Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death - Mark Essig (2005)
ART CREDITS
Images on the pages noted have been supplied by the following sources:
Jean Antoine Nollet, Essai sur l'Electricité des Corps (Paris, 1746), frontispiece. Courtesy Bakken Library
Illustrations by Martie Holmer
Courtesy U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Edison National Historic Site
Giovanni Aldini, Essai Théorique et Expérimentale su le Galvanisme (Paris, 1804). Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Adapted from Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions, vol. 2 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), 917. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Scientific American 44 (April 2, 1881): 207. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Courtesy Consolidated Edison Company of New York
Scientific American 47 (August 26, 1882): 130. Courtesy Edison National Historic Site
Author collection
Louis B. Lane, Memorial and Family History of Erie County, New York, vol. 2 (N.Y: N.Y. Genealogical Publishing Co., 1906-8), 106. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Sydney H. Coleman, Humane Society Leaders in America (Albany, 1924), facing. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Scientific American 58 (June 30, 1888): 407. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Courtesy Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 5 (New York: James T. White, 1945), 22. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Courtesy Museum of the City of New York
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. B (New York: James T. White, 1927), 329. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Electrical World 15 (April 5, 1890): 237. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Harper's Weekly 33 (July 27, 1889): 601. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Scientific Americari 59 (December 22, 1888): 393. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
National Police Gazette, August 23,1890, p. 16. Courtesy Clements Library at the University of Michigan
The Bookman 21 (1905): 490. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, June 8, 1889, p. 306. Courtesy Library of Congress
People of the State of New York, ex rel. William Kemmler against Charles F. Durston, as Warden of the State Prison at Auburn, NY, vol. 2 (Buffalo: J. D. Warren's Sons, 1889), following lxxxv. Courtesy Buffalo and Erie County Public Library
Courtesy American Philosophical Society
New York World, October 12,1889. Courtesy Library of Congress
Judge 17 (October 26, 1889): front cover. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Judge 17 (December 21,1889): back cover. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Medico-Legal Journal 3 (1887-8): 430. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Clark Bell, Medico-Legal Studies, vol. 2 (New York: Medico-Legal Journal, 1889): 93. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Electrical World 16 (August 16, 1890): 99. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Courtesy Cayuga Museum
New York Herald, August 7, 1890. Courtesy Library of Congress
New York Medical Journal 55 (May 14, 1892): following 542. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries
Courtesy Chicago Historical Society ICHi-02237
Harper's Weekly 33 (July 27, 1889): 601; Herbert Newton Casson, The History of the Telephone (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1910), facing 132. Courtesy Cornell University Libraries