Electric Lava Lamp Collectible Lamps

Collectible Lava Lamps

Lava lamps were invented in 1963 by Edward Craven Walker, who was the founder of a lighting company, Mathmos, in Great Britain. The lamps consist of a plastic or metal base and a middle portion made of colored wax and a colored or clear liquid contained within a glass vessel. These decorative novelty lamps rely on the principles of physics, including the Rayleigh–Taylor instability principle, for the delivery of a mesmerizing lighting experience.

You have several options for design, including the following:

• Vintage or retro base - The classic base of a collectible lava lamp is silver in color and features a tall and tapered shape. This shape was modeled after an egg timer that had been converted into a cocktail shaker.
• Glitter or rainbow wax - The miscible wax of a lava lamp may be filled with dyes in the shades of a rainbow. Glitter may also be added to the wax to create an iridescent or shimmering effect to the lamp.
• Volcano or space prints - The classic lava lamp may feature a volcano print in shades of orange or a space print in shades of blue, silver, and black.

The features of lava lamps offer benefits, and they are the following:

• Soft lights - Collectible lava lamps offer soft lights with a low level of brightness. The light that shines from the grande lamps goes through the colorful lava wax, giving the light a purple, blue, or other color glow.
• Soothing visualization - Many people enjoy watching the movement of the lava in the tall glass lamp. The moving lava bubbles may help with meditation and stress reduction or visualization techniques.
• Unique decoration - Lava lamps offer a fun way to decorate for a party. The grande lava lamps are often used in college dorm rooms and apartments. Because the shape and movement of the lava is constantly changing, the display inside of the lamps vessel is enjoyable to look at. The grande lava lamps are often used in a home with a 1960s or hippie theme.

The classic base design of the lava lamp includes an incandescent or halogen light bulb. The light bulb takes about 60 minutes to heat the lava inside of the glass vessel. When heated, the lava wax becomes lighter than water. The wax also expands in less time than water, allowing it to rise and change in shape. The wax that makes up the lava in the lamp floats in clear, blue, purple, or another color of water or dyed mineral oil. As the colorful lava flows away from the heat of the lamps bulb, it becomes as dense or a little denser than the water, causing it to sink back to the bottom of the tall lamp. A metal coil in the base of the grande lamp causes just enough surface tension to keep the wax from reforming into a large blob. This allows for smaller bubbles of the wax to rise. The lamps bulb reheats the wax, allowing the process to continue in endless cycles until the grande lava lamp is unplugged.