 00:30:28.895 signed a contract to light up Chicago. 472 00:30:30.596 --> 00:30:32.831 Man: The age of electricity had arrived. 473 00:30:36.602 --> 00:30:39.271 Narrator: Chicago was the first city in the world 474 00:30:39.271 --> 00:30:43.475 lit by electric power, and it was Nikola Tesla's invention 475 00:30:43.475 --> 00:30:48.280 of an electromagnetic motor that produced AC power. 476 00:30:48.280 --> 00:30:50.983 That was a truly historical moment 477 00:30:50.983 --> 00:30:53.852 and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. 478 00:30:55.955 --> 00:30:58.958 27 million visitors from 46 countries 479 00:30:58.958 --> 00:31:02.028 from all around the world came to see the exhibition. 480 00:31:03.429 --> 00:31:07.033 Tesla proved that he was the most important inventor 481 00:31:07.033 --> 00:31:08.200 in the world 482 00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:11.270 and that the impossible was possible 483 00:31:11.270 --> 00:31:15.007 if you followed your dreams and instinct. 484 00:31:15.007 --> 00:31:18.610 The world at once knew the name Nikola Tesla. 485 00:31:23.049 --> 00:31:27.719 - Tesla's first connection was to connect Niagara Falls, 486 00:31:27.719 --> 00:31:30.489 the electric energy from Niagara Falls, 487 00:31:30.489 --> 00:31:32.691 to the electric grid. 488 00:31:32.691 --> 00:31:36.062 Thomas Edison was still relying on coal. 489 00:31:38.130 --> 00:31:41.367 - Tesla achieved replacing all the coal, 490 00:31:41.367 --> 00:31:44.370 individual coal-fired plants that were in people factories 491 00:31:44.370 --> 00:31:47.573 that were sickening and poisoning everybody around him, 492 00:31:47.573 --> 00:31:51.210 into electric motors and cleaning the whole thing up. 493 00:31:51.210 --> 00:31:55.047 - But the ultimate goal was to take from a source 494 00:31:55.047 --> 00:31:56.515 that was basically free. 495 00:31:56.515 --> 00:31:58.817 Of course, then the power from Niagara Falls 496 00:31:58.817 --> 00:32:02.921 was transmitted via a polyphase power system 497 00:32:02.921 --> 00:32:05.924 to cities like Buffalo and New York City. 498 00:32:07.159 --> 00:32:09.361 Narrator: He developed 40 inventions 499 00:32:09.361 --> 00:32:12.764 for producing and distributing electric energy. 500 00:32:12.764 --> 00:32:15.167 In all this time, changes were only made 501 00:32:15.167 --> 00:32:17.203 in the development of materials. 502 00:32:17.203 --> 00:32:19.605 His invention of the AC power system 503 00:32:19.605 --> 00:32:23.175 are still being used today and have remained unchanged. 504 00:32:28.880 --> 00:32:32.718 (speaking foreign language) 505 00:32:54.806 --> 00:32:57.976 - Tesla was the father of renewable energy 506 00:32:57.976 --> 00:33:01.213 because hydroelectric power is renewable. 507 00:33:01.213 --> 00:33:04.650 The water evaporates, it comes down as rain, 508 00:33:04.650 --> 00:33:06.418 fills the lakes, 509 00:33:06.418 --> 00:33:11.423 because those sources do not provide CO2 into the atmosphere 510 00:33:12.791 --> 00:33:15.961 and they do not therefore create a climate change problem. 511 00:33:27.673 --> 00:33:29.775 - The electric cars have been around for a very long time. 512 00:33:29.775 --> 00:33:33.112 In the early-1900s, there were quite a few electric cars. 513 00:33:33.112 --> 00:33:34.313 For a while there, 514 00:33:34.313 --> 00:33:35.814 they were more popular than gasoline cars 515 00:33:35.814 --> 00:33:38.016 'cause you didn't have to start them with a crank handle. 516 00:33:38.016 --> 00:33:39.985 But the batteries, of course, weren't great. 517 00:33:39.985 --> 00:33:42.354 So, the big thing that's changed now 518 00:33:42.354 --> 00:33:44.323 is that we've got vastly better batteries, 519 00:33:44.323 --> 00:33:45.691 and of course we've got all the electronics 520 00:33:45.691 --> 00:33:47.793 and software to control the motors. 521 00:33:49.195 --> 00:33:52.298 So, electric cars actually predated gasoline cars. 522 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:57.002 (ethereal music) 523 00:33:58.537 --> 00:34:00.206 Part of the vision of the Tesla founders 524 00:34:00.206 --> 00:34:02.941 was to change the public perception of electric cars, 525 00:34:02.941 --> 00:34:05.344 and I think that Tesla Motors has succeeded 526 00:34:05.344 --> 00:34:06.845 enormously well at doing that. 527 00:34:07.946 --> 00:34:10.649 First, you have to remember this was 2003, 528 00:34:10.649 --> 00:34:13.219 so that's the year that the California mandate 529 00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:15.954 for zero-emission vehicles got repealed 530 00:34:15.954 --> 00:34:17.989 and you couldn't buy an electric car. 531 00:34:17.989 --> 00:34:20.058 All of the ones that had been on the market, 532 00:34:20.058 --> 00:34:23.195 like the General Motors EV1 were taken off the market, 533 00:34:23.195 --> 00:34:25.063 and the EV1s were actually taken back 534 00:34:25.063 --> 00:34:26.565 by General Motors and crushed. 535 00:34:27.466 --> 00:34:28.700 Well, the only reason 536 00:34:28.700 --> 00:34:30.402 that people didn't all drive electric cars 537 00:34:30.402 --> 00:34:31.637 was 'cause, well, you couldn't buy one. (laughing) 538 00:34:31.637 --> 00:34:33.672 Someone had to make one. 539 00:34:43.915 --> 00:34:45.217 There's a great tendency for people to think 540 00:34:45.217 --> 00:34:48.354 that electric cars are zero-emission. 541 00:34:48.354 --> 00:34:50.822 Well, they're zero-emission at the car. 542 00:34:50.822 --> 00:34:52.424 But if you plug them into the grid, 543 00:34:52.424 --> 00:34:55.093 then they're getting electricity from the national grid, 544 00:34:55.093 --> 00:34:57.163 and a lot of that is still coal. 545 00:34:57.163 --> 00:34:59.331 So, in the US, that's about 40%. 546 00:34:59.331 --> 00:35:01.933 In Australia, it's 69%. 547 00:35:01.933 --> 00:35:04.870 In China, it's over 90% coal. 548 00:35:04.870 --> 00:35:05.937 So, it depends where you are. 549 00:35:05.937 --> 00:35:07.573 For most countries in the world, 550 00:35:07.573 --> 00:35:09.608 if you plug an electric car into the grid, 551 00:35:09.608 --> 00:35:10.609 you're burning coal. 552 00:35:17.216 --> 00:35:20.752 Narrator: What if an alternative system already exists, 553 00:35:20.752 --> 00:35:22.521 one that could charge our telephones, 554 00:35:22.521 --> 00:35:25.524 computers, and electric cars wirelessly? 555 00:35:26.392 --> 00:35:30.128 (speaking foreign language) 556 00:35:52.451 --> 00:35:54.920 Woman: Tesla intended for this place 557 00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:57.589 to be what he called his radio city. 558 00:35:57.589 --> 00:36:01.327 He intended it to be a place of communication system 559 00:36:01.327 --> 00:36:03.762 and an energy-generating facility. 560 00:36:11.903 --> 00:36:14.005 Narrator: In 1901, he began to build 561 00:36:14.005 --> 00:36:17.976 his Wardenclyffe Tower as a magnifying transmitter. 562 00:36:17.976 --> 00:36:21.112 - He was trying to build a huge Tesla coil 563 00:36:21.112 --> 00:36:25.817 that would electrify the ionosphere and enable free power 564 00:36:25.817 --> 00:36:28.086 for everybody that has an antenna. 565 00:36:28.086 --> 00:36:30.689 He would imitate lightning and reflect them to the Earth. 566 00:36:30.689 --> 00:36:32.858 That electric charge that would accumulate 567 00:36:32.858 --> 00:36:34.360 in the globe of the tower 568 00:36:34.360 --> 00:36:37.696 would then be transmitted in pulses through the Earth. 569 00:36:38.864 --> 00:36:40.532 Like that, energy and information 570 00:36:40.532 --> 00:36:42.601 would be transmitted instantly 571 00:36:42.601 --> 00:36:45.371 to every point on Earth into a small device. 572 00:36:46.605 --> 00:36:49.107 It is this patent that our mobile telephones 573 00:36:49.107 --> 00:36:51.943 as well as wifi devices were developed from. 574 00:36:53.111 --> 00:36:55.947 But how would we use that? 575 00:36:55.947 --> 00:36:58.717 We would stick a device like a wifi modem 576 00:36:58.717 --> 00:37:00.886 directly with the wire into the ground 577 00:37:00.886 --> 00:37:02.721 in front of our house. 578 00:37:02.721 --> 00:37:05.691 This would receive power and information from the Earth 579 00:37:05.691 --> 00:37:08.627 and at the same time distribute it further through the air 580 00:37:08.627 --> 00:37:11.162 to devices that need electric energy to work. 581 00:37:11.162 --> 00:37:13.732 Each device would then have a small receiver 582 00:37:13.732 --> 00:37:17.202 the size of a watch that would be placed into the product, 583 00:37:17.202 --> 00:37:20.238 like receivers of wifi transmission today in computers, 584 00:37:20.238 --> 00:37:21.807 which detect these signals. 585 00:37:23.041 --> 00:37:25.076 Our mobiles would work the same way, 586 00:37:25.076 --> 00:37:27.679 just that the signal would be covered everywhere you go 587 00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:29.681 and not change by bad weather. 588 00:37:29.681 --> 00:37:32.384 In addition, we would not need to charge them 589 00:37:32.384 --> 00:37:34.586 or anything else anymore. 590 00:37:37.889 --> 00:37:41.493 Tesla envisioned that we would power not only houses 591 00:37:41.493 --> 00:37:44.596 but cars, trains, and airplanes too. 592 00:37:44.596 --> 00:37:46.932 It would not be necessary to dig into the Earth 593 00:37:46.932 --> 00:37:49.267 for fossil fuels or coal anymore. 594 00:37:49.267 --> 00:37:52.103 We would use the Earth and ionizing air 595 00:37:52.103 --> 00:37:56.041 to do what nature naturally uses it to do. 596 00:38:02.013 --> 00:38:05.851 (speaking foreign language) 597 00:38:36.648 --> 00:38:39.284 Narrator: The tower was almost completely finished, 598 00:38:39.284 --> 00:38:41.487 but Tesla was left without money. 599 00:38:42.888 --> 00:38:47.158 - JP Morgan was one of the main financial backers for Tesla 600 00:38:47.158 --> 00:38:48.827 with this project. 601 00:38:48.827 --> 00:38:52.664 There came a point when Guglielmo Marconi 602 00:38:52.664 --> 00:38:55.333 sent a trans-Atlantic message, 603 00:38:55.333 --> 00:39:00.338 made a big splash with what he was able to do. 604 00:39:00.672 --> 00:39:02.841 Meanwhile, he had been using Tesla's patents 605 00:39:02.841 --> 00:39:05.511 and Tesla's work to be able to do that. 606 00:39:05.511 --> 00:39:08.447 What Morgan had supported here 607 00:39:08.447 --> 00:39:10.649 was the idea that Tesla would be able to send 608 00:39:10.649 --> 00:39:12.651 that kind of communication. 609 00:39:12.651 --> 00:39:13.952 So, once Marconi did it, 610 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:17.989 Morgan no longer had any use for what Tesla was doing. 611 00:39:17.989 --> 00:39:20.191 It had already been done by someone else. 612 00:39:20.191 --> 00:39:25.330 And so, his interest in supporting the continued work here 613 00:39:25.631 --> 00:39:27.933 was no longer part of his plan. 614 00:39:31.837 --> 00:39:34.440 Tesla went to him and said, "Well, I have greater plans 615 00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.375 "than just sending a trans-Atlantic message. 616 00:39:37.375 --> 00:39:41.513 "I want to create an opportunity for people to have 617 00:39:41.513 --> 00:39:44.182 "unlimited amounts of energy transported." 618 00:39:44.182 --> 00:39:46.718 - JP Morgan said, "Nobody's pulling up to my gas pump 619 00:39:46.718 --> 00:39:48.554 "and getting the gas for free," 620 00:39:49.988 --> 00:39:52.691 and Nikola Tesla wanted to give it to the world for free 621 00:39:52.691 --> 00:39:54.192 for the betterment of mankind. 622 00:40:03.068 --> 00:40:05.136 Nikola: For our existence and comfort, 623 00:40:05.136 --> 00:40:09.541 we require heat, light, and mechanical power. 624 00:40:09.541 --> 00:40:12.343 How do we now get all these things? 625 00:40:12.343 --> 00:40:14.145 We get them from fuel. 626 00:40:14.145 --> 00:40:16.181 We get them by consuming material. 627 00:40:17.583 --> 00:40:20.852 What will man do when the forests disappear, 628 00:40:20.852 --> 00:40:23.021 when the coalfields are exhausted? 629 00:40:32.931 --> 00:40:36.334 - They literally turned off the public's mind. 630 00:40:36.334 --> 00:40:38.436 They manipulated the public's mind. 631 00:40:38.436 --> 00:40:41.873 They'd hypnotize 'em into a sleep and forgetfulness. 632 00:40:42.841 --> 00:40:45.176 The media was new and fresh then and they realized 633 00:40:45.176 --> 00:40:47.579 that they could really manipulate whole populations with it, 634 00:40:47.579 --> 00:40:49.247 and that's what they did with Nikola Tesla. 635 00:40:49.247 --> 00:40:51.349 They took this new form, the new mediums, 636 00:40:51.349 --> 00:40:53.051 they bought up all the newspapers, 637 00:40:53.885 --> 00:40:57.388 and they used it to put the public to sleep about this. 638 00:41:16.141 --> 00:41:19.477 - "Tesla's work holds the mark of genius 639 00:41:19.477 --> 00:41:20.912 "and he has been a pioneer 640 00:41:20.912 --> 00:41:24.082 "in vast fields of electrotechnology. 641 00:41:24.082 --> 00:41:28.086 "However, his contributions lie too far back in time, 642 00:41:28.086 --> 00:41:32.490 "40 years, to be considered for a Nobel Prize award." 643 00:41:32.490 --> 00:41:37.395 Interesting is that the Nobel Committee really states 644 00:41:37.428 --> 00:41:40.398 that Tesla's work holds the mark of genius. 645 00:41:43.969 --> 00:41:45.303 Narrator: Was that really the reason 646 00:41:45.303 --> 00:41:48.974 why Tesla did not get the Nobel Prize in 1937, 647 00:41:48.974 --> 00:41:51.743 because his inventions were too old? 648 00:41:51.743 --> 00:41:54.980 Or was there something else that happened before 649 00:41:54.980 --> 00:41:57.415 that prevented him from getting the Nobel Prize? 650 00:41:59.618 --> 00:42:02.988 (radio static crackling) 651 00:42:10.461 --> 00:42:14.132 (telegraph machine beeping) 652 00:42:17.435 --> 00:42:20.371 In 1909, the Nobel Prize in Physics 653 00:42:20.371 --> 00:42:22.507 was given to Guglielmo Marconi 654 00:42:22.507 --> 00:42:24.776 for recognition to contributions 655 00:42:24.776 --> 00:42:27.278 of the development of wireless telegraphy. 656 00:42:28.513 --> 00:42:31.216 - They underline that Tesla had made 657 00:42:31.216 --> 00:42:34.686 the most crucial improvements. 658 00:42:34.686 --> 00:42:37.455 Since we have known that Marconi got the prize, 659 00:42:37.455 --> 00:42:38.890 you can't go back. 660 00:42:38.890 --> 00:42:41.793 If you have a made a decision, it might be totally wrong. 661 00:42:43.962 --> 00:42:46.464 - He would never be granted a patent 662 00:42:46.464 --> 00:42:50.869 because Tesla already had the patents granted in his name. 663 00:42:50.869 --> 00:42:54.205 But after he became associated with JP Morgan, 664 00:42:54.205 --> 00:42:57.542 magically, the patents were granted. 665 00:42:57.542 --> 00:43:02.080 So, money has a lot to say about how these things get done. 666 00:43:05.016 --> 00:43:07.052 Narrator: The last years of Tesla's life 667 00:43:07.052 --> 00:43:08.820 were mostly spent in court, 668 00:43:08.820 --> 00:43:10.889 defending his patents and inventions. 669 00:43:12.057 --> 00:43:13.892 Marconi's company was selling licenses 670 00:43:13.892 --> 00:43:15.761 for radio transmission in the US 671 00:43:15.761 --> 00:43:19.064 and getting big fees for using radio transmission. 672 00:43:19.064 --> 00:43:22.233 But when they also wanted to get paid from the US government 673 00:43:22.233 --> 00:43:24.569 for their contribution of using radio communication 674 00:43:24.569 --> 00:43:27.673 in World War I, the trial started. 675 00:43:27.673 --> 00:43:31.176 There were enormous financial interests behind this trial. 676 00:43:32.410 --> 00:43:34.245 - And all that information was then used 677 00:43:34.245 --> 00:43:36.748 to form the RCA Corporation, 678 00:43:36.748 --> 00:43:41.386 which became a very big moneymaker for the establishment. 679 00:43:44.890 --> 00:43:45.757 - And at that time, 680 00:43:46.257 --> 00:43:49.527 that's when they started to attack his reputation, 681 00:43:49.861 --> 00:43:53.799 try to make him look like a kook and a crank in the press. 682 00:43:53.799 --> 00:43:56.234 By the early-'40s, he had been nearly forgotten. 683 00:44:00.605 --> 00:44:04.542 - For many years, Nikola Tesla lived in the Waldorf-Astoria. 684 00:44:04.542 --> 00:44:08.646 And over that time, John Jacob Astor and he were friends. 685 00:44:08.646 --> 00:44:11.783 Once Astor died in the Titanic, 686 00:44:11.783 --> 00:44:15.053 the property at the Waldorf was owned by another man; 687 00:44:15.053 --> 00:44:16.755 his name was George Boldt. 688 00:44:16.755 --> 00:44:19.490 And not long after that, Mr. Boldt died. 689 00:44:19.490 --> 00:44:23.094 And over those years, Tesla wasn't paying his rent. 690 00:44:23.094 --> 00:44:24.996 He was living there on credit. 691 00:44:24.996 --> 00:44:27.332 And once those two gentlemen died, 692 00:44:27.332 --> 00:44:30.635 Boldt's heirs decided they wanted to have Tesla 693 00:44:30.635 --> 00:44:34.239 pay what he owed them, and he didn't have the money. 694 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.642 So, the heirs to George Boldt brought him to court. 695 00:44:37.642 --> 00:44:41.479 In 1915, he lost ownership of the property 696 00:44:41.479 --> 00:44:46.484 and it was taken over by those people he owed a debt to, 697 00:44:47.085 --> 00:44:50.188 primarily the heirs to the Waldorf-Astoria. 698 00:44:54.659 --> 00:44:57.128 - They did everything in the power to discredit him 699 00:44:57.128 --> 00:44:58.529 so he would never be able to achieve that, 700 00:44:58.529 --> 00:45:00.431 that he would never be able to get funding 701 00:45:00.431 --> 00:45:02.968 from somebody else to achieve free energy, 702 00:45:05.170 --> 00:45:08.339 which I think was one of the biggest crimes against humanity 703 00:45:08.339 --> 00:45:10.175 that ever happened. 704 00:45:10.175 --> 00:45:13.444 (plodding piano music) 705 00:45:15.046 --> 00:45:18.283 Nikola: I don't care that they stole my idea. 706 00:45:18.283 --> 00:45:21.019 I care that they don't have any of their own. 707 00:45:32.798 --> 00:45:35.967 Narrator: It is time to learn the truth 708 00:45:35.967 --> 00:45:38.636 about wireless power transmission, 709 00:45:38.636 --> 00:45:40.571 which once existed on Earth, 710 00:45:40.571 --> 00:45:43.875 not only as an idea but as a functional system 711 00:45:45.543 --> 00:45:49.647 from which we still use today's systems of communication. 712 00:45:49.647 --> 00:45:51.349 - We started putting the pieces together 713 00:45:51.349 --> 00:45:52.851 and started doing experimentation 714 00:45:52.851 --> 00:45:56.221 where we actually have duplicated some of his work, 715 00:45:56.221 --> 00:45:58.056 and especially with his power claims 716 00:45:58.056 --> 00:46:00.691 that he could generate massive amounts of electricity 717 00:46:00.691 --> 00:46:03.161 for small amounts of horsepower, 718 00:46:03.161 --> 00:46:06.397 which means I don't have to burn coal and oil 719 00:46:06.397 --> 00:46:08.934 in great big mountains to get my electricity. 720 00:46:10.235 --> 00:46:13.071 We could take power out, get 50 watts in, 721 00:46:13.071 --> 00:46:14.505 take that same power we use, 722 00:46:14.505 --> 00:46:16.041 send it back through the transformer 723 00:46:16.041 --> 00:46:17.742 and cancel out the input power 724 00:46:17.742 --> 00:46:20.611 and measure one watt at the transformer 725 00:46:20.611 --> 00:46:22.713 and 50 watts at the pole. 726 00:46:25.383 --> 00:46:27.853 - Wrightspeed is a powertrain company. 727 00:46:27.853 --> 00:46:30.188 We make powertrains, not vehicles; 728 00:46:30.188 --> 00:46:32.123 all the stuff that makes them go. 729 00:46:32.123 --> 00:46:35.260 And they're electric powertrains for heavy-duty vehicles. 730 00:46:36.427 --> 00:46:37.929 The big difference though with this 731 00:46:37.929 --> 00:46:41.599 is that it's got an onboard generator for the range extender 732 00:46:41.599 --> 00:46:43.434 that can burn fuel onboard 733 00:46:43.434 --> 00:46:46.237 and make electricity to keep the battery charged, 734 00:46:46.237 --> 00:46:48.039 so you can keep driving forever. 735 00:46:49.140 --> 00:46:50.575 - Hyperloops is often called 736 00:46:50.575 --> 00:46:52.110 the fifth mode of transportation. 737 00:46:52.110 --> 00:46:54.445 Imagine a capsule and moving 738 00:46:54.445 --> 00:46:58.083 basically just below the speed of sound. 739 00:46:58.083 --> 00:46:59.617 So, the capsule levitates 740 00:46:59.617 --> 00:47:02.753 through a passive magnetic levitation technology 741 00:47:02.753 --> 00:47:04.155 called Inductrack. 742 00:47:04.155 --> 00:47:06.824 The whole system is powered by alternative energy. 743 00:47:06.824 --> 00:47:09.594 So, you have solar panels along the track, 744 00:47:09.594 --> 00:47:11.963 so using the same right-of-way. 745 00:47:11.963 --> 00:47:13.231 And we're using wind, 746 00:47:13.231 --> 00:47:15.766 kinetic energy through regenerative breaking, 747 00:47:15.766 --> 00:47:18.269 and, depending on the climate, even geothermal 748 00:47:18.269 --> 00:47:20.939 to potentially produce more energy 749 00:47:20.939 --> 00:47:22.307 than we're actually using. 750 00:47:22.307 --> 00:47:24.575 We realized very early on 751 00:47:24.575 --> 00:47:27.145 that in order to make Hyperloop happen, 752 00:47:27.145 --> 00:47:29.981 we needed to build more than just a company. 753 00:47:29.981 --> 00:47:31.516 We needed to build a movement. 754 00:47:31.516 --> 00:47:35.120 I think that if you have a single person like Nikola Tesla 755 00:47:35.120 --> 00:47:38.623 who has great ideas, great capabilities, 756 00:47:38.623 --> 00:47:41.259 and what it really takes then to move it forward 757 00:47:41.259 --> 00:47:44.429 is to find other people passionate about the same thing 758 00:47:44.429 --> 00:47:46.831 that help him to elevate the thing. 759 00:47:46.831 --> 00:47:50.335 It's always good to have the genius 760 00:47:50.335 --> 00:47:53.504 and also understand how to get something to the market. 761 00:47:57.208 --> 00:48:01.012 - And apparently, Swamiji and Tesla got along very well. 762 00:48:01.012 --> 00:48:04.449 Tesla was very impressed with him, and Swamiji also. 763 00:48:04.449 --> 00:48:08.519 In Tesla's writing, he always used these Sanskrit terms. 764 00:48:08.519 --> 00:48:12.958 (speaking foreign language) can be translated as 'ether', 765 00:48:12.958 --> 00:48:16.394 basic building blocks of nature. 766 00:48:16.394 --> 00:48:20.298 So, even before creation, this ether will exist. 767 00:48:21.499 --> 00:48:25.470 And Swamiji thought that he could mathematically prove 768 00:48:25.470 --> 00:48:28.373 the equivalency, so that matter and energy 769 00:48:28.373 --> 00:48:30.075 were not two different things. 770 00:48:30.075 --> 00:48:33.044 And Swamiji felt that if Tesla could do this, 771 00:48:33.044 --> 00:48:36.047 this would give him mathematical proof to this idea 772 00:48:36.047 --> 00:48:39.884 that was accepted thousands of years ago in India. 773 00:48:42.487 --> 00:48:44.990 - Our main goal is to understand better 774 00:48:44.990 --> 00:48:48.659 what was the evolution of the laws of nature 775 00:48:48.659 --> 00:48:51.362 in the very early moments of the universe, 776 00:48:51.362 --> 00:48:53.231 just after the Big Bang. 777 00:48:53.231 --> 00:48:56.234 We have now approached that initial moment 778 00:48:56.234 --> 00:48:58.569 to about one-trillionth of a second. 779 00:48:58.569 --> 00:49:00.771 I mean, what don't know what caused the Big Bang 780 00:49:00.771 --> 00:49:04.542 and we don't know what kind of energy was available 781 00:49:04.542 --> 00:49:07.945 because we have no way of going beyond the Big Bang. 782 00:49:09.114 --> 00:49:13.418 So, I guess that's a metaphysical question. 783 00:49:14.785 --> 00:49:17.288 Nikola: The day science begins to study 784 00:49:17.288 --> 00:49:19.557 nonphysical phenomena, 785 00:49:19.557 --> 00:49:22.560 it will make more progress in one decade 786 00:49:22.560 --> 00:49:26.097 than in all the previous centuries of its existence. 787 00:49:28.066 --> 00:49:30.768 Narrator: To understand the Wardenclyffe project, 788 00:49:30.768 --> 00:49:33.771 do we need a small shift in our understanding? 789 00:49:34.772 --> 00:49:38.109 (electricity crackling) 790 00:49:39.377 --> 00:49:41.312 - Boy, nobody ever asks the question: 791 00:49:41.312 --> 00:49:43.248 What did he do with a Tesla coil? 792 00:49:44.815 --> 00:49:47.285 He had ways to where he could take that high voltage 793 00:49:47.285 --> 00:49:48.619 and oscillate at right frequencies 794 00:49:48.619 --> 00:49:50.655 to where he could trick electrons 795 00:49:50.655 --> 00:49:54.325 in a way to where they opened what we call the ether valve. 796 00:49:54.325 --> 00:49:55.726 Some of the experiments, 797 00:49:56.827 --> 00:49:58.796 he would go to the far end of Long Island 798 00:49:58.796 --> 00:50:01.832 in the darkest, darkest part he could get away from lights 799 00:50:01.832 --> 00:50:03.301 and then he'd hook up 800 00:50:03.301 --> 00:50:06.171 this small high-voltage Tesla coil-type system he had. 801 00:50:06.171 --> 00:50:09.607 And what it would do, it would take the layers of nitrogen 802 00:50:09.607 --> 00:50:13.978 in the atmosphere along that wire and it would ionize 803 00:50:13.978 --> 00:50:17.248 and he would strip the electrons off that layer of gas. 804 00:50:17.248 --> 00:50:18.849 And then, all of a sudden, 805 00:50:18.849 --> 00:50:23.821 he would light up acres and acres and acres of forest, 806 00:50:25.022 --> 00:50:28.025 and every air molecule was emitting light. 807 00:50:28.025 --> 00:50:30.661 - Our consciousness is not in the brain. 808 00:50:31.829 --> 00:50:33.431 That's mechanical. 809 00:50:33.431 --> 00:50:38.002 Consciousness is connected to all consciousnesses. 810 00:50:38.002 --> 00:50:39.604 They're all connected together. 811 00:50:40.471 --> 00:50:42.440 And the computer, if you will, 812 00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.343 to which our consciousness is connected is the brain. 813 00:50:47.212 --> 00:50:48.713 Narrator: With the Wardenclyffe Tower, 814 00:50:48.713 --> 00:50:51.782 he would increase the natural potential of the Earth. 815 00:50:54.352 --> 00:50:57.188 But that would also increase our consciousness. 816 00:51:05.963 --> 00:51:08.533 - In 1917, on the Fourth of July, 817 00:51:08.533 --> 00:51:10.801 they set dynamite to the statue. 818 00:51:14.705 --> 00:51:17.742 They hoped to be able to get some money back 819 00:51:17.742 --> 00:51:22.247 on what Tesla owed them by selling the tower for scrap. 820 00:51:31.556 --> 00:51:32.823 Narrator: Edison started to build 821 00:51:32.823 --> 00:51:34.692 his motion picture empire, 822 00:51:34.692 --> 00:51:36.561 connecting all the people in the US 823 00:51:36.561 --> 00:51:40.198 that had inventions in motion pictures under a corporation 824 00:51:40.198 --> 00:51:42.567 called the Motion Pictures Patent Company, 825 00:51:42.567 --> 00:51:45.236 known also as the Edison Trust. 826 00:51:45.236 --> 00:51:47.572 The Edison Trust would issue licenses 827 00:51:47.572 --> 00:51:49.774 to all the producers or distributors 828 00:51:49.774 --> 00:51:51.909 who dared to deal in motion pictures. 829 00:51:51.909 --> 00:51:54.179 But there were independent producers 830 00:51:54.179 --> 00:51:56.947 that pirated films and equipment from Europe 831 00:51:56.947 --> 00:51:59.784 and were secretly shooting films in the US 832 00:51:59.784 --> 00:52:01.586 without Edison's approval. 833 00:52:02.753 --> 00:52:04.755 Even Charlie Chaplin was a star in Europe 834 00:52:04.755 --> 00:52:06.023 through the pirated films 835 00:52:06.023 --> 00:52:08.058 brought by these producers to Europe 836 00:52:08.058 --> 00:52:10.895 while, in the US, he could not be seen on screen 837 00:52:10.895 --> 00:52:12.963 because of the Edison Trust license. 838 00:52:14.199 --> 00:52:16.066 The Edison Trust was made to have control 839 00:52:16.066 --> 00:52:17.935 over what is produced and distributed 840 00:52:17.935 --> 00:52:20.205 in motion pictures in the US. 841 00:52:20.205 --> 00:52:23.107 Edison had to be sure that nothing about Tesla 842 00:52:23.107 --> 00:52:24.575 would come to the big screen. 843 00:52:26.110 --> 00:52:29.814 (speaking foreign language) 844 00:52:45.796 --> 00:52:46.964 Narrator: Independent producers 845 00:52:46.964 --> 00:52:48.566 were fighting with Edison. 846 00:52:48.566 --> 00:52:50.568 And to get far away from Edison, 847 00:52:50.568 --> 00:52:55.573 they began to build a motion picture town: Hollywood, 848 00:52:55.673 --> 00:52:57.575 a place where there was a lot of natural light 849 00:52:57.575 --> 00:52:59.910 and they did not need his Black Maria Studio 850 00:52:59.910 --> 00:53:02.680 or his approval to make movies. 851 00:53:06.251 --> 00:53:10.321 Finally, after a federal court decision in 1915, 852 00:53:10.321 --> 00:53:13.591 the monopoly of Edison Trust was dismissed 853 00:53:13.591 --> 00:53:16.761 as an unnecessary protection of patents. 854 00:53:24.369 --> 00:53:28.138 (speaking foreign language) 855 00:53:44.789 --> 00:53:47.024 Narrator: At the same time that Nikola Tesla 856 00:53:47.024 --> 00:53:49.059 lost his property at Wardenclyffe, 857 00:53:49.059 --> 00:53:52.162 Edison lost his Edison Trust. 858 00:53:52.162 --> 00:53:56.166 In May 1915, Edison wrote in the New York Times, 859 00:53:56.166 --> 00:53:59.904 "The government should maintain a great research laboratory 860 00:53:59.904 --> 00:54:01.306 "where it could be developed 861 00:54:01.306 --> 00:54:04.409 "all the technique of military and naval progression 862 00:54:04.409 --> 00:54:06.544 "without any vast expense." 863 00:54:06.544 --> 00:54:09.514 The US Congress allocated $1.5 million 864 00:54:09.514 --> 00:54:11.316 for its implementation. 865 00:54:11.316 --> 00:54:12.717 Edison agreed to serve 866 00:54:12.717 --> 00:54:15.353 as the head of the Naval Consulting Board. 867 00:54:16.321 --> 00:54:17.822 A Navy laboratory was set up 868 00:54:17.822 --> 00:54:20.257 to experiment with wireless technology 869 00:54:20.257 --> 00:54:22.993 and continue Nikola Tesla's work. 870 00:54:22.993 --> 00:54:25.530 With Wardenclyffe, Nikola Tesla had described 871 00:54:25.530 --> 00:54:27.832 the idea of internet and emails, 872 00:54:27.832 --> 00:54:30.234 electric newspapers, and social media. 873 00:54:31.569 --> 00:54:34.204 It was the US Navy laboratory that in the end 874 00:54:34.204 --> 00:54:36.073 paved the way for the internet. 875 00:54:39.710 --> 00:54:41.278 John Edgar Hoover, 876 00:54:41.278 --> 00:54:45.015 who is credited with establishing the FBI in 1935, 877 00:54:45.015 --> 00:54:48.218 was personally following Nikola Tesla. 878 00:54:48.218 --> 00:54:51.188 That is why Tesla, for the last decades of his life, 879 00:54:51.188 --> 00:54:52.690 never walked alone 880 00:54:52.690 --> 00:54:55.560 and was always watched by his secret police. 881 00:54:58.629 --> 00:55:00.030 - He was basically feeding pigeons in the park 882 00:55:00.030 --> 00:55:01.231 'til the day he died, 883 00:55:01.231 --> 00:55:03.634 and he's one of the brightest guys on Earth. 884 00:55:05.035 --> 00:55:08.038 I can't even imagine how frustrating that must've been. 885 00:55:08.038 --> 00:55:09.407 People just didn't listen to him anymore. 886 00:55:09.407 --> 00:55:11.041 They didn't take him seriously. 887 00:55:13.043 --> 00:55:16.080 Narrator: It is absurd that the man who invented radio 888 00:55:16.080 --> 00:55:18.816 and wireless communication was in the end 889 00:55:18.816 --> 00:55:22.052 the only one using the old way of communicating, 890 00:55:22.052 --> 00:55:23.388 via pigeons. 891 00:55:23.388 --> 00:55:25.222 They were the only way for him to communicate 892 00:55:25.222 --> 00:55:26.657 with the rest of the city 893 00:55:26.657 --> 00:55:29.727 without John Edgar Hoover and the FBI knowing about it. 894 00:55:30.895 --> 00:55:32.663 - I met him myself. 895 00:55:32.663 --> 00:55:37.568 He hugged me and kissed me like any good Serb could do, 896 00:55:37.568 --> 00:55:38.803 and he understood in me 897 00:55:38.803 --> 00:55:42.640 that I represented him as a younger person, 898 00:55:42.640 --> 00:55:44.975 because he had an older brother who died, 899 00:55:44.975 --> 00:55:47.678 I had an older brother who died, both accidentally. 900 00:55:48.813 --> 00:55:54.819 And he saw in me a little bit of himself 901 00:55:55.119 --> 00:55:57.154 as I was approaching his age. 902 00:56:02.259 --> 00:56:04.261 - He cared about people. 903 00:56:05.763 --> 00:56:08.599 Everything was from a humanitarian standpoint. 904 00:56:10.535 --> 00:56:12.437 And to take a guy like that 905 00:56:12.437 --> 00:56:17.207 and then have to put him in the mix of industrialists 906 00:56:17.207 --> 00:56:21.045 and capitalists and the greed and fear 907 00:56:21.045 --> 00:56:23.781 and the money game and all that, 908 00:56:23.781 --> 00:56:25.616 how he survived all that is amazing. 909 00:56:27.518 --> 00:56:29.954 I mean, he kept his integrity to his last breath. 910 00:56:42.232 --> 00:56:44.469 Narrator: He should've been a billionaire, 911 00:56:44.469 --> 00:56:48.639 but he died alone and penniless in a New York hotel room 912 00:56:48.639 --> 00:56:53.043 on Orthodox Christmas in New York City in 1943. 913 00:57:11.395 --> 00:57:13.731 The US Supreme Court finally decided 914 00:57:13.731 --> 00:57:15.700 that Tesla was the rightful owner 915 00:57:15.700 --> 00:57:19.537 for the patents for wireless communication after his death, 916 00:57:19.537 --> 00:57:23.007 despite Marconi being awarded a Nobel Prize for this. 917 00:57:26.010 --> 00:57:29.013 - He was forgotten for a while in the '50s and '60s. 918 00:57:29.013 --> 00:57:32.717 Now, we have a resurgence of interest in Tesla. 919 00:57:32.717 --> 00:57:34.418 There was a rock band called Tesla 920 00:57:34.418 --> 00:57:35.620 here in the United States. 921 00:57:35.620 --> 00:57:39.123 And of course, the selection by Elon Musk 922 00:57:39.123 --> 00:57:41.759 of the name Tesla for his automobile 923 00:57:41.759 --> 00:57:45.195 was a, I think, tremendous boost to Tesla's legacy. 924 00:57:45.195 --> 00:57:46.964 It caused a lotta people to wonder, 925 00:57:46.964 --> 00:57:48.633 "Well, who is this Tesla?" 926 00:57:49.700 --> 00:57:52.202 (slow piano music) 927 00:57:52.202 --> 00:57:53.704 - The idea of Tesla is not one 928 00:57:53.704 --> 00:57:55.706 that many Americans grew up with. 929 00:57:55.706 --> 00:57:57.474 It's sometimes hard for teachers 930 00:57:57.474 --> 00:57:59.944 to understand even why or what. 931 00:57:59.944 --> 00:58:03.581 In the morning, our students say the Inventor's Pledge, 932 00:58:03.581 --> 00:58:06.651 and so it is a pledge to themselves 933 00:58:06.651 --> 00:58:09.153 as well as to the school community. 934 00:58:09.153 --> 00:58:10.755 Says, "Last night I was a dreamer 935 00:58:10.755 --> 00:58:12.823 "and today I am an inventor. 936 00:58:12.823 --> 00:58:15.259 "If I can dream it, I can imagine it. 937 00:58:15.259 --> 00:58:17.628 "And if I can imagine it, I can create it." 938 00:58:17.628 --> 00:58:19.463 - Nothing better than one man 939 00:58:20.430 --> 00:58:24.468 change whole world what better can we ask for? 940 00:58:25.402 --> 00:58:27.004 Paul: The interest in Tesla today 941 00:58:27.004 --> 00:58:29.574 is people talk about the mythology so much 942 00:58:29.574 --> 00:58:30.908 when they talk about Tesla. 943 00:58:30.908 --> 00:58:33.110 Nobody's really been trying to understand 944 00:58:33.110 --> 00:58:34.779 what he was talking about and what he did. 945 00:58:34.779 --> 00:58:37.815 Humanity needs this stuff and we can't let this stuff die. 946 00:58:40.150 --> 00:58:42.920 - Tesla's favorite machine was what he called 947 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:46.356 the self-acting engine, and it is a machine 948 00:58:46.356 --> 00:58:48.626 that takes the heat of the ambient air 949 00:58:48.626 --> 00:58:51.662 and it allows us to harness solar energy 950 00:58:51.662 --> 00:58:56.634 at any place on the planet, 24/7. 951 00:58:58.936 --> 00:59:01.105 - The good news is that renewable energy 952 00:59:01.105 --> 00:59:04.609 is not only achievable but good economic policy. 953 00:59:04.609 --> 00:59:07.612 This is not a partisan debate, it is a human one. 954 00:59:07.612 --> 00:59:10.114 Clean air and a livable climate 955 00:59:10.114 --> 00:59:12.316 are inalienable human rights. 956 00:59:12.316 --> 00:59:15.686 And solving this crisis is not a question of politics, 957 00:59:15.686 --> 00:59:17.622 it is a question of our own survival. 958 00:59:18.455 --> 00:59:19.690 Narrator: In the end, 959 00:59:19.690 --> 00:59:21.826 it was not only Tesla that was repressed, 960 00:59:21.826 --> 00:59:24.995 but us, all of civilization. 961 00:59:24.995 --> 00:59:26.496 He did his job. 962 00:59:26.496 --> 00:59:29.466 He gave us all what he was living and working for, 963 00:59:29.466 --> 00:59:33.137 and we are using almost all of his inventions today 964 00:59:33.137 --> 00:59:35.840 but not for free as he wanted us to. 965 00:59:37.574 --> 00:59:41.245 He said that the world was not ready for his invention. 966 00:59:41.245 --> 00:59:43.480 It was too far ahead of its time. 967 00:59:44.581 --> 00:59:49.319 But he also said that the same laws would prevail in the end 968 00:59:49.319 --> 00:59:53.357 and make it a triumphal success. 969 00:59:53.357 --> 00:59:55.592 Paul: And it has to be about his science. 970 00:59:55.592 --> 00:59:57.161 Otherwise, his day is done. 971 00:59:58.595 --> 01:00:00.665 We're never gonna get another genius like that ever again, 972 01:00:00.665 --> 01:00:02.667 so we have to pick up where he left off. 973 01:00:02.667 --> 01:00:05.435 And it's gonna take a whole bunch of minds 974 01:00:05.435 --> 01:00:07.271 to do what this one mind did. 975 01:00:10.107 --> 01:00:12.743 Nikola: Let the future tell the truth 976 01:00:12.743 --> 01:00:14.278 and evaluate each one 977 01:00:14.278 --> 01:00:16.847 according to his work and accomplishments. 978 01:00:17.848 --> 01:00:19.750 The present is theirs. 979 01:00:19.750 --> 01:00:23.620 The future for which I have really worked is mine. 980 01:00:25.923 --> 01:00:28.859 My name is Nikola Tesla. 981 01:00:34.031 --> 01:00:37.101 (pensive folk music)