Tesla: Master of Lightning

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

00:03:22 We have to evolve means

00:07:10 Every spark produced a thousand echoes in my brain.

00:10:42 The strength of Tesla's mind

00:14:05 then you need copper wire that's as thick as your arm.

00:17:43 In all my troubles

00:21:48 to show the rotating magnetic field created by his AC motor.

00:25:38 By the time Tesla effectively arrives on the scene with his motor

00:28:58 His friends were the New York elite:

00:32:27 to pass thousands of volts of electricity through their bodies

00:35:45 came upon me that my mother had died.

00:39:52 Mr. Tesla was charmed to hear about the Vedantic prana

00:43:13 Have you the Austrian and English patents on that destructive terror

00:47:09 Undaunted, Tesla continued his wireless power experiments for six more months.

00:50:43 he described the means of tapping the sun's energy with an antenna.

00:54:29 A single plant of but 100 horsepower

00:58:34 and ultimately gave up.

01:02:28 Here he could see his futuristic ideas appearing on the screen.

01:06:55 The idea, when it first burst upon me, was a tremendous shock.

01:09:07 the Soviets were attempting to build

01:13:08 the United States Supreme Court declared elements of the Marconi patent invalid.

01:17:07 that the U.S. government may have overlooked some things of value

01:20:58 Tesla was a genius

150:00:00 Tesla's worldwide radio broadcast center.