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The festive glow of Christmas lights is as American as apple pie. From their humble beginnings to the dazzling spectacles of today, these twinkling strands have a story that warms the heart and illuminates the season.
In the spirit of innovation, Thomas Edison wasn't just the father of the light bulb; he was also the architect of the first Christmas lighting display. In 1880, Edison's Christmas in Manhattan was a spectacle that turned heads and ignited imaginations. His 8-mile underground power line outside his New Jersey lab created a field of lights that left train commuters between New York and Philadelphia in awe. Journalists dubbed him a "magician" who had conjured a "fairyland of lights."
Edison's colleague, Edward H. Johnson, took the magic a step further in 1882. In his Fifth Avenue home, he unveiled the first illuminated Christmas tree, adorned with 80 red, white, and blue lights that danced to the rhythm of a rotating box. The Detroit Post and Tribune captured the moment, describing the tree as a "sparkling evergreen" that was "hard to imagine anything more beautiful."
The White House saw its first Christmas tree in 1889, but it was Grover Cleveland who, in 1895, embraced the electric revolution by adorning the tree with hundreds of multicolored light bulbs. Cleveland's bold move sparked a public fascination with electric Christmas lights, despite the widespread fear of electricity at the time.
A tragic fire sparked a teenage revolution. Albert Sadacca, inspired by the danger of candle-lit Christmas trees, suggested transforming his parents' novel lighting business into a Christmas tree phenomenon. From a modest start, Sadacca's vision blossomed into the National Garment Manufacturers Association, which later became the NOMA Electric Company in 1926, leading the world in Christmas lighting by the 1960s.
In a dazzling display of technological prowess, Japan's Universal Studios in Osaka claimed the Guinness World Record in November 2022 for the most lights on an artificial Christmas tree, boasting an astonishing 612,000 lights.
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