Christmas Lights History

Starting with the middle of the seventeenth century people traditionally used small candles to lighten up the Christmas tree. Within two centuries it became a well-known tradition. Firstly it was established in Germany, and then it was spread to Eastern Europe.
Small candles were put on the Christmas tree‘s branches with the help of either pins or melted wax. Candleholders were first used for Christmas candles approximately in 1890. Later, between 1902 and 1914 people began to place candles into special small lanterns and balls made of glass.
In 1882 Christmas tree was first decorated with the electric lights. It was Edward Johnson who lit New York Christmas tree using eighty small electric light bulbs. Edward Johnson was the very human who made the 1st string of electric Christmas lights. Mass production of such strings dates to 1890.
Meanwhile different shops began to utilize these new Christmas lights for their holiday displays. It was 1900.
Edward Johnson, who lit the first Christmas tree with the help of electricity, was an inventor working under the Thomas Edison’s direction. Throughout the years he became vice-president of Edison’s electric company.
A New Youk tragical fire, that was caused buy Christmas tree candles, occasioned Albert Sadacca to invent the first electric Christmas lights. It happened in 1917, a young inventor was just fifteen. Then his family sold decoration items along with the lights invented. Sadacca managed to accommodate some of his products into safety electric lights used for Christmas trees. The first year Sadacca managed to sell only one hundred strings of white electric bulbs.
The next year, thanks to brightly colored electric lights offered to people, Sadacca and his family’s business start increasing. Later it became a profitable multi-million production of colorful electric Christmas lights. Throughout the years, NOMA Electric Company belonging to Albert Sadacca and his brothers Leon and Henry managed to become the most successful and largest world company offering lightening.