The neon lamp is a type of gas discharge lamp, ... and a large number of colors can be created by different combinations of gases and coatings in the tube, neon signs quickly became very popular.

GAS DISCHARGE TUBES emit different colors depending on the element contained inside. Neon signs are orange, like the word physics above.

He and his assistant Jacques Fonseque sold the first neon sign to a Parisian barbershop and the rest, as they say, is history ...

The color of the neon light depends on the gas mixture inside the tube, just like the color of auroras depends on the gas mixture in the atmosphere.

From what I understand in a neon or florescent light, the light comes from photons. 1. You run electricity through the neon gas filled tube and the electricity (added energy) causes the electrons ...

Claude, an engineer and chemist, started experimenting with neon as the filler gas for a tube around 1902. The red color of the light was distinctive. Claude was onto something. After some more ...

The gas neon was discovered in 1898. Gaslit tubing with neon was first presented in 1910 at the Paris Motor Show. The color glows as opposed to just lighting up and this is useful for signage ...

A little history. British chemists discovered neon in 1898. Four years later, a French engineer named Georges Claude zapped a sealed glass tube filled with the gas, creating the first neon lamp.