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The first electric Christmas lights were displayed in the home of Edward Johnson, a colleague of Thomas Edison, just three years after the light bulb was invented.

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  1. The first electric Christmas lights were displayed in the home of Edward Johnson, a colleague of Thomas Edison, just three years after the light bulb was invented.

  2. Johnson's tree had hand wired lights in the patriotic colors of red, white and blue. The lights flashed alternately, and the tree rotated as well.

  3. Early in their history, Christmas lights were so expensive that they were more commonly rented than sold.

  4. Many of the earliest Christmas lights burned so hot that they were about as dangerous as the candles they were advertised to replace.

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