Comments on: How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite (Aug, 1934) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Tylenol. http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/comment-page-1/#comment-1062373 Tylenol. Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:56:15 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/#comment-1062373 <strong>Tylenol in pregnancy....</strong> Tylenol overdose. Tylenol.... Tylenol in pregnancy….

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]]> By: Blah, Blah, Blahg » How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/comment-page-1/#comment-2579 Blah, Blah, Blahg » How a Fireworks Magician Tames Dynamite Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:28:27 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/#comment-2579 [...] Here’s a pretty cool old article at Modern Mechanix. I just hate that I didn’t see it in time to post for the July 4th holiday. It’s a Modern Mechanix magazine 1934 article about how fireworks speciailists deal with dynamite in a safe manner. Flaming dynamite and exploding mortars are the chief tools of the fireworks expert. In this vivid, intimate story one of the aces of the fireworks army takes you behind the scenes to reveal, for the first time, the thrills and dangers of his roaring trade. MILLIONS of Americans thrill yearly to the glittering wheels, flaming rockets and spectacular bombs of the giant fireworks displays; but the men who fire them are the men nobody knows—the world’s most mysterious showmen. . . .“One of the important things to keep in mind about fireworks,” said Briese, “is the difference between display work and the over-the-counter business—that is, the sale of firecrackers, pin wheels, rockets and the - like to the consumer. Accidents are far less frequent in display work because trained men do the firing. [...] [...] Here’s a pretty cool old article at Modern Mechanix. I just hate that I didn’t see it in time to post for the July 4th holiday. It’s a Modern Mechanix magazine 1934 article about how fireworks speciailists deal with dynamite in a safe manner. Flaming dynamite and exploding mortars are the chief tools of the fireworks expert. In this vivid, intimate story one of the aces of the fireworks army takes you behind the scenes to reveal, for the first time, the thrills and dangers of his roaring trade. MILLIONS of Americans thrill yearly to the glittering wheels, flaming rockets and spectacular bombs of the giant fireworks displays; but the men who fire them are the men nobody knows—the world’s most mysterious showmen. . . .“One of the important things to keep in mind about fireworks,” said Briese, “is the difference between display work and the over-the-counter business—that is, the sale of firecrackers, pin wheels, rockets and the – like to the consumer. Accidents are far less frequent in display work because trained men do the firing. [...]

]]> By: Stannous http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/comment-page-1/#comment-2566 Stannous Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:01:16 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/07/04/how-a-fireworks-magician-tames-dynamite/#comment-2566 Of course the radio tube train on the cover got much smaller after transistors were invented Of course the radio tube train on the cover got much smaller after transistors were invented

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