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Re-order Paragraphs

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Re-order Paragraphs

Arrange the sentences into the correct order.

Put the sentences in the correct order:

  1. Electric bulbs eventually replaced gas flames altogether, but the basic promise of the streetlight, that a city need not go dark simply because the sun has set, was already well established by then.
  2. Streets that stayed lit after dusk quickly became safer and busier, and shops, theatres, and cafes began extending their hours to take advantage of the new evening trade.
  3. The invention of gas lighting in the early 1800s replaced these oil lamps with a brighter, steadier flame that could illuminate an entire street from a single network of underground pipes.
  4. Municipal authorities eventually addressed this by installing oil lamps at regular intervals along major thoroughfares, hiring lamplighters whose sole job was to light and extinguish them each day.
  5. Before the seventeenth century, most city streets after dark were lit only by whatever lantern a passer-by happened to carry, leaving alleys and squares in near-total darkness once the sun went down.