In a multi-break firework, stars are contained in separate cardboard compartments within the shell. Each compartment has its own bursting charge, which ignites and throws out the stars.

A shell that emits stars in a perfect circle, with the brightness growing as the circle gets bigger, is called a “chrysanthemum”. A firework that has stars that fly outward, then start to desc ...

How many times have you driven home from a fabulous fireworks display and tried in vain to describe your favorite variety? "You know, that big red one with all those curlycue things?" Lacking ...

Pyrotechnics expert Mike Tockstein told Business Insider that fireworks are not actually rocketed into the sky. "We don't use rockets," he said. "We use mortars and aerial shells." He ...

And so Handel's Music For The Royal Fireworks was born. Not long after, in the 19th Century, the ice cream cone-shaped shell which hurls a firework higher into the sky was invented in Italy.