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  • Thomas Alva Edison. Boys!

  • I trust you brought your checkbooks.

  • I'm so full of ideas it will take me 12 lifetimes to execute them

  • I'm working on something now. Something so new that the world will never be the same

  • I'm George Westinghouse. Edisons' new electric system is

  • Significantly cheaper than gas does that keep you up at night? There's always more to see

  • We are gonna be big

  • Edison says he's months away from lighting up the world

  • Stoves, washing machines, electric carriages. I could do the same thing with electricity that I do with gas

  • Westinghouse Electric Company. Edison Electric it has to be

  • Are you rich?

  • At the moment

  • Vultures in every venture, gotta keep them away. This is what he thinks of you.

  • Don't let him agitate you.

  • This is how he is. Sue him. Westinghouse Electric shall endure

  • He's a parasite. His current kills people.

  • Only because you said it would

  • Mr. Edison if you say something about me or my company again, I would ask that you tell the truth

  • Automation. Transportation. Communication. The man that controls that current,

  • Controls that future.

  • Though he may be unfamiliar to you his studies have demonstrated an understanding of electrical matters unlike anyone I have ever known

  • Gentlemen and Lady

  • Nikola Tesla.

  • So what's your trade? I fix problems for idiots

Thomas Alva Edison. Boys!

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