Surprise! I'm wearing this tie for a second time this month, because I just uncovered the fact that colored Christmas lights were invented around this date (22 December) in 1882. Edward Johnson, an associate of Thomas Edison ,at the Edison Light Company, 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 parlor. A generator powered the lights and the tree’s revolving pedestal. Within a few years colored lights became a holiday tradition.
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