Tesla: Master of Lightning

00:00:09 The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

00:03:18 and he was willing to give his life to his visions.

00:06:59 Here I quickly became obsessed with the science of electricity.

00:10:24 would literally twist the rotor in a circle

00:13:53 What you'd generate, that's what you'd get.

00:17:16 he offered to purchase all the patents dealing with the alternating current system

00:21:04 Night fell, President Grover Cleveland pressed a button

00:24:54 This morning the streetcars of this city are moving by falls power.

00:28:07 relief of the drudgery that people had to endure in their work lives.

00:31:12 It's a pity too, for sometimes I feel so lonely.

00:34:56 Hertz created the first radio transmitter and the first receiver.

00:38:34 is the fundamental technology for radio.

00:41:52 and succeeded in transmitting a signal five miles on the Salisbury Plain in England.

00:45:30 he began to assemble the largest Tesla coil ever built

00:49:00 and it means that results undreamed of before will be possible

00:52:49 But he was still pursuing wireless power transmission.

00:56:27 Like a modern Prometheus, he had reached too high and failed.

01:00:15 decided to award Tesla their prestigious Edison Medal.

01:04:19 because it interfered with his ability to use that genius to be practical.

01:08:08 a negative media campaign

01:10:33 he was hit by a taxi and thrown to the ground.

01:14:31 He insisted that his uncle's effects be returned to Yugoslavia.

01:18:25 I've always been a sort of a fan of Nikola Tesla, an admirer

01:22:05 Ionospheric modification is still in its early experimental stages.