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Lava lamps An original Mathmos Astro lava lamp A lava lamp is a decorative lamp , invented in 1963 by British entrepreneur Edward Craven Walker , the founder of the lighting company Mathmos . It consists of a bolus of a special coloured wax mixture inside a glass vessel, the remainder of which contains clear or translucent liquid.
Lavarand, also known as the Wall of Entropy, is a hardware random number generator designed by Silicon Graphics that worked by taking pictures of the patterns made by the floating material in lava lamps, extracting random data from the pictures, and using the result to seed a pseudorandom number generator. [1]
The Astro lamp, or lava lamp, was invented around 1963 by Edward Craven Walker.It was adapted from a design for an egg timer spotted in a pub in Dorset, England. Edward and Christine Craven-Walker licensed the product to a number of overseas markets whilst continuing to manufacture for the European market themselves under the original name of the company, Crestworth. [3]
Astro lamp has been in continuous production for 60 years and has been handmade in Britain since 1963, [6] and is still made today by Mathmos in Poole. The Mathmos lava lamp formula developed initially by Craven Walker in the 1960s and then improved with his help in the 1990s is still used. Mathmos celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013. [7] [8]
While it could well be that this one (and its identical copy Image:200px-LavaLampDark1.JPG) are indeed self-created as claimed, there are enough other free lava lamp pictures available and there is no need to take a legal chances (especially considering the fact that the company who made the lamp on these photos has already intervened with ...
And Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, "put on a weeks-long show at the end of last year as it erupted for the first time in four decades, with lava fountains 60 meters high that sent ...
A simple flowchart for what to do if a lamp doesn't work, created automatically from textual description by Graph::Easy. 11:49, 18 August 2006: 419 × 468 (4 KB) Tels~enwiki: A simple flowchart for what to do if a lamp doesn't work, created automatically from textual description.
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