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Its design clearly foreshadowed modern forms of lighting.

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reflects

Question:

How does its design foreshadow modern forms of lighting?

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The design of the Argand burner foreshadows modern forms of lighting as it possessed primitive equivalents of elements found in an electric light bulb. The glass cylinder in the Argand burner corresponded to the glass outer casing of an electric bulb, the wick mechanism to the light switch, and the flame, intensified by the increased oxygen supply, to the filament.