Candles were used to decorate Christmas trees before electricity was discovered, but the practice is unsafe and poses a serious fire risk.The idea of using a light bulb on a Christmas tree emerged when Thomas Edison invented the first functional light bulb in 1879, but it wasn’t practiced as a Christmas light until 1882.

The first person to use the lamp was Edward Johnson, Edison’s partner.At the time the Detroit post and BBS newspaper first reported the news of the Johnson’s Christmas tree, the tree looks like colored light sphere, the tree will turn up, 80 light colored light for a while after a while, have 3 kinds of different colors of light, and according to the red, white, blue, white, red, blue flashing order cycle.

Anderson in 1890 published a brochure, commercial Christmas lights, first mentioned in the book said “there is no form of adornment than the tiny incandescent lamp placed in the flowers, the award-winning interwoven in the wreath or ornamental design of miniature incandescent lamp is more beautiful, more beautiful, used to decorate the Christmas tree…” since then, Christmas lights became popular, many families are thinking about hanging Christmas lights on the Christmas tree.

The first Christmas electric light debuted at the White House in 1895, with strong support from President grover Cleveland.At that time, the price of electric light was too expensive, so it was usually owned by the rich.

General electric started to provide Christmas light boxes in 1903, and department stores began to register Christmas lights in 1917. Most importantly, with the gradual decline in costs and prices, more families could afford to enjoy the Christmas lights.It just so happened that NOMA, the biggest holiday lighting company at the time, was so successful in marketing that consumers began snapping up the fashionable lights nationwide.

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                                                                                                                   Article Editor: HuiZhou ZhongXin Lighting co., LTD-Robert