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.

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 ...

According to the Columbus Dispatch, Kivlenieks was in a hot tub celebrating a wedding on July 4, when a fireworks shell inadvertently flew in his direction. He attempted to leave but was struck by ...

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 ...