David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT, 1990, ISBN978-0-262-14048-5, p. 54, pointing out that Westinghouse was doing similar innovation and promotion.
Darcy Tell, Times Square Spectacular: Lighting up Broadway, New York: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007, ISBN978-0-06-088433-8, p. 34.
American National Biography ed. John A Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, volume 19 Rousseau–Simmons, American Council of Learned Societies, New York: Oxford University, 1999, ISBN978-0-19-512798-0, p. 151.
Mark J. Bouman, "'The Best Lighted City in the World': The construction of a nocturnal landscape in Chicago," in John Zukowsky, ed., Chicago Architecture and Design: 1923–1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis, in conjunction with the Exhibition "Chicago Architecture and Design, 1923–1993: Reconfiguration of an American Metropolis," The Art Institute of Chicago, June 12 – August 29, 1993, Munich: Prestel, 1993, ISBN978-3-7913-1251-4, pp. 32–51, repr. in Gerrylynn K Roberts, ed., The American Cities & Technology Reader: Wilderness to Wired City, Cities and technology series, Open University, London/New York: Routledge, 1999, ISBN978-0-415-20085-1, pp. 173–87, p. 180.
Obituary, Electrical World 103 (1934) p. 459: "Disregarding all existing theories as to spectacular lighting, particularly the idea of outlining the various buildings by rows of incandescent lamps, he proposed to illuminate the façades of the structures from light sources which were to be concealed from view. The art of floodlighting developed directly from this scheme of lighting."
