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"sometimes tried to carry on": Ashton and Sykes, The Coal Industry, p. 51.
[>] "had provided the miner": Ibid., p. 53.
"if it were intended": Sir Humphry Davy, quoted in Samuel Clegg Jr., Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal-Gas (London: John Weale, 1841), p. 17.
"Winsor was not": Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, pp. 26–27.
67 "a brightness clear": Quoted in Clegg, Practical Treatise, pp. 20–21.
"I foresee in this": Charles Dickens, The Lamplighter: A Farce (London: Printed from a Manuscript in the Forster Collection at the South Kensington Museum, 1879), p. 10.
[>] "It was strangely believed": Clegg, Practical Treatise, p. 17.
[>] "Wherever a gas-factory": Quoted in Lynda Nead, Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), p. 94.
"Mr. Arabin, deposed": Cooper, Some Information Concerning Gas Lights, p. 131.
[>] "When the effluvia": Ibid., p. 133.
"Thomas Edgely is": Ibid., pp. 134–35.
"at present it is": Quoted in Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, p. 35.
[>] "In 1821 no town": Steven J. Goldfarb, "A Regency Gas Burner," Technology and Culture 12, no. 3 (July 1971): 476.
"Paris was illuminated": Quoted in Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 565.
"The work of Prometheus": Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Plea for Gas Lamps," in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), p. 274.
[>] "Paris will be": Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, letter 550, in The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, vol. 3 (Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1959), p. 75.
"The whole of Paris": Andreas Bluhm and Louise Lippincott, Light! The Industrial Age, 1750–1900 (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001), p. 182.
[>] "During the day": Karl Gutzkow, quoted in Benjamin, The Arcades Project, p. 537.
[>] "The new mode of illumination": Frederick Penzel, Theatre Lighting Before Electricity (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1978), p. 54.
"a kaleidoscope": Charles Baudelaire, quoted in Walter Benjamin, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p. 175.
"As the darkness came on": Edgar Allan Poe, "The Man of the Crowd," in The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe (Philadelphia: Running Press, 1983), p. 648.
75 "As the night deepened": Ibid., p. 650.
[>] "Some rushed about": "Bereft of Light: Terrific Explosion at the Metropolitan Gas Works," New York Times, December 24, 1871, p. 5.
CHAPTER 5: TOWARD A MORE PERFECT FLAME
[>] "A candle, you know": Michael Faraday, The Chemical History of a Candle (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2002), p. 13.
[>] "brilliantly white, inodorous": Campbell Morfit, A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles (Philadelphia: Parry & McMillan, 1856), p. 543.
"mortal man should feed": Herman Melville, Moby Dick (New York: Penguin Books, 1992), p. 325.
[>] "any common use": "Camphene and Burning Fluid," New York Times, November 28, 1854, p. 4.
"a burning fluid lamp": Jane Nylander, "Two Brass Lamps...," Historic New England Magazine, Winter/Spring 2003, http://www.historicnewengland.org/nehm/2003winterspringpage04.htm (accessed February 12, 2009).
[>] "If possible avoid": Quoted in Charles Panati, Panati's Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 109. "The chemical match": Quoted in Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project, trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 568.
[>] "We dreamed of the lamp": Gaston Bachelard, The Flame of a Candle, trans. Joni Caldwell (Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 1988), p. 66.
[>] "could supply a family's": Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power