NEW YORK -- Thousands packed New York City's Rockefeller ... Boys. The lights were flipped on just before 10 p.m. Spectators started lining up at 4 p.m. to enter at 48th Street or 51st Street ...

In 1882, in a townhouse at 136 East 36th Street in New York City, Edward Hibberd Johnson had ... When Edison patented the light bulb in 1880, its exact value was hard to gauge; widespread ...