WI: Fluorescent lighting invented before Incandescent lighting?

What if Fluorescent electric lighting was invented before Incandescent lighting? What effects would this have on the development of electrical technology?
 
I do not think this is feasible. A fluorescent lamp requires a noble gas in the cathode bulb. These were not available until the twentieth century ( they were known to exist from solar spectrographs, earlier), nearly 100 years after the first incandescent light. The incandescent lamp is happy with a vacuum, readily available in the 19C.

The technology required to produce the fluorescent cathode is of a higher level than that required for an incandescent filament.

So the technical requirements of the fluorescent lamp have precursors capable of producing an incandescent lamp. The latter will always precede the former.
 
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