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• The mysteries of nature and art : in four severall parts, the first of vvater vvorks, the second of fier vvorks, the third of drawing, colouring, limming, paynting, graving, and etching, the fourth of experiments
  by: Bate, John
  Published: (1654)
• Artificial fire-works : 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 Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall 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 With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery
  by: Jones, Robert
  Published: (1766)
• New fire-works, at the Prospect Hotel, Hooper's Hill, Margate. Signior Hengler & Co. Artists in fire-works, of Vauxhall, inform the Nobility and Gentry of Margate, Ramsgate, and their environs, that they will exhibit a grand and brilliant display of fire-works, on Thursday evening next, the 7th August, 1800, In a far superior style to any yet displayed in this Place. order of firing. 1. Three Signal Rockets 2. Battery of Maroons 3. A Bengal Fire 4. The Grand Wheel of Boreas, in Blue, White, Green, and Brilliant Fires, surrounded with Brilliant Stars 5. A Grand Battery of Sofison Volland 6. A Horizontal Girandole Wheel, with Roman Candles and Mines 7 A Vertical Wheel in Brilliant Fire, in which will appear a Contact between the Sun and Moon 8. A Flight of Rockets 9. The Grand Star of Malta, in Four Mutations, in Radiant and Brilliant Angelic Pires 10. A Battery of Sofison Volland 11. A Grand Air Balloon 12. A Brilliant Sun, will change six times into at Brilliant Star, and finishes with a Brilliant Glory 13. Les Drous Ballanciers illuminated 14. A Flight of Rockets 15. A Grand Piece of Four Mutations; a Brilliant Sun; a double Etclioger, which forms more than a 100 Circles, and finishes in a fix'd Star 15. The whole to conclude with a Grand Piece of Mechanical Fire-Works, picturesquely displaying the Daemons of Envy in two Snakes opposed to two Butterflies, in their natural and variegated Colours, as drawn by a natural Historic Painter. This Piece is really moveable, and the Snakes will appear as if alive Admission One Shilling each Person. doors to be opened at six o'clock, and the fire-works to begin at nine. Tickets may be had at the Printing Office, Parade, Margate; and at the Bar of the Prospect Hotel. Letters or Orders directed for Signior Hengler, at his Office, facing the Free-Mason's Charity School, near the Obelisk, St. George's Fields, will be duly honored. In case of Bad Weather the Exhibition will be on the next Fine Evening following
  Published: (1800)
• The great art of artillery of Casimir Simienowicz : Formerly Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance to the King of Poland. Translated from the French, by George Shelvocke, jun. gent. Illustrated with twenty three copper plates
  by: Siemienowicz, Kazimierz
  Published: (1729)
• A description of the machine for the fireworks, with all its ornaments, and a detail of the manner in which they are to be exhibited in St. James's Park, Thursday, April 27, 1749, on account of the general peace, signed at Aix La Chapelle, October 7, 1748. Published by orde of His Majesty's Board of Ordnance
  Published: (1749)