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9. Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:516-17, 607.
10. New York Evening Post, December 21, 1880; New York. Herald, November 18, 1880 (TAEM 94:617, 24).
11. Quotations from Illustrated Scientific News, December 21,1880; Hartford Daily Times, undated clipping, c. December 10,1880 (TAEM 89:14; 94:621).
12. Quotations from unidentified clipping, November 26, 1880; New York Herald, November 18,1880 (TAEM 94:617, 620).
13. Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 178-80; Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:721-24; Conot, Streak of Luck, 176-78; Marshall, Recollections of Edison, 29-30; Edison to Grosvenor Lowreyjuly 20, 1880 (TAEM 54:65).
14. The account of the aldermen's visit is derived from the following New York newspapers for December 21, 1880: Truth, Herald, Evening Post, World, Sun, Times, and Daily Tribune.
15. Quotation from New York Star, December 21,1880 (TAEM 94:623). Also see New York Post, December 21,1880 (TAEM 94:624); Charles Brush, "The Arc-Light," Century Magazine 70 (1905): 110-18; Mel Gorman, "Charles F. Brush and the First Public Electric Street Lighting System in America," Ohio Historical Quarterly 70 (1961): 128-44; Carlson, Innovation as a Social Process, 80-81; Jakle, City Lights, 38-47. On electric light spectacles, see Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 158-62.
16. Passer, Electrical Manufacturers, 20.
17. This account of the night of July 13,1881, is drawn from Buffalo Daily Courier and Buffalo Morning Express, July 14,1881. On Buffalo in this time period, see Atlas of the City of Buffalo, New York (Philadelphia: G. M. Hopkins, 1884); Mark Goldman, High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1983), 176-85; Brenda K. Shelton, Reformers in Search of Yesterday: Buffalo in the 1890s (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1976), 5-10.
18. This account of the night of August 7, 1881, is drawn from the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, August 8, 1881; Buffalo Morning Express, August 8, 1881; Buffalo Daily Courier, August 8, 9,1881; Buffalo Evening News, July 14 and August 8, 9,11,1881; testimony of Philip Fogerty, Wallace Harrington, and Charles Hayner in Kemmler Hearings.
19. Kemmler Hearings, 956-59; Buffalo Evening News, August 11, 1881; Buffalo Morning Express, August 9, 1881.
20. Quotation from Buffalo Morning Express, August 8, 1881.
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1. Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences\ 3:924-26, 967; New York Times, March 1,1881; Dyer and Martin, Edison, 1:360-61.
2. Israel, Edison, 210-11; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 195; Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:503-5.
3. Quotation from New York Sun, September 16,1878 (TAEM 94:354). Also see Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 177-78; Jakle, City Lights, 19-37. F ° r a n incident of sabotage by line cutting, see Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 25, 1883.
4. Quotation from Dyer and Martin, Edison, 1:392-93.
5. Harper's Weekly 26 (June 24, 1882): 394; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 196, 207; Conot, Streak of Luck, 195-96.
6. 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; New York Evening Post, December 1,1881 (TAEM 95:4).
7. Quotation from Dyer and Martin, 1:380; Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:897, 3-'959, 996.
8. New York Times, March r, 1881.
9. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 1, 1882 (TAEM 95:191); Josephson, Edison, 261; Nye, Electrifying America, 32.
10. Jehl, Menlo Park Reminiscences, 2:741; Fred E. H. Schroeder, "More 'Small Things Forgotten': Domestic Electrical Plugs and Receptacles, 1881-1931," Technology and Culture 27 (1986): 529-30; Friedel and Israel, Edison's Electric Light, 169-71, 201-4,219.
11. Friedel and Israel, Edison s Electric Light, 213-18; Israel, Edison, 205, 214-15;