DECATUR — Firefighters were kept busy dealing with multiple July 4 late night blazes and they say it’s possible at least two ...

As locals stock up on fireworks this Fourth of July, one business owner wants to help people celebrate all year long. Neon ...

Wondering how fireworks light up the sky, where they came from, and the sheer size of the business behind them? Stacker ...

Colors, sparks, booms and whistles all require different pyrotechnic recipes. chensiyuan/WikimediaCommons, CC BY-SA Paul E.

From a very early age, I’d been fascinated by explosives. The most exciting day of the year for me as a child, with the ...

The story of the Vidalia onion has been described as “fluke to fortune.” In its early days of cultivation, Depression-era farmers were searching for a new cash crop. Moses Coleman, ...

Experts estimate that between 80,000 and 90,000 pounds of black gunpowder ignited, sparking an explosion equivalent to approximately 22.5 tons of TNT.

Move a bit further in time, and you will find the first modern recipe for gunpowder, which is a ratio of 10:15:75 of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter. This is more stable and remains in use today.

Black-powder propellant is still used in modern fireworks and small model rockets. But it’s an inefficient fuel, and its use stunted—literally—the growth of amateur rockets when the sport ...

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