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Georges Claude, French engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting (born 1870)

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Georges Claude

French engineer, inventor & Nazi collaborator (1870–1960)

Georges Claude was a French engineer and inventor. He is noted for his early work on the industrial liquefaction of air, for the invention and commercialization of neon lighting, and for a large experiment on generating energy by pumping cold seawater up from the depths. He has…
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Neon lighting

Electrified, rarefied gas lighting

Neon lighting consists of brightly glowing, electrified glass tubes or bulbs that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Neon lights are a type of cold cathode gas-discharge light. A neon tube is a sealed glass tube with a metal electrode at each end, filled with one of a number…
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