Pyrotechnics
PYROTECHNICS
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Pyrotechnics. PYROTECHNICS is defined as the art of making and using fireworks. Each year millions of Americans celebrate with Pyrotechnics on different occasions. Each year on July fourth, Labour day, New years, Independence day, Veterans day and other holidays, millions of Americans celebrate with Pyrotechnics and spend over 5 million dollars on Pyrotechnics. Abstract Pyrotechnics play a very major role on our environment and culture. Many cultures use Pyrotechnics to celebrate various holidays. Pyrotechnics play a roll each year on november 5th In Britain. 1605 a group of men, led by Guy Fawkes, tried to blow up King James I and the Houses of Parliament using gunpowder, in an attempt to return Britain to the Catholic faith. They failed and were executed for treason, but are remembered every year in Britain on 5th November, when people let off Pyrotechnics and burn effigies of Guy Fawkes on bonfires on this night. Until 1959 it was illegal not to celebrate the date of guy fawkes arest in England. in Salamanca, Spain. On the 12th of June every year, they celebrate Las Fiestas de San Juan de Sahagún with a huge Pyrotechnics show. Jan 26th in Australia, Australia Day is celebrated with a huge Pyrotechnics display on the river. In Japan every year A festival held at the shrine on December 2 and 3 has a 300-year history and is known as "Chichibu Yomatsuri (Chichibu Night Festival) for its splendid pyrotechnic events held at night. Festive floats, each weighing more than 10 tons and decorated with rows of lanterns and pyrotechnic devices are carried through town, streets are brightly lit by numerous lanterns and pyrotechnics, Pyrotechnics are set off, turning night into day around the whole town. In 1892, a 400 year Pyrotechnic celebration of Columbus landing on America's shores lit up the Brooklyn Bridge. Over one million people witnesses the Pyrotechnic event which was considered the greatest Pyrotechnic show ever seen in the Western Hempisphere. There is always the question, Where did Pyrotechnics originate. Some believe Italians were the first to manufacture Pyrotechnics in Europe, used them to mark great occasions. Though the credit for invention of Pyrotechnics goes to China, as so others believe Pyrotechnics originated in the 6th century China. We do know the Chinese perfected the art of making rockets and explosives with primitive gunpowder. The Mongols were believed to have introduced gunpowder to Europe in 1241 AD (Encarta, fireworks) Europe progressed faster than China in the development of Pyrotechnics. So by the 14th-15th century almost every country had its own version of Pyrotechnics.
These pictures are some of the best I have seen.
This first shot was made in Poland, The location is at a 14th century castle in Olsztyn near Czestochowa with there anual Pyrotechnics show.
This shot is at the same event just at a different angle, same Pyrotechnics show.
Another shot of the Pyrotechnics show in Poland.
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