Brilliant_ The Evolution of Artificial Light - Jane Brox [140]
[>] "Because the relay": Wilford and Shepard, "Detective Story," p. 86.
[>] "In the New York State system": Donald Johnston, "The Grid," in The Night the Lights Went Out, p. 75.
[>] "I don't know why": Quoted in Montgomery, "And Everything Was Gone," p. 23.
"'The Chinese'": A. M. Rosenthal, "The Plugged-in Society," in The Night the Lights Went Out, p. 11.
"through the minds": Ibid., p. 14.
[>] "I could see": Quoted in Montgomery, "And Everything Was Gone," p. 20.
"like hamsters": Quoted ibid., p. 24.
"glided down more": "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment," The New Yorker, November 20, 1965, p. 45.
"As usual New Yorkers": Rosenthal, "The Plugged-in Society," p. 12.
[>] "The more efficient": Wolfgang Schivelbush, quoted in David E.
Nye, Technology Matters: Questions to Live With (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), p. 163.
"It was a beautiful": Quoted in Paul L. Montgomery, "The Stricken City," in The Night the Lights Went Out, pp. 37–38.
241 "We still knew nothing": "The Talk of the Town," November 20, 1965, p. 44.
"as if the darkness": Ibid., p. 43.
"the men, working without": Montgomery, "The Stricken City," p. 44.
"Two matches, carefully tended": "The Talk of the Town," November 20, 1965, p. 45.
[>] "The moonlight lay": Ibid., p. 46.
[>] "The turbine generators": William E. Farrell, "The Morning After," in The Night the Lights Went Out, p. 66.
"Unfortunately many": Gordon D. Friedlander, "The Northeast Power Failure—a Blanket of Darkness," IEEE Spectrum, February 1966, p. 66.
[>] "As power became available": Report to the President by the Federal Power Commission on the Power Failure in the Northeastern United States and the Province of Ontario on November 9–10, 1965, December 6, 1965, p. 29, http://www.blackout.gmu.edu/archive/pdf/fpc_65.pdf. "New York Cancelled": Bernard Weinraub, "From Abroad: Smiles, Sneers, and Disbelief," in The Night the Lights Went Out, p. 119.
"Ralph Morse, who had": George P. Hunt, "Trapped in a Skyscraper," Life, November 19, 1965, p. 3.
[>] "Everybody recognizes everybody": Farrell, "The Morning After," p. 65.
The subsequent Federal Power: Report to the President, pp. 43–45.
[>] "We are in much worse": "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment," The New Yorker, August 15, 1977, p. 15.
"The end came": Russell Baker, quoted in Bernard Weinraub, "Bewitched and Bewildered," in The Night the Lights Went Out, pp. 124–25.
CHAPTER 18: IMAGINING THE NEXT GRID
[>] "Regard the light": Dan Flavin, "'...in Daylight or Cool White': An Autobiographical Sketch," Artforum, December 1965, p. 24.
251 "Permanence just defies": "Dan Flavin Interviewed by Tiffany Bell, July 13, 1982," in Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961–1996, ed. Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell (New Haven, CT: Dia Art Foundation / Yale University Press, 2004), p. 199.
"Oil had become": Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), p. 588.
[>] "It's very sad": Quoted in "The Talk of the Town: Other Lights," The New Yorker, December 10, 1973, p. 40.
[>] "This winter as the nation": Jonathan Schell, "The Talk of the Town: Notes and Comment," The New Yorker, December 10, 1973, p. 37.
"Night's coming was": Baron Wormser, The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2006), p. 9.
"A few guests": Ibid., p. 11.
[>] "Light did not materialize": Ibid., p. 10.
"We simply must balance": Jimmy Carter, speech, April 18, 1977, "Primary Sources: The President's Proposed Energy Policy," American Experience, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_energy.html (accessed May 2, 2008).
[>] "We're working to create": Jeffrey Skilling, quoted in Steven Johnson, "New New Power Business: Inside 'Energy Alley,'" Frontline, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blackout/traders/inside.html (accessed December 2, 2008).
[>] "You probably couldn't": Jeffrey Skilling, quoted in Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, The Smartest Guys in the Room: