Meeting Edison, Tesla & Westinghouse

Extrait étudié : jusqu'à 1:36.

1.Watch the trailer with no sound. Try to guess what's going on in this movie and make hypotheses.

Who may be the characters in the trailer?
Write down in your notebook all the striking words which appear in white in the trailer. What do you think?
What is the historical period referred to here?
What were the first electrical devices that appear here?

2. Now, watch the video with the sound on and share your ideas with the help of the questions below.

What is the main plot in the trailer?
Can you talk about the music in this extract? Does it express a sort of suspense? Fear? Competition? Intelligence? Why/Why not?

Extraits étudiés : de 0:48 à 3:00 (DC power) puis de 4:02 à 6:12 (AC power).

Watch the video and answer the following questions.

Part 1: DC power

Find the six numbers mentioned and say what they correspond to.
You have quite a lot of information about Tesla and Edison: how would you qualify their personalities?
What do the letters DC stand for?
What was the problem with the DC generators?

Part 2: AC power

What is AC?
What happened in 1893?
How did people light their homes before this invention?
In 3 to 4 lines, relate the rumour spread by Edison to discredit Tesla and also relate how the story ends.

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