Get in touch with technology with TechStup. I'm Jonathan Strickland and I'm

Lauren Bokebun and Lauren I believe when last we met we began to talk about

fireworks. Yes.

Cyber Knight, one of our listeners wrote in and asked if we could talk about how they work,

how those big displays work, how do they choreograph everything, what's going on?

And boy, how do we can talk about that?

Yeah, so we covered the basics, right? The basic stuff what goes boom in episode one. So we kind of covered the black powder side of fireworks.

Which is the basic chemical component that makes fireworks work.

Go boom. Yeah, exactly. It's really what is allowing them to both launch into the air in most cases

and to explode outward and either well both make a loud noise and

to also project whatever effect happens to be incorporated.

Create some kind of light display.

Yeah, so...

And these get really complicated.

As of about the Italian Renaissance,

Yeah.

People started adding different metals into the gunpowder to make it burn in different colors.

And I suspect that this was tied into the fact that also around the Italian Renaissance,

people were starting to make brilliantly colored paints of many different kinds and the same

the same metal compounds that were being used for those paints I'm guessing is what got ported

over into fireworks.

Absolutely yeah they also found you know if you were able to get a metallic salt and say burn it

...