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The name Mathmos comes from the seething lake of lava beneath the city Sogo in the 1962 comic Barbarella. [7] The 1990s re-launch of the original lava lamps saw sales grow strongly for Mathmos again from 10,000 lamps a year in 1989 to 800,000 lamps a year in 1999. Mathmos won two Queens Awards for Export and a number of other business awards. [8]
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.
Astro lamp has been in continuous production for 60 years and has been handmade in Britain since 1963, [6] and is still made today by Mathmos in Poole. The Mathmos lava lamp formula developed initially by Craven Walker in the 1960s and then improved with his help in the 1990s is still used.
Mathmos Celebrates the Lava Lamp's 60th Anniversary with Exciting Collaborations, Luxurious Magazine, August 2023; Learn How the Lava Lamp Became a Groovy Icon of 1960s Style, Better Homes & Gardens, March 2022; How I Beat The Odds: Cressida Granger of lava lamp pioneer Mathmos, Management Today, October 2013
The "lamp looks weird" trend originated from an old Reddit post by an anonymous user who experienced a lifetime of memories in a span of a few moments after sustaining a head injury.
A re-drafted article should also include reference to Mathmos as the UK manufacturer of lava lamps (non-capitalised). One of the issues here, I feel, is that the title "lava lamp" has become a semi-generic in the way 'Hoover', 'Biro', et al have done in the past, and any article needs to clarify this. --AlisonW 18:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)