(State University of New Jersey, Rutgers) - Search Edison’s papers. Includes a history of American Christmas lighting from its inception through the first half of the twentieth century. Also included is the Christmas Pageant of Peace History. (National Park Service) - A chronology and history of the National Christmas Tree from 1923 - present. History of the National Christmas Tree and History of National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremonies (National Electrical Contractors Association NECA) - History of electric Christmas lighting and other historical facts related to Christmas lighting. (National Christmas Tree Association) - Provides information about the White House Christmas trees and Christmas trees in general.Ī few facts about the origin of electric Christmas lights Includes introduction to how Christmas lights work, as well as a short description on how the blinking lights work. How Stuff Works: How Christmas lights work (University of Illinois Extension) - Includes Christmas tree facts, tree types, educational lesson topics and much more. (Architect of the Capitol) - Information about the history of the U.S. Author: Science Reference Section, Library of Congress Related Websites Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Johnson and Albert Sadacca for illuminating our holiday season. We can be grateful to Thomas Edison, Edward H. Think of the variety and range of Christmas lights available in today’s market. Today we expect to see the holiday season become aglow with electric strands of light. NOMA soon became NOMA Electric Co., with its members cornering the Christmas light market until the 1960’s. By the 1920’s Albert and his brothers organized the National Outfit Manufacturers Association (NOMA), a trade association. The Sadacca family owned a novelty lighting company and in 1917 Albert, a teenager at the time, suggested that its store offer brightly colored strands of Christmas lights to the public. Johnson may have been the first to create electric strands of light in 1880/1882, it was Albert Sadacca who saw a future in selling electric Christmas lights. Eisenhower National Historical Site, National Park Service. Eisenhower Home Decorated for the Holidays. According to some, to light an average Christmas tree with electric lights before 1903 would have cost $2000.00 in today’s dollars. The wiring of electric lights was very expensive and required the hiring of the services of a wireman, our modern-day electrician. Until 1903, when General Electric began to offer pre-assembled kits of Christmas lights, stringed lights were reserved for the wealthy and electrically savvy. Potomac Electric Power, Christmas greetings. On Christmas Eve 1923, President Calvin Coolidge began the country’s celebration of Christmas by lighting the National Christmas Tree with 3,000 electric lights on the Ellipse located south of the White House. In 1895, President Cleveland requested that the White House family Christmas tree be illuminated by hundreds of multi-colored electric light bulbs.
Some credit President Grover Cleveland with spurring the acceptance of indoor electric Christmas lights. There was a great mistrust of electricity and it would take many more years for society to decorate its Christmas trees and homes with electric lights. However, the world was not quite ready for electrical illumination. Not only was the tree illuminated with electricity, it also revolved. Johnson, Edison’s friend and partner in the Edison’s Illumination Company, hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs and wound them around his Christmas tree. Johnson put the very first string of electric Christmas tree lights together in 1882. This practice was often dangerous and led to many home fires. But it would take almost forty years for electric Christmas lights to become the tradition that we all know and love.īefore electric Christmas lights, families would use candles to light up their Christmas trees. Railroad passengers traveling by the laboratory got their first look at an electrical light display. During the Christmas season of 1880, these strands were strung around the outside of his Menlo Park Laboratory. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the first successful practical light bulb, created the very first strand of electric lights. National Christmas Tree on the National Mall, 1997. Carol M. Thomas Edison and Edward Johnson (1880 &1882) and Albert Sadacca (1917).
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