16 Amazing Facts About Sparklers

Sparklers and fireworks are the ultimate mark of celebration, the best way to express the happiness one has is to set off some big sparklers. There are many fun facts about sparklers. Let’s go through them!

1.      The biggest exporter and manufacturer of sparklers is china, china leads the market and supply of big sparklers in the world.

2.      China was, in fact, the inventor of fireworks, the invention goes back as long as 7th century that’s like some 2000 years ago.

3.      Coming to the British history the first ever firework was recorded in 1486, at the reception of King Henry the VIII.

4.      There is myth that says, that if you dream about fireworks that means that you like to be in the thick of things, surmising that one who dreams about fireworks and such like to be the centre of attention.

5.      People may think that fireworks are a symbol of joy and they are used only to express happiness, on the contrary to that they are also believed to ward off evil, and being prosperity to the consumer.

6.      Humans love fireworks but man’s best friend isn’t fond of the big sparklers. If you are planning to set off fireworks anytime soon, make sure that your animals are safely packed in the house, giving them ample space to hide from all the noise.

7.      A firework has 2 pieces, the main rocket and a shell, the rocket goes as high as 150 mph, but the shell goes as high as 200mph.

8.      The major yearly fireworks exhibition event in Europe is held at the International Festival concert in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is termed as the biggest because in a minute as many as aa million fireworks are set off there. These fireworks include the ever-famous big sparkler as well.

9.      The longest going firework was recorded around 22 hours, and that was displayed in Hong Kong at new year’s celebration, in 1996.

10.  If you think that fireworks have always been this colourful, then you are colourfully mistaken because the initially had 2 colours only, i.e. orange and white. Later on, colours were added to the sparklers in the middle ages by bringing in more salts to create more colour.

11.  Blue is the most popular colour in big sparklers, but blue is also the hardest colour to create.

12.  To create funny animations with big sparklers if to draw with it in dark and capture the image with long exposure setting in your phone or camera.

13.  The most ancient recipe to create fireworks was with three basic ingredients, saltpetre, Sulphur, and charcoal. Later on, salt was added to this list as it created colour. As the sparklers got sophisticated the list of ingredients grew as well.

14.  It’s a known fact that china invented fireworks, but Italy were the first one to put colour in those sparklers.

15.  To create colour in any sparkler, you have to burn various metallic powders with in the firework simultaneously. Calcium creates orange, sodium gives off yellow colour and barium makes green.

16.  At the opening of winter Olympics, 22 tons of fireworks were consumed, needless to say that the show started with a bang.