Showing posts with label German East Africa. Show all posts
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Tuesday, January 19, 1915. Air raid. Neon lights.

The first major air raid (there had been a prior raid) on Britain occurred when Zeppelins attacked  Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn. The raid killed twenty people.

1916 British poster.

British forces surrendered at Jassin, German East Africa, following two days of fighting.

Georges Claude patented the neon discharge tube for advertising lighting.


This is another thing that I've never stopped to think about in terms of how old these are.  I knew that neon advertising lights were common by the 1930s, but I hadn't thought of them before that.  They're frankly something I really like.

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