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11. Quotations from "Edisons Inductorum [sic]," draft essay, c. May 20, 1874 (TAEB 2:206); Israel, Edison, 22; TAEB 2:199.
12. Quotations from W Mattieu Williams, "Electromania," Popular Science Monthly 21 (1882): 651; Ward B. Snyder, Sportsmen's Goods (New York, 1875), 152, Prints Division, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kenneth Walter Cameron, ed., The Massachusetts Lyceum During the American Renaissance: Materials for the Study of the Oral Tradition in American Letters (Hartford, Conn.: Transcendental Books, 1969), 9; New York Museum of Anatomy, undated program, Billy Rose Theater Collection, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Also see New York Herald, December 21,1879 (TAEM 94:539); "Prof. Anderson's Grand Drawing Room Entertainment of Natural Magic et Soirees Mysterieuse," undated handbill for Winter Garden Theater, Billy Rose Theater Collection. On Barnum and dime museums, see Neil Harris, Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973).
13. Quotation from New York Sun, December 1, 1878 (TAEM 23:187). Also see Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Ohio Penitentiary... for the Fiscal Year 1893 (Columbus: Westbote, 1896), 28-29.
14. Quotations from B. C. Brodie, "Explaining the Mode in Which Death Is Produced by Lightning," London Medical Gazette 1 (1827-28): 80; Benjamin W. Richardson, "On Research with the Large Induction Coil of the Royal Polytechnic Institution, with Special Reference to the Cause and Phenomena of Death by Lightning," Medical Times and Gazette 1 (1869): 511-12, 595-99; 2 (1869): 183-86, 373-76; W Bathurst Woodman and Charles Tidy, A Handy-book of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1877), 969-70.
15. New York Herald, November 26, 30, December 14,1879.
CHAPTER 5. "DOWN TO THE LAST PENNY"
1. Quotations from Saturday Review, January 10, 1880, as quoted in Journal of Gas Lighting, January 20,1880 (TAEM 94:573); Puck, as quoted in Telegraphic Journal and Electrical Review, July 15, 1880 (TAEM 23:432). Also see unidentified clipping (TAEM 26:358); Telegraphic Journal, April 15,1880 (TAEM 24:25)
2. New York Sun, September 16, 1878 (TAEM 94:354); Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 177-78; Jakle, City Lights, 19-37.
3. Quotation from New York Daily Tribune, November 26, 1880 (TAEM 89:18). Also see St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 1,1882 (TAEM 95:191).
4. Quotation from Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 198. Harold C. Passer, The Electrical Manufacturers, 1873-1900: A Study in Competition Entrepreneurship, Technical Change, and Economic Growth (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), 177-79; Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, 2 vols. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), 2:910-17.
5. New York Times, August 9, 1880; New York Truth, March 6, 1881 (TAEM 94:609, 629); Harper's Weekly 26 (June 24, 1882), 394; Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:895-96; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 120-23.
6. Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2: 558-63; Francis Upton to Elijah Wood Upton, May 9, 1880 (TAEM), 95:606; Scientific American 42 (May 22, 1880), 326; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 140-44; Conot, Streak of Luck, 170-71.
7. Quotations from John R. Segredor to Edison, October 8, 14, 1880 (TAEM 53:816, 893); Vesey Butler to Edison, October 27, 1880 (TAEM 53:912). Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 129-32, 154-56; Israel, Edison 196-97; Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:338, 563, 614.
8. Quotation from Francis Upton to Elijah Wood Upton, March 2,1879 (TAEM 95:512). Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 146; David Trumbull Marshall, Recollections of Edison