https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm MADE WITH SANTA en-us 2020-04-21 04:54:33 UTC 2026-02-02 21:11:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f47d.png foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519214329 2020-04-21 05:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519214329 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519215726 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.]]> 2020-04-21 05:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519215726 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519219473 Before christmas Lights people used candles to light their trees, this was a problem as it led to many house fires.]]> 2020-04-21 05:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519219473 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519223956 in 1923 President Calvin Coolige lit the national christmas tree with 3,000 lights]]> 2020-04-21 05:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519223956 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519225947 2020-04-21 05:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519225947 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519226331 2020-04-21 05:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519226331 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519228063 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]]> 2020-04-21 05:17:33 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519228063 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519231039 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]]> 2020-04-21 05:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519231039 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519237959 Edison used christas lights to market Light bulbs, if it werent for christmas lights maybe light bulbs would have never become big]]> 2020-04-21 05:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/519237959 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/527314442 fires set by candles on a christmas tree]]> 2020-04-24 02:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/527314442 foste51902 https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/538186951 "Edison Friend Dazzled New York With the First Electric Christmas Tree." ThoughtCo, 24 Dec. 2007, www.thoughtco.com/history-of-electric-christmas-tree-lights-1773789.

"Who Invented Electric Christmas Lights?" The Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/who-invented-electric-christmas-lights/.

"Here's How Christmas Lights Came to Be." Time, 22 Dec. 2015, time.com/4152307/christmas-tree-lights-history/.

"Here's How Christmas Lights Came to Be." YouTube, 22 Dec. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qB61a_qbuo.]]> 2020-04-29 06:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/foste51902/ponctkym2bixdffm/wish/538186951