38) "Plans the Vizard," newsclipping, 1891 Electric
Railroad folder.
24) E.
29) Upton TAE, Aug 1889, Elec Light, filament.
27) Insull TAE, April 1888, 1888, Laboratory Bills. Vail to
TAE, May 1886, Elec Light.
26) Chandler, The Visible Hand (Cambridge: Harvard Univ
Press, 1978), 194.
36) The Electric Lighting Act had placed all public supply in
England under the Board Trade.
32) TAE Villard, Feb 1890, Villard Papers, HBS, fol 473. Each local authority had veto
power over lighting projects and the companies were subjected
to vigorous regulation every aspect their operations. In
comparison with the great increase electricity supply the
United States, England was lagging behind. Many blamed this lag
on regulation. Johnson TAE, June 1889, Electricity.J.
35) Thomas Edison, ’
’
The Dangers Electric Lighting," North
American Review.V
21) The work the municipal lamp had begun 1888, when
Edison had his laboratory the Lamp factory, J.H.
28) Tate, Open Door, 128.
37) TAE Insull, May 1888, 970929, 254.
34) E. Millard, Technological Lag (New York:
Garland, 1987).
22) Patent 369,439 patented Sept 1887.
30) Fessenden, ’
’
The Inventions Fessenden’
’ Radio
News, 1925, Part VIII.H.H.
23) Siemens Halske Report November 1886, Elec light. See A.
. Johnson Letter, undated 1888 Phono general.
31) TAE Villard, March 1889, Villard collection HBS MS
78, box 63.
39) Cited Josephson, 346. LXLIX (Nov, 1889), 625-634.
25) TAE ViHard, Feb 1891, ViHard papers, HBS, fol 475,
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