Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [132]
"the kind of oil": William T. O'Dea, The Social History of Lighting (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), pp. 55–56.
"The production of petroleum": Titusville Morning Herald, quoted in Harold F. Williamson and Arnold R. Daum, The American Petroleum Industry: The Age of Illumination, 1859–1899 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1959), p. 371.
85 "The country has been flooded": Quoted in Kathleen Grier, The Popular Illuminator: Domestic Lighting in the Kerosene Era, 1860–1900 (Rochester, NY: Strong Museum, 1985), p. 10.
"Good oil poured": Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe, The American Woman's Home (1869; repr., Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing, 2004), p. 190.
[>] "Wed., September 1": Willimantic Chronicle, quoted in "The Dangers of Kerosene Lamps," http://www.thelampworks.com/lw_lamp_accidents.htm (accessed June 3, 2009).
[>] "There is as much wit": The Woman's Book, vol. 2 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894), quoted in Grier, The Popular Illuminator, pp. 7–8.
[>] "By keeping their independent": Wolfgang Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, trans. Angela Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 162.
"I boldly declare": Quoted in Benjamin, The Arcades Project, p. 562.
[>] "It seems there are": Bachelard, The Flame of a Candle, p. 4.
PART II
[>] "You turn the thumbscrew": New York Times, September 5, 1882, p. 8.
CHAPTER 6: LIFE ELECTRIC
[>] "little click": Gaston Bachelard, The Flame of a Candle, trans. Joni Caldwell (Dallas: Dallas Institute Publications, 1988), p. 64.
"it seemed to live": Park Benjamin, The Age of Electricity from Amber-Soul to Telephone (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1888), pp. 2–3.
[>] "He suspended a long": Quoted ibid., p. 11.
[>] "When a nail": Ewald von Kleist, quoted ibid., p. 15.
[>] "to move electricity": Philip Dray, Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America (New York: Random House, 2005), p. 49.
"I advise you": Quoted in Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (New York: Random House, 2004), p. 23.
"a vast country": Albrecht von Haller, quoted in Dray, Stealing God's Thunder, p. 46.
98 "chagrined a little": Benjamin Franklin, "The Electrical Writings of Benjamin Franklin and Friends," collected by Robert A. Morse, 2004, Wright Center for Innovation in Science Teaching, Tufts University, Medford, MA, p. 24 (pdf p. 35), http://www.tufts.edu/as/wright_center/personal_pages/bob_m/franklin_electricity_screen.pdf (accessed June 29, 2009).
"I have lately made": Ibid., p. 58 (pdf p. 69).
"was the first to discover": Dray, Stealing God's Thunder, pp. 54–55.
[>] "There was scarce": Quoted ibid., p. 67.
"There is something": Franklin, quoted ibid., p. 57.
"be kept clean": Franklin, "The Electrical Writings," p. 45 (pdf p. 56).
[>] "As soon as any": Ibid., p. 95 (pdf p. 106).
"Franklin's conclusions demanded": Dray, Stealing God's Thunder, p. 83.
[>] "I obtain several": Alessandro Volta, quoted in Edwin J. Houston, Electricity in Every-Day Life, vol. 1 (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1905), pp. 347–49.
"made electricity manageable": Benjamin, The Age of Electricity, p. 32.
[>] "the city of Moscow": Francis R. Upton, "Edison's Electric Light, Scribner's, February 1880, p. 532.
[>] "suddenly found themselves": Quoted in Wolfgang Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night: The Industrialization of Light in the Nineteenth Century, trans. Angela Davies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), p. 55.
[>] "A new sort of urban star": Robert Louis Stevenson, "A Plea for Gas Lamps," in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893), pp. 277–78.
"Promptly as the courthouse": Quoted in John Winthrop Hammond, Men and Volts: The Story of General Electric (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1941), pp. 31–32.
[>] "The city's 65 gas lamps": Richard B. Biever, "Indiana's Bright Lights," Electric Consumer, Indiana Statewide