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Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician, physicist, inventor, theologian and bona fide polymath, once wrote. ‘All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit…
Who Invented Electric Christmas Lights?
Edward Hibberd Johnson invented electric Christmas lights in 1882, building on Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb. Johnson, Edison’s friend and business partner, hand-wired 80…