This summer, the Voices will take a look at people with unusual jobs. If you have an idea for us, email [email protected]. In the 1930s and ’40s, neon lights screamed exciting night life, beckoning ...
When people see an advertising sign in which the letters or designs are formed by slender glowing glass tubes, they may know at once that it is a neon light sign. Although effective as displays, these ...
Traditional neon signs are made from glass tubes that are carefully bent by hand into specific shapes. Those tubes are filled ...
Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...
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 ...
With a small gas torch and a steady hand, Tim Reardon heats glass tubing to "weld" a high-voltage electrode on to one end of a neon light he's repairing on May 5, 2015, at his shop in Longview. Andrew ...
Shawna Peterson bends glass tubes for a living. She makes neon art, and has put glowing faces on a giant wall of recyclables for artist Erik Otto, bent two-inch circles for a wall sized circuit board ...
2002-11-17 04:00:00 PDT Las Vegas-- Hypnotic and sultry, glowing against the blue-black of the Western sky at dusk, neon signs have an allure that transcends the meager power of standard-issue ...
We typically think of neon signs as big commercial advertisements, hanging inside windows and lofted on tall signposts outside highway-adjacent businesses. [James Akers] has gone the other route with ...
Neon sign collector Will Durham started encouraging people this week on Facebook to tell the city of Reno to keep the Reno Arch neon instead of using proposed LED lights. The city of Reno is ...
The neon tube lights came to Hong Kong back in 1910. And how it gave the city its iconic look! With time, as the city and the businesses grew, so did the neon sign boards. In a way, these bright neon ...