Product Description

This book offers a well-rounded selection of reliable, well-researched formulas for the most popular exploding fireworks, including M80s, cherry bombs, ash cans, chasers, globe torpedoes, Knallkorpers, aerial bombs, cracker balls, Flashcrackas and more. For academic study only.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #84249 in Books
• Published on: 1997-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Customer Reviews

Good, but most projects contained not legal in the UK.
This is an interesting and imformative book, but most of its contents (with the exception of the aerial bomb) are some kind or other of firecracker, and therefor illegal for use by the general public. Also, the materials required (mostly potassium perchlorate/chlorate and aluminium powder are fairly unobtainable by the general public. Even so, a good book to read.

A concise and comprehensive recipe book of firecrackers
This little paperback is an excellent introduction to the making of your own firecrackers. Divided into a dozen or so chapters, each dealing with a different kind of cracker from a particular country or period in time, the descriptions of how to assemble the devices are extremely lucid with simple, well-drawn diagrams. The book only covers firecrackers, though, so if you're looking for a more general introduction to the multitude of different pyrotechnic devices that exist, this probably isn't your best bet. If indeed it's crackers specifically you want to know about, or if you're just starting out with pyrotechny and want to experiment with a few very simple, satisfying fireworks, this is an excellent read.

Very poor
I've got to say that this is really pretty poor, the index is poorly laid out and the reading lists not great either, the writing is awful and the whole thing has the impression of a (US) highschool chemistry class gone wrong.

When I got the book I initially thought that perhaps I was being too critical but I shared it with two contacts, one of whom is a pyrotechnician planning and directing displays and another who makes fireworks and they both said that it was written in a convoluted and inaccessible style. A lot of the jargon is window dressing to make the simple exercises here in appear more complex but to the unacquainted reader it will probably make most of the projects plain impossible.