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 ...

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.

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 ...