 Neon lighting technology has been reshaped from long tubes into thin flat panels used for plasma displays and plasma television sets.When Georges Claude demonstrated an impressive, practical form of neon tube lighting in 1910, he apparently envisioned that it would be used as a form of lighting, which had been the application of the earlier Moore tubes that were based on nitrogen and carbon dioxide discharges.Claude's 1910 demonstration of neon lighting at the "Grand Palais" (Grand Palace) in Paris lit a peristyle of this large exhibition space.