Artificial fire-works : $b improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branchesJones, Robert
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Artificial fire-works : $b improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches
Jones, Robert
Fireworks -- Early works to 1800
1. Two signal rockets,
2. Six sky rockets,
3. Two honorary rockets,
4. Four caduceus rockets,
5. Two vertical wheels illuminated,
6. Two spiral wheels illuminated,
7. Two transparent stars,
8. A line rocket of five changes,
9. Four tourbillons,
10. Two horizontal wheels,
11. Two air ballóóns illuminated,
12. Two Chinese fountains,
13. Two regulating pieces of four mutations each,
14. Two pots des aigrettes,
15. Three large gerbes,
16. A flight of rockets,
17. Two ballóón wheels,
18. Two cascades of brilliant fire,
19. Twelve sky rockets,
20. Two illuminated yew-trees,
21. Two air ballóóns of serpents, and two compound,
22. Four tourbillons,
23. Two Fruiloni Wheels,
24. Two Illuminated Globes with Horizontal Wheels,
25. One Pot des Saucissons,
26. Two Plural Wheels,
27. A Marron Battery,
28. Two Chandeliers Illuminated,
29. A Range of Pots des Brins,
30. Twelve Sky Rockets,
31. Two Yew-Trees of Fire,
32. A Nest of Serpents,
33. Two Double Cones Illuminated,
34. A Regulating Piece of Seven Mutations, viz.,
1. A Vertical Wheel Illuminated,
2. A Golden Glory,
3. An Octagon Vertical Wheel,
4. Porcupines Quills,
5. Cross Fires,
6. A Star Piece with Brilliant Rays,
7. Six Vertical Wheels,
35. A Brilliant Sun,
36. A Large Flight of Rockets.
When water-works are to be exhibited, divide them into several sets,
and fire one set after every fifth or sixth change of land and
air-works; and observe this rule in firing in a double set of works,
always to begin with sky-rockets, then two moveable pieces, then two
fix’d pieces, and so on, ending with a large flight of rockets, or a
marron battery; if a single collection, fire a fixed piece after every
wheel or two, and now and then some air and water-works.
Fountain of Sky-Rockets.
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