To see a Squib in Cassiopeia’s Chair!

A Serpent wriggling into Charles’s Wain!

A Roman Candle lighting the Great Bear!

A Rocket tangled in Diana’s train,

And Crackers stuck in Berenice’s Hair!

Ode to Madame Hengler, Firework-maker to Vauxhall
By THOMAS HOOD.

CONTENTS

[PART I]

CHAPTER

PAGE

[Introduction]

xiii

I

[The Origin of Pyrotechny]

3

II

[Pyrotechny in the East]

6

III

[Pyrotechny in Europe]

13

IV

[Pyrotechny in Europe (continued)]

23

V

[London Pleasure Gardens]

32

VI

[Fireworks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries]

39

VII

[Firework Manufacture]

57

VIII

[Modern Firework Manufacture]

69

IX

[Firework Accidents]

77

[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