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- ↑ Site on Google Maps (https://www.google.com:443/maps?q=40.609830,-74.276504&hl=en&gl=us); see also original site marked in pink on 1886 map. http://map.princeton.edu/mapviewer/#/jq085n29x; Rahway Tesla bust; https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/0SbXc53dqApuklE8W31jSg/o.jpg; Rahway tourism poster http://rahwaysown.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tesla_FS.png; Article on Rahway honoring Tesla http://njtoday.net/2016/06/16/rahway-to-honor-nikola-tesla/; Article on brilliance of lights installed by Tesla in Rahway http://www.digifind-it.com/rahway/data/national-dem/1886/1886-04-23.pdf
- ↑ Marc Seifer, Wizard: The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla, p. 41
- ↑ Jonnes, Jill. Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World. Random House Trade Paperbacks - 2004.
- ↑ Carlson, W. Bernard. Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. Princeton University Press - 2013, page 75
- ↑ Carlson, W. Bernard. Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age. Princeton University Press - 2013, pages 74-75
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- National Electric Light Association Convention (1890) Page 18
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