Traditional neon signs are made from glass tubes that are carefully bent by hand into specific shapes. Those tubes are filled ...

Tom Wartman is standing over a rectangle of blue flame and bending glass in his hands. "This fire is about 1,500 degrees," he says casually. He quickly and deftly moves the glass arc from the flame to ...

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