Go here for a very good history of neon lighting.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa980107.htm

I found it quite interesting.

Jay

GM> > Maybe they mean the "Claude" family but some dopey
editor(?) decided
GM> > Claude
GM> > isn't a surname and substituted "Neon" ?

GM>Georges Claude was a French chemist who introduced the neon lights as a
GM>commercial item in 1910.

GM>I think the company "Claude Neon" that used to be at the
top of Anzac Highway
GM>was a branch of the original French company. It is possible that members of his
GM>family came to SA. There is no "Claude" in the SA phone book.

GM>My guess is that someone was pulling the writer's leg and he/she didn't bother
GM>to check before writing it up 


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