At 10:30 PM 11/29/99 +0000, Peter Forde wrote:
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>I don't believe this - they didn't have fluorescent tubes until the
>early 1960's !
>
>Peter

Don't know when flourescent tubes were first sold, but they existed in
the late 1940's.  I remember them personally.  There seems to be some
confusion about when they were invented and who did it.  A quick internet
search attributes flourescent lamps to 1) a serb (Nikola Tesla) in the
1920's, 2) a German (Germer) in the 1930's, and 3) a Phillipino (Agapito
Flores) in the early 1940's.  However, for such they had "glowing tubes"
prior to WWII, as the same flourescent materials were then used in CRT's
of the day.  Maybe someone with firsthand knowledge of the flourescent
tube can straighten this out.

Bob McClure