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 ...

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.

A shell that emits stars in a perfect ... But a squib is literally a miniature explosive device, or form of firework, usually cylindrical in shape and with a paper fuse at one end, which fails ...

And so Handel's Music For The Royal Fireworks was born. Not long after, in the 19th Century, the ice cream cone-shaped shell which hurls a firework higher into the sky was invented in Italy.