Artificial fireworks, : improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecaedrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Pots Pumps Rain-Falls Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees, &c. With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gun-Powder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, corrected. With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and three large Copper Plates. By Captain Jones. Also, Mr. Muller's Fireworks, For Sea and Land Service, His Tables for Sea and Land Cannon, which may save above 100,000?. a Year, by diminishing the Weight of the Guns, the Labour of Men, the Quantity of Powder in charging, from 1-half to 1-3d, 1-4th, and even to 1-5th.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Robert, Captain.

Standardized Title:

New treatise on artificial fireworks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military fireworks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([6],193,[3]p.,plates ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Artificial fireworks,

Place of Publication:

printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall London

London : printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, MDCCLXXVI. [1776]

Notes:

With a final advertisement leaf.

Price from imprint: price 7s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T115793.

OCLC:

642296266