
Ajit Pai @AjitPai
OTD in 1882, Edward Johnson made history by festooning a Christmas tree with electric lights. (Previously, trees were lit with candles—a safety hazard.) A paper deemed it "a most picturesque and uncanny aspect"; "one can hardly imagine anything prettier." https://t.co/Z1v3pMpKKP https://t.co/YBUtxW2IAf — PolitiTweet.org