Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [138]
"And since there wasn't": Quoted in Michael J. McDonald and John Muldowny, TVA and the Dispossessed: The Resettlement of Population in the Norris Dam Area (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982), p. 40.
[>] "I guess they felt": John Rice Irwin, quoted ibid., p. 57.
"And the people": Ibid.
[>] "From all this": Cranston Clayton, "The TVA and the Race Problem," Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life 12, no. 4 (April 1934): 111, http://newdeal.feri.org/search_details.cfm?link=http://newdeal.feri.org/opp/opp34111.htm (accessed March 12, 2006).
[>] "A malaria-ridden": Buckles, Valley of Power, p. 123.
"We were all": John Carmody, quoted in Dr. Tom Venables, "The Early Days: A Visit with John M. Carmody," Rural Electrification 19, no. 1 (October 1960): 20.
[>] "Initially ... the REA": Katherine Jellison, Entitled to Power: Farm Women and Technology, 1913–1963 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993), p. 98.
"Construction crews ... have dug": Rural Electrification on the March (Washington, DC: Rural Electrification Administration, July 1938), p. 7.
"An Indiana woman": Richard A. Pence, ed., The Next Greatest Thing: 50 Years of Rural Electrification in America (Washington, DC: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1984), p. 95.
[>] "In Virginia, a co-op": Ibid., p. 88.
[>] "I had gotten": 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. 61.
"We had a large": Jimmy Carter, An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), p. 32.
"The day we got": Quoted in Rural Lines—USA: The Story of Cooperative Rural Electrification, rev. ed. (N.p.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1981), p. 14.
200 "They report that": Quoted in Romeo, Darkness to Daylight, p. 68.
"I think the best day": Jimmy Carter, quoted in Rural Lines—USA, p. 12.
"We felt like": Quoted in Romeo, Darkness to Daylight, p. 100.
"Electricity changed the country": Quoted ibid.
[>] "was wonderful": Quoted ibid., p. 55.
"I'll never forget": Quoted ibid.
For those in cities: Edward Hopper's painting is titled Nighthawks (1942).
"That light in the kitchen": Quoted in Romeo, Darkness to Daylight, pp. 55–56.
"Some of them wanted": Quoted ibid., p. 58.
[>] "I've seen this happen": Quoted ibid., p. 56.
"Buried here May 3": Photo, ibid., p. 59.
"What is electricity": Hurst Mauldin and William A. Cochran Jr., Electricity for the Farm (N.p.: Alabama Power Company, 1960), p. 1.
[>] "All this pushbutton stuff": Quoted in McDonald and Muldowny,
TVA and the Dispossessed, p. 30.
"To a farm girl": Quoted in Jellison, Entitled to Power, p. 149.
"I would never": Quoted in Rural Electrification on the March, p. 70.
The advancing electric lines: John Bisbee, conversation with the author, August 2008.
CHAPTER 14: COLD LIGHT
[>] "Practically every illuminant": E. Newton Harvey, "Cold Light," Scientific Monthly, March 1931, p. 270.
"Today we are producing": Charles Steinmetz, quoted in "Scientists Racing to Find Cold Light," New York Times, April 24, 1922, p. 5.
"A 60-watt bulb": Paul W. Keating, Lamps for a Brighter America: A History of the General Electric Lamp Business (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954) p. 5.
[>] "What a preposterous": "Nikola Tesla and His Work," New York Times, September 30, 1894, p. 20.
"Here you have": Harvey, "Cold Light," p. 272.
207 "At sunset the firefly": Walter Hough, Fire as an Agent in Human Culture, bulletin no. 139, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1926), pp. 197–98.
[>] "There were at first": Quoted ibid., p. 196.
"I think it is possible": Steinmetz, quoted in "Scientists Racing to Find Cold Light," p. 5.
[>] "The road to Tomorrow": E. B. White, "The World of Tomorrow," in Essays of E. B. White (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), p. 111.
"Only selected parts": Hugh O'Connor, "Science at the World's Fair—Rise of the Illuminating Engineer," New York