Not content with a simple Open LED sign? Want a sign that says it all? Then, financial business LED signs are for you. Some business owners don’t want simple signs. They want brilliant LED lights that produce high visibility. Placed on top of storefront windows, pedestrians to people in their cars will definitely notice that your store is engaged in business. The use of LED signs also creates a modern feel which financial businesses are looking for. Financial businesses include banks, pawnshops, insurance companies and real estate companies. Our selection of financial LED signs for banks includes ATM LED signs with sometimes added 24 hours or dollar sign details. Insurance signs can have car insurance LED signs or simply insurance LED signs with a small auto or car elements. For pawnshops, we have pawn and we buy jewelry LED signs occasionally fitted with diamonds or necklace designs. Real estate signs can have home loan LED lights.
Financial Business LED Signs
February 11th, 2010Neon Lights: An Illuminating History
December 4th, 2008The notion of neon signs first came to be in 1675 when Jean Picard, a French astronomer observed that mercury in a barometer emitted a faint glow. When the barometer was shaken, the amount of light emitted by the glow increased. Picard and other scientists continued to investigate this concept, even though the idea of barometric light was not yet understood by the scientific community. After the basic principals of electricity were identified, scientists began developing the concepts that defined various forms of lighting including that which would become known as neon signs.
In 1902 a French inventor by the name of Georges Claude was the first to apply an electrical charge to a sealed tube of neon gas in order to use the emissions to create a lamp but it wasn’t until 1910 that Claude was ready to display his invention to the public. In 191 he put his neon lamp – the world’s first – on display in Paris. He then created a company which he named Claude Neon to manufacture and sell his invention. His invention was first introduced to the United States when Claude manufactured two neon lights that were to be used as signage for a Packard dealership in Los Angeles, California. Each sign said “Packard” and were purchased by the dealerships owner, Earl Anthony for $12,000 each in 1923. The concept of neon signs used as signs quickly spread from the Packard signs to becoming a popular fixture for outdoor advertising of all sorts. Because the neon lights were visible in the daytime as well as the night, they were highly effective in attracting the attention of potential customers.
Creating neon signs requires a great deal of work with various lengths of glass tubing, high amounts of heat, gasses, and electrical voltage. Neon produces a red hued glow. Other colors are made by incorporating other gasses including argon, mercury and phosphor. Regardless of the color of emissions, all signs and lights that are made using this basic premise, are generally considered to be neon lights.