T.

Lieutenant Timms
Lieutenant Thomas
Mr. David Thomas
Zachariah Taylor, Esq;

V.

Mr. George Villeneuve.

W.

Major General Williamson
Lieutenant-Colonel Walsh
Major Wrightson
Captain Wilkie
Captain Williamson
Captain Walker
Lieutenant Williams
—— Lieutenant Williams
John Willis, Esq;
—— Ward Esq;
John Westrope, Esq;
Richard Stranton Wilmot, Esq;
Mr. Wise.

CONTENTS
SECTION I.
Of Salt-petre.Pag. [1]
How to refine Salt-petre.[2]
How to pulverise Salt-petre.[3]
How to extract Salt-petre from damaged Gun-powder.[ibid.]
Of Sulphur or Brimstone.[5]
How to prepare Charcoal for Fireworks.[6]
To make Artificial Camphor.[7]
To make the Oil of Camphor.[9]
Of Benjamin.[10]
Of Gun-powder and its Original.[11]
Of the Composition for Gun-powder of different Sorts.[13]
To restore damaged Gun-powder to its proper Strength.[16]
Of Silent-powder, commonly called White-powder.[19]
To make Silent-powder.[20]
To make Gun-powder of different Colours.[21]
To make Gun-powder white.[22]
To make Powder red.[ibid.]
To make yellow Powder.[23]
To make green Powder.[ibid.]
To make blue Powder.[23]
To make Pulvis Fulmanans or Thunder in a Room.[24]
Sect. II.
Of the Spur-fire.[26]
The Composition for the Spur-fire.[28]
Characters, or Significant Signs, for distinguishing the different Ingredients used in Fireworks.[29]
How to meal Gun-powder, Brimstone, and Charcoal.[31]
To prepare Cast Iron for Gerbes, white Fountains, and Chinese Fire.[32]
Charges for Sky-rockets, &c.[34]
For Rockets of four Ounces.[ibid.]
For Rockets of eight Ounces.[ibid.]
For Rockets of one Pound.[ibid.]
For Sky-rockets in General.[35]
For large Sky-rockets.[ibid.]
For Rockets of a middling Size.[ibid.]
Compositions for Rocket Stars.[36]
For white Stars.[ibid.]
For blue Stars.[ibid.]
Coloured or variegated Stars.[ibid.]
For brilliant Stars.[ibid.]
For common Stars.[37]
For tailed Stars.[ibid.]
For drove Stars.[ibid.]
For fixed pointed Stars.[37]
Stars of a fine Colour.[38]
Gold Rain for Sky-rockets.[ibid.]
Silver Rain.[ibid.]
For Water-rockets.[39]
A sinking Charge for Water-rockets.[40]
For Wheel Cases, from two Ounces to four Pound.[ibid.]
A slow Fire for Wheels.[42]
A dead Fire for Wheels.[ibid.]
For standing or fixed Cases.[ibid.]
For Sun Cases.[43]
For a brilliant Fire.[ibid.]
For Gerbes.[44]
Chinese Fire.[ibid.]
Charges for Tourbillons.[ibid.]
For four Ounce Tourbillons.[ibid.]
For eight Ounce Tourbillons.[ibid.]
For large Tourbillons.[45]
For Water Ballóóns.[ibid.]
For Water Squibs.[ibid.]
For Mine Ports or Serpents.[46]
Port Fires for firing Rockets, &c.[ibid.]
Port Fires for Illuminations.[47]
For Cones or Spiral Wheels.[ibid.]
For Crowns or Globes.[ibid.]
For Air Ballóón Fuzes.[ibid.]
Serpents for Pots des Brins.[48]
For Fire Pumps.[ibid.]
For a slow white Flame.[ibid.]
For Amber Lights.[49]
For Lights of another Sort.[ibid.]
For a red Fire.[ibid.]
For a common Fire.[ibid.]
To make an artificial Earthquake.[50]
A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Siemienawicz.[52]
A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from M. F***.[53]
A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Hanzelet.[54]
A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Henrion.[55]
A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Saint Remy, with improvements by M. F***.[56]
Remarks on the foregoing Tables.[57]
Compositions for Stars of different Colours.[60]
For Stars that carry Tails of Sparks.[61]
Another sort of Stars, which yield some Sparks.[62]
For Stars of a yellowish Colour.[ibid.]
Stars of another Sort.[63]
Of the Colours produced by the different Compositions.[ibid.]
For a white Flame.[64]
For a blue Flame.[ibid.]
For a Flame inclining to red.[65]
Of such Ingredients as shew themselves in Sparks when rammed in choaked Cases.[ibid.]
How to make Cotton Quick-match.[66]
Ingredients for the Match.[68]
Sect. III.
Of Sky-rocket Moulds.[69]
A Table of Dimensions for Rocket Moulds, in which the Rockets are rammed solid.[72]
Of Moulds for Wheel-cases, or Serpents.[73]
How to roll Rockets and other Cases.[74]
To make Tourbillon Cases.[78]
To make Ballóón Cases, or Paper Shells.[79]
Of the Method of mixing Compositions.[82]
How to preserve Steel or Iron Filings.[83]
The Method of driving or ramming of Sky-rockets, &c.[85]
Of the Proportion of Mallets.[90]
Of the Proportion of Sky-rockets, with the manner of heading them.[91]
Of the Decorations for Sky-rockets.[93]
A Table of Dimensions and Poise of Rocket-sticks.[94]
The Method of boring Rockets which have been drove solid.[96]
Of a Hand Machine used for boring of Rockets instead of a Lathe.[99]
The Manner of making large Gerbes.[101]
Of small Gerbes or white Fountains.[103]
To make Paste-board and Paper Mortars.[104]
Sect. IV.
The Manner of loading Air Ballóóns.[106]
Of Coehorn Ballóóns.[108]
Of Coehorn Ballóóns.[109]
Of Royal Ballóóns.[110]
Of Royal Ballóóns.[111]
Of eight Inch Ballóóns.[112]
Remarks on Ballóóns.[113]
Of eight Inch Ballóóns.[115]
Of an eight Inch Ballóón.[116]
Of a Compound ten Inch Ballóón.[117]
Of a ten Inch Ballóón of three changes.[118]
To make Ballóón.[ibid.]
Of Tourbillons.[120]
The Manner of making Mortars, for throwing Aigrettes and loading and firing the same.[122]
The Manner of making, loading, and firing of Pots des Brins.[125]
Of Pots des Saucissons.[127]
To fix one Sky-rocket on the top of another.[128]
Of Caduceus-rockets.[130]
Of Honorary-rockets.[131]
To divide the Tail of a Sky-rocket, so as to form an Arch when Ascending.[133]
To make several Sky-rockets rise together, in the same direction, and equally distant from each other.[134]
Of Signal Sky-rockets.[135]
To fix two or more Sky-rockets on one Stick.[136]
Of Sky-rockets without Sticks.[140]
Of Rain-falls for Sky-rockets, double and single.[141]
Of strung Stars.[144]
Of tailed Stars.[ibid.]
Of drove Stars.[146]
Of rolled Stars.[147]
Of Scrolls for Sky-rockets.[148]
Of Swarmers or small Rockets.[149]
Of the Cause of Sky-rockets rising.[150]
Of Stands for Sky-rockets.[151]
Of Girandole Chests for Flights of Rockets.[152]
Of Serpents or Snakes for Pots des Aigrettes, small Mortars, Sky-rockets, &c.[155]
Of Leaders or Pipes of Communication.[ibid.]
Sect. V.
Of Aquatick Fireworks.[157]
Of Water Rockets.[ibid.]
To make Pipes of Communication, which may be used under Water.[159]
Of Horizontal Wheels for the Water.[ibid.]
Of Mines for the Water.[161]
Of Fire Globes for the Water.[162]
Of odoriferous Water Ballóóns.[164]
Of Water Ballóóns.[166]
Of Water Squibs.[167]
To represent a Sea-fight with small Ships, and to prepare a Fire-ship for the same.[168]
To fire Sky-rockets under Water.[172]
To represent Neptune in his Chariot.[173]
To represent Swans and Ducks in the Water.[175]
Of Fire-fountains for the Water.[177]
Sect. VI.
To make Crackers.[179]
Of single Reports.[180]
Of Marrons.[181]
Of Marron Batteries.[183]
Of Line Rockets.[ibid.]
Of the different Decorations for Line Rockets.[185]
Of Chinese Flyers.[186]
Of Table Rockets.[188]
To make Wheels and other Works incombustible.[189]
Of single Vertical Wheels.[190]
Of Horizontal Wheels.[192]
Of Spirali Wheels.[193]
Of Plural Wheels.[194]
Of the illuminated Spiral Wheel.[195]
Of the double Spiral Wheel.[196]
Of Ballóón Wheels.[197]
Of Fruiloni Wheels.[198]
Of Port-fires for Illuminations.[200]
Of common Port-fires.[ibid.]
Of Cascades of Fire.[201]
Of the Fire Tree.[202]
Of Chinese Fountains.[203]
Of illuminated Globes with Horizontal Wheels.[205]
Of the Dodecaedron.[207]
Of the Yew Tree of Brilliant Fire.[209]
Of Stars with Points for regulated Pieces, &c.[210]
Of the fixed Sun with a Transparent Face.[211]
Of three Vertical Wheels illuminated, which turn on their Naves upon a Horizontal Table.[214]
Of the illuminated Chandelier.[216]
Of the illuminated Yew Tree.[217]
Of flaming Stars with Brilliant Wheels.[218]
Of Touch-paper for Capping of Serpents, Crackers, &c.[220]
Of a projected regulated Piece of Nine Mutations.[221]
To make a Horizontal Wheel change to a Vertical Wheel with a Sun in Front.[234]
Of the Grand Volute illuminated, with a projected Wheel in Front.[236]
Of the Moon and Seven Stars.[239]
Of the double Cone Wheel illuminated.[240]
Of Fire Pumps.[242]
Of the Vertical Scroll Wheel.[243]
Of Pin Wheels.[244]
Of Fire Globes.[246]
To thread and join Leaders, with the Method of placing them on different Works.[247]
The Manner of placing Fireworks to be exhibited, with the Order of Firing.[250]
CONTENTS to the Additions.
PAGE
To make a Fountain of Sky Rockets[253]
The Palm Tree[255]
The Rose Piece and Sun[256]
Transparent Stars with Illuminated Rays[256]
Transparent Table Star Illuminated[257]
Regulated, Illuminated Spiriti Piece, with a projected Star Wheel Illuminated[258]
New Figure Piece illuminated with five pointed Stars[259]
Star Wheel Illuminated[259]
Pyramid of Flower-pots[259]
Illuminated Regulating Pieces[260]
To fix a Sky-Rocket with its Stick on the top of another [261]
New method of placing Leaders[262]

ERRATA.