Nixie tubes seen in "Oppenheimer" previews in equipment

[Mike]

Accurate or not? I'm saying not accurate because the timing equipment that has been shown in photos was all mechanical. 

What say you experts?

Michael Harpe

Sellersnurg, IN USA

[Audrey]

Nixies did not exist when the film is set

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[Nicholas Stock]

Certainly look like nixies, but that would be historically inaccurate right? Nixies weren't around until 1955 onwards.....

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[Audrey]

It definitely isnt accurate since they're IN-12 or IN-14 😁

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[J Forbes]

I recognize a corner of a BC-348Q.

[petehand]

Here is the original patent application for the Nixie tube, applied for May 9th 1934, granted (US #2142106) on Jan 3rd 1939. So it's at least possible there were Nixies at Los Alamos during that period.

[Yohan Park]

From an article on computerhistory.org:

The 'Nixie' display design originated in 1929 by a Chicago inventor named Henninger. At first, such tubes were custom-made for use as advertising signs. A few early gas-discharge display tubes using the stacked-cathode system were made by National Union and Telefunken prior to 1945. The specific design used in the mass-produced Nixie tubes was developed around 1948 by the Haydu brothers, who sold the patent to Burroughs in 1952.

So, 

Possible? Yeah

Likely? Nah

[Kevin A.]

Just going to leave this here ;)

https://youtu.be/VmiJsM5oGag?feature=shared

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[Nicholas Stock]

I enjoyed that, no idea how I hadn't seen it before.

Thanks for sharing!

Nick

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