36

Sword blades, how ornamented, 205


T.

Table, mealing, 234
fire, 271
works exhibited on, ibid

Table rocket, 272

Table-star, the illuminated, 273

Tape, detonating, 274

Tar, how obtained, 147
Barbadoes, 155
Morey's experiments with, 148

Tarred links, 500
how made, ibid

Tests, their use in discovering the presence of substances, 72

Thenard's formula for priming powder, 76

Thenard, respecting nitrous lixivium, 63

Theophilus, bishop, respecting the statues at Alexandria, (note.) 28

Thick stuff, of nitre boilers, 57

Thouvenal's opinion respecting nitre beds, 70

Thundering barrel, 504

Thunder bolts, in fire-works, 265
composition for, 266
various ways of imitating, (note.) ibid
accompanying the phantasmagoria, how imitated, (note.) ib.

Thus, 148
used in odoriferous fire, ibid
copallinum, 164

Tin, sheet, 206
plate, ibid

Tinder, 570

Tools and utensils, 228

Tophania, the female poisoner, 48

Torpedo, Fulton's, 521
principle of, ibid
precautions against, 522
fulminating silver used in the small, 173
used against the Plantagenet, 522

Touch paper, 21, 292, 294, 370

Tourbillons, theory of, 16
cases for, 245
how charged, ibid
common, 358
mosaic, ibid
character of, 359
mosaic, composition of, 360
table, 361
appendages to, ibid
directions for firing, ibid
common, another mode of making, ibid
composition of, for different calibers, 362
for half inch caliber, ibid
of various sizes, ibid
general rule respecting, 363

Torches, odoriferous, 289
compositions for, ibid
used in war, 501
how made, 502

Tourteaux, 500
for what used, ibid
goudronné of the French, ibid
how made, ibid
composition for, according to Bigot, ibid
according to the Strasburg formula, 501

Tow and hemp, 222

Towering rocket, 340
theory of the, 16

Transparencies, 425

Tubes, cannon, how inflamed by sulphuric acid, 22

Tunestrick, his wonderful performance, 34
his miraculous liquor, 35

Turpentine, 146
for what purpose used in fire-works, ibid
spirit of, how inflamed by nitric acid, 51
decomposes the nitrates, 146
a component part of the ancient Greek fire, ibid
obtained from different species of the Pinus, ibid
common, from the Pinus Sylvestris, ibid
composed of resin and volatile oil, 147
Spirit of, how obtained, ibid
Essential oil of, ibid
Venice, from the Pinus laryx, 147
made artificially, ibid
from the Pinus Maritima, ib.
spirits of, Morey's experiments with, 148

Turtle, the American, 515
invented by Bushnel, 516
intended to destroy shipping, ibid
outline of its construction, ibid
experiments with, 517
sergeant Lee's adventure with the, ibid

Turf, used in the place of spunk, 572
inflammability of, 152, 571
of morasses, some account of, ibid
Tacitus' account of, taking fire, ibid
Gmelin's observations on, ibid


V.

Vapour of water accelerates combustion, 432
preparation of, to form blue flame, ibid

Varnish, 164

Variegated stars, 18

Vase, the scented, 288
composition for the, ibid

Vegetable poisons, their use in poisoning of arrows, 568

Venice turpentine, 147

Versailles, fire-works at, in 1739, 257

Vinegar from wood, character of the, 93
quantity of the, ib.
apparatus for obtaining the, 95

Violet match, 325

Vitriol, blue, its use in fire-works, 222

Volcano of Lemery, 323
how made, ibid
theory of, ibid
exhibition of a, in China, 256

Volute, grand, 417


W.

Wand, Mercury's, 401
fire, 400

War-rockets, 526
of the Asiatics, 262, 529

Water-squibs, 448
fire-fountain, ibid
balloons, odoriferous, 446
compositions for, ibid
mines, 444
fire-works, 442
rockets, 18, 443
of ammonia, 185
casks, the use of charring, 87
how preserved at sea, ib.

Water, its presence in fire-works injurious, 8
weak, what, 64
strong, in nitre making, ib.

Waterloo crackers, how made, 273

Watson, the Bishop of Llandaff, his mode of examining gunpowder, 141

Waved fire, 418

Wax, artificial, for candles, 51

Wheels, 19

Wheel cases, manner of loading, 237

Wheels, how made incombustible, 240

Wheel cases, standing and fixed, composition for, 388

Wheels, slow fire for, 389
dead fire for, ibid
single, vertical, &c. 391
plural, 393
illuminated spiral, ibid
balloon, 394
fruiloni, ibid
pin, 395
composition for, ibid
horizontal, how changed to vertical, with a sun in front, 399
cone, double illuminated, 416
vertical, on a horizontal table, ib.
decoration of, 418
single, double, and triple table, 425
for water, horizontal, 444

White fire, composition for, 272, 580
flame lances, 315
composition of the, ib.
iron of the French, what, 206
pitch, 147
Stars, 18

Whitening of cases, 370

Whirling serpents, 338

Wicks, lamp, of amianthus, 26
Kircher's, ib.

Wild fire, 492

Will-with-the-Wisp, 85

Wings, 406

Women, Roman, their custom with fire, 37

Wood, charred, 90
carbonization of, how performed, ib.
improved process for the, 91
kinds of, for making charcoal for gunpowder, 94
light, for gunpowder, ib.
heavy, or hard, when used, ib.
raspings of, used in fire-works, 163, 216
distillation of, 217
bronzing of, 242
ashes of, used in fire-works, 192
tubes of, used by the ancients in fire-works, 262
how preserved from the weather, 265
how made incombustible, 241
colouring of, how performed, ibid

Woolf, Arthur, his steam apparatus, 119

Wootz, 209

Worcester, the Marquis of, his destructive machines, 525

Works, detonating, 273

Workshop for artificers, 235

Wrought iron, 206


X.

Xenophon, his account of ancient jugglers, 23


Y.

Yew tree, illuminated, 402

Yellow fever, supposed cause of, 61


Z.

Zoroaster, the followers of, in Persia, 386
sacred fire of the, ibid

Zinc, 196