Neon lights are that kind of nostalgic item that everybody seems to love. The neon lamp is a type of gas discharge lamp, they generate light when an electrical discharge travels through an ionized … ...

There was this test system that comprised a huge row of equipment racks into which various items of test equipment would be mounted. Those items were a digital multimeter, an oscilloscope, several ...

In fact, nearly all the letters were reused to spell WALLINGFORD (not sure what happened to the T, the second O), and a few new letters (W, R, two Ls) were commissioned by QFC when they took over ...

By happy chance, it turned out that the neon lamps light up when exposed to radar waves with a power density of only 5 or 6 mw. sq. cm.—about half the permissible dose for man.

A little history British chemists discovered neon in 1898. Four years later, a French engineer named Georges Claude zapped a sealed glass tube filled with the gas, creating the first neon lamp.

This is an oldie, but oh, man is this ever good. It’s a Nixie clock made without a microcontroller. In fact, there aren’t any logic chips in this circuit, either. As far as we can tell,… ...