You see, to make fireworks, you need four basic components: Fuel, usually gunpowder, a compound that produces color, a fuse, and glue to hold it all together. You mix this stuff up into what's ...

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took ...

Fireworks are metered onto the sled with one turn of a small gear motor, the fuse is light by a butane torch, and another gear motor pulls the sled back and launches the firecracker. The launch is ...

He had been lighting mortar-style fireworks, police said. These fireworks explode after the fuse has been lit and “send dozens of glittering stars into the sky,” according to Red Apple Fireworks.

He bent down next to the garage and lit a fuse to the fireworks. Once it caught fire, he sprinted back across the front lawn. Moments later there was a small explosion quickly followed by a much ...

But a squib is literally a miniature explosive device, or form of firework, usually cylindrical in shape and with a paper fuse at one end, which fails to ignite if it gets wet. (The phrase is comm ...

First, a base of black powder ignites to shoot the firework into the sky, and lights a fuse on fire. Once the firework is at the pinnacle of its trip, that lit fuse ignites a burst charge that ...

time-delay fuse, bursting charge, and other essential ingredients. Here, put on the pyrotechnician's hat and see a typical firework from the inside out.