If you plan on having a great time this weekend, then you’ll enjoy this short clip of fireworks set to music.  It’s so great to celebrate Independence Day, but to also be able to celebrate the technology that has been achieved so far with fireworks set to music.  So whether you’re bbqing, watching fireworks, or keeping it mellow, we hope you enjoy your Fourth of July celebration!

Macy’s Fourth of July Fireworks in New York City: Canon 5D mark II from Mike Kobal on Vimeo.

Also, just in case you were wondering, fireworks are a class of explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.

Fireworks were invented in China in the seventh century to scare away evil spirits, as a natural extension of one of the Four Great Inventions of ancient China, gunpowder. Such important events and festivities as Chinese New Year and the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival were and still are times when fireworks are guaranteed sights. China is the largest manufacturer and exporter of fireworks in the world.

The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube or casing filled with the combustible material, often pyrotechnic stars. A number of these tubes or cases are often combined so as to make, when kindled, a great variety of sparkling shapes, often variously colored. The skyrocket is a common form of firework, although the first skyrockets were used in war. Such rocket technology has also been used for the delivery of mail by rocket and is used as propulsion for most model rockets. The aerial shell is the backbone of today’s commercial aerial display. (source: Wikipedia) Happy July 4th!

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