"A Brief Biography of Thomas Edison", Edison National Historical Park website, U.S. National Park Service, last updated Feb. 26, 2015. Accessed Aug. 15, 2022. See also A. J. Millard, A History of Edison's West Orange Laboratory, 1887-1931, report for National Park Service (1987); A. J. Millard, Duncan Hay, and Mary K. Grassick, Historic Furnishings Report, Vol. 1: Historical Data and Furnishing Plan, Edison Laboratory (U.S. National Park Service, 1995), pp. 72-73 ff.
Paul Spehr, The Man Who Made Movies: W.K.L. Dickson (John Libbey Publishing, 2008), 324-25. Barnet Phillips, “The Record of a Sneeze,” Harper's Weekly, March 24, 1894, published 81 frames from the film. See also Luke McKernan's entry for Ott in Who's Who of Victorian Cinema (1996) accessed Aug. 15, 2022.