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What is a Nixie tube? The cold cathode display or Nixie tube is an analog bulb, powered by electricity, that displays numbers and symbols, or less commonly letters.
Its constructed with metal inserts in the shape of the numbers, which are stacked on top of one another. Once any single number is electrically charged it glows orange, thanks to the electricity and the neon gas contained inside the bulb. The bulbs have the same aesthetics of vacuum tubes, but of course use the aforementioned technology.
The first Nixie tubes were produced in 1954 by Haydu Brothers Laboratories in the US. This was a model which was cost effective and reliable and became right away a big succes. The Burroughs Corporation took over the company, and started large scale production in 1955.
Burroughs Corporation called the tubes the NIX 1, or “Numeric Indicator eXperimental №1”. Soon the Sovjet Union copied the technology and started also to produce Nixie tubes in mass, Nixie tubes became most famously known as a Soviet technology. The Soviet Union produced more Nixie tubes than any country in the world, they produced and used the technology up until their dissolution in 1991.
As the Soviet union started to produce Nixie tubes on a large scale, the '2 and '5' metal inserts were the exact same form, just flipped to their respective orientation to simplify the production and reduce costs. For instance IN-12 and IN-14 Nixie tubes have this '5' as flipped '2', which gives them a special vintage look.
Most Nixie tubes present time come from Ukraine, after sitting in storage buildings untouched for years. The Nixie tubes which are used in the Tinytime clocks are all NOS, New Old Stock. Unfortunately Nixie tubes become more rare as they are no langer produced.
We buy your Nixie tubes, please contact us if you have Nixies to sell!
