Chapter I: Part II: I Simple Fireworks, Rocket Class 91

II Simple Fireworks, Shell Class 103

III Simple Fireworks, Mine Class 110

IV Simple Fireworks, Saxon and Lance Classes 116

V Compound Fireworks 121

VI Compound Fireworks (_continued_) 131

VII Firework Compositions 136

VIII Modern Firework Compositions 144

IX Military Pyrotechny 152

X Military Pyrotechny in the Great War 164

XI The Civil Use of Fireworks 175

List of the Principal Ingredients used in Pyrotechny at the
present time 181

Pyrotechnic Bibliography 182

Index 187

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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Firework Display at Quebec. From a drawing by C. M.
Padday _Frontispiece_

Six Coloured Japanese Prints of Fireworks manufactured
by Messrs. Hirayama of Yokohama 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Facsimile Title Page of John Bate’s “Second Booke,” 1635 16

A Display of the Earliest Type (_c._ 1650) 18

Set Piece of the Scenic Type 20

Firework Display at Nuremberg, 1650 22

Great Firework Display near Stockholm, 1669 24

Fireworks on the Thames, 1688 28

Firework Display given by the Duke of Richmond, 1749 30

Firework Temple at Vauxhall, 1845 36

Fireworks at Versailles, 1855, from a drawing by Gustav Doré 44

The Grand Whim for Posterity to laugh at, 1749 46

A Full-size Picture of the Jumma Musjid in Fireworks at }
the Crystal Palace, 1892 }
Firework Display for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi, } 50
January 3rd, 1903 }

A Crystal Palace Set Piece at the time of the South African War 52

Panorama of the Aerial Effects in the National Display at
Hyde Park, 1919 56

The Explosion at Madame Cotton’s Firework Factory, 1858 66

Programme of Experiments with Fireworks at Nunhead, 1872 68

Modern Firework Tools 72

Types of Modern Fireworks 90

Cracker Making 92

Rocket Manufacture, from Frézier’s “Feu d’Artifice,” 1747 94

Manner of making and representing Flowers, etc., in the Chinese
Fireworks, from the “Universal Magazine” of 1764 100

An Old Firework Bill:—Programme of Mr. Brock’s Superior Fireworks
at Ipswich, 1818 114

Rocket Charging } 116
Filling Roman Candles }

Types of Compound Fireworks:—Lattice Poles, Chromatrope,
Lattice Diamond 128

A Display ready for Firing, Dresden, 1899 134

Diagram illustrating the evolution of Pyrotechnic Composition,
showing their periods of use 140

Roman Candles—illustrating brilliance of aluminium compositions 150

The Late Wing-Commander Brock, R.N.A.S. 166

Smoke Float in action 168

Crystal Palace—By the light of a Magnesium Shell 178

End Papers:—Feu d’artifice a Versailles pour le Mariage du Dauphin.
Two displays from the original watercolour drawings by Morel
Torré, 1735