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Old 3rd November 2009, 12:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default A Brief history of Firework Design

Informative article from the Daily Telegraph 2nd Nov, by Alex Selby, display manager for Phoenix Fireworks.



Firework design has come a long way from exploding bamboo - Telegraph
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Old 3rd November 2009, 1:04 PM   #2 (permalink)
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a good read, some pictures or diagrams would've been good.
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Where would we be without that Monk.
Thank God for the religious.


Mind you, "the days when a man would run up and down lighting individual fuses" have not gone. Most of the displays I do are done like that - and that includes the pro ones.
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Mind you, "the days when a man would run up and down lighting individual fuses" have not gone. Most of the displays I do are done like that - and that includes the pro ones.
Here here.
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did you see the Cassiopeia A supernova link, I wonder if Newsbox sells them
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Quite a long article but nevertheless very informative. Good read.
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Old 8th December 2009, 3:20 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Thank you very much guys Im glad youy enjoyed it.


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