They also can refresh more quickly, as a split-flap display often must cycle through many states.

It uses a Split-flap display to display both hours and minutes.

A new split-flap display was installed in 1981 at the cross platform concourse.

His series of films painted on split-flap display mechanisms have been exhibited internationally since 2006.

In earlier episodes, a split-flap display mounted on the console showed the code entered on the keypad.

Meanwhile, the split-flap displays have been replaced were more modern LCD displays.

Split-flap display (or simply flap display)

Flip-dot displays and LED display boards may be used instead of split-flap displays in most applications.

The station is equipped with a split-flap display timer, which is interfaced to a microcomputer terminal and connected to an alarm system.

For split-flap displays, the characters or words are pre-printed, and for nixie tubes the shapes are also pre-formed.

The numbers on split-flap displays on most 1970s Bob Stewart Productions game shows were News Gothic Bold.

As part of a modernisation at several stations in Düsseldorf, the station was equipped at the beginning of the 2000s with new train destination indicators with split-flap displays.

Another technology that has been employed for destination signs is the split-flap display, or Solari display, but outside Italy this technology was never common for use in transit vehicles.

In Italy, split-flap displays have also been occasionally used as destination signs for transit vehicles, there was also a brief vogue for them in the uk in the mid 1980s.

The clocks at the main entrance were altered to automatic operation by computer, but those at the Degraves and Elizabeth Street entrances were replaced by large airport-style split-flap displays.

In May 1978, Deutsche Bundesbahn opened a tourist office in the entrance building and on 22 October 1992, it put a computerised departure board with a split-flap display into operation in the station.

This includes electromechanical split-flap displays, vane displays, and flip-disc displays; all-electronic liquid-crystal displays, incandescent eggcrate displays, LED displays, and vacuum fluorescent displays; and even electric nixie tubes.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation plans to replace the mechanical split-flap display departure board made by Solari di Udine with two LCD display boards that will allow more text for messages as well as more-clear viewing and easier maintenance.

A split-flap display, sometimes simply flap display, is a display device that presents alphanumeric text, and possibly fixed graphics, often used as a public transport timetable in some airports or railway stations, often called Solari boards, named after display manufacturer Solari di Udine from Udine, Italy.