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Johnson, Edison’s friend and partner in Edison’s Illumination Company, strung together the first string of electric Christmas tree lights. Johnson hand-wired 80 red, white and blue light bulbs ...

When Edison patented the light bulb in ... tannenbaum—the Christmas tree—and the idea spread. In the States, President Franklin Pierce put one up at the White House in 1856, and by the 1870s ...