seven segment display history

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know when seven segment displays first appeared on the 
> scene? Presumably the first ones were VF, and LED came later?
> 
> (I was just looking at a museum's mock-up of the Apollo mission control 
> console, and the fake readout is made to look like a 7-seg display; I'm 
> just surprised that the digital readouts weren't all Nixie-based back then)

What about Nixies?

Peace...  Sridhar