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Title: Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

Author: Alan St. H. Brock

Release date: March 25, 2021 [eBook #64922]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

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Front Endpaper.
FEU D’ARTIFICE À VERSAILLES POUR LE MARIAGE DU DAUPHIN, 1735.
FROM A WATER-COLOUR DRAWING BY MOREL TORRÉ.
Copyright. Brock. Sutton]
[Frontispiece
Display at the Tercentenary Fetes, Quebec, July 23rd, 1908. The largest display ever fired in the Western Hemisphere. From a drawing by C. M. Padday.

PYROTECHNICS:
THE HISTORY AND ART
OF FIREWORK MAKING

BY A. St. H. BROCK, A.R.I.B.A.
WITH NUMEROUS COLOURED
AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON: DANIEL O’CONNOR
90 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1
MCMXXII
Dedicated
to the memory of
my brother
Wing-Commander
Frank Arthur Brock, R.N.A.S.
Killed at Zeebrugge
April 23rd, 1918
. . . . . . . . . . . be bright and busy
While hoaxed astronomers look up and stare
From tall observatories, dumb and dizzy,
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.