Artificial fireworks [electronic resource] : 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.
1776
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Artificial fireworks [electronic resource] : 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.
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New treatise on artificial fireworks
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London : Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall, MDCCLXXVI. [1776]
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[6],193,[3]p.,plates : ill. ; 8vo.
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With a final advertisement leaf.
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With a final advertisement leaf.
Price from imprint: price 7s. 6d.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009.
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English Short Title Catalog (ESTC), T115793
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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