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