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2. Holiday lighting technology - Wikipedia

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   Both types, along with most of the candle-shaped ones, are pinched-off at the tip rather than the base during manufacturing. Most contemporary miniature light bulbs have an internal shunt that is intended to activate when the bulb's filament burns out. The shunt closes the circuit across the bad filament, restoring continuity, which allows the ...

3. Christmas lights - Wikipedia

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   While he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, he had Christmas tree light bulbs especially made for him. He proudly displayed his Christmas tree, which was hand-wired with 80 red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs the size of walnuts, in December 1882 at his home near Fifth Avenue in New York City.

4. Twinkle bulb - Wikipedia

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   A twinkle bulb is a special type of light bulb which blinks on and off for decorative effect. They are most commonly used on Christmas lights and other string lights, but can also be used for other ornamental purposes like electric jack-o-lanterns for Halloween and replica traffic lights .

5. 10 old-school Christmas traditions that are no longer practiced

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   In 1882, a couple of years after Thomas Edison patented the lightbulb, Edward Johnson, a friend of Edison's, hand-wired light bulbs around his Christmas tree in New York City. The beauty and ...

6. Luminaria - Wikipedia

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   Luminaria bonfires in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The name of the decoration is a long-running item of contention among some New Mexicans, [5] with written accounts indicating it was already a familiar topic of debate as far back as the 1940s.

7. Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree - Wikipedia

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   The 2022 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, an 82 ft Norway Spruce decorated with 50,000 LED lights and a Swarovski crystal star. The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is a large Christmas tree placed annually at Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States.