Editor's note: This post combines a two-post series originally published on the National Museum of American History's "O Say Can You See?" blog and is republished here with permission. Part of the fun ...

Unauthorized signs can lead to HK$200,000 fine and jail China pushes the use of LED lights over neon Hong Kong’s narrow streets were once a dazzling gallery of neon, where banks and even bordellos ...

We always enjoy history videos from [The History Guy] but they don’t always cover technology history. When they do, though, we enjoy them twice as much as with the recent video he posted on the ...

Instagram and Pinterest are full of “neon Japan” photos. Video games constantly present Japan as a neon-lit futuristic city. But while neon or neon lighting certainly still exists in Japan, especially ...

BEHIND A PLYWOOD PARTITION in Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon light has flickered unseen since the Great Depression. Purchased by Clifford Clinton in 1935, the cafeteria is ...

Another piece of Hong Kong’s heritage will go when the bright lights of the Tai Tung Bakery in Yuen Long are dismantled after the Mid-Autumn Festival, stirring debate on conservation of the city’s ...

Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

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