A Christmas Night Light

Edward H. Johnson, an associate of inventor Thomas Edison, had the first Christmas tree bulbs made in 1882, when he was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company. New York's newspapers dismissed his 80 hand-wired red, white and blue electric incandescent light bulbs the size of walnuts as a publicity stunt. A perceptive Detroit newspaper reporter picked up the story, though, and Johnson is now regarded as the Father of Electric Christmas Tree Lights. By 1900, businesses started stringing up Christmas lights behind their windows. Ordinary people couldn't afford to replace their candles with Christmas bulbs until about 1930. Now, of course, candles are more expensive than electric lights.

Our Switchables design depicts the big, old-fashioned C9-1/4 bulbs that Baby Boomers will remember adorning the outsides of our houses in our childhoods.

These stained glass lenses are used interchangeably with the basic Switchables fixture (or any other light source). The lens is not a stand-alone nightlight.

Switchables for the holidays