Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [137]
[>] "There was no quittin'": Quoted in Mary Ellen Romeo, Darkness to Daylight: An Oral History of Rural Electrification in Pennsylvania and New Jersey (Harrisburg: Pennsylvania Rural Electric Association, 1986), p. 13.
[>] "You could milk a cow": Quoted ibid., pp. 18–19.
"Winter mornings": Quoted in Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), p. 503.
[>] "I would have to get": Quoted ibid., p. 505.
"You see how round": Quoted ibid.
"I have always lived": Quoted in Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), p. 14.
"I got up many": Quoted in Romeo, Darkness to Daylight, p. 12.
"By the time": Quoted in Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, p. 509.
[>] "Our artificial light": Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 31.
"You know, you couldn't": Quoted in Romeo, Darkness to Daylight, p. 19.
[>] "this jazz-industrial age": M. L. Wilson, quoted in Russell Lord, "The Rebirth of Rural Life, Part 2," Survey Graphic 30, no. 12 (December 1941), http://newdeal.feri.org/survey/sg41687.htm (accessed March 12, 2006).
"This is the test": David E. Nye, Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at General Electric, 1890–1930 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), photo, insert after p. 134.
[>] "The thing [the farm woman] needs": Quoted in Jellison, Entitled to Power, p. 13.
"We would like": Quoted ibid., p. 67.
"everything had already": Quoted in Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, p. 512.
"the kind of oil": William T. O'Dea, The Social History of Lighting (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), p. 56.
"Kerosene light": Agee and Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, p. 211.
183 "A blown-out electric bulb": Ibid., pp. 437–38.
"street lighting in the United States": David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992), p. 140.
[>] "provide a link": Quoted in Jonathan Coopersmith, The Electrification of Russia, 1880–1926 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992), p. 154.
"displayed an illuminated map": Ibid., p. 1.
"Ten years ago": Harold Evans, "The World's Experience with Rural Electrification," in Giant Power: Large Scale Electrical Development as a Social Factor, ed. Morris Llewellyn Cooke (Philadelphia: Academy of Political and Social Science, 1925), p. 33.
[>] "the kw.h. production": Ibid., p. 36.
"far off above Manhattan": "Edison Is Buried on 52d Anniversary of Electric Light," New York Times, October 22, 1931, p. 1.
[>] "Mr. Hoover left it": "Nation to Be Dark One Minute Tonight After Edison Burial," New York Times, October 21, 1931, p. 1.
CHAPTER 13: RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
[>] "It is more important": Report of the Country Life Commission: Report and Special Message from the President of the United States, 60th Cong., 2d sess., Senate Document 705 (Spokane, WA: Chamber of Commerce, 1911), pp. 30–31, Core Historical Literature of Agriculture, http://chla.library.cornell.edu (accessed February 15, 2008).
"drive a wedge": Martha Bensley Bruère, "What Is Giant Power For?" 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. 120.
[>] "When the first-of-the-month": Franklin Delano Roosevelt, quoted in Jackie Kennedy, "Seeds for America's Rural Electricity Sprouted in Diverse Power Service Territory," http://www.diversepower.com/history_heritage.php (accessed February 14, 2008).
189 "Power is really": Press conference, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Warm Springs, GA, November 23, 1934, http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/FDRspeeches/FDRspeech34-2.htm (accessed July 9, 2009).
[>] "Now the Alcorn County": Ibid.
"There must have been": David E. Lilienthal, The Journals of David E. Lilienthal, vol. 1, The TVA Years, 1939–1945 (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 52.
[>] "full even without": Eleanor Buckles, Valley