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  2. Lava lamp - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Mathmos - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Talk:Lava lamp - Wikipedia

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    Actually a glitter lamp only uses thermal circulation, the glitter particles are light enough to be carried with it, that physical effect is way different from that in a lavalamp. Nonetheless, glitter lamps certainly belong to the product family of motion lamps and even were(are) sold by the inventors (Crestworth Ltd. who later became Mathmos ...

  5. Lavarand - Wikipedia

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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.

  6. Neon lamp - Wikipedia

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    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."

  7. Tizio - Wikipedia

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    A Tizio desk lamp. Tizio is a desk lamp created by Richard Sapper for Artemide in 1972. [1] It was selected for the Compasso d'Oro industrial design award in 1979. An item of it is part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art [2] and of the Museum of Modern Art.