My lava lamp Is working again, Its orange ball Moves slightly In the lamp’s bright Interior liquid. I bought it Years ago In memory of Paul He had one, So I needed one too, To sit on my Office desk in A room where he Was my muse. But the lamp broke, And wasn’t fixed Until yesterday. It feels like a gift From the past.   Lava lamp information From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Lava lamps of several different colors 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. The lamp consists of a bolus of a special coloured wax mixture inside a glass vessel, the remainder of which contains clear or translucent liquid. The vessel is placed on a box containing an incandescent light bulb whose heat causes temporary reductions in the density of the wax and surface tension of the liquid. As the warmed wax rises … [Read more...]