The first Christmas tree to be adorned in lights revolved and had 80 hand-wired large red, white and blue electric bulbs in 1882.

The famous Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrived in NYC from an upstate farm 200 miles away. The tree's 50,000 LED bulbs were lit during a televised special on NBC. The Rockefeller Center sees ...

James Newburn, 67, is the great-great grandson of Christmas tree light inventor Edward Johnson who used the light bulb patent of Thomas Edison to create a string of bulbs in New York in 1882.