Florida has the oldest settlement in the United States with St.  Augustine. The Spaniards settled here in 1565.     Virginia was the first of the original thirteen â¦ colonies and was  started by the settlement of Jamestown in 1607.    Delaware was the first state and was created in 1787.
Neon: historical information. Neon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay, Morris W. Travers at 1898 in London, England. Neon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898 very shortly after their discovery of the element krypton. Both elements were discovered through work on liquid air.
He patented his invention in 1915 and during his quest to find a use for it he discovered that by bending the tubes, he could make letters that glowed. The use of neon tubes for advertising signs began in 1923, when his company Claude Neon, introduced the gas filled tubular signs to the United States. He sold two to a Packard car dealership in Los Angeles. The first neon signs were dubbed 'liquid fire' and people would stop in the street to stare at them, even in daylight, they glow visibly.