OK, I think I might be prepared to take that back.
I'm reading Oliver Sacks's autobiography, _Uncle Tungsten_. It describes his fascination with metals as a small boy, and the factory where his Uncle Dave made lightbulbs 60 years ago under the breand name "Tungstalite".
His description of creation of the electric lightbulb from elemental substances - metal, glass, gasses and acids - wrought in fire and delicately coaxed into globes and coils and spidery structures - is almost alchemistic.
I find it hard to imagine the same aura of magic surrounding fluorescent bulbs, or LEDs.
Daniele