1 00:00:03,540 --> 00:00:09,530 INTELLIGENCE Not because you think you know everything without questioning, but rather you question everything you think you know. 2 00:00:10,650 --> 00:00:12,036 But the people said to me 3 00:00:12,252 --> 00:00:14,486 “Well, Tesla invented the wireless. 4 00:00:14,627 --> 00:00:16,203 How did he do that?” 5 00:00:17,009 --> 00:00:18,880 And I try to explain it. 6 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,646 I don't always succeed. 7 00:00:20,775 --> 00:00:22,172 I’m going to try to explain, 8 00:00:22,381 --> 00:00:25,144 how Tesla invented the wireless. 9 00:00:26,436 --> 00:00:28,800 Years ago when you bought electric wire, 10 00:00:28,978 --> 00:00:31,963 they wrapped it around a cardboard tube. 11 00:00:32,633 --> 00:00:34,941 And sometimes the wire was broken. 12 00:00:35,249 --> 00:00:39,156 So a man connected two terminals to the coil 13 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:41,175 to see if it was broken. 14 00:00:41,538 --> 00:00:44,393 Of course it wasn't in most cases. 15 00:00:44,603 --> 00:00:46,769 But if there was a coil nearby, 16 00:00:46,923 --> 00:00:49,458 when you ran a current through the first coil, 17 00:00:49,630 --> 00:00:52,153 it induced a current in the other one. 18 00:00:52,683 --> 00:00:54,541 It didn't have to be connected. 19 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:56,800 That's where the wireless came from. 20 00:00:57,390 --> 00:00:59,027 Man did not sit down 21 00:00:59,130 --> 00:01:01,969 [and say] “I have to make a wireless.” How can you do that? 22 00:01:02,970 --> 00:01:04,535 You can't possibly do that. 23 00:01:05,206 --> 00:01:10,510 Or they say “Edison invented the electric light. 24 00:01:10,676 --> 00:01:11,970 How did he do that?” 25 00:01:12,516 --> 00:01:14,652 Well Edison was very curious. 26 00:01:14,941 --> 00:01:16,480 He wanted to know 27 00:01:16,849 --> 00:01:20,486 what kind of conduction different metals would have. 28 00:01:20,633 --> 00:01:25,156 So he ran an electric current from a battery through a wire. 29 00:01:25,741 --> 00:01:29,286 Some of the wire offered tremendous resistance, 30 00:01:29,563 --> 00:01:32,430 and it would glow white hot. 31 00:01:32,855 --> 00:01:35,372 And he said “Gee! – a source of light.” 32 00:01:35,975 --> 00:01:38,443 And he bent it, like a letter ‘U’. 33 00:01:39,009 --> 00:01:41,341 And he put it on a table, it fell over, 34 00:01:41,483 --> 00:01:44,609 and burned some papers, and he put a glass over it, 35 00:01:44,793 --> 00:01:48,264 to keep it from burning papers. That's the first electric light. 36 00:01:48,966 --> 00:01:52,055 Nobody said “I have to make an electric light!” You can't do that! 37 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:54,320 That's a myth. 38 00:01:55,292 --> 00:01:56,800 Nobody ever said-… 39 00:01:57,255 --> 00:01:59,249 Well they say - they tell you - 40 00:01:59,403 --> 00:02:02,252 that the Wright brothers made the first airplane. 41 00:02:02,418 --> 00:02:04,393 They couldn’t possibly do that. 42 00:02:05,378 --> 00:02:07,415 Other people before the Wright brothers 43 00:02:07,587 --> 00:02:10,356 made airplanes with the wings too small; 44 00:02:10,664 --> 00:02:12,209 didn't get off the ground. 45 00:02:12,658 --> 00:02:15,870 When they made the wings too big, they flapped out, together. 46 00:02:16,541 --> 00:02:21,458 And so, a lot of people got hurt jumping off rooftops. 47 00:02:22,043 --> 00:02:25,292 And a man saw birds flying, a Frenchman. 48 00:02:25,556 --> 00:02:27,913 He said “There’s no reason why I can't fly.” 49 00:02:28,153 --> 00:02:30,923 And he made two wings, stuck his hands in them, 50 00:02:31,064 --> 00:02:32,695 and he beat on the wings. 51 00:02:33,070 --> 00:02:35,021 He said “Gee, I can fly!” 52 00:02:35,563 --> 00:02:38,818 And he jumped off the Eiffel Tower, and he died. 53 00:02:39,544 --> 00:02:42,935 And his brother-in-law wrote “Make wings larger next time.” 54 00:02:43,230 --> 00:02:44,843 [Laughter] 55 00:02:45,218 --> 00:02:49,495 There’s no way you know how large to make wings, on the first step. 56 00:02:49,926 --> 00:02:52,720 You don't know how large to make a propeller. 57 00:02:52,873 --> 00:02:55,070 Do you make it this big? You don't know. 58 00:02:55,230 --> 00:02:57,784 So you put different size propellers on; 59 00:02:57,938 --> 00:02:59,606 some work, some don't work. 60 00:03:00,510 --> 00:03:02,184 Do you understand what I'm saying? 61 00:03:02,867 --> 00:03:05,052 Man builds upon other men, 62 00:03:05,372 --> 00:03:08,849 and they take an idea so far, and keep adding to it, 63 00:03:09,107 --> 00:03:12,289 and over the years, you have a movie camera. 64 00:03:12,480 --> 00:03:16,301 Nobody ever sat down and said “I have to make a movie camera!” 65 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,723 You can't do that.