[http://youtu.be/9A7DzqvyqWQ] (YouTube link)Screen...  ...s three dozen films featuring some of the biggest pyrotechnics in cinema history. No doubt you’ll recogniz...

It's not your imagination or faulty memory -large public fireworks displays used to have bigger bursts that went higher in the sky. Over the past few decades, professional pyrotechs have been compelled to make the shells...

(YouTube link) The Big Bay Boom fireworks display in San Diego was supposed to be a 20-minute patriotic display. However, all the fireworks in three different barges in the bay went off prematurely at the same time, for...

(YouTube link) If you're taking the family out...  ...ohn A. Conkling explains the chemistry behind the pyrotechnics . -via Bytesize Science

(YouTube Link) The Pharaoh's Serpent is a traditional pyrotechnic and chemical display in which mercury thiocyanate is set on fire, producing what looks like a very rapidly growing vine. It has since fallen out of fa...

Everything you ever wanted to know about Roman candles, including how to make your own, in in this article at Confession of a Fireworks Man. I once made the mistake of thinking I could hold a one-inch display candle in...