Memorial Day Weekend - Firing of the Anvil

Long standing tradition in Redwood City -- replacing the use of a cannon... Anvil firing (also known as an anvil launching or an anvil shooting[1]) is the practice of firing an anvil into the air with gunpowder.

Typically, two anvils are used: one as a base (placed upside down), and another one (also known as the "flier") as the projectile (placed right-side up, atop the base).[2] Alternatively, a single anvil can be fired from a stone base. The space formed by the anvil's concave base is filled with black powder (not modern gunpowders, which have much higher energy densities) and a fuse is made to project out. The fuse is lit, and the resulting deflagration (the rapid combustion of the powder rather than explosion) sends the projectile anvil hundreds of feet into the air.

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