Fireworks masters manufacture their creations by hand, including the hundreds of stars that go into a single firework. They mix carefully measured ingredients like perchlorate and black powder ...

The accidental discovery was the precursor to modern gunpowder and the ingredient that makes fireworks go boom. Although powder-fueled fireworks were now officially pyrotechnic events, they would ...

New Year and fireworks. Pop! Bang! Whooo! Boom! We love them. These are the sounds of celebration. Although the basic recipe and techniques used in preparing the black powder (gun powder) in ...

After the fireworks show, a stampede occurred as people tried to leave what today is the Place de la Concorde, and approximately 800 people were killed. Historians believe that black powder ...

A man who was trying to disassemble fireworks with a power tool was flown to the hospital after the firework exploded in his ...