Freaky Facts on Lava Lamps

[agentchillypig]

I just decided to whip up some facts and pictures on Lava Lamps
The first lamp:

* At their peak, more than seven million Lava Lamps were sold around the world each year
* Employees take an oath of secrecy upon being hired so that the mystery of the Lava Lamp's inner workings are never revealed.
* Lava Lamps can be seen almost every night on prime time television.
* Haggerty Enterprises, Inc is the only official manufacturer of the Lava Brand Motion Lamp in the United States. Mathmos is the only official manufacturer of the Lava Lamp in the UK.
* More Lava Lamps were sold in the 1990s than in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s combined.
* The Lava Lamp has been hailed an American icon by everyone ranging from People magazine to the Smithsonian Institute.
* The Lava Brand Century Motion Lamp was the first US style created and the Astro Lamp was the first UK style. Both are still top sellers today.
* There are over 100 different style and colour combinations of Lava lamps, including glitter motion lamps.
* The largest Lava Lamp on the market towers over four feet tall and holds ten gallons of the 'secret' formula.
* No two Lava Lamps are the same. They all have their own personality.
* Today there is a lava lamp on a permanent exhibit in the Smithsonian museum, Washington, D.C., as well as a growing trade in vintage lamps