Before neon signs began to proliferate in New York during the 1920s, another type of electric sign predominated throughout the city.  These ...

The murky origins of neon signs make it perennially difficult to pick any single anniversary to celebrate as their true date of birth.   One...

There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights. Fifteen stories high, solid marble. There’s a boy who really made somethi...

This Wednesday, November 9, 2011, will mark exactly one hundred years since Georges Claude filed his "System of Illuminating by Lumine...