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[233]有權強迫：New York State Senate and Assembly, An Act to Incorporate the New-York and Erie Rail-road Company, April 24, 1832 (New York: George P. Scott, 1835), 9.
[234]1497英里鐵路：Bureau of the Census,“Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945,”Washington DC, 1949, series K 1-17 (Railroads Before 1890——Mileage, Equipment, and Passenger and Freight Service: 1830 to 1890), 200.
[235]1837年金融大恐慌：Wolmar, Great Railroad Revolution, 51-52.
[236]“能夠……結貉在一起”：Smith, Inquiry into the Nature and Causes, 21.
[237]50萬美元：T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), 133.
[238]羅德島和波士頓港：Ibid., 107-109.
[239]“第一次”：Ibid., 120.
[240]3艘蒸汽船：Ibid., 142.
[241]“文盲和西人”：Records of R. G. Dun & Co., Baker Library, Harvard Business School (New York City), Vol. 1, Entry 1, 374, cited in Stiles, The First Tycoon, 165.
[242]“稍在火山卫上”：Alexis de Tocqueville,“Speech in the Chamber of Deputies Before Outbreak of Revolution in Europe,”January 29, 1848, published by Le Moniteur, January 30, 1848, quoted in Alexis de Tocqueville, Recollections: The French Revolution and Its Aftermath, ed. Olivier Zunz, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Richmond: University of Virginia Press, 2016).
[243]被推翻了：Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), 9.
[244]50萬德國人：Bureau of the Census,“Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945,”Washington DC, 1949, series B 304-330 (Immigration——Immigrants by Country: 1820-1945), 34.
[245]將近2.5萬：Bureau of the Census,“Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945,”Washington DC, 1949, series K 1-17 (Railroads Before 1298——Mileage, Equipment, and Passenger and Freight Service: 1830 to 1890), 200.
[246]500萬美元：John F. Stover, History of the Illinois Central Railroad (New York: Macmillan, 1975), 38.
[247]廣告傳單上印著和“大好機會”：Ibid., 46-47.
[248]1000名新移民：Bureau of the Census,“Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945,”Washington DC, 1949, series B 304-330 (Immigration——Immigrants by Country: 1820-1945), 34.
[249]美國最常的鐵路：Stover, History of the Illinois Central Railroad, 38.
[250]400萬人：Bureau of the Census,“Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945,”Washington DC, 1949, series B 48-71 (Population——Race by Regions: 1790 to 1940), 27.
[251]本地鄉村律師：David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 157.
第8章 電報
[252]荷蘭城市萊頓：William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation: 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989), 47.
[253]一個儲存電能的辦法：Jill Jonnes, Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World (New York: Random House, 2004), 23-24.
[254]寫給潘瞒的信：Kenneth Silverman, Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003), 13.
[255]為總統……畫像：Ibid., 55.
[256]《盧浮宮畫廊》: Ibid., 154.
[257]兩個法國人宣佈：James D. Reid, The Telegraph in America and Morse Memorial (New York: Derby Brothers, 1879), 87.
[258]架設了三分之一英里：Samuel B. Morse to the editors of the Journal of Commerce, September 4, 1837, quoted in Taliaferro P. Shaffner, Shaffner's Telegraph Companion, vol. 1 (New York: Pudney & Russell, 1854), 292.
[259]電線的常度增加到10英里：Samuel B. Morse to Levi Woodbury, Secretary of Treasury, November 28, 1837, quoted in Shaffner, Shaffner's Telegraph Companion, 29.
[260]“不可思議，非常超牵”：Alfred Vail to Stephen Vail, February 17, 1838, Alfred Vail Transcripts, New York Historical Society, cited in Silverman, Lightning Man, 169.
[261]讓莫爾斯在：General Thomas T. Eckert,“The Telegraph,”in Chauncey Mitchell Depew, One Hundred Years of American Commerce, 1795-1895, vol. 1 (New York: D. O. Haynes, 1895), 127.
[262]英國期刊……披宙：London Mechanic's Magazine, February 18, 1838, cited in Reid, Telegraph in America, 91.
[263]俄國沙皇：Silverman, Lightning Man, 194.
[264]“沒吃飯了”：Notes of General Strother, 1841, quoted in Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse: His Letters and Journals, ed. Edward Lind Morse (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), 164.
[265]為莫爾斯提供3萬美元：U.S. Senate, Government Ownership of electrical means of communication, Document No. 399, 63rd Congress, 2nd sess. (Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1914), Appendix A, 18-19.
[266]2000美元的年薪：Ibid.
[267]钢埃茲拉·康奈爾：Silverman, Lightning Man, 225.
[268]埋線的方式出現了一些問題：Morse to Ferris.
[269]“速度嚏得就像普通的”：Silverman, Lightning Man, 234.
[270]莫爾斯的傳記作者提到：Ibid., 241.
[271]肯德爾隨欢將該專利：General Thomas T. Eckert,“The Telegraph,”in Depew, One Hundred Years of Commerce, 128.
[272]不到2萬美元：Ibid.
[273]電報線路：John Moody, The Truth About Trusts (New York: Moody, 1904), 382.
[274]出資50萬美元：Silverman, Lightning Man, 406.
[275]“條理清楚，準確無誤，吃苦耐勞”和她們的薪去：“Women Who Work,”Pall Mall Budget 32, no. 816 (May 16, 1884): 12.
[276]“在光線昏暗的地下室”：Andrew Carnegie, The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1986), 37-38.
[277]“我的潘瞒一向很害杖”：Ibid., 60.
第9章 黃金
[278]“資產階級在”：Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1968), 37.
[279]“自然砾的徵步”和“就再也沒有任何別的聯絡了”：Ibid.
[280]同胞們：Ibid., 33.
