Sky Flowers: The Explosive and Deadly History of Fireworks
As you kick back under a glittering shower of high-production-value pyrotechnics on Independence Day this year, take a second to remember how the modern firework started out: As a tiny, but startling, accident. In China, roughly 2,200 years ago, the first firework was just a reed of bamboo roasting over a fire. And just like…
