| The early Christmas trees were lighted with | | | | The miniature lights were conceived in 1895 by |
| candles, then glass covers with candles inside or | | | | Ralph E. Morris, an employee of the new England |
| metal lanterns with small wicks hung on the | | | | telephone company. Morris's idea for lights |
| Christmas tree branches like ornaments to | | | | occurred as he was looking at the tiny bulbs in |
| brighten up the Christmas tree. The early | | | | the telephone switchboards. Today American's |
| Christmas candles were a fire hazard and buckets | | | | enjoy a variety of colorful light bulb colors and |
| of water were usually kept nearby the Christmas | | | | shapes. In the 1930's the popular cartoon figure |
| tree just incase a fire did start up. Electric | | | | lights were used were use to decorate Christmas |
| Christmas Lights Make Christmas Safer. With the | | | | trees. In the mid 1940's and into the 1950's the |
| invention of the electric Christmas lights, tree | | | | country was introduced to the American |
| lighting became much safer and brighter. The | | | | Christmas bubble lights. The Christmas bubble light |
| electric Christmas Lights are one of America's | | | | bulbs had a liquid filled colored tube on top of the |
| unique contributions to the Christmas holidays that | | | | holiday light. When the Christmas bubble light bulbs |
| followed the invention of the incandescent electric | | | | heated up, bubbles would rise in the Christmas |
| light bulbs with a carbonized filament in 1879. The | | | | bubble lights bulb tube. LED Holiday Lights History. |
| next development was the tungsten filament light | | | | LED is short for "light emitting diode". By definition |
| bulbs. Early Christmas tree lights were simply | | | | the LED light bulb is a solid-state device that |
| night-lights strung together to make the light | | | | controls a current without heated filaments like |
| strings. Tungsten which produces the light gives a | | | | tungsten in the light bulbs which are the most |
| whiter light and for the same amount of | | | | common today. LEDs are not bulbs or lamps in |
| electricity they give out almost three times as | | | | the true sense of the word. The LED lights are |
| much light as the early carbon electric lights would | | | | much more reliable than the tungsten bulbs. The |
| have. The next improvement was the coiling of | | | | entire unit is totally embedded in an epoxy resin. |
| the tungsten which gave more filament in the | | | | This embedding makes an LED light virtually |
| same space of the bulbs thus more light. It was | | | | indestructible. There are no loose or moving parts |
| found that by using nitrogen-argon inside the bulbs | | | | within the solid epoxy light enclosure. They are |
| would extend the life of the lights and make the | | | | brighter and can produce an infinite number of |
| lights more efficient. The nitron-argon filled | | | | colors. An LED light can burn 1,000 continuous |
| tungsten bulbs are over twice as efficient as the | | | | hours and the commercial Cree and Luxeon LEDs |
| ordinary tungsten bulbs which has its filament in a | | | | will last for 50,000 hours. The biggest advantage |
| vacuum. When general electric commercially | | | | in the amount of electrical power an LED lights |
| introduced the Holiday Lights, they caught on | | | | use versus a tungsten light bulb. A savings of up |
| immediately. Edison electric soon followed with an | | | | to 90% energy consumption can be achieved. |
| electric Christmas lamp. New York city's first | | | | Joe has specialized in Christmas Decorations for |
| Christmas display of lights was shown in 1882. | | | | over 25 years. You can view his outstanding |
| New Yorkers used eighty, red ,white, and blue, | | | | writings at Christmas Decorations Ideas. Joe also |
| flashing light bulb colors to light up the Christmas | | | | has a unique selection of Christmas Lights for you |
| holiday season. Miniature Christmas Lights History. | | | | to compare. |