With the loss of the Niagara contract, the company Morgan started with Thomas Edison is broken.
没拿到尼亚加拉的合同让摩根和爱迪生建立的公司损失惨重
And Edison's D.C. electricity looks like a failure.
爱迪生的直流电似乎是一个失败
Thomas Edison is probably the most brilliant inventor America every had.
托马斯·爱迪生可以说是美国有史以来最聪明的发明家
And like many brilliant men he was capable of spectacularly wrong choices.
和很多聪明人一样他也会作出重大的错误选择
As far as Morgan's concerned, there's only one way to fix Edison Electric.
在摩根看来要扭转爱迪生电气公司的状况只有一种方式
He's going to streamline the company.
他要对公司进行重组
And his first step is to eliminate Thomas Edison.
第一步便是清理掉托马斯·爱迪生
Morgan buys up additional shares of Edison Electric stock......until he has complete control of the company.
摩根买下了爱迪生电气公司的更多股票 直到成功实现了对公司的完全控制
It's a device that shows moving pictures.
这是一个播放动画的装置
We'll put the Niagara business behind us, and Edison General Electric will move forward to greater things.
我们不要再去管尼亚加拉那些事 爱迪生通用电气将向前看 专注于更伟大的东西
The name of the company has been changed-- to General Electric.
公司名字已经改变叫通用电气
But it's my company.
但这是我的公司
Surely I have a say.
我应该有发言权
Not anymore-- you no longer have a majority stake.
不再是 你不再拥有多数股份