Vert de gris, 129 Vertical wheels, 121, 131 Very signal lights, 164, 171, 172 Vesuvius, 50 Victoria Park, 43 „ Queen, Coronation of, 41 „ „ Portrait of, 51 „ „ Visit to Paris Exhibition, 43 Vienna, 23 “Village Blacksmith, The,” 52 Volcano, 9 Wadd, 103 Walcheren Expedition, 160 Wallis, Admiral Sir Provo, 49 Walpole, 29, 30 War inventions, 165 „ rockets, 158, 159 Warman, 34 Warsaw, 162 Warwick, Earl of, 18 Water fireworks, 24, 28, 39, 101 Waterloo, 160 “Weekly Journal, Read’s,” 157 Weinerisch-Neustadt, 161 Wheel, block, 118 „ brilliant, 30 „ catherine, 118, 119 „ double triangle, 131 „ hundred-feet, 55 „ pin, 118 „ rocket, 122 „ saxon, 131 Wheels, 41, 121, 131 „ fire, 122 „ horizontal, 26, 121, 133 „ revolving, 44 „ triangle, 131 „ vertical, 26, 121, 131 Whistler, 96 White Conduit House, 37 White Star Line, 174 Whitehall, 27, 28 Wicks, Major, 172 Wild fire, 16 William IV, Coronation of, 41 Windmills, 131 Woolwich Arsenal, 43 „ Royal Laboratory, 159 Worcester Cathedral, 50 Wordsworth, 40 Yalu, Battle of the, 49 Yellow orpiment smoke, 172 Yorkshire Stingo Gardens, 37 Ypres display, 21 Yron scales, 96 Zinc, 142, 146 Zud-Amerika Lyn, 173 [Decoration] THE WESTMINSTER PRESS HARROW ROAD LONDON [Illustration: FEU D’ARTIFICE À VERSAILLES POUR LE MARIAGE DU DAUPHIN, 1735. FROM A WATER-COLOUR DRAWING BY MOREL TORRÉ. _Back Endpaper._] Transcriber’s Notes: - Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). - Blank pages have been removed. - Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. - All errata have been applied.