A.

Accension of glace inflammable, 40

Accension of spirit of turpentine, 51

Accension of phosphuretted hydrogen gas, 85

Accension, spontaneous, remarks on, 288

Acid of borax, use of, in fire-works, 227

Aigrette, pots of, 363
why so named, ibid

Air works, 347

Alcohol, 168
the flame of, how coloured, 20, 269
its compound with water, &c. 169
its use in fire-works, 168
its proof, or strength, how ascertained, 170
used in the preparation of fulminating mercury, ibid
burns without smoke, ibid

Alexander the Great, surprised with the effects of naphtha, 32, 153

Albertus Magnus, published an account of the ordeal by fire, 38
on the Greek fire, 98

Amadou; see Pyrotechnical sponge.

Amber, 156
used in odoriferous fire, 157
found in the United States, ibid
black; see Jet.

Ambergris, ibid

American Turtle, what, 515

Ammonia, muriate of, 184

Analysis of gunpowder, in what it consists, 140

Ancients, fire-works of the, 261
as exhibited in theatres, ibid
made chiefly in wooden tubes, 262
illuminated on birth days, 428

Anelzin, Constantine, supposed to have invented gunpowder, 99

Animal poisons, for what used, 568

Animalcula, 34

Anglesea, Island of, furnishes sulphur from copper pyrites, 80

Antimony, 188

Antioch, had some public lamps, note. 428

Anna Commena, her formula for Greek fire, 98

Aphlogistic lamp, 170
with camphor, 171

Aquatic fire-works, 21, 442

Aquafortis, 49

Archbishop of Magdeburg had nitre districts, 52

Arrow, poisoned, 567

Archbishop of Triers, granted privileges for searching for nitre, 53

Artifice of destruction, 267

Artificial nitre beds, 69

Artificial flower pot, 10

Artillery, how fired by sulphuric acid, 75
match, 471
rod, 474

Arsenic, sulphurets of, 187

Arrows, used to attract lightning, 31

Asbestus, or Amianthus, wicks of, 26

Ashes, wood, 192

Asphaltum, 155
used as a cement, ibid

Aurum Musivum, 200

Auger rammer, what, 238
size of, for boring rockets, ibid

Auget in mining, what, 551

Automatons of fire, 419

Aurora, composition for, 272

Azote, iodide of, a fulminating compound, 177
in nitre beds, furnished by animal matter, 70
quantity of, in nitric acid, 122
disengaged from gunpowder, ibid
quantity of, disengaged from powder, 123
exists in miasmata, 60
carburet of, in miasmata, 61
different combinations of, ib.


B.

Bacon, Roger, 98
received his knowledge of gunpowder, ib.
his work, containing the composition of powder, ib.
his opinion of the manner the Midianites were defeated, ib.
knew gunpowder before Schwartz, 99

Balls, incendiary, 92
smoke, 449
stink, ibid
poisoned, ibid
inflammable, 577
red-hot, 449

Balloon wheels, 394

Balloons of grenades, bombs and stone, 559
Coehorn, 351
Republican, 352
of serpents, 353
of crackers and marrons, 352
compound, ibid
eight-inch, &c. 353
ten-inch, &c. 354
observations on, 355
Table respecting, 356
Mortars for the charge of, ibid
fuses of, 354
composition for the, 358
cases for, 245

Barbadoes tar, 155

Barras, 148

Bar-Cochebra, the rabbi, his deceptions on the Jews, 31

Barrow's account of Asiatic fire-works, 255
the nitre caves of Africa, 58

Battle of the kegs, 523

Batteries of Roman candles, 406
Mosaic candles, ibid

Bavins, for fire-ships, 509
composition for, ibid

Beckman, his remarks concerning jugglers, 27

Bengal lights, 377

Benzoin, 161

Benzoic acid, ibid

Benzoin, why used in fire-works, 162
flowers of, ibid

Berard, his improvement in refining nitre, 67

Berthollet, proposed chlorate of potassa for gunpowder, 76
his fulminating silver, 174

Bergamot, the essence of, used in odoriferous flambeaux, 288

Bigot, his observations on rockets, 540

Bistre, how prepared from wood-soot, 146

Bitumen, elastic, 155
solid, ibid

Black, ivory, 90

Black lead, 209

Black amber, 157

Blue vitriol, 222

Blue stars, 18

Boat, plunging, 514

Bodington, invented a machine to prove powder, 139

Bologna phial, 214

Bones, charring of, 94

Bone and ivory, 220

Borello, his process for regeneration, 34

Bottle, phosphoric fire, 85

Bombs, howitzes and grenades, 487
tables respecting, 489
incendiary, of Ruggeri, 537
composition of, 556
where said to have been invented, 504
succouring, an account of Bell's, 544

Brass, 197

Brand, fire, 574

Brick, economical, 577

Brilliant stars, 18
fire, 271

Brins, pots de, 364

Brimstone, 78
roll, 80
how obtained, ib.
how to determine its purity, 83
flowers of, 82

Browning of gun barrels, 204

Browne, Dr. on nitre caves, 54, 55, 58

Bronze, 198

Brongniart's directions for refining saltpetre, 62

Brugnatelli's fulminating silver, 174

Bullock's blood, paste made with, 253

Burgundy pitch, 147

Burning barrel, 503
composition for the, 504

Byzantium, illumination of, 24


C.

Cabinet de composition, 235

Cadet, his mode of discharging guns, 477

Caduceus rocket, 341

Cagliostro, the imposter, 33
his pretensions to the miraculous, ib.
his phial, ib.
Cardan's account of his phial, ib.

Cæsalpinus, his comment on Aristotle, 34

Callinicus, the inventor of the Greek fire, 544, 548

Calamine stone, 195

Calcareous caverns mostly contain nitre, 54

Caligula, caused Rome to be illuminated, 24, 428

Camphor, 157
used in candle-making, 159
obtained from the Laurus Camphora, 158
crude, how refined, ibid
properties of, 158
use of, in fire-works, 160
the flame produced by, ibid

Candles, Roman, 380
cases for, and effect of, ibid
manner of charging the, ibid
manner of firing, ibid
Mosaic, 381
duration of, 439
light of, ibid
Ure's experiments on, ibid

Cannon, history of, 456
how originally made, 457
different kinds of, 459
opinions respecting, 458

Carbon, gaseous oxide of, 89
different combinations of, ib.
quantity in different coals, how ascertained, 151

Carbonic acid, 88

Carbonic oxide gas, 89

Carburetted hydrogen gas, ib.

Cartwright's fire-works, 20

Caromel, 165

Carbonate of Ammonia, 185
zinc, impure, 195
potassa, 189

Castera's Plunging boat, some account of, 514

Caprices, 400
cracking, 407

Cascades of fire, 404

Carney, M. his process for gunpowder, 110

Carcass rocket, 530

Carcasses, 492
how made, 493
table of the dimensions of, 494
uses of, 492
composition of, 494
a general rule for their preparation, 495
composition for covering, 496
how discharged from mortars, 497
inextinguishable, 493

Cartridges, 462
musket, 464
cannon, 467
used in seiges, what kind of, 466
cost of, in France, ibid
ball for, calculations respecting, 463
dimensions of the sacks for, 468
cannon, of what composed, ibid
table relative to, 469
Bigot's table on the charge of powder for, 471

Cases, when drove solid, observations on, 237
how distinguished by their diameters, ibid
charging of, without moulds, ibid
nipples for, ibid
when charged solid, how bored, 238
rolled wet, for wheels and fixed pieces, 244
for turning pieces, of what length, 245
for Roman candles, ibid
for serpents, ibid
for fixed stars, ibid
tourbillon, ibid
balloon, how made, ibid
for illumination port-fires, 246
lances, 247
for common port-fires, ibid
paper for, 250
paper, preferred to wooden tubes, 262
used by the Chinese, ibid
for reports, 301
for crackers, 300
for fire-pumps, 322
for scrolls, 344
priming of, 370
whitening of, ibid
standing and fixed, compositions for, 388

Catamarin, 514
invented by Fulton, ibid

Caves, nitre, of the United States, 54

Celsius, his writings against the Magi, 27

Cement, Japanese, 252

Cerasin, 219

Chained rockets, 342

Chaptal, his approval of Carney's process, 110
his observations on saltpetre, 67

Christians in the first century, illuminated, 24, 428

Charcoal, 87
accension of, by nitric acid, 51
from damaged gunpowder, 72
quantity of, for decomposing 100 parts of nitre, 96
used in fire-works, 87
decomposes nitric acid, ib.
nitrate of potassa, 96
properties of, 87
destroys the empyreumatic flavour of liquor, ib.
burns in oxygen gas, &c. 88
one of the constituents of gunpowder, 89
how made, 90
how made intensely black, 96
for gunpowder, how prepared, 94
wood used for making, 94

Charred pitcoal, 90

Chargers, 231

Characters, used in pyrotechny, 230

Champy, M. his process for gunpowder, 109

Changes, in sun pieces, how effected, 396

Chemical effects in fire-works, 2
changes, ib.

Chimnies, different modes of cleansing, 573
Smart's machine for, 574

Chinese fire, 19, 371
works, 255
preparation of the iron for, 201
composition of, as used in theatres, 265
for table works, 272
peculiar art of the, in making fire-works, 255
flyers, 303
cases for, ibid
how filled, ibid
use of, ibid
fountains, 405
paste, how made, 252
iron sand, different numbers of the, how made, 202
Incarville's account of the, 202

Chlorate of potassa, in fire-works, 7
accension by, 22
experiments with, ib.
how made, 74
composition of, 75
decomposed by combustibles, 75
and sugar, give fire with sulphuric acid, ib.
effects of, with charcoal and sulphur, 76
in lieu of nitre for gunpowder, ib.
serious accidents from, ib.
proportions of, for powder, ib.
powder made with, stronger than the common, ib.
powder of, experiments with the, ib.
for rockets, 77
how used to discharge cannon, 75

Choaker, 233

Choaking, how performed, 243
contrivance for, 244

Cicero, lamps lighted in honor of, 24, 428

Clay, uses of, in pyrotechny, 193
how prepared for use, 194

Cleaveland, professor, his notices of saltpetre caves, 54

Coal, 149
common, ibid
pit, ibid
component parts of, ibid
character of, ibid
what kind of, best for fire-works, ibid
surcharged with bitumen, how it burns, 150
American, ibid
use of, in the arts, ibid
kinds of, ibid
quantity of carbon in, how ascertained, 151
why used in fire-works, ibid
analysis of, ibid
origin of, 152

Coke, 90
ovens, 150

Coehorn balloon, 351
illuminated, ibid
of serpents, ibid
of crackers, ibid
compound, 352

Colophony, 147

Colours, how communicated, 19

Combustion, spontaneous, how occasioned, 323
accelerated or retarded, 1
produces new compounds, 2
products of, ib.
of metals, 4
of sulphur with nitre, 49

Common stars, 18

Compositions, remarks respecting particular, 9
how preserved, 235
sundry, for fire-works, tabular view of, 317
effects of particular, 367
for variations, for sun pieces, 396
to preserve the fuses of shells, &c. 485
for dipping curtains, bavins, &c. 511
for priming for fire-ships, ibid
for setting fire to fascines, ibid
for hoops, fire arrows, &c. ibid
for kitt, 512

Condensing syringe, 276

Courantines, or line rockets, 345

Constantius, alarmed at some feats by fire, 31

Constantinople, illumination of, 24
by order of Constantine, 428

Copal, 164

Cornelius, the Rev. Mr. his description of a nitre cave, 58

Corrosive sublimate, 186
use of, in fire-works, ibid

Cotton, 219

Counter-mines, 551

Crackers of fulminating silver, 173
how made for fire-works, 300
report of, how caused, ibid
Waterloo, 273

Crawfish, process for regenerating, 34

Cramer's experiments on the formation of nitre, 70

Cross-fire, what, 406

Crowns and globes, compositions for, 390

Cruikshank, his process for making fulminating silver, 174

Curtains, for fire-ships, 510

Cyanogen, 89

Cylinders, or rollers, 230

Cyphers in fire, how made, 324


D.

Dana, his remarks respecting vapour in combustion, 434

Dart, the inflammable, 574

Dead fire, for wheels, 389
light fuse, 485

Deceptions by fire, various, 30

Decorations for fire-works, 298, 425

Deflagration of nitre with crude antimony, 50

Delian problem, (note), 28

Deliquescent salts in nitre, 38

Desaguliers, his remarks concerning rockets. See Rockets.

Destruction, artifice of, 267

Detonation with nitre and phosphorus, 49

Detonations, sundry with chlorate of potassa, 75
sundry experiments to produce, 273

Detonating mixtures with phosphorus, 85
girdle, 274
powder from indigo, 177
tape, 274
oil, 179
works, 273
balls, 274
cards, 275

Devices, variously formed, 324

Diamond, pure carbon, 87

Dodecaedron, representation of, 403

Don Pedro, 99

D'Orval, his account of aquatic fire-works, 272

Dragons, in fire-works, exhibitions of, 266

Driver for charging large rockets, 233

Drying of powder, 112

Duponts, the Messrs. the character of their powder, 73

Dusting of gunpowder, 112

Dung of camels, used as fuel, 218


E.

Eau de cuite, 64

Eau forte, ib.