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NOTES FOR CHAPTER ONE
Unless otherwise stated, all primary source material is
from the Edison National Historic Site.
2) George Prescott, Dynamo Electricity (New York: Appleton,
1888), 228 estimates that there were 164 Edison
installations the United States 1886 and 142 Europe.
10) Josephson, 90.80.
Lippincott, 1968).
7) Louis Hacker, The World Andrew Carnegie (New York: J. His slotted
ring armature 1869 was breakthrough, but the scientific
paper describing languished the pages obscure
scientific journal for ten years, unnoticed the engineers
who were trying make better armature, Malcolm Maclaren,
Rise the Electrical Industry during the Nineteenth Century
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1943), 114. The first important innovation armature design was the
work the Italian scientist, Antonio Pacinotti. 349.
11) Reginald Fessenden, ’
’
The Inventions R.
3) Robert Stern, Pride Place: Building the American Dream
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), p.3. 421. 300:301.P.
The European installations were Europe, Italy, and
Russia; Mathew Josephson, Edison: Biography (New York: McGraw
Hill, 1959) pp.
4) Ibid and Stern, Gilmartin and Massengale, New York City
1900.
8) Batchelor diary, 1336, 279, Sept 1887, Laboratory
Notebook, 870000.
6) Thomas Edison (TAE) Hood Wright, Nov 1887, Laboratory
Notebook 871115.
5) Carole Rifkind, Field Guide American Architecture (New
York: New American Library, 1980), p.P. All citations document
files will follow this format sender recipient, date,
year and name file.
9) J.129.
1) Leonard Reich, The Making American Industrial Research
(New York: Cambridge, 1985), 45.A. Fessenden,”
. The lab
had this journal and loaned out, Seely TAE, Dec 1892,
Document file for 1892, Electricity. Constable product engineers, Sept 1917, Lab blue
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