Catching the Eye-a Brief History of Display Technology

摘要

If you want to make a dramatic statement, make it big and make it bright. Doug Hammond of specialist display supplier Anna Valley Displays charts the history and picks his current favourite technology. It all started with a French company called Claude Neon, which sold its first gas discharge signs in 1923, to a car dealer in Los Angeles. Earle C Anthony, the dealer, purchased two displays, each reading Packard, for the unimaginably huge sum (70 years ago) of $24,000.