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
Length of the fuze composition one inch one sixteenth; crackers of six
reports, ten. Gold rains, twenty. Two ounce cases drove with star
composition half an inch, and bounced two diameters sixteen. Two ounce
drove brilliant stars, two ounce drove blue stars, two ounce drove
coloured stars, two ounce drove tailed stars, large strung stars, and
rolled stars, of each an equal quantity, sufficient for the ballóón.
For a compound Ten-inch Ballóón.
oz. dr.
Meal powder 3 4
Corn powder 2 8
Powder for the mortar 12 8
Length of the fuze composition fifteen sixteenths of an inch; one
ounce cases drove and bounced three diameters, sixteen. Crackers of
eight reports, twelve. Four ounce cases drove half an inch with star
composition, and bounced two diameters, fourteen. Two ounce cases
drove with brilliant fire one diameter and a quarter, and bounced two
diameters, sixteen. Two ounce drove brilliant stars, thirty. Two ounce
drove blue stars, thirty. Gold rains, twenty. Silver rains, twenty:
after all these are put in, fill the remainder of the case with tailed
and rolled stars.
For a Ten-inch Ballóón of three Changes.
oz. dr.
Meal powder 3 0
Corn powder 3 2
Powder for the mortar 13 0
Length of the fuze composition one inch; the shell must be loaded with
two ounce cases, drove with star composition a quarter of an inch, and
on that one diameter of gold fire, then bounced three diameters; or
with two ounce cases first filled one diameter with gold-fire, then a
quarter of an inch with star composition, and on that one diameter and
a quarter of brilliant fire. These cases must be well secured at top
of the charge, lest they should take fire at both ends, but their
necks must be larger than the common proportion.
To make Ballóón Fuzes.
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