Disruptive Innovation: The First Christmas Lights — forbes.com

As we revel in glittering displays of holiday lights this season, we can hark back to the “tech and awe” the nation felt when Thomas Edison Edison unveiled his first twinkling Christmas lamps in 1879. Just weeks after inventing the first practical incandescent light and the world’s first electric circuit, Edison decided to demonstrate his disruptive new technologies in a familiar place: his Menlo Park, New Jersey laboratory.

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