Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [133]
"lighting ... emerged": David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), p. 54.
"Cities lit in this way": Schivelbush, Disenchanted Night, p. 126.
107 "following the practice": Howard Strong, "The Street Beautiful in Minneapolis," in American City, vol. 9 (New York: Civic Press, 1913), pp. 228–29.
[>] "single light alone": "Lights for a Great City: Brush's System in Successful Use Last Night," New York Times, December 21, 1880, p. 2. "the moment the dazzling": Ibid.
[>] "Since the electric lamps": "Lights in Street Lamps: Bright Electricity Makes the Old-Time Gas Look Dim," New York Times, June 20, 1898, p. 10.
CHAPTER 7: INCANDESCENCE
[>] "described an experiment": Quoted in Brian Bowers, Lengthening the Day: A History of Lighting Technology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 89.
"It was all before me": Thomas Edison, quoted in Paul Israel, Edison: A Life of Invention (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998), p. 166.
[>] "ran from the instrument": New York Sun, quoted in Israel, Edison, p. 165.
"Now that I have": Edison, quoted in George Westinghouse, "A Reply to Mr. Edison," North American Review, December 1889, p. 655.
"A mistaken idea": Francis R. Upton, "Franklin's Electric Light," Scribner's, February 1880, p. 531.
[>] "When I was a boy": David Trumbull Marshall, Recollections of Boyhood Days in Old Metuchen (Flushing, NY: Case Publishing, 1930), in Metuchen Edison History Features, http://www.jhalpin.com/metuchen/history/boy37.htm (accessed January 18, 2006).
"His iron ideas": New York Daily Graphic, quoted in Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (New York: Random House, 2004), p. 54.
[>] "At six o'clock": New York Herald, quoted in Robert Friedel and Paul Israel, Edison's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987), p. 37.
"The more resistance": Edison, quoted in Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, p. 75.
116 "(April 29) Wood loop": Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, P. 154.
[>] "Edison's electric light": New York Herald, quoted in Jonnes, Empires of Light p. 65.
[>] "The light was subjected": New York Herald, quoted in Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, pp. 112–13.
[>] "Standing at one end": Lowell Morning Mail, quoted in David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), p. 190.
[>] "It was a great deal": Herbert L. Satterlee, J. Pierpont Morgan: An Intimate Portrait (New York: Macmillan, 1939), p. 207.
"had to be run by": Ibid., p. 208.
[>] "All that changed": Jonnes, Empires of Light, pp. 79–80.
[>] "It was a light": "Miscellaneous City News: Edison's Electric Light," New York Times, September 5, 1882, p. 8.
[>] "In the stores": New York Herald, quoted in Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, p. 222.
[>] "I would get a fever": Nikola Tesla, quoted in Pierre Berton, Niagara: A History of the Falls (New York: Kodansha International, 1997), pp. 157–58.
[>] "Spare me that nonsense": Edison, quoted in Berton, Niagara, p. 161.
"It will never be free": Edison, quoted in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (New York: Dorset Press, 1981), p. 43.
"The wind at times": "In a Blizzard's Grasp," New York Times, March 13, 1888, p. 1.
"Poles with their long arms": "Wires Down Everywhere," New York Times, March 13, 1888, pp. 1–2.
[>] "The man appeared": Quoted in Jill Jonnes, "New York Unplugged, 1889," New York Times, August 13, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com (accessed June 28, 2009).
"aspect of the city": "A Night of Darkness: More Than One Thousand Electric Lights Extinguished," New York Times, October 15, 1889, p. 2.
[>] "As to the accidents": Westinghouse, "A Reply to Mr. Edison," p. 661.
CHAPTER 8: OVERWHELMING BRILLIANCE: THE WHITE CITY
[>] "Electricity is the half": Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Book of the