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Thomas Kentish. The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; Or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks
The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; Or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks
Table of Contents
PREFACE
THE PYROTECHNIST'S TREASURY
ROMAN CANDLES
To Make a 5⁄8 Roman Candle
To Make a Roman Candle Star
To Damp Stars
To Make Lac Solution
To Make Wax Solution
To Make Stearine Solution
To Make Gum Solution
To Make Dextrine Solution
To Make Paste
Roman Candle Scoops
To Charge Roman Candle Cases
To Make Touchpaper
To Make Slowmatch
To Make Quickmatch
A New Method
ROCKETS
To Make a 6⁄8 Rocket
To Charge Rocket Cases
Rocket Stars
To Make Cut Stars
Dry Pill-box Stars
To Fill the Boxes with Dry Colour
Another Way
Bottomless Pill-boxes
Enveloped Stars
Rocket Heads
WHEEL AND FIXED CASES
GERBES
FLOWER POTS
PORT FIRES AND SHELL FUSES
TOURBILLIONS.[A]
To Make a Tourbillion
FOOTNOTES:
SAXONS
FIVE-POINTED STARS
SQUIBS
SERPENTS
PINWHEELS
CRACKERS
Leader Pipes
MAROONS
Another Method
GOLD AND SILVER RAINS
PEACOCK'S PLUMES
SAUCISSONS
PEARL STREAMERS
BLUE LIGHTS & STAR CANDLES, OR STAR LIGHTS
PRINCE OF WALES'S FEATHERS
LANCES
To Form a Device, Or Design
To Preserve Steel Filings, or Cast-Iron Borings
SHELLS
To Make the Shells
CYLINDRICAL SHELLS
ASTEROID ROCKETS
COMPOUND FIREWORKS
To Fire a Girandole of 100 Rockets at once
TOOLS
TO CONSTRUCT A STEELYARD SCALE
MONTGOLFIER BALLOONS
To Cut the Gores
To Join the Halves Together
To Paste Two Gores Together
To Paste the Pairs Together
To Make the Last Joining
To Wire the Balloon
WINGED ROCKETS
To Construct a Slot-Tube, or Rocket-Guide
LIST OF PRICES
CONCLUDING REMARKS
FUSES
INDEX
