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

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.

Thomas Alva Edison is an unparalleled figure in the ... For more than 100 years, the basic design of light bulbs followed Edison’s original 1879 invention, until incandescent bulbs were phased out in ...

He gave public demonstrations of this scientific breakthrough in late 1878 and early 1879 ... world's first light bulb factory at Benwell in Newcastle. In 1883 Swan teamed up with Thomas Edison ...

Fronted by a luxurious mustache, this loyal lieutenant to Thomas Edison was the embodiment ... charging crowds to drum up excitement. When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value ...

Light bulbs have been the standard mode of illuminating homes in the United States for more than a century after replacing ...

In 1879, Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb and submitted the patent for the creation. Louisville's Thomas Edison House is celebrating the 140th Anniversary of Edison's 1879 ...