there's no one source of info that can be interesting... and things can be found in the strangest places that are often random, and this post is an example of the cool things I love to discover, and research into, that makes a information and historical connection surprise, like the one between neon signs and cars that you probably would never guess

The inventor of neon signs and neon lighting, was French engineer and chemist Georges Claude, who 1st demonstrated the glowing red-orange neon tube publicly at the Paris Motor Show in December 1910.

After a successful display at the Paris Art Show in 1910, Claude conceived the idea of bending glass tubing in order to form letters, developing the first neon sign.

Neon signs weren’t introduced to the US until the 1920s when Earle Anthony is believed to be the first US business owner to use neon signage – in 1923, he ordered two signs reading ‘Packard’ to be used by two car dealerships in Los Angeles. 

Neon sign usage quickly caught on after this throughout the rest of the country.

In 1924, the first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square advertising automaker Willys-Overland.

the coincidence that Neon Signs were given a public debut at a Motor Show, then that the 1st in the USA were for a Packard dealership, and the 1st in Times Square were for Willys Overland? Amazing

https://www.facebook.com/CBSSundayMorning/posts/sundaymorning-almanac-neon-lightson-january-19-1915-french-inventor-georges-clau/10163070288136337

https://neonmuseum.org/news/the-evolution-of-neon-signs-from-vintage-to-modern/

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1125476A/en

https://www.invent.org/inductees/georges-claude

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-neon-lights/

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=244569953192382

https://www.neoncreations.co.uk/blogs/blog/history-of-neon

https://www.facebook.com/allagashwildonline/posts/december-3-on-this-date-in-1910-georges-claude-demonstrated-the-first-neon-light/1318180516777111/

https://www.nist.gov/nist-museum/luminous-script-signs-origins-neon-sign

that random strange place that I learned of this in? 

An artist's book that I got at Comic Con, Ryan Claytor: One Bite at a Time, 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics

https://elephanteater.com

https://www.facebook.com/ryan.claytor.3

and there are OBVIOUS reasons that this book is an Eisner Award nominee, and I can't imagine what some other book had that would outshine this in the award competition, this book is an outstanding example of fantastic publishing, overlays, foldouts, comfortable exterior fabric, heavy paper pages, great illustrations.