Editing Timeline of lighting technology (section)

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[[File:Eclairage.jpg|thumb|Lighting through the ages ([[:File:Eclairage.jpg|legend]])]]
[[File:The-price-for-lighting-per-million-lumen-hours-in-the-uk-in-british-pound.svg|thumb|The price of lighting through the ages]]
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  at:1780 text:"[[Argand lamp]] 
  at:1794 text:"[[Gas lighting]]"
  at:1802 text:"[[Arc lamp]]"
  at:1856 text:"[[Geissler tube]]"
  at:1867 text:"[[Fluorescent lamp]]"
  at:1875 text:"[[Electric light bulb]]"
  at:1880 text:"[[Incandescent_light_bulb#Dominance_of_carbon_filament_and_vacuum|Long lasting filament]]"
  at:1885 text:"[[Gas mantle]]"
  at:1893 text:"[[Gas-discharge lamp]]"
  at:1901 text:"[[Mercury-vapor lamp]]"
  at:1904 text:"[[Tungsten filament]]"
  at:1910 text:"[[Neon lighting]]"
  at:1913 text:"[[Incandescent_light_bulb#Revolution_of_the_tungsten_filament,_inert_gas,_and_the_coiled_coil|Inert gas in bulb]]"
  at:1917 text:"[[Incandescent_light_bulb#Revolution_of_the_tungsten_filament,_inert_gas,_and_the_coiled_coil|Coiled coil filament]]"
  at:1920 text:"[[Sodium-vapor lamp]]"
  at:1927 text:"[[Light-emitting diode]]"
  at:1953 text:"[[Halogen light bulb]]"
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  at:1962 text:"[[Light-emitting diode|Red LED]]"
  shift:(15,-4)
  at:1963 text:"[[Sodium-vapor lamp#High-pressure sodium|High pressure sodium-vapor lamp]]"
  at:1976 text:"[[Compact fluorescent lamp]]"
  at:1987 text:"[[Organic_light-emitting_diode|OLED]]"
  at:1990 text:"[[Sulfur lamp]]"
  at:1995 text:"[[Light-emitting diode|Blue LED]]"
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  at:2008 text:"[[LED filament]]"
  shift:(15,-4)
  at:2009 text:"[[Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs]]"
  at:2018 text:"[[Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs#European_Union|Phase-out of halogen light bulbs]]
  at:2021 text:"[[Compact fluorescent lamp#History|Phase-out of compact fluorescent light bulbs]]
  
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Artificial [[lighting]] technology began to be developed tens of thousands of years ago and continues to be refined in the present day.