Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [134]
"a marsh when": Julian Ralph, "Our Exposition at Chicago, with Plan of Exposition Grounds and Buildings," Harper's, January 1892, p. 206. "a treacherous morass": Quoted in Norma Bolotin and Christine Laing, The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002), p. 11.
[>] "of darkened ivory": Ralph, "Our Exposition at Chicago," p. 207.
"so bewildering no eye": W E. Cameron, quoted in Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Biography of a Genius (New York: Citadel Press, 1998), p. 117.
"There would be a dozen": Quoted in Bolotin and Laing, The World's Columbian Exposition, p. 148.
[>] "It is the part": Bancroft, The Book of the Fair, p. 401.
"were used lavishly": J. P. Barrett, Electricity at the Columbian Exposition (Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1894), p. 1.
[>] "brilliance almost too dazzling": Bancroft, The Book of the Fair, p. 402.
"Having seen nothing": Quoted in Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (New York: Crown, 2003), p. 254.
"by virtue of pressure": Louis H. Sullivan, The Autobiography of an Idea (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), p. 308.
[>] "Chicago, one might say": William Dean Howells, Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961), p. 20.
"'Undisciplined'—that is the word": H. G. Wells, "The Future in America: A Search After Realities," Harper's Weekly, July 21, 1906, p. 1020.
[>] "Within the memory": George Bird Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970), pp. 200–201.
"The Native Americans": Robert W. Rydell, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), p. 63.
"several of the exhibits": Ibid.
134 "Here was an opportunity," Rossiter Johnson, ed., A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893, vol. 3 (New York: D. Appleton, 1898), pp. 433–34.
"of whom twenty-one": Ibid., p. 444.
"Sight-seers ... were fascinated": Ibid.
[>] "As if to shame": Frederick Douglass, introduction to The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, by Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand L. Barnett, ed. Robert W Rydell (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999), p. 13.
"When it was ascertained": Ferdinand L. Barnett, "The Reason Why," in The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition, pp. 74–75.
"the contents of a great": Quoted in William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), p. 344.
[>] "We earnestly desired": Douglass, introduction, pp. 7, 16.
[>] "his gaze turned upward": Bancroft, The Book of the Fair, p. 403.
"no two of which": Barrett, Electricity at the Columbian Exposition, p. 18.
[>] "The Edison tower": Bancroft, The Book of the Fair, p. 424.
"Close at hand": Ibid., pp. 421–22.
[>] "dipping reels of wire": Ibid., p. 409.
"When the currents": Quoted in Seifer, Wizard, p. 121.
[>] "lumped off the whole": Quoted ibid., p. 120.
"without injury to life": Quoted ibid.
"The streams of light": Nikola Tesla and Thomas Commerford Martin, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla: With Special Reference to His Work in Polyphase Current and High Potential Lighting, 2nd ed. (New York: Electrical Engineer, 1894), p. 320.
"After such a striking,": Quoted in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (New York: Dorset Press, 1981), p. 73.
[>] "alive with the deafening": Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (New York: Random House, 2004), p. 267.
"Popular interest": Francis E. Leupp, George Westinghouse: His Life and Achievements (Boston: