The neon sign has lit up downtown areas from Las Vegas to London for more than 100 years. But is its cheerful glow in danger of being snuffed out? In recent months, New Yorkers have campaigned – ...
We always enjoy history videos from [The History Guy] but they don’t always cover technology history. When they do, though, we enjoy them twice as much as with the recent video he posted on the ...
In the summer of 1898, the Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay made a discovery that would eventually give the Moulin Rouge in Paris, the Las Vegas Strip, and New York’s Times Square their perpetual ...
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Signs at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and the Apollo Theater are among the latest to lose their vintage glow in favor of LED lighting. Neon lettering on the vertical sign and atop the marquee at the Apollo ...
The Nov. 17, 1927, Vancouver Sun had an astonishing 35 stories on its front page. A Vancouver judge was promising “no mercy for drug dealers,” a citizen had been shot in the leg and hand by a ...
The gas that makes Las Vegas shine is one of the nobles — the noble gases, that is. Neon is one of six elements, found in the rightmost column of the Periodic Table, that are inert. Noble gases react ...
From Hollywood blockbusters to Wong Kar-wai movies, neon signs have been an iconic representation of Hong Kong. First introduced in the 1920s, these signs flourished in the later half of the 20th ...
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