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    Lava Lamps

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    The Lava Lamp was created in the early 60s by a British engineer by the name of Craven Walker in an experiment gone awry. Nobody can remember what Walker was trying to create, only that he started a craze like no other.

    It was, and still is – the popularity of the lamp has endured, a long cylinder inside which a wax like substance is heated.

    This heating causes the substance to slowly bubble, float and move about the glass cylinder.

    Illuminated by a soft light within, the “lava” continues to move endlessly.

     

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