{"id":231389,"date":"2026-06-30T00:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231389\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:57:09","slug":"free-exhibition-at-the-science-history-institute-breaks-down-the-flash-bang-and-boom-of-fireworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231389\/","title":{"rendered":"Free exhibition at the Science History Institute breaks down the flash, bang and boom of fireworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">OLD CITY (WPVI) &#8212; &#8220;Flash! Bang! Boom! A History of Fireworks&#8221; at the Science History Institute is a blast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The free exhibition, in celebration of America&#8217;s 250th, explores the history and science behind the spectacular Fourth of July tradition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Visitors get a literal look inside the aerial shells that burst into those sparkly explosions, and learn everything that goes into a fireworks show, from testing, designing, launching and selling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It is believed the Chinese were the first to make fireworks. But the ones popular in America today derive from a firework brought to the United States at the turn of the 20th century by Italian immigrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The exhibit runs through July 31, 2027 at the Science History Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencehistory.org\/visit\/exhibitions\/history-of-fireworks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Science History Institute: Flash! Bang! Boom! A History of Fireworks <\/a> | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SciHistoryOrg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> |<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scihistoryorg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a><br class=\" \"\/>315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLD CITY (WPVI) &#8212; &#8220;Flash! Bang! Boom! A History of Fireworks&#8221; at the Science History Institute is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[100088,4000,9860,98639,5453,69,71,70,45869],"class_list":["post-231389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-100088","tag-america-250","tag-fireworks","tag-flash-bang-boom","tag-fyi-philly","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-science-history-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}