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Question by Walt
Submitted on 3/9/2004
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What is the history of pyrotechnics?  Does anyone know how the idea for the first fireworks was concieved and where were they set off?


Answer by jonny
Submitted on 5/17/2004
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i don't know but all i know is that fireworks are awesome.

 

Answer by ur a dumbass
Submitted on 2/25/2005
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china, bambo have air pockets , bambo was thrown into fire and exploded when the air pockets expanded.

 

Answer by Simon
Submitted on 5/8/2005
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The Chinesse Started the first fireworks.  They were used in war the basically as rockets.

 

Answer by odin
Submitted on 10/27/2005
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all i know is that pyrotecnics originated in china around the 1st century ad

 

Answer by njk3000
Submitted on 12/16/2005
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they were first made from black powder during the Sung dynasty (960-1279) in China

 

Answer by b
Submitted on 2/20/2006
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Chinese put bamboo into a campfire and it went boom

 

Answer by rewyn
Submitted on 3/13/2006
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All good things come form China. I do not know the exact era, but I believe Alchemists trying to transmute lead to gold created this powder.

 

Answer by phil
Submitted on 5/9/2006
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China invented black powder, during the Sung dynasty ( 960-1279 )

 

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