Posted on 12/03/2017 9:38:01 AM PST by bgill
Thomas Edison patented the light bulb in 1880. To drum up excitement around Christmas time, he strung up incandescent bulbs all around his Menlo Park laboratory compound to dazzle passing railway commuters. Two years later, Edison’s associate Edward Johnson had the brilliant idea to use electric lights to replace the beautiful, (but extremely hazardous!) candles used to decorate Christmas trees. He wrapped a tree with a string of 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and set it on a revolving platform in a window. Despite onlookers’ delight, due to expense (and a general distrust of indoor lighting) it would be decades before the tradition took off. But in 1894 President Cleveland put electric lights on the White House tree. By 1900, a string of 16 flame-shaped bulbs sold for a pricey $12 (that’s about $350 in today’s money).
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So tiny. What’s his name?
***...brilliant idea to use electric lights to replace the beautiful, (but extremely hazardous!) candles used to decorate Christmas trees.***
Babbs Switch comes to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbs_Switch_fire
http://newsok.com/article/2487761
If you will remember, that year the National Christmas Tree was dark because of the Iranian Hostage crisis.
She as yet has no name. We have her reserved for pick-up when she is over 8 weeks old, second week of January.
Toy poodle Christmas gift for my eight year old daughter. :)
I will give her a picture in gift box on Christmas eve (German Christmas).
Thanks. Maybe I’ll get some for next year.
We’re not decorating this year. In the process of selling several properties and buying a new house - everything’s in boxes somewhere.
LEDs blink at 60 hertz.
Swing a rope of them and you will see the blinking.
I see that now they offer non-blinky LEDs.
They are more expensive.
Oh, they can be found at Kroger’s and Lowe’s from time to time.
I LOVE that!!
I used to live just down the road (San Jose) from Menlo Park.
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