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fires set by candles on a christmas tree

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Edison used christas lights to market Light bulbs, if it werent for christmas lights maybe light bulbs would have never become big

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Despite Edison creating the first lights it wasn't until Albert Sadacca came about in 1917 when they started being sold wide spread.
- his family owned a light shop and he suggested they sell christmas lights, it ended up being a booming success

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In 1903 General Electric began to offer pre packaged and strung Christmas lights though where reserved for the upper class and wealthy, back then they costed what would be known today as 2000 USD

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in 1923 President Calvin Coolige lit the national christmas tree with 3,000 lights

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Before christmas Lights people used candles to light their trees, this was a problem as it led to many house fires.

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Created in 1882 by Thomas Edison (also the creator of the lightbulb)
These where strung around his laboratory during Christmas

The first ones on a tree where 80 hand strung (by Edison's partner Johnson) red, blue and white bulbs, it was hung round a Christmas tree and placed in the white house.