30 Rock is replacing its iconic neon lights with LEDs in the coming year. nyc.gov. The storied building is also swapping out its blue neon “Observation Deck” lettering in favor of LED “Top ...

The entrance carries not just a literal neon sign but a symbolic one: power, news, late nights, modernity, the future, all ...

The shape of a neon light all comes down to how the glass is blown and bent, and as for color, that can depend. Neon itself glows red, but sometimes it appears differently when the glass it's ...

By the late 1960s, the introduction of plastics led to a decrease in the popularity of glass-tubed neon signs. LED lights came later and cut into neon's share of the sign market yet again.

Neon lamps are fun to play with. These old-school indicators were once heavily utilized in many types of equipment for indication purposes but now seem largely relegated to mains voltage indication… ...

As the number of neon workers have dwindled, an Ohio shop is keeping the lights on Neon signs aren't as popular as they used to be, but that's not stopping a craftsman in Ohio from creating the ...

"Neon really hit the U.S. in the late 1920s," Swormstedt says. "By the early to mid-1930s, every small town had at least one neon sign." Keeping the trade alive. By the late 1960s, the introduction of ...

Fading lights Neon signs were first introduced in Hong Kong in the 1920s.As the city’s economy flourished from the 1950s to the 1980s, neon did also, according to Brian Kwok, an associate ...