Though Neon was discovered back in 1898, it was in the year 1902 when neon was used inside an electrical discharge tube to notice its light emitting character.
Visible even during daylight, people would stop and gaze at the first neon signs and nicknamed it “liquid fire.” By 1924, “Claude Neon Lights, Inc” franchises emerged in several U.S. cities and in the year1926, the first neon signs were put up on at Hibiya Park in Tokyo, Japan.
Around 1917, Daniel McFarlan Moore, an employee of General Electric Company, developed a neon lamp, that had a very different design than the much larger neon tubes used for neon lighting.
In fact, Moore mounted two electrodes close together in a bulb and added neon or argon gas. The electrodes started to glow brightly in red or blue and as the electrodes could take almost any conceivable shape, it led to fanciful decorative lamps.
The variety of colors and attractive light emitted from neon lights area the factors that made them so famous. We also like them for the fact that they are easy to maintain, long-lasting as well as flexible and hence can be flexed into any desired shape.