The pyrotechnist's treasury

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Put into a vial 1/2 an ounce of white wax, (bleached bees' wax), pour upon it 5 ounces of mineral naphtha, (coal or gas tar naphtha), keep it tightly corked.

Rockets are charged in choked cases, on a spindle, to leave a hollow up the middle, through which the fire may be communicated to nearly the whole of the composition at once: th...

A rocket, when starting, makes a roar; but this is not on account of the fierceness of the fuse, but of the extent of the surface ignited. Rocket composition, laid in a train, b...

Roll the case like a roman candle case, but gauge it to the thickness of a rocket case. Let the inner diameter be 6/8; the outer 9/8; the length of the case 7-1/4 inches, fig. 4...

The small strip may be used for odd purposes. Divide the 30 by 17 into 10 strips, each 3 by 17, for penny pinwheels. If the paper were cut the other way of the sheet, it would n...

These are little cases charged with white or coloured star composition. They should be of white or coloured double-crown paper, rolled dry on the squib former, and secured at th...

For the lance, or colour, roll the case of 3 thicknesses of writing paper, on a 5/8 former: it may be 2-1/2 or 3 inches long, and pasted all over. Turn a little wooden pulley, a...

Suppose a cubical tea-chest. In the top, bore ten rows of holes, ten in a row, with a centre-bit; the same in the bottom, in such a way that the bottom holes fall perpendicularl...

Native turpentine, the juice of trees of the fir tribe, of the consistency of honey, yields on distillation spirit of turpentine, called also oil of turpentine, and by painters...

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