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Alan St. H. Brock. Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I
CHAPTER I. THE ORIGIN OF PYROTECHNY
CHAPTER II. PYROTECHNY IN THE EAST
CHAPTER III. PYROTECHNY IN EUROPE
CHAPTER IV. PYROTECHNY IN EUROPE (continued)
CHAPTER V. THE LONDON PLEASURE GARDENS
CHAPTER VI. FIREWORKS IN THE NINETEENTH & TWENTIETH CENTURIES
CHAPTER VII. FIREWORK MANUFACTURE
CHAPTER VIII. MODERN FIREWORK MANUFACTURE
CHAPTER IX. FIREWORK ACCIDENTS
PART II
CHAPTER I. SIMPLE FIREWORKS—ROCKET CLASS
CHAPTER II. SIMPLE FIREWORKS—SHELL CLASS
CHAPTER III. SIMPLE FIREWORKS—MINE CLASS
CHAPTER IV. SIMPLE FIREWORKS—SAXON & LANCE CLASSES
CHAPTER V. COMPOUND FIREWORKS
CHAPTER VI. COMPOUND FIREWORKS (continued)
CHAPTER VII. FIREWORK COMPOSITIONS
CHAPTER VIII. MODERN FIREWORK COMPOSITIONS
CHAPTER IX. MILITARY PYROTECHNY
CHAPTER X. MILITARY PYROTECHNY IN THE GREAT WAR
CHAPTER XI. THE CIVIL USE OF FIREWORKS
LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL INGREDIENTS USED IN. PYROTECHNY AT THE PRESENT TIME
PYROTECHNIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Alan St. H. Brock
The History and Art of Firework Making
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In Siam it is a custom, and one apparently of considerable antiquity, to celebrate certain religious festivals with firework displays. These displays take place in the day-time, and take the form of discharges of rockets, some of which are of very large size; a writer giving their length, exclusive of the stick, as from 8 ft. to 10 ft. The case is composed of a section of bamboo bound with string. The composition consists of coarse native powder, of which from 20 lbs. to 30 lbs. is often used in one case. The rocket stick, which is of bamboo, varying from 20 ft. to 40 ft. in length, is gaily decorated with coloured paper and tinsel and fitted with bamboo whistles. A rough scaffold is erected from which to fire the rockets, and according to those who have witnessed such exhibitions, considerable altitudes are reached by the rockets in flight. As may be expected with such crude methods, mishaps are of frequent occurrence.
This exhibition seems to have given James a taste for fireworks, and one at least of the Danish artists appears to have remained in this country, as some months after James had a display carried out by “a Dane, two Dutchmen, and Sir Thomas Challoner.”
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