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... four years ago at Breslau . I have neglected none of these sources of information , but do not know that I have been able to learn much from them with which I was not previously acquainted . Gibbon's " Artillerist's Manual , " and Ben ...
... four years ago at Breslau . I have neglected none of these sources of information , but do not know that I have been able to learn much from them with which I was not previously acquainted . Gibbon's " Artillerist's Manual , " and Ben ...
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... fours , the stars in one may be all blue , in another crimson , in another green , in another white . Fit the foot , fig 9 , in the bottom of the case , put in a scoopful of clay , insert the rammer , fig . 4 , and jolt it till the clay ...
... fours , the stars in one may be all blue , in another crimson , in another green , in another white . Fit the foot , fig 9 , in the bottom of the case , put in a scoopful of clay , insert the rammer , fig . 4 , and jolt it till the clay ...
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... fours , & c . , to form a bouquet , or to be placed round a mine , jack - in - the - box , or devil - among- the - tailors , omit the touchpaper , and envelope the ... four equal parts , THE PYROTECHNIST'S TREASURY . 23 To Make Touchpaper.
... fours , & c . , to form a bouquet , or to be placed round a mine , jack - in - the - box , or devil - among- the - tailors , omit the touchpaper , and envelope the ... four equal parts , THE PYROTECHNIST'S TREASURY . 23 To Make Touchpaper.
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... Four inches . will burn about a quarter of an hour . Narrow tape , boiled in the solution , makes excellent slowmatch . TO MAKE QUICKMATCH . Put into a pan 1 lb. of grain - powder , or meal - powder ; pour upon it some thin hot starch ...
... Four inches . will burn about a quarter of an hour . Narrow tape , boiled in the solution , makes excellent slowmatch . TO MAKE QUICKMATCH . Put into a pan 1 lb. of grain - powder , or meal - powder ; pour upon it some thin hot starch ...
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... four strands . Divide it carefully into lengths of eight strands . This is not so easy a task as might appear . The best way is to act the reverse of a man spinning string . Divide the end of the cotton , say of sixteen strands , into ...
... four strands . Divide it carefully into lengths of eight strands . This is not so easy a task as might appear . The best way is to act the reverse of a man spinning string . Divide the end of the cotton , say of sixteen strands , into ...
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Antimony balloon Barytes bend bottom bradawl brass tube Calomel Charcoal charged Chlorate of Potash choked end cloth extra colour composition crackers Crown 8vo cylindrical damp Demy dextrine drive Edited envelope fasten fire fixed flat funnel gerbe glue gore grain powder half hoops horizontal Illustrations inch broad inch diameter inch thick inches long inches square iron JUSTIN MCCARTHY leader length mallet Meal powder middle mortar mouth nail naphtha Nitrate of Strontian Nitre Number Orpiment OUIDA ounce pasted paper piece of deal piece of double-crown piece of wood pinwheel pipe plaster of paris port-fire Portrait push quickmatch rammer Realgar right angles rocket roll roman candle round sash-tool saxons scoop screw sheet Shellac side slip spindle squibs Stearine stick string strip Strontian Sulphur Nitre Take a piece tenon touch-paper tourbillion triangular turned Vegetable black weight wheel WILKIE COLLINS wire
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