subject: Who Exactly Introduced Our Amazing Christmas Lamps? [print this page] . Before the discovery, electricity candles were used as christmas lights. The dangers of this were of major concern at that time.
As time progressed, the candles had glass covers, or metal lanterns having small wicks and were hung on the trees like decorations on Christmas trees. Consider doing that this period and age: a recipe for a roasted house.
Even with the risks, it took a very long time for holiday tree bulbs to become commercially available. It's said that the concept of these lights originated from Edison's assistant, Edward Johnson: he had the bulbs designed specially for his house and he presented his Christmas tree lights at his residence in New York City.
From these simple beginnings of the inventors, the Christmas tree light fittings went through many improvements before General Electric launched them commercially. The early days of light bulbs on Christmas trees were nighttime lights strung all together to make lengthy strings of lights. Maybe you have seen these in some old time pictures. Those huge bulbs that would shatter into a million fragments when they hit the tiles.
Christmas mini lights were introduced in the mid to late 1970's. There have been many alterations to the original christmas lights but for the most part they are the same. Product sales have climbed as application for these lights and have changed to not just furnishing the tree, but also used as open air Christmas lights. Icicle lights are typically the most popular and are seen on most houses that use outside lighting at Christmas time. Outdoor attractive lighting has become one of the popular types and might be somewhat of a battle among neighbors. Several people will use animated Christmas lights that can create thrilling sights and some are even animated.
The majority of the lights used now are led lights. They are long standing and if one light goes out, the whole string will still function, not like the old days, if one light was out, you had to go through one after the other to find out the bad bulb. And with some holiday light strings of 100 or more, it was certainly not a fun task. So be sure before you spend money on your next set of christmas lights that it says on the box that you don't have to replace a bad bulb to make the entire string of lights perform.
