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Edison's workers labor day and night,digging a network of ditches over fifteen miles long.
愛迪生的工人夜以繼日地工作 挖出超過15英里的坑網
They lay over one hundred thousand feet of thick copper wire,connecting Edison's power station to hundreds of homes and businesses throughout New York.
埋入超過十萬英尺的粗銅線 讓愛迪生的發電站同紐約數百個家庭和商用建筑相連
Edison's power grid becomes the model for how electricity is transmitted in the United States.
愛迪生的電網成為了之后美國電力傳輸的典范
He had never worked so long and so hard at any invention to make it functional as he did with electricity.
他只對電付出過這么多心血 他從未為了讓其它發明實際產生功用而這樣做過
With Edison's power station up and running,a new era dawns.
隨著愛迪生的發電廠建成并投入使用 新紀元開啟了
The city lights up for the first time ever.
整個城市第一次被點亮起來
And soon, Edison's power grid covers half of Manhattan.
很快 愛迪生的電網就布滿了半個曼哈頓
Electric streetlights line avenues,and homes throughout New York are buzzing with electricity.
電燈排在街道兩側 紐約的無數家庭 也都閃耀著電光
Edison had a big think approach which said that,We can build giant distribution centers and make it so that electricity is cheap enough for the masses.What a brilliant idea.
愛迪生的想法非常偉大 他認為我們可以建立巨大的配送中心 讓電的價格得以降低 并進入尋常百姓家 多么卓越的見解
J.P. Morgan and Thomas Edison stand to make a fortune.
J·P·摩根和托馬斯·愛迪生為創造財富做好了準備
But their success is bad news for the most powerful man in the country.
但他們的成功對國內最有權勢的人無疑是壞消息
Until now, John Rockefeller has been virtually unchallenged while providing light to homes from coast to coast.
直到當時 約翰·洛克菲勒還在為全國的家庭提供燈光 他還未受到真正的挑戰
