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162-63. For a contemporaneous account of a trip into the West, see W G. Marshall, Through America; or, Nine Months in the United States (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881), 122-35.

18. Quotation from New York Daily Graphic, April 2,1878 (TAEM 27:776). Also see "Charles Batchelor's Recollections of Edison" (TAEB 4:866-67); Israel, Edison, 147-52.

CHAPTER 3. LIGHT

1. Quotation from New York Daily Graphic, August 28, 1878 (TAEM 94:338). Also see New York Sun, August 29,1878 (TAEM 94:338); Israel, Edison, 163.

2. W Bernard Carlson, Innovation as a Social Process: Elihu Thomson and the Rise of General Electric, 1870-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 88; John A. Jakle, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 39-40; King, "Development of Electrical Technology," 344-407; C. Mackechniejarvis, "The Generation of Electricity," in A History of Technology, 5:179-83; Brian Bowers, "Electricity," in An Encyclopaedia of the History of Technology, 354-87.

3. Quotation from New York Mail, September 10,1878 (TAEM 94:349).

4. Robert Friedel and Paul Israel, Edison 's Electric Light: Biography of an Invention (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986), 7; Jakle, City Lights, 35-36, 52.

5. Quotation from New York Sun, October 20,1878 (TAEM 94:382).

6. Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 7-8.

7. Quotation from Edison to William Wallace, September 13, 1878 (TAEM 17:925). Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 8-13; Israel, Edison, 169-70.

8. New York Sun, September 16,1878 (TAEB 4:503-6).

9. Edison to Theodore Puskas, October 5, 1878 (TAEM 28:828); Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electiic Light, 22-23; Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier (New York: Random House, 1999), 181-83.

10. Israel, Edison, 171; Josephson, Edison, 187.

11. Quotation from Josephson, Edison, 163.

12. Israel, Edison, 119-21; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 33.

13. Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 27-35; Israel, Edison, 86,145,179.

14. New York Herald, January 17,1879 (TAEM 94:450); Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 37-38; Alfred O. Tate, Edison's Open Door: The Life Story of Thomas A. Edison, a Great Individualist (New York: Dutton, 1938), 127.

15. New York Herald, January 10, 1880 (TAEM 94:562); Francis Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 3 vols. (Dearborn, Mich.: Edison Institute, 1937-41), 1:285; 2:515-16, 858; Conot, Streak of Luck, 184.

16. Quotation from New York Herald, January 10,1880 (TAEM 94:562). Also see Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 3:1145; Conot, Streak of Luck, 87.

17. Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 49-53; Israel, Edison, 180-84.

18. Quotation from Francis Upton to Elijah Wood Upton, July 6,1879 (TAEM 95:543). Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 69-72; Israel, Edison, 173-76, 181-83.

19. New York Herald, March 27, 1879 (TAEM 94:464).

20. Quotations from New York Daily Graphic, February 6, April 11,1879 (TAEM 94:456, 474). Also see London Times, March 22, 1879; New York Sun, July 7, August 3, 1879 (TAEM 94:464, 494, 504).

21. "American Electric Lights," Telegraphic journal and Electrical Review, February 1,1879 (TAEM 23:528).

22. Edison to Theodore Puskas, November 13,1878 (TAEB 4:704-6).

23. Quotation from Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 75. Also see TAEB 4:717-19; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 54-56, 116-17; Israel, Edison, 172; Thomas P. Hughes, Networks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983), 35-37.

24. Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 78-79.

25. Quotation from New York Herald, December 21,1879 (TAEM 94:537).

26. Quotation from Menlo Park Notebook #52, N-79-7-31, p. 115 (TAEM 33:594). Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 94-105; Israel, Edison, 187.

27. Quotations from Edison to George E. Gouraud, December 1, 1879 (TAEM 49:746); Israel, Edison, 187. Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 103-5.

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