Fire is one of nature's greatest gifts. Now add some "works" then you get fireworks!! Well that was a bad joke. Fireworks are some of the funnest things to watch in our life. Especially on the Fourth of July. The fireworks are just extravagant. Here's a question, where did fireworks originate? Why do we have fireworks? Thank the Chinese. The Chinese had first touched up on the subject in about 200 B.C. where there wouldn't be any gun powder at that point. The first type of Firecracker was roughly around this time. It was technically a fire cracker, but when they just threw bamboo into a fire. The bamboo cracked and popped like no one had ever heard. They called this bursting bamboo. Through time in China, Alchemist were working on how to make special substances of many kinds. The explosive kind for example. Alchemists basically had led to gunpowder, and It was soon that the first fireworks had been made. This pretty much made a great impression on the Chinese, but with every country comes war. They used gunpowder in lances that had fuses that would launch objects at high velocity or put simply, it shot things. The first fireworks were brought to America in the 1600's. This would obviously lead us to what we have now. I think we all deserve the Chinese a nice thank you for this awesome invention.
Fireworks are one of the most beautiful things in the world. The colors just really can make anyone impressed if done well enough. Obviously without the Chinese, we wouldn't have had fireworks. Also, thank the alchemists too. Alchemists really looked hard for any kind of truth and it lead us to a wonderful time in the world in the way of colors.
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