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 ...

An airplane flight across China nearly ended with a bang after a passenger allegedly discovered a firecracker beneath ... seen holding the cracker with the fuse clearly visible.

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 ...