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
SECTION I.
_Of Salt-petre._ Pag. 1
_How to refine Salt-petre._ 2
_How to pulverise Salt-petre._ 3
_How to extract Salt-petre from damaged Gun-powder._ ibid.
_Of Sulphur or Brimstone._ 5
_How to prepare Charcoal for Fireworks._ 6
_To make Artificial Camphor._ 7
_To make the Oil of Camphor._ 9
_Of Benjamin._ 10
_Of Gun-powder and its Original._ 11
_Of the Composition for Gun-powder of different Sorts._ 13
_To restore damaged Gun-powder to its proper Strength._ 16
_Of Silent-powder, commonly called White-powder._ 19
_To make Silent-powder._ 20
_To make Gun-powder of different Colours._ 21
_To make Gun-powder white._ 22
_To make Powder red._ ibid.
_To make yellow Powder._ 23
_To make green Powder._ ibid.
_To make blue Powder._ 23
_To make Pulvis Fulmanans or Thunder in a Room._ 24
SECT. II.
_Of the Spur-fire._ 26
_The Composition for the Spur-fire._ 28
_Characters, or Significant Signs, for distinguishing
the different Ingredients used in Fireworks._ 29
_How to meal Gun-powder, Brimstone, and Charcoal._ 31
_To prepare Cast Iron for Gerbes, white Fountains,
and Chinese Fire._ 32
_Charges for Sky-rockets, &c._ 34
_For Rockets of four Ounces._ ibid.
_For Rockets of eight Ounces._ ibid.
_For Rockets of one Pound._ ibid.
_For Sky-rockets in General._ 35
_For large Sky-rockets._ ibid.
_For Rockets of a middling Size._ ibid.
_Compositions for Rocket Stars._ 36
_For white Stars._ ibid.
_For blue Stars._ ibid.
_Coloured or variegated Stars._ ibid.
_For brilliant Stars._ ibid.
_For common Stars._ 37
_For tailed Stars._ ibid.
_For drove Stars._ ibid.
_For fixed pointed Stars._ 37
_Stars of a fine Colour._ 38
_Gold Rain for Sky-rockets._ ibid.
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