Luckily, our editors found an easier (and less stressful) way to light your Christmas tree. Lis Engelhart, GH's visual ...

When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880 ... had introduced Britain to the Teutonic tannenbaum—the Christmas tree—and the idea spread. In the States, President Franklin Pierce put one ...

Meanwhile, the harried exhibitors clambered through shrubbery and crawled over the roof, crunching light bulbs under their knees and getting tangled ... and the best Christmas-tree lights he ...