[FreePaul]

...a small, homemade device made up of household chemicals in a glass bottle.

Sounds like the things we made when I was a teenager although we tried to stay away from glass for the blowing up part.

[Steely Tom]

Sounds like the things we made when I was a teenager although we tried to stay away from glass for the blowing up part.

Yeah. Glass Coke bottle + Jetex pellet + plastic champaign bottle stopper. Loud boom. Lots of little pieces of broken glass flying through the air. Oh, and no BATF agents swarming over the neighborhood.

The joys of growing up in early-'70s America.