christmas lights trivia tracy king
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The first electric Christmas lights were displayed in the home of Edward Johnson, a colleague of Thomas Edison, just three years after the light bulb was invented. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The first electric Christmas lights were displayed in the home of Edward Johnson, a colleague of Thomas Edison,
just three years after the light bulb was invented.
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Johnson's tree had hand wired lights in the patriotic
colors of red, white and blue. The lights flashed
alternately, and the tree rotated as well.
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Early in their history, Christmas lights were so expensive that they were more commonly
rented than sold.
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Many of the earliest Christmas lights burned
so hot that they were about as dangerous as the
candles they were advertised to replace.