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Neon Lamps - Something To Spice up Your Bar

With all of the available lamp styles and types on the market, you might get confused. That is why you need to know more about neon lamps before making your lamp purchase. You want to be happy with your decision, and you will be when you know this information.

Trying to spice up your bar or family room a little? Give it some kick? It's own personality? Could your bar use some neon lamps?

The concept of neon signs dates back to 1675 when Jean Picard a French astronomer saw a glow in a mercury barometer tube. Barometer light might not have been understood but that didn't stop it from being investigated.

As the principles of electricity were discover scientists began to invent different types of lighting. 1855 saw the invention of the geissler tube named after a German glass blower.

Glass was placed into the tube under low pressure and an electrical charge was applied which made the gas glow. By 1902 the first neon gas lamp had been created and in 1910 the first neon lamp was shown to the public in Paris. The Packard dealership in Los Angeles was the first to use a neon lamp for display.

Hollow glass tubes are used to create neon lamps in lengths of either 4, 5, or 8 feet. The glass is heated so that the tubes can be shaped. There are several different compositions of glass are used depending on who supplies the glass.

Soft glass is made of lead, soda lime and barium glass, while hard glass is from the borosilicate family. The temperature the glass is worked at ranges from 1600 F to over 2200 F depending on the glass composition.

The tubes are partially cut, called scoring, while they are cold and then snapped apart when hot. The artists creates the curves and angles and then when the tube shaping is finished it's processed. This process is called bombarding. The tube is partially evacuated of air then it is short circuited using a high voltage current. When the tube reached 555 F it's evacuated again and its reaches a vacuum, then the neon is back filled into the tube and the tube is sealed....

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