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Chapter 8 Becoming a Pyrotechnician TRAINING PYROTECHNICIANS RECEIVE TRAINING through their employers, special training programs, seminars, and workshops. Some choose to train as apprentices, or they may be selftaught. The basics of firing systems, mortar design, e-match technology, shell assignments, mortar angles, and shipping are important for pyrotechnicians to learn. At Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, pyrotechnicians complete a one-year training program, which involves studying the science of fireworks and an apprenticeship.
It’s really up there! AN INTERVIEW WITH A PYROTECHNICIAN Pyrotechnician Ernie Simmons travels around the world for Zambelli Internationale, setting up displays for independence day celebrations, corporate launches, and community events of all kinds. He says, “I set up 58 shows last year. ” Although he is a full-time employee of Zambelli Internationale, Simmons says that most of the pyrotechnicians come from other walks of life and work part-time for Zambelli just because they love fireworks: “A lot of people who work for us are professionals, such as doctors and lawyers.
Quick match: Cotton soaked in a solution of gunpowder, gum arabic, and boiling water. RDX: An explosive material used in demolition and in the military. Reducing agent: In fireworks, chemicals that burn the oxygen produced by oxidizers. Two common reducing agents are sulfur and charcoal, two of the components of black powder. Rocket: Any of a variety of a cylinder-shaped objects propelled forward when their on-board combustible material is ignited. Roman candle: A series of stars, separated by gunpowder, shot high in the air.