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...
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Incandescent light bulb (redirect from Incandescent lamp)
typical white LED lamps. The heat produced by filaments is used in some applications, such as heat lamps in incubators, lava lamps, Edison effect bulbs...
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A germicidal lamp (also known as disinfection lamp or sterilizer lamp) is an electric light that produces ultraviolet C (UVC) light. This short-wave ultraviolet...
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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...
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Edward Craven Walker (section The Astro lamp)
was a British inventor, who invented the psychedelic Astro lamp, also known as the lava lamp. Craven was a pilot in World War II, flying a DeHavilland...
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standard incandescent lamps, such as incubators, brooding boxes for poultry, heat lights for reptile tanks, novelty lamps such as lava lamps, and the Easy-Bake...
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famously the lava lamp invented by its founder Edward Craven Walker. It is headquartered in its factory in Poole, Dorset. The Astro lamp, or lava lamp, was invented...
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An LED lamp or LED light is an electric light that produces light using light-emitting diodes (LEDs). LED lamps are significantly more energy-efficient...
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A sodium-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses sodium in an excited state to produce light at a characteristic wavelength near 589 nm. Two varieties...
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Light fixture (redirect from Desk lamp)
types: limelight, carbon button lamp, Mazda (light bulb), Nernst glower Novelty: Lava lamp Special purpose: heat lamp, Globar, gas mantle Halogen – special...
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An arc lamp or arc light is a lamp that produces light by an electric arc (also called a voltaic arc). The carbon arc light, which consists of an arc...
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winning team. Winners receive US$10,000 and a trophy in the shape of a lava lamp. The show is shot at a disused IKEA in Burbank, California. Prior to finding...
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A kerosene lamp (also known as a paraffin lamp in some countries) is a type of lighting device that uses kerosene as a fuel. Kerosene lamps have a wick...
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Electric light (redirect from Lamp (electrical component))
electric light, lamp, or light bulb is an electrical component that produces light. It is the most common form of artificial lighting. Lamps usually have...
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Singapore offices. The lava lamp installation implements the Lavarand method, where a camera transforms the unpredictable shapes of the "lava" blobs into a digital...
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Look up Lava or lava in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Lava is molten volcanic rock or the resulting solid rock after cooling. Lava or LAVA also refer...
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A mercury-vapor lamp is a gas-discharge lamp that uses an electric arc through vaporized mercury to produce light. The arc discharge is generally confined...
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A xenon arc lamp is a highly specialized type of gas discharge lamp, an electric light that produces light by passing electricity through ionized xenon...
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A fluorescent lamp, or fluorescent tube, is a low-pressure mercury-vapor gas-discharge lamp that uses fluorescence to produce visible light. An electric...
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Electroluminescence (redirect from Electroluminescent lamp)
compared to competing lighting technologies, such as neon or fluorescent lamps. This, together with the thinness of the material, has made EL technology...
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(assuming Acme makes vacuum cleaners) if he sells anything else made by Acme (lava lamp) and he also sells vacuum cleaners made by any other brand (Robusto)....
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दीपम्, romanized: Dīpam) is an oil lamp made from clay or mud with a cotton wick dipped in oil or ghee. These lamps are commonly used in the Indian subcontinent...
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items to auction, including a club fender that made £400 and a retro lava lamp, which went for £30. In total, 14 items sold, raising £1,123, the unsold...
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A halogen lamp (also called tungsten halogen, quartz-halogen, and quartz iodine lamp) is an incandescent lamp consisting of a tungsten filament sealed...
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A Carbide lamp or acetylene gas lamp is a simple lamp that produces and burns acetylene (C2H2), which is created by the reaction of calcium carbide (CaC2)...
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Plasma globe (redirect from Lightning lamp)
A plasma ball, plasma globe, or plasma lamp is a clear glass container filled with noble gases, usually a mixture of neon, krypton, and xenon, that has...
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Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) examples A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also called compact fluorescent light, energy-saving light and compact fluorescent...
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install a novel roadside attraction: a 52,000 pound (60 feet in height) lava lamp, formerly a Target advertisement in Times Square. That effort was profiled...
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Blacklight (redirect from Wood's lamp)
Wood's lamp, or ultraviolet light, is a lamp that emits long-wave (UV-A) ultraviolet light and very little visible light. One type of lamp has a violet...
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