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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.
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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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]
All lava lamp tests produced violent reactions, with the reactions differing depending on the lamp's design: When lava lamps with safety caps exploded, they vented their contents out through the tops of the lamps because of the safety caps popping off (as designed). The Build Team then tested a bottle-capped lava lamp, which leaked due to a ...
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.
A General Electric NE-34 glow lamp, manufactured circa 1930. Neon was discovered in 1898 by William Ramsay and Morris Travers.The characteristic, brilliant red color that is emitted by gaseous neon when excited electrically was noted immediately; Travers later wrote, "the blaze of crimson light from the tube told its own story and was a sight to dwell upon and never forget."
The normal background display of the large monitor in Number Two's office is a view of this chamber, and lava lamps are visible in virtually every public building in the Village. The Village is a self-contained society, and appears to be mostly self-sufficient as well, although no farming areas are ever seen, so it appears that food and ...