Application of Black Powder to Fireworks

The fireworks industry also benefited from these improvements, which was reflected in the growing popularity of organised displays and the diversity of the pyrotechnic effects so presented. 

Historically, it is generally accepted that the first fireworks were developed in far-eastern countries, notably India or China, for display at 

The vaults under the main chamber were visited by the Lord Chamberlain on the 4th November and there they found a tall and desperate looking fellow who identified himself as Guido Fawkes. On the 5th of November, magistrates examined the neighbouring house and cellar where they arrested Fawkes who was just leaving . 

Guy Fawkes was tortured and his accomplices arrested, tried and executed. The Establishment was clearly not ecstatic about the fact that the plot had so nearly succeeded, and Fawkes was tried at Westminster on 27 January and ceremoniously executed on 30 January 1606. 

All of this was subsequently of great benefit to the British fireworks industry, of course, which has capitalised on the 5th of November celebrations ever since. However, any other country in the world might have bent the truth a little and claimed in the history books that the plot 

By the nineteenth century, English firework makers including Brock, Pain and Wells had established themselves in the London area to be later followed by Standard Fireworks and others in the North. Thus the availability of locally-produced gunpowder and fireworks was enough to eschew any drift towards European suppliers. 

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