The first strand of electric lights was created by Thomas Edison, the developer of the first successful practical light bulb. During Christmas 1880, strands of lights were hung outside his Menlo Park, New Jersey, laboratory, providing the first glimpse of an electrical light display to railroad travelers commuting by. Electric Christmas lights, on the other hand, would take nearly 40 years to become a tradition.
Families used candles to illuminate their Christmas trees before electric Christmas lights became popular. This was a risky technique that resulted in numerous house fires. Edison's buddy and associate Edward H. Johnson put together the first string of electric lights for a Christmas tree in 1882. He wound 80 red, white, and blue light bulbs around his Christmas tree by hand. The tree was not only illuminated by electricity, but it also rotated.
However, the rest of the world was not yet ready for electrical illumination, since many people still had reservations about it. When President Grover Cleveland requested that the White House family Christmas tree be illuminated by hundreds of colorful electric light bulbs in 1895, some credit him for encouraging the introduction of indoor electric Christmas lights.
Electric strands of lights may have been invented originally by Thomas Edison and Edward H. Johnson. Albert Sadacca, whose family owned a novelty lighting company, saw a business opportunity in selling them. Albert proposed that the company sell vividly colored strands of Christmas lights to the public when he was still a youngster in 1917. Albert and his brothers then formed the National Outfit Manufacturers Association Electric Company, which became the National Outfit Manufacturers Association Electric Company. Until the 1960s, it had a monopoly on the Christmas light market.
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