Edison, the Man Page #7

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- If that is true. - How will you do this miracle?

I build a dynamo. Big enough

to do the job.

Let me speak, please, I insist on being heard.

Sr. Taggart,

this is an intolerable insolence.

Let him talk, it is a taxpayer.

- Be brief, Mr. Taggart. - Thank you.

I draw attention to this advice about the law requiring

a limit for all contracts execution time.

Mr. Edison's project must be completed on a given day.

This is the law.

Mr. Edison, how long will your experiment?

- It will not be an experiment. - Let's stop quibbling.

How long will that take?

It will take a year, maybe two.

There it is, gentlemen, a year, maybe two.

That means that for two years the streets

City of New York will be a chaos.

The traffic paralyzed. As a taxpayer I protest.

Protest with all our strength.

What do you suggest then?

I suggest that he be granted a period of three months.

Can you do it in three months, Mr. Edison?

No sir.

And I doubt that Mr. Taggart gas pipelines installing it at the time.

The gas is there, Mr. Edison, working for profit

of thousands of grateful taxpayers.

Those taxpayers have rights that must protect this advice.

Sr. presidente.

Sr. Edison.

I have not come to deprive taxpayers of any rights.

I invite the Council to enable them to make use of a discovery

that is not hazardous or impair anyone

except those who fear competition from their monopolies.

Its specialists have found that electricity is practical.

His detractors know that will be cheaper than gas.

And this is the reason for attack.

But this is not why I'm struggling here.

I have not sought for years

because there was money at the end of the search.

But because I have always known that if he found a light flameless

and I could install in homes where men

and women view under oil lamps and gas left,

where surgeons operate, where scientists work with microscopes,

even in the coal mines, people everywhere

They could have a clearer or safe light.

Then I would be doing something for their welfare, both making money or not.

Well, that light has already been discovered.

What are you going to do about it?

You could install gas pipelines in six months, Mr. Taggart?

Easily.

Okay, then, say six months. What do you think?

- Can we vote, gentlemen? - Yes.

Those in favor of giving the concession.

- Yeah. - Against?

- No. - the concession is granted.

- I congratulate you, Mr. Edison. - 6 months!

That amounts to 4 September.

Thank you very much sir.

- Tom. - Oh thanks.

- How do we, boys? - It is the world's largest.

- The call Jumbo. - I baptize Jumbo.

Just it is kidding, Tom.

New York is looking forward to testing electricity.

Edison struggle to meet the deadline.

It's two o'clock. We have five hours.

We will load test.

Preparations for the maximum load test.

Number 1.

Okay, number 2.

Another parallel.

More speed.

Faster, faster.

More speed.

More, now, more, more.

Stop, stop!

No va a funcionar.

You have any problem.

The engine did not revolve at the same speed, a dynamo pushed

other.

The fault is in the regulators.

We need to connect these pads together with a shaft.

We can not do, Tom, is too much work.

Send someone to fetch 5m. steel shaft of an inch.

Five hours is enough, Tom. We have no time.

You miss not talking. Do it.

Come on guys. Ensure damage.

Let's do it.

Why not play more upbeat music?

- Mr. Taggart. - Not now. Go.

Mr. Taggart, let him hear.

- Very interesting, very interesting. - I figured you would like to know.

Thank you. Knights just received great news.

What is it about?

Our friend Edison has problems. A last minute miscalculation.

Your dynamos were damaged.

What a beautiful music.

Okay, I conectadlo.

Give her back.

Do you catch right?

19 to 4.

Very good. Put the belt.

- Tom, what happened? - Jumbo trouble breaking.

Look how pants. Your new blue suit.

How did he been?

I'll never get fixed.

What dear?

- I'm worried. - Why the dynamos?

Suppose fallen.

- They will not fail. - You should have been.

I wish I had your confidence.

I wish I had yours.

- Tom, for 1 minute. - Well, we are in time.

Remind me a kiss and a hug afterwards.

No estorbes.

- Ready, boys? - Yes, ready.

Later, Mick.

Let's see, number 1.

Calm, slowly now.

Number 2.

Well, Molex connectors in parallel.

Forward.

Watch feeders.

INVENTIONS:

EDIFONO:

Fluoroscope

Cement kiln

MIMEGRAFO:

MULTIPLE TELEGRAPH

BATTERY:

Fire alarm

ELECTRIC MOTOR:

Cinematgrafo

PRO YECTOR:

Talkies

GENERATOR:

POWER TRANSMISSION

PATENTS:

1150 PATENTS

INDUSTRY JOB CREATION

WEALTH:

And yet, it would have been a great man

although it had not invented anything.

Caballeras and gentlemen, here's to a man who will remain

eternally full of life

and vibrant inspiration.

Thomas Alva Edison.

Mr. host ...

Mr. Toastmaster.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

To be told by the outstanding men and women of our time

that you have contributed a great deal to human betterman.

Very pleasant. Very pleasant.

I'd hardly be humeed if my heart did not feel from such magnificent compliment.

But somehow I have not achieved the success I want.

Early this evening, I talked with two school children.

Tomorrow, the world will be theirs.

A troubled world, full of doubt and uncertainties.

You say that the we men of science have been helping it.

Are those children and their children going to approve of what we have done?

Or you discover too late that they have relied too heavily on science

and that this has become a monster

whose final triumph is man own destruction.

Some of us have already beginning to feel that danger.

But it can be avoided.

I had once two dynamos.

They needed regulating.

It was a problem of balance and adjustment.

And I feel that the confusion in the world today,

presents much the same problem.

But dynamo of man's God given ingenuity

is running away with the dowel of his equally God given humanity.

I'm too old now to do much more than to say

Put those dynamos in balance.

Make them work in harmony

as the great designer intended they should.

It can be done. What man's mind can see

man's character can control.

Man must learn that.

And then we won't need to be afraid of tomorrow.

And man will go forward,

toward more light.

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