Hi Eugene:
1954.
I've updated my NCR web page to add more detail on Nixie tubes.
https://prc68.com/I/NCR.shtml#Nixie
PS Stop Clocks, like the Standard Electric Time Co. S-1-24 Timer
were used for the atomic bomb tests.
https://prc68.com/I/SETC_S-1-24.shtml
PPS The British could break the 3-rotor Enigma machine using only a
crib, but not the 4-rotor Enigma used in German subs. NCR developed
a machine to do that. But it required electronic switching elements
on the high speed axles, rather than a mostly mechanical approach
that he British used. So most of the patents on the NCR page are
for tubes that can count very fast. In fact two of the patents
shown in the Nixie box for Burroughs are counters rather than
displays. I'm guessing Buroughs was making computers in the 1950s
that used them.
https://prc68.com/I/NCR.shtml
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Brooke Clarke
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Anyone know when the first nixie was manufactured or marketed?
73 Eugene W2HX
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