How has the lava lamp developed over time since invented and why?
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Singapore-born inventor Craven Walker was having a pint in post W.W.II England. The pub’s decor included a fascinating lamp, which Craven Walker described as a “contraption made out of a cocktail shaker, old tins and things.” It was to become the starting point and inspiration for Craven Walker’s design.
The liquid-filled inventor proceeded to purchase the equally liquid-filled lamp, whose creator (Mr. Dunnett) Walker later discovered had died. Walker became determined to make a better version of the novelty item and spent the next decade and a half doing so (inbetween running an international house-swap agency and making films about nudism.) Walker worked on improving the lamp with his company the Crestworth Company of Dorset, England.
Initially local retail merchants thought his lamps were ugly and disgusting. Luckily, for Craven Walker the “Psychedelic Movement” and the “Love Generation” came to dominate 60′s merchandising in Great Britain and sales of the lava lamp soared. It was the perfect light for modern times, Walker declared. “If you buy my lamp, you won’t need to buy drugs.”
Craven Walker perfected a secret Lava recipe of oil, wax and other solids. The original model had a large gold base with tiny holes to simulate starlight, and a 52 oz. globe that contained red or white Lava and yellow or blue liquid. He marketed the lamp in Europe under the name of Astro Lamp. Two American entrepreneurs saw the lava lamp displayed at a German trade show and bought the rights to manufacture the lava lamp in North America under the name Lava Lite lamp.
Before selling his company, sales of the lamps had exceeded seven million units. Today with over 400,000 lava lamps made each year, the Lava Lamp is enjoying a comeback. Craven Walker’s originally company, the Crestworth Company, changed names to Mathmos in 1995 (a reference to the bubbling force in Barbarella.) They still manufacture the Astro, Astro Baby, and more Lava Lamps in their original home of Poole, Dorset, UK. Today’s modern lava lamp use Borosilicate glass that can withstand quick extremes in temperature.
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Craven-Walker got the idea for the original lamp design after walking into a pub in Hampshire, England and noticing a rather odd item sitting on the counter behind the bar. It was a glass cocktail shaker that contained some kind of mucus-like blob floating in liquid. Upon inquiry, the bartender told him it was an egg-timer. The ‘blob’ was actually a clump of solid wax in clear liquid. The bartender explained… “You put the shaker in the boiling water with your egg, and as the boiling water cooks the egg it also melts the wax turning it into an amorphous blob of goo.”
When the wax then floated to the top of the jar, your egg was done. Craven-Walker saw a money-making opportunity in front of him – turn the egg-timer into a lamp with thicker oil that would form sculptural shapes and sell it to the public. He set about tracking down the inventor of the original design. The inventor, known only by his last name of Dunnet, was deceased, allowing for Craven-Walker to patent the invention for himself.
Craven-Walker spent the next 15 years perfecting Dunnet’s invention so that it could be mass-produced. The Astro Lamp was launched in 1963, just ahead of the craze for all things psychedelic. Craven-Walker’s factory was built in Poole, Dorset where it still is in production today. Craven-Walker sold rights to his creation to Mathmos, one of Britain’s fastest-growing companies, staying on as a consultant until his death at age 82 of cancer.
In 1965, Craven-Walker introduced his Astro Lamp at a novelty convention in Hamburg, West Germany. Two Americans named Adolph Wertheimer and Hy Spector, in awe with the lamp’s beauty, asked to purchase the American rights to the lamp. The Astro Lamp was then brought to North America and renamed Lava Brand Motion Lamps and production took off in Chicago, Illinois. Lava Brand Motion Lamp sales peaked in the late ’60s when slow-swirling coloured wax happened to coincide perfectly with the undulating aesthetics of psychedelia. They were advertised as ‘head trips that offered a motion for every emotion’. Employees take an oath of secrecy upon being hired so that the mystery of the Lava Lamp’s inner workings are never revealed.
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