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"carpet a room": Ibid., p. 156.

[>] "The lips and throat": Ibid., p. 157.

"subsists wholly on mist": The King's Mirror, trans. Laurence Marcellus Larson (New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1917), p. 123.

"that wondrous Venetian blind": Melville, Moby Dick, p. 297.

"It is as if": Ibid., p. 461.

[>] "the unmelted skin": Ellis, Men and Whales, p. 198.

"like the left wing": Melville, Moby Dick, p. 462.

[>] "'Bible leaves!'": Ibid., p. 460.

"There they lay": Ibid., p. 466.

[>] "a new kind of Candles": The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Richard C. Kugler, The Whale Oil Trade, 1750–1775 (New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society, 1980), p. 13n. 44 "In the great Sperm Whale": Melville, Moby Dick, p. 379.

46 "whether Leviathan": Ibid., p. 501.

[>] "They think that at best": Ibid., pp. 118–19.

[>] "The only danger": Pliny the Elder, The Natural History of Pliny, trans. John Bostock and H. T. Riley, vol. 6 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1858) p. 339.

[>] "was to drive": D. Alan Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses Before 1820 (London: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. xxiv.

"Many coastal villages": Bella Bathurst, The Lighthouse Stevensons: The Extraordinary Story of the Building of the Scottish Lighthouses by the Ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 26.

"The rust-colored gneiss": Ibid., p. 54.

[>] "At midsummer the party": Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses, p. 115.

[>] "Quickly the fire": Ibid., p. 121.

"Fenders fixed": Ibid., p. 124.

[>] "very strong and bright": John Smeaton, quoted ibid., pp. 125–26.

[>] "So long as the air": Samuel Williams, quoted in Harvard Case Histories in Experimental Science, ed. James Bryant Conant, case 2, The Overthrow of the Phlogiston Theory: The Chemical Revolution of 1775–1789 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964), p. 15.

"As soon as the Air": Ibid., pp. 15–16.

[>] "very white": Quoted in Brian Bowers, Lengthening the Day: A History of Lighting Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 28. "as the light emitted": A.F.M. Willich, The Domestic Encyclopaedia, or A Dictionary of Facts, and Useful Knowledge, vol. 3 (London: B. McMillan, 1802), s.v. "lamp," http://chestofbooks.com/reference/The-Domestic-Encyclopaedia-Vol3/Lamp.html (accessed June 29, 2009).

[>] "Being 'the thing'": Marshall B. Davidson, "Early American Lighting," Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 3, no. 1 (Summer 1944): 37.

"The modest versions": Ibid.

"the single most powerful": Stevenson, The World's Lighthouses, p. xix.

[>] "Every night they go": Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (New York: Henry Holt, 1992), p. 128.

57 "There has just been": Ibid., pp. 116–17, 121.

CHAPTER 4: GASLIGHT

[>] "It seldom needs": Thomas Cooper, Some Information Concerning Gas Lights (Philadelphia: John Conrad, 1816), p. 23.

"The inflammable gas": Philippe Lebon, quoted in Wolfgang Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, trans. Angela Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 23.

[>] "All factories": M. E. Falkus, "The Early Development of the British Gas Industry, 1790–1815," Economic History Review, n.s., 35, no. 2 (May 1982): 219.

[>] "It was estimated": Ibid., p. 223.

"Suppose it were required": Cooper, Some Information Concerning Gas Lights, p. 12.

[>] "The burners were simply": William T. O'Dea, The Social History of Lighting (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), p. 115.

"Clean and orderly": Quoted in Francis D. Klingender, Art and the Industrial Revolution (London: Noel Carrington, 1947), p. 111.

[>] "This spire increases": John Buddle, quoted in'T. S. Ashton and Joseph Sykes, The Coal Industry of the Eighteenth Century (New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1967), p. 44n.

"Clad from head to foot": Ibid., pp. 44–45.

[>] "Everything in the way": Quoted ibid., p. 42n.

"were about three hundred": Quoted ibid., p. 49n.

[>] "work was continued": T. E. Forster, "Historical Notes on Wallsend Colliery," Transactions of