Christmas Lights #OnThisDay
On 22nd December 1882 Edward Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white, and blue light bulbs and strung them together around a tree in front of the street-side window of his parlour. A generator powered the lights and the tree’s revolving pedestal. Edward Johnson, was the friend and business associate of Thomas Edison at the Edison Electric Light Company. In 1880 Thomas Edison created a string of electric lights in his laboratory and hung them…
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