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"What astonished visitors": Ibid.
142 Winslow Homer's The Fountains: This painting is in the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine.
[>] "I believe": Quoted in David F. Burg, Chicago's White City of 1893 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1976), p. 287.
There are 'bits'": "Fate of the Chicago World's Fair Buildings," Scientific American, October 3, 1896, American Periodical Series Online, p. 267.
CHAPTER 9: NIAGARA: LONG-DISTANCE LIGHT
[>] "I was in a manner": Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, vol. 2 (London: Chapman & Hall, 1842), pp. 177–78.
[>] "All the coal raised": Sir William Siemens, quoted in Pierre Berton, Niagara: A History of the Falls (New York: Kodansha International, 1997), p. 151.
"The greatest and strongest": Peter Kalm, quoted in Charles Mason Dow, Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls, vol. 1 (Albany: State of New York, 1921), p. 56.
[>] "Several of the French": Ibid., p. 58.
[>] "Thirteen hundred workmen": Berton, Niagara, p. 162.
[>] "[I] pictured in my imagination": Nikola Tesla, quoted in Marc J. Seifer, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Biography of a Genius (New York: Citadel Press, 1998), p. 132.
"the inlet gates": Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (New York: Random House, 2004), p. 320.
"the falls and Buffalo": Tesla, quoted ibid., p. 326.
"Electrical experts say": Buffalo Enquirer, quoted in Jonnes, Empires of Light, pp. 328–29.
[>] "Wherever mankind wishes": Irving Fisher, "The Decentralization and Suburbanization of Population," in Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor, ed. Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925), p. 96.
"Yoked to the Cataract!": Buffalo Enquirer, quoted in Jonnes, Empires of Light, p. 329.
"What is electricity": R. R. Bowker, ed., "Electricity," no. 12 in The Great American Industries series, Harper's, October 1896, p. 710.
"Now, I must tell you": Tesla, quoted in Seifer, Wizard, p. 5.
151 "To Adams the dynamo": Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), p. 380.
[>] "The dynamos and turbines": H. G. Wells, "The Future in America: A Search After Realities," Harper's Weekly, July 21 1906, p. 1019.
PART III
[>] "So if we moderns": Fernand Braudel, Capitalism and Material Life, 1400–1800, trans. Miriam Kochan (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), p. 226.
CHAPTER 10: NEW CENTURY, LAST FLAME
[>] "In our households": Edwin J. Houston, Electricity in Every-Day Life, vol. 1 (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1905), p. 1.
Gas, for instance: Information on the cost of lighting comes from M. Luckiesh, Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization (New York: Century, 1920), pp. 214–17.
[>] "Houses were lit": Richard K. Nelson, Make Prayers to the Raven: A Koyukon View of the Northern Forest (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), p. 18.
[>] "the constellation of": Walter Hough, "The Lamp of the Eskimo," in The Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and the Condition of the Institution for the Year Ending June 30, 1896: Report of the U.S. National Museum (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1898), p. 1038.
[>] "Had he smoked": Ward's Auto World, October 1970, p. 63, quoted in "Lamp Fillers: Notes and Queries, Quotes and News: Lamp Pollution?" History of Lamps and Lighting: The Rushlight Archives, 1934–2006, DVD, Rushlight Club, 2007.
[>] "Lamp trimming only reaches": Hough, "The Lamp of the Eskimo," p. 1034.
"The Eskimo have": Walter Hough, "The Origin and Range of the Eskimo Lamp," American Anthropologist 11, no. 4 (April 1898): 117.
"unlike our lighting systems": Walter Benjamin, "The Lamp," in Selected Writings, vol. 2, 1927–1934, ed. Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, and Gary Smith, trans. Rodney Livingstone and others (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999),