In 1963, British engineer Edward Craven Walker, developed a new type of lamp - inspired by an egg timer in which a blob of wax liquid rose when the egg was ready.

The Lava-Lamp, or Astro-Lamp as it then known, was presented for the first time to great interest at a Hamburg Trade Show in 1965. Two American entrepreneurs quickly snapped up the American rights to the product and began to produce it as the Lava Lite