A manual of pyrotechny

4. PORT FIRES.--This term is applied to paper tubes, filled with mealed powder, or a similar composition, and which is generally used in setting fire to rockets, or compound fir...

A great variety of forms may be given to this kind of fire-works. They are so called because they are generally made in the shape of wheels, with a nave and spokes radiating fro...

We now proceed to describe some of the various modifications which Rockets are susceptible of in their exhibitions; in which we shall endeavour to blend the most prominent featu...

Pounds. Calibre. Pounds. Calibre. Pounds. Calibre. 1 100 20 271 39 339 2 126 21 275 40 341 3 144 22 282 41 344 4 158 23 284 42 347 5 171 24 288 43 350 6 181 25 292 44 353 7 191...

This is effected by covering them with paste made of flower of sulphur, mixed up with thin starch, and afterwards rolling them in pulverized gunpowder, which will serve as a mat...

2. SULPHUR.--Sulphur is the next ingredient, in regard to importance, as being the most inflammable material we are acquainted with. It exists in three states, in all of which i...

This, however, would not be the case, unless the Rocket was pierced to a certain depth. A sufficient quantity of elastic fluid would not be produced; for the composition would i...

Having said thus much concerning the history and antiquity of this wonderful composition, it remains for us to describe the method by which it is now manufactured: but to retain...

The Introduction prefixed to the following little Manual supersedes the necessity of an extended Preface, and leaves little more to be mentioned than the design and occasion of...

Though fire and water are of very opposite natures, yet there are many fire-works, which will burn and produce their effect even when immersed in their opposite element; of thes...