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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]
Edward Craven Walker (4 July 1918 – 15 August 2000) was a British inventor, [1] who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] War record
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We think it a mistake to move the Lava-lamp page as it is the name these lamps are popularly known as. The history of the trademark “Lava lamp” and who invented this type of lamp is a messy one. We would like to try and set the record straight. What is commonly known as the “Lava lamp” was invented by Edward Craven-Walker in 1963.
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.
The plasma lamp was invented by Nikola Tesla, during his experimentation with high-frequency currents in an evacuated glass tube for the purpose of studying high voltage phenomena. [2] Tesla called his invention an "inert gas discharge tube". [3] The modern plasma lamp design was developed by James Falk and MIT student Bill Parker. [1] [4]
As in many chemical reactions, chemiluminescence starts with the combining of two compounds, say A and B, to give a product C. Unlike most chemical reactions, the product C converts to a further product, which is produced in an electronically excited state often indicated with an asterisk: