tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065673707988352463.post4959459835779507987..comments2021-10-28T10:22:06.103-07:00Comments on Contemporary JoE: The Lava Lamp, a brief historyContemporary JoEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00244025471910011242noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065673707988352463.post-11757903877417946332009-03-16T12:24:00.000-07:002009-03-16T12:24:00.000-07:00History of the Lava Lamp Singapore-born Englishman...History of the <A HREF="http://www.webgiftshopping.com/product/1296_m/54_/Orange-Juice-Motion-Lamp-341721296M.html" REL="nofollow">Lava Lamp</A> Singapore-born Englishman Edward Craven Walker invented the lava lamp in the 1960s. His U.S. Patent 3,570,156 for "Display Device" was filed in 1965 and issued in 1968. Walker's company was named Crestworth and was based in Poole, Dorset in the United Kingdom. Walker named the lamp Astro and had variations such as the Astro Mini, the Astro Coach lantern and presented it at a Brussels trade show in 1965, where the entrepreneur Adolph Wertheimer noticed it. Wertheimer and his business partner William Rubinstein bought the American rights and produced it as the Lava Lite via Lava Corporation or Lava Manufacturing Corporation, the origin of the word "lava" for this lamp. Wertheimer sold his shares to Hy Spector. Rubinstein and Spector went on to manufacture and market the Lava Lite in his Chicago factory at 1650 W. Irving Park Rd in the mid-60s. The lamps were a success throughout the 60s and early 70s. Lava Corporation's name changed to Lava-Simplex in the early 1970s.<BR/><BR/>Hazards of the <A HREF="http://www.webgiftshopping.com/product/1296_m/54_/Orange-Juice-Motion-Lamp-341721296M.html" REL="nofollow">Lava Lamp</A> An episode of the American TV show MythBusters demonstrated that heating a lava lamp on a stove could make it explode, and that injuries from an explosion could be fatal. The inspiration for that experiment came from a story concerning a man who in 2004 died after a lamp he was heating on a stove to avoid waiting for the wax to warm up exploded, sending glass into his chest.Clubberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12221840508511096204noreply@blogger.com