Help its Fourth of July and My Sister the Swan won't let me have Fireworks!!
Fireworks Facts For Thought
It is believed that gunpowder was discovered accidentally by a Chinese alchemist who mixed sulphur and salt peter (potassium nitrate) over a fire.
The Chinese name for gunpowder is "huo yao" (fire chemical).
The first fireworks were actually green bamboo that were thrown into fires to scare spirits away in ancient China, called "pas chuk."
Placing gun powder into bamboo stalks and then throwing them onto a fire to be ignited produced a louder and more powerful bang; hence the firecracker was born.
thxz to phantom fireworks for facts
Journal Entry: July 4th
Yeap it's me again journal. Princess won't let me have any fun. Say's it's to dry for fireworks. But what's a kid suppose to do?
Keyop slumped back into the chair looking at the cursor flashing on his computer. What else did he want to say? Oh well a look more, but Jason would just hack into his journal again and post everything he said on a community board.
He was 12, he was a kid and he was bored. If that weren't icing on his cake, it was the Fourth of July weekend. Kids his age were suppose to be having a good time, puffing cheap cigars and setting fire to fuses to blow things sky high. But the lack of rain for the pass few months had nixed things for him and a lot of others.
Mark had reminded him that just last week he had gotten to play with newly developed C-4 all over a Spectra base, so what could possibly be the problem?
Well for one the base was no longer standing. Tiny had remarked. Jason added his own encouragement too. If that were a problem, that issue couldn't be remedied nor should it be necessary being there were plenty more bases out there to blow up.
So now here he sat left to his on devices of imagination. Oh what to do, what to do. He groaned as he pulled out a box of mismatched electronic devices that just never did meet up to the teams or the Swallow's exacting standards, such as an old iPod, stone age game boys that weighed a pound and bore Mark or Jason graffiti as well as a couple of the Swans old cell phones. They just did not make them spectra tough, or in this case Swan tough. She was so rough to be so delicate.
Diodes, Transistors, Resistors, oh my, well he could either get really creative again and build leyden jar, to capture some of that charge the static tube would put off or he could create his own electronic fireworks.
Hmmm option one.
Option two, hmmm.
Ende part one
For those of you actually reading along. Lqtms. A leyden jar was originally discovered by a physicist Musschenbrook, in the 1700's at the University of Leyden. The insanely early inventors build these wicked jars to well help build and store electric energy. I seem to recall reading somewhere I think it was Franklin that got the hell-o- knocked out of him via one of these jars. Think was Franklin…
(Crap can't even recall what book I read it in.)
It should also be noted these jars are often referred to as condenser and or capacitor. (a little more btw much older cars had condensers under the hood and hell yes they hold a charge -very nasty biters- should only handle with pliers until you are sure they are drained. Unless you have someone you just wanta well let hold it. g )
In case you just gotta try this at home. I will add a link to directions to do this. Seeing I am to lazy to type what I read out of my evil genius .. gives credit to writer They of course call their static tube-which really isn't one in theirs-electrophorus.- They also mention an electroscope Keyop might get up to making at another time. But first I am comparing their notes to mine. :)