About Us
NIX1ART
NIX1ART has over thirteen years of experience in manufacturing and selling high-quality Nixie clocks. Started in 2009 as a sole proprietorship but now with two Nixie enthusiasts, we have perfected this complicated technique around the electronics and housing. We have now developed a completely new series of clocks in which our expertise can be seen.
The name NIX1ART is, of course, an ode to the original Nixie tube. We love to design unique clocks and have elevated creating Nixie clocks to an art form.
NIX1ART
NIX1ART has over thirteen years of experience in manufacturing and selling high-quality Nixie clocks. Started in 2009 as a sole proprietorship but now with two Nixie enthusiasts, we have perfected this complicated technique around the electronics and housing. We have now developed a completely new series of clocks in which our expertise can be seen.
The name NIX1ART is, of course, an ode to the original Nixie tube. We love to design unique clocks and have elevated creating Nixie clocks to an art form.
this is truly original!
The Nixie Tube
The Nixie tube is a neon-filled glass tube. These tubes, were everywhere in the fifties and sixties. They were used in scientific and industrial instruments to represent values and positions. A well-known use of the Nixie tube is the one on Wall Street, where the stock price was displayed using Nixie tubes.
Another known use is the use for control of nuclear power plants, there are many more applications to mention.
original
Nixie tubes are a technological tour de force. The very first developments of this technology started in the 1850’s. It took almost another eighty years before the first original Nixie tube came on to the market.
versatile
It has been immensely fascinating to see and discover what was developed so long ago that was once thought to be impossible. It makes us think: What inventions were never invented for which only a bygone blueprint exists?
nostalgia
The development of the Nixie tubes started around the 1850’s and was developed further into what it is today, in the mid twentieth century. When you look at these clocks, you can see that technology from days gone by still appeals to many people.
History
The Nixie tube
In 1936, the Hungarian brothers George and Zoltan Haydu developed a neon-filled incandescent lamp, a glass tube that could display bright symbols through gas discharge, individual cathodes and a wire mesh. They gave it the temporary name “Numerical Indicator Experiment No 1”, abbreviated “NIX-1”. It was the very first version of the Nixie tube.
Although the technology was later sold to the American manufacturer Burroughs, the name NIX-1 has always remained. The numerical experiment turned out to be a great success and by 1955 Nixie tubes were everywhere. They popped up in factories, labs, retail displays, Wall Street… The turning point came in the mid-1970s, when LED technology took off. LED was cheaper to produce and therefore purchase, easier to use (no high voltage requirements) and were suitable for even more purposes. Thus, people in the streets said goodbye to Nixie.
Fortunately, there are still people worldwide who have not lost their affinity for the Nixie tube. We found each other online and are working together to breathe new life into Nixie technology. Luckily there are still people like us who are mesmerized by this special way of indicating time.
History
The Nixie tube
In 1936, the Hungarian brothers George and Zoltan Haydu developed a neon-filled incandescent lamp, a glass tube that could display bright symbols through gas discharge, individual cathodes and a wire mesh. They gave it the temporary name “Numerical Indicator Experiment No 1”, abbreviated “NIX-1”. It was the very first version of the Nixie tube.
Although the technology was later sold to the American manufacturer Burroughs, the name NIX-1 has always remained. The numerical experiment turned out to be a great success and by 1955 Nixie tubes were everywhere. They popped up in factories, labs, retail displays, Wall Street… The turning point came in the mid-1970s, when LED technology took off. LED was cheaper to produce and therefore purchase, easier to use (no high voltage requirements) and were suitable for even more purposes. Thus, people in the streets said goodbye to Nixie.
Fortunately, there are still people worldwide who have not lost their affinity for the Nixie tube. We found each other online and are working together to breathe new life into Nixie technology. Luckily there are still people like us who are mesmerized by this special way of indicating time.