The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.

Thomas Edison was born in Milan, Ohio ... The experiment, concluded on October 21, 1879, is heralded as the birth of the electric light. Research continued to find a more resilient and higher-voltage ...

On New Year's Eve, 1879, Thomas Edison unveiled his newest invention: the electric light. Reporters came from all over the U.S. to see Edison's Menlo Park lab lit up with his incandescent bulbs.

In the fall of 1922, a film crew came to West Orange, New Jersey to document Thomas Edison going about his day. In this silent film, they capture the prolific inventor discussing new ideas with ...