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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 | [50] |
| Firework Display for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi, January 3rd, 1903 | [50] |
| 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 | [116] |
| 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 | |