Neon sign, the Glossary
In the signage industry, neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases.[1]
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96 relations: Adsorption, Advertising, Air Liquide, Animation, Architect, Architectural lighting design, Argon, Artist, Atmospheric pressure, Betty MacDonald, Blue, Cinzano, Cold cathode, Crackle tube, Creative Review, Daniel McFarlan Moore, Decade, Douglas Leigh, Earle C. Anthony, Electric current, Electrical impedance, Electrode, Electromagnetic interference, Eutectic system, Fluorescent lamp, Gas-filled tube, Geissler tube, Georges Claude, Glass, Glass tube, Glow discharge, Grand Palais, Green, Grove Art Online, Helium, Helsinki, Highlander, Hollow cathode effect, Induction heating, Krypton, Lake Worth Beach, Florida, Lake Worth Playhouse, Light, Light-emitting diode, List of heritage registers, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Lumen (unit), Mercury (element), ... Expand index (46 more) »
- 1910 introductions
- Neon lighting
Adsorption
Adsorption is the adhesion of atoms, ions or molecules from a gas, liquid or dissolved solid to a surface.
Advertising
Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.
Air Liquide
Air Liquide S.A. (literally "liquid air") is a French multinational company which supplies industrial gases and services to various industries including medical, chemical and electronic manufacturers.
Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.
Architectural lighting design
Architectural lighting design is a field of work or study that is concerned with the design of lighting systems within the built environment, both interior and exterior.
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Argon
Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art.
Atmospheric pressure
Atmospheric pressure, also known as air pressure or barometric pressure (after the barometer), is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
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Betty MacDonald
Betty MacDonald (born Anne Elizabeth Campbell Bard; March 26, 1907 – February 7, 1958) was an American author who specialized in humorous autobiographical tales, and is best known for her book The Egg and I. She also wrote the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series of children's books.
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Blue
Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model.
Cinzano
Cinzano is an Italian brand of vermouth, a brand owned since 1999 by Gruppo Campari.
Cold cathode
A cold cathode is a cathode that is not electrically heated by a filament.
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Crackle tube
A crackle tube is a type of plasma lamp that is used most commonly in museums, night clubs, movie sets, and other applications where its appearance may be appealing for entertainment.
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Creative Review
Creative Review is a bimonthly print magazine and website.
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Daniel McFarlan Moore
Daniel McFarlan Moore (February 27, 1869 – June 15, 1936) was an American electrical engineer and inventor. Neon sign and Daniel McFarlan Moore are neon lighting.
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Decade
A decade is a period of ten years.
Douglas Leigh
Douglas Leigh (May 24, 1907 – December 14, 1999) was an American advertising executive and lighting designer, and a pioneer in signage and outdoor advertising. Neon sign and Douglas Leigh are neon lighting.
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Earle C. Anthony
Earle C. Anthony (December 18, 1880—August 6, 1961) was an American businessman and philanthropist based in Los Angeles, California.
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Electric current
An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space.
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Electrical impedance
In electrical engineering, impedance is the opposition to alternating current presented by the combined effect of resistance and reactance in a circuit.
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Electrode
An electrode is an electrical conductor used to make contact with a nonmetallic part of a circuit (e.g. a semiconductor, an electrolyte, a vacuum or air).
Electromagnetic interference
Electromagnetic interference (EMI), also called radio-frequency interference (RFI) when in the radio frequency spectrum, is a disturbance generated by an external source that affects an electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, or conduction.
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Eutectic system
A eutectic system or eutectic mixture is a homogeneous mixture that has a melting point lower than those of the constituents.
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Fluorescent lamp
A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light.
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Gas-filled tube
A gas-filled tube, also commonly known as a discharge tube or formerly as a Plücker tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating, temperature-resistant envelope.
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Geissler tube
A Geissler tube is a precursor to modern gas discharge tubes, demonstrating the principles of electrical glow discharge, akin to contemporary neon lights, and central to the discovery of the electron.
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Georges Claude
Georges Claude (24 September 187023 May 1960) was a French engineer and inventor. Neon sign and Georges Claude are neon lighting.
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Glass
Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.
Glass tube
Glass tubes are mainly cylindrical hollow-wares.
Glow discharge
A glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of electric current through a gas.
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Grand Palais
The (Great Palace of the Champs-Élysées), commonly known as the, is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France.
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Green
Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum.
Grove Art Online
Grove Art Online is the online edition of The Dictionary of Art, often referred to as the Grove Dictionary of Art, and part of Oxford Art Online, an internet gateway to online art reference publications of Oxford University Press, which also includes the online version of the Benezit Dictionary of Artists.
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Helium
Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and most populous city in Finland.
Highlander
Highlander may refer to.
Hollow cathode effect
The hollow cathode effect allows electrical conduction at a lower voltage or with more current in a cold-cathode gas-discharge lamp when the cathode is a conductive tube open at one end than a similar lamp with a flat cathode.
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Induction heating
Induction heating is the process of heating electrically conductive materials, namely metals or semi-conductors, by electromagnetic induction, through heat transfer passing through an inductor that creates an electromagnetic field within the coil to heat up and possibly melt steel, copper, brass, graphite, gold, silver, aluminum, or carbide.
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Krypton
Krypton (from translit 'the hidden one') is a chemical element; it has symbol Kr and atomic number 36.
Lake Worth Beach, Florida
Lake Worth Beach, previously named Lake Worth, is a city in east-central Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, located about north of Miami.
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Lake Worth Playhouse
The Lake Worth Playhouse, located at 713 Lake Avenue in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, is a venue offering a variety of mainstream and alternative programming, both live and, in its Stonzek Theatre, on film.
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Light
Light, visible light, or visible radiation is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.
Light-emitting diode
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor device that emits light when current flows through it. Neon sign and light-emitting diode are signage.
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List of heritage registers
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Louisiana Purchase Exposition
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St.
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Lumen (unit)
The lumen (symbol: lm) is the unit of luminous flux, a measure of the perceived power of visible light emitted by a source, in the International System of Units (SI).
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Mercury (element)
Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.
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Morris Travers
Morris William Travers, FRS (24 January 1872 – 25 August 1961) was an English chemist who worked with Sir William Ramsay in the discovery of xenon, neon and krypton.
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National Park Service
The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government, within the U.S. Department of the Interior.
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National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".
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Neon
Neon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ne and atomic number 10.
Neon lighting
Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases.
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Neon Museum, Warsaw
Neon Museum, also the Museum of Neon (Muzeum Neonów) is a museum located in Warsaw's Praga-Południe. Neon sign and Neon Museum, Warsaw are neon lighting and signage.
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Neon-sign transformer
A neon-sign transformer (NST) is a transformer made for the purpose of powering a neon sign. Neon sign and neon-sign transformer are neon lighting.
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Noble gas
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
Operating temperature
An operating temperature is the allowable temperature range of the local ambient environment at which an electrical or mechanical device operates.
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Orange (colour)
Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light.
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Packard
Packard (formerly the Packard Motor Car Company) was an American luxury automobile company located in Detroit, Michigan.
Paris Motor Show
The Paris Motor Show (Mondial de l'Automobile) is a biennial auto show in Paris.
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Paris Opera
The Paris Opera is the primary opera and ballet company of France.
Peristyle
In ancient Greek and Roman architecture, a peristyle (from Greek περίστυλον) is a continuous porch formed by a row of columns surrounding the perimeter of a building or a courtyard.
Perley G. Nutting
Perley Gilman Nutting (1873–1949) was an American optical physicist and the founder of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
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Phosphor
A phosphor is a substance that exhibits the phenomenon of luminescence; it emits light when exposed to some type of radiant energy.
Pigmented structural glass
Pigmented structural glass, also known generically as structural glass and as vitreous marble, and marketed under the names Carrara glass, Sani Onyx, and Vitrolite, among others, is a high-strength, colored glass.
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Pink
Pink is the color of a namesake flower that is a pale tint of red.
Plasma display
A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat-panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields.
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Plasma globe
A plasma ball, plasma globe, or plasma lamp is a clear glass container filled with noble gases, usually a mixture of neon, krypton, and xenon, that has a high-voltage electrode in the center of the container.
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Pundit Beacon
A Pundit Beacon or Landmark Beacon was an airfield navigational and identification beacon, used by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) in the period around World War II.
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Radio wave
Radio waves are a type of electromagnetic radiation with the lowest frequencies and the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, typically with frequencies below 300 gigahertz (GHz) and wavelengths greater than, about the diameter of a grain of rice.
Red
Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.
Sauna
A sauna is a room or building designed as a place to experience dry or wet heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these facilities.
Scotch whisky
Scotch whisky (whisky/whiskie or whusk(e)y), often simply called whisky or Scotch, is malt whisky or grain whisky (or a blend of the two) made in Scotland.
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Signage
Signage is the design or use of signs and symbols to communicate a message.
Signs of the Times (magazine)
Signs of the Times is a monthly magazine originally published by Pacific Press, a Seventh-day Adventist publishing house.
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Streamline Moderne
Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s.
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Switched-mode power supply
A switched-mode power supply (SMPS), also called switching-mode power supply, switch-mode power supply, switched power supply, or simply switcher, is an electronic power supply that incorporates a switching regulator to convert electrical power efficiently.
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Timeline of lighting technology
Artificial lighting technology began to be developed tens of thousands of years ago and continues to be refined in the present day.
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Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City.
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Torr
The torr (symbol: Torr) is a unit of pressure based on an absolute scale, defined as exactly of a standard atmosphere (101325 Pa).
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) light is electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths of 10–400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light, but longer than X-rays.
USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
Utility frequency
The utility frequency, (power) line frequency (American English) or mains frequency (British English) is the nominal frequency of the oscillations of alternating current (AC) in a wide area synchronous grid transmitted from a power station to the end-user.
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Vacuum
A vacuum (vacuums or vacua) is space devoid of matter.
Violet (color)
Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum.
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Welding
Welding is a fabrication process that joins materials, usually metals or thermoplastics, primarily by using high temperature to melt the parts together and allow them to cool, causing fusion.
Westinghouse Sign
The Westinghouse Sign was the first computer-controlled sign in the United States.
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White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue).
William Ramsay
Sir William Ramsay (2 October 1852 – 23 July 1916) was a Scottish chemist who discovered the noble gases and received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1904 "in recognition of his services in the discovery of the inert gaseous elements in air" along with his collaborator, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics that same year for their discovery of argon.
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Work function
In solid-state physics, the work function (sometimes spelled workfunction) is the minimum thermodynamic work (i.e., energy) needed to remove an electron from a solid to a point in the vacuum immediately outside the solid surface.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Xenon
Xenon is a chemical element; it has symbol Xe and atomic number 54.
Yellow
Yellow is the color between green and orange on the spectrum of light.
See also
1910 introductions
- Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index
- Acmeist poetry
- American Hippo bill
- Hertzsprung–Russell diagram
- Neon sign
- Quenya
- The General Course
- Vehicle registration plates of Nevada
Neon lighting
- Aerolux Light Corporation
- American Sign Museum
- Daniel McFarlan Moore
- Douglas Leigh
- Electrical Products Corporation
- Georges Claude
- Mundy Hepburn
- Neo-Neon Holdings
- Neon Museum
- Neon Museum, Warsaw
- Neon lamp
- Neon lighting
- Neon sign
- Neon-sign transformer
- Neonopolis
- Nixie tube
- Penning mixture
- The End of the Red Line
- YESCO
- YMCA Sign
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_sign
Also known as Neon signage, Neon signs, Open sign.
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