Pyrotechny

PAGES PREFATORY REMARKS 1–10 General Requisites 11–14 Rockets, with Heads of Brilliant, Tailed, and Coloured Stars and Golden Rains 15–60 Roman Candles, with Brilliant, Blue, Gr...

But, notwithstanding all this improvement and progress, it is a remarkable fact that no work has been published in England upon this subject since the year 1830. We have not eve...

3. Having now cleared our way of these necessary preliminaries, we may at once proceed to speak of the manufacture of ROCKETS; first, of what a rocket is, and then of how it is...

Now let me tell you that the success of rocket compositions depends upon two things—the intimate union of their ingredients, and the fineness or coarseness of the charcoal. Such...

I may as well, however, introduce you to a simple piece of apparatus which will enable you to perform this operation much more comfortably and cleanly. I have a small wooden tra...

The stars of which I have at present spoken are only _for rocket purposes_; they are not to be used for Roman candles. Another plan is adopted with reference to these, and their...

First put into the case the first charge of gunpowder, and take care that this finds its way to the bottom of the case; drop in next the first star, _with its priming upwards_....

The next most simple combination is that which is called the Bouquet of Chinese Fire. It should be made with, at least, five cases, and will then be found very effective in its...

I must next suppose you to have three cases of the 1-oz. size ready filled and primed and papered. Before fastening these on your framework _take especial care that the one whic...

It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add that all the above compositions must be made up with the greatest exactness, and no ingredients must be used but such as are thoroughly...

We must first of all know how to make the cases. These are to be _of the quarter-pound size_. You will derive little advantage from adopting a larger size than this, and you wil...

Take, then, one of the strips of paper, cut as recommended above, and, pasting it all over on one side, roll it evenly round your former, having previously brushed a little past...

These colours are for the most part very rapid in their combustion, and therefore may be used in cases if you please. But as coloured fires for theatrical purposes are only requ...

This piece will be much better if it has a brilliant triangle, or double triangle, wheel in its centre. If a double triangle be used, it will begin first and last out through th...

It will be best to decide first of all which of these compositions you prefer, and to keep to that, remembering that five-pointed stars are never used singly, but only as parts...