The effect may have been beautiful, but candles and trees are too much of a hazard (and a hassle) to be a viable option. Christmas lights needed to go electric. Another recent invention ...

But who invented Christmas lights and how did ... often dangerous and led to many home fires. First string of Christmas tree lights In 1882, Edward H. Johnson, Edison’s friend and partner ...

Our family loves celebrating Christmas but now it will always be extra-special for us because we now know my great-great-grandfather is the man who invented the Christmas tree light.' ...

The Christmas lights of today can light up trees and window frames with tiny twinkling lights of many colors—or cause frustration with their long and tangle-prone cables. But the first such ...

The nearly 150-year-old history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale. Americans have lit up Christmas trees since the early ...

Two years later, an Edison crony named Edward Johnson displayed the first electrically illuminated Christmas tree at his home in Manhattan. The then-impressive 80-light display girded a very ...

In 1877, after Edison invented the phonograph ... had introduced Britain to the Teutonic tannenbaum—the Christmas tree—and the idea spread. In the States, President Franklin Pierce put ...

In fact, you probably have outdoor Christmas Tree lights as well! Did you know: outdoor Christmas lights were invented in Denver? They were created by a man named D.D. Sturgeon back in 1914.

Do the good citizens of New Orleans skip town during Mardi Gras? Do proper New Englanders take tropical cruises when their trees display their most glorious fall colors? Would New Yorkers dare ...

Christmas trees are a strange tradition ... Christmas tree—with candles rather than today’s electric lights, which were invented in 1882—after a nighttime stroll through the forest with ...

The nearly 150-year-old history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale. Americans have lit up Christmas trees since the early ...