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Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

Chapter 2: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By Alan St. H. Brock
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A comprehensive survey traces the origins and evolution of fireworks, examining early uses in the East and Europe, their role in public entertainments and pleasure gardens, and changes through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explains manufacturing methods and safety practices, catalogs simple and compound devices (rockets, shells, mines, wheels and lances), and details pyrotechnic compositions and modern variants. Military applications and wartime developments are considered alongside civil display techniques, accidents and preventative measures. The volume includes technical diagrams, coloured illustrations, ingredient lists and a bibliography to support practical and historical study.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

 
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Firework Display at Quebec. From a drawing by C. M. Padday
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
A Display of the Earliest Type (c. 1650)
Set Piece of the Scenic Type
Firework Display at Nuremberg, 1650
Great Firework Display near Stockholm, 1669
Fireworks on the Thames, 1688
Firework Display given by the Duke of Richmond, 1749
Firework Temple at Vauxhall, 1845
Fireworks at Versailles, 1855, from a drawing by Gustav Doré
The Grand Whim for Posterity to laugh at, 1749
A Full-size Picture of the Jumma Musjid in Fireworks at the Crystal Palace, 1892
Firework Display for the Coronation Durbar at Delhi, January 3rd, 1903
A Crystal Palace Set Piece at the time of the South African War
Panorama of the Aerial Effects in the National Display at Hyde Park, 1919
The Explosion at Madame Cotton’s Firework Factory, 1858
Programme of Experiments with Fireworks at Nunhead, 1872
Modern Firework Tools
Types of Modern Fireworks
Cracker Making
Rocket Manufacture, from Frézier’s “Feu d’Artifice,” 1747
Manner of making and representing Flowers, etc., in the Chinese Fireworks, from the “Universal Magazine” of 1764
An Old Firework Bill:—Programme of Mr. Brock’s Superior Fireworks at Ipswich, 1818
Rocket Charging
Filling Roman Candles
Types of Compound Fireworks:—Lattice Poles, Chromatrope, Lattice Diamond
A Display ready for Firing, Dresden, 1899
Diagram illustrating the evolution of Pyrotechnic Composition, showing their periods of use
Roman Candles—illustrating brilliance of aluminium compositions
The Late Wing-Commander Brock, R.N.A.S.
Smoke Float in action
Crystal Palace—By the light of a Magnesium Shell
End Papers:—Feu d’artifice a Versailles pour le Mariage du Dauphin. Two displays from the original watercolour drawings by Morel Torré, 1735