CONTENTSSECTIONI.Of Salt-petre.Pag.1How to refine Salt-petre.2How to pulverise Salt-petre.3How to extract Salt-petre from damaged Gun-powder.ibid.Of Sulphur or Brimstone.5How to prepare Charcoal for Fireworks.6To make Artificial Camphor.7To make the Oil of Camphor.9Of Benjamin.10Of Gun-powder and its Original.11Of the Composition for Gun-powder of different Sorts.13To restore damaged Gun-powder to its proper Strength.16Of Silent-powder, commonly called White-powder.19To make Silent-powder.20To make Gun-powder of different Colours.21To make Gun-powder white.22To make Powder red.ibid.To make yellow Powder.23To make green Powder.ibid.To make blue Powder.23To make Pulvis Fulmanans or Thunder in a Room.24Sect.II.Of the Spur-fire.26The Composition for the Spur-fire.28Characters, or Significant Signs, for distinguishing the different Ingredients used in Fireworks.29How to meal Gun-powder, Brimstone, and Charcoal.31To prepare Cast Iron for Gerbes, white Fountains, and Chinese Fire.32Charges for Sky-rockets,&c.34For Rockets of four Ounces.ibid.For Rockets of eight Ounces.ibid.For Rockets of one Pound.ibid.For Sky-rockets in General.35For large Sky-rockets.ibid.For Rockets of a middling Size.ibid.Compositions for Rocket Stars.36For white Stars.ibid.For blue Stars.ibid.Coloured or variegated Stars.ibid.For brilliant Stars.ibid.For common Stars.37For tailed Stars.ibid.For drove Stars.ibid.For fixed pointed Stars.37Stars of a fine Colour.38Gold Rain for Sky-rockets.ibid.Silver Rain.ibid.For Water-rockets.39A sinking Charge for Water-rockets.40For Wheel Cases, from two Ounces to four Pound.ibid.A slow Fire for Wheels.42A dead Fire for Wheels.ibid.For standing or fixed Cases.ibid.For Sun Cases.43For a brilliant Fire.ibid.For Gerbes.44Chinese Fire.ibid.Charges for Tourbillons.ibid.For four Ounce Tourbillons.ibid.For eight Ounce Tourbillons.ibid.For large Tourbillons.45For Water Ballóóns.ibid.For Water Squibs.ibid.For Mine Ports or Serpents.46Port Fires for firing Rockets,&c.ibid.Port Fires for Illuminations.47For Cones or Spiral Wheels.ibid.For Crowns or Globes.ibid.For Air Ballóón Fuzes.ibid.Serpents for Pots des Brins.48For Fire Pumps.ibid.For a slow white Flame.ibid.For Amber Lights.49For Lights of another Sort.ibid.For a red Fire.ibid.For a common Fire.ibid.To make an artificial Earthquake.50A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Siemienawicz.52A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from M. F***.53A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Hanzelet.54A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Henrion.55A Table of Rocket Charges, taken from Saint Remy, with improvements by M. F***.56Remarks on the foregoing Tables.57Compositions for Stars of different Colours.60For Stars that carry Tails of Sparks.61Another sort of Stars, which yield some Sparks.62For Stars of a yellowish Colour.ibid.Stars of another Sort.63Of the Colours produced by the different Compositions.ibid.For a white Flame.64For a blue Flame.ibid.For a Flame inclining to red.65Of such Ingredients as shew themselves in Sparks when rammed in choaked Cases.ibid.How to make Cotton Quick-match.66Ingredients for the Match.68Sect.III.Of Sky-rocket Moulds.69A Table of Dimensions for Rocket Moulds, in which the Rockets are rammed solid.72Of Moulds for Wheel-cases, or Serpents.73How to roll Rockets and other Cases.74To make Tourbillon Cases.78To make Ballóón Cases, or Paper Shells.79Of the Method of mixing Compositions.82How to preserve Steel or Iron Filings.83The Method of driving or ramming of Sky-rockets,&c.85Of the Proportion of Mallets.90Of the Proportion of Sky-rockets, with the manner of heading them.91Of the Decorations for Sky-rockets.93A Table of Dimensions and Poise of Rocket-sticks.94The Method of boring Rockets which have been drove solid.96Of a Hand Machine used for boring of Rockets instead of a Lathe.99The Manner of making large Gerbes.101Of small Gerbes or white Fountains.103To make Paste-board and Paper Mortars.104Sect.IV.The Manner of loading Air Ballóóns.106Of Coehorn Ballóóns.108Of Coehorn Ballóóns.109Of Royal Ballóóns.110Of Royal Ballóóns.111Of eight Inch Ballóóns.112Remarks on Ballóóns.113Of eight Inch Ballóóns.115Of an eight Inch Ballóón.116Of a Compound ten Inch Ballóón.117Of a ten Inch Ballóón of three changes.118To make Ballóón.ibid.Of Tourbillons.120The Manner of making Mortars, for throwing Aigrettes and loading and firing the same.122The Manner of making, loading, and firing of Pots des Brins.125Of Pots des Saucissons.127To fix one Sky-rocket on the top of another.128Of Caduceus-rockets.130Of Honorary-rockets.131To divide the Tail of a Sky-rocket, so as to form an Arch when Ascending.133To make several Sky-rockets rise together, in the same direction, and equally distant from each other.134Of Signal Sky-rockets.135To fix two or more Sky-rockets on one Stick.136Of Sky-rockets without Sticks.140Of Rain-falls for Sky-rockets, double and single.141Of strung Stars.144Of tailed Stars.ibid.Of drove Stars.146Of rolled Stars.147Of Scrolls for Sky-rockets.148Of Swarmers or small Rockets.149Of the Cause of Sky-rockets rising.150Of Stands for Sky-rockets.151Of Girandole Chests for Flights of Rockets.152Of Serpents or Snakes for Pots des Aigrettes, small Mortars, Sky-rockets,&c.155Of Leaders or Pipes of Communication.ibid.Sect.V.Of Aquatick Fireworks.157Of Water Rockets.ibid.To make Pipes of Communication, which may be used under Water.159Of Horizontal Wheels for the Water.ibid.Of Mines for the Water.161Of Fire Globes for the Water.162Of odoriferous Water Ballóóns.164Of Water Ballóóns.166Of Water Squibs.167To represent a Sea-fight with small Ships, and to prepare a Fire-ship for the same.168To fire Sky-rockets under Water.172To represent Neptune in his Chariot.173To represent Swans and Ducks in the Water.175Of Fire-fountains for the Water.177Sect.VI.To make Crackers.179Of single Reports.180Of Marrons.181Of Marron Batteries.183Of Line Rockets.ibid.Of the different Decorations for Line Rockets.185Of Chinese Flyers.186Of Table Rockets.188To make Wheels and other Works incombustible.189Of single Vertical Wheels.190Of Horizontal Wheels.192Of Spirali Wheels.193Of Plural Wheels.194Of the illuminated Spiral Wheel.195Of the double Spiral Wheel.196Of Ballóón Wheels.197Of Fruiloni Wheels.198Of Port-fires for Illuminations.200Of common Port-fires.ibid.Of Cascades of Fire.201Of the Fire Tree.202Of Chinese Fountains.203Of illuminated Globes with Horizontal Wheels.205Of the Dodecaedron.207Of the Yew Tree of Brilliant Fire.209Of Stars with Points for regulated Pieces,&c.210Of the fixed Sun with a Transparent Face.211Of three Vertical Wheels illuminated, which turn on their Naves upon a Horizontal Table.214Of the illuminated Chandelier.216Of the illuminated Yew Tree.217Of flaming Stars with Brilliant Wheels.218Of Touch-paper for Capping of Serpents, Crackers,&c.220Of a projected regulated Piece of Nine Mutations.221To make a Horizontal Wheel change to a Vertical Wheel with a Sun in Front.234Of the Grand Volute illuminated, with a projected Wheel in Front.236Of the Moon and Seven Stars.239Of the double Cone Wheel illuminated.240Of Fire Pumps.242Of the Vertical Scroll Wheel.243Of Pin Wheels.244Of Fire Globes.246To thread and join Leaders, with the Method of placing them on different Works.247The Manner of placing Fireworks to be exhibited, with the Order of Firing.250