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From the Vault: Holiday Inventions

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Christmas Tree Lights - A New Way to Decorate a Christmas Tree

Christmas became a federally recognized national holiday in 18 70. Many households lit their candles only once on christmas eve, prudently, keeping to hand water and a stick with a sponge on the end of it. In 18 82, the an illuminating company, built the world's first electrical power station,. four months later, they lit up a christmas tree. It consisted of 80 red, white and blue bulbs and was installed in the home of edward Johnson, Edison's business partner. But at this point, electricity was simply not enough for regular folks on the action. This would have been groverly cleveland's multicolored electric tree. At that time, i guess both

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