It's hard to picture a Christmas tree without a string of lights. But those white or multi-colored bulbs hanging from your tree right now have only been popular for about 40 years. People used to ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - December 22, 1882. The first electric Christmas lights are hung. A friend and partner of Thomas Edison, Edward H. Johnson, hand-wired 80 red, white, and blue bulbs around his ...
Inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated his electric incandescent lights in public. He illuminated about 100 bulbs in and around his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison used a carbonized bamboo ...
On December 22, 1882, a new kind of holiday magic flickered to life, forever changing how we celebrate Christmas. That day, Edward H. Johnson, an inventor and vice president of Thomas Edison’s ...
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