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By the 1930s, colored bulbs and cones were everywhere. Today an estimated 150 million light sets are sold in America each year, adding to the tangled millions stuffed into boxes each January....
History. Here’s How Christmas Lights Came to Be. 3 minute read. The first Christmas tree with electric lights was lit in 1882. Maria Kallin-Getty Images/Flickr RF. By Melissa Chan. December 22,...
Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide.
More than two decades after Edison’s first Christmas lights lit up Menlo Park, Edison’s General Electric began selling Decorative and Miniature Lamp kits that would light up Christmas trees all around the country.
The 135-year history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.
DNY59/Getty Images. Christmas is celebrated on December 25 and is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon. For two millennia, people around the world...
The Invention of Christmas Lights. In 1882, Edward Johnson, a friend and partner of Thomas Edison, had the idea to replace the candles with a string of colored electric lights. The first Christmas lights featured eight bulky, pear-shaped bulbs on a single wire.