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How Electric Light Changed Christmas Forever
That string of multi-colored Christmas lights wrapped around your tree (or your house) is far more influential to American history than you might think. The first electric Christmas lights debuted in 1882, shortly after...
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How Electric Light Changed Christmas Forever is an episode from The First: Stories of Inventions and their Consequences by Greg Young. That string of multi-colored Christmas lights wrapped around your tree (or your house) is far more influe...
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Published Dec 7, 2017, 28:51 long, audio available.
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