Interesting Facts About Fireworks

• The first fireworks were made in China around 2000 years ago, known as Chinese crackers
• They’re still used in China to celebrate and scare away the evil spirits
• The word for fireworks in Japanese means “fire flower”
• Half of all firework accidents happened to children under the age of 16
• Throwing a firework in a street or public place is a criminal offence
• The world’s largest single firework was set off at a festival in Japan and the shell weighed over half a tonne and the burst was over a kilometre across
• At first the only colours that could be produced by fireworks were orange and white
• A rocket can reach speeds of 150mph, although the shell can reach as high as 200 metres
• The world record for the most fireworks set off all at once was set in New Jersey on August 15^th 1997 when 39,210 rockets were launched