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Thomas Kentish (pyrotechnist.) CONTENTS . PAGE ROMAN CANDLES : To Make a Roman Candle To Make a Roman Candle Star To Damp Stars . To Make Lac Solution To Make Wax Solution • To Make Stearine Solution I 5 7 To Make Gum Solution . To Make ...
Thomas Kentish (pyrotechnist.) CONTENTS . PAGE ROMAN CANDLES : To Make a Roman Candle To Make a Roman Candle Star To Damp Stars . To Make Lac Solution To Make Wax Solution • To Make Stearine Solution I 5 7 To Make Gum Solution . To Make ...
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... Roman Candle 185 Rocket Bursting Fire Starting Fire Wheel and Fixed Case Squib and Serpent 185 185 185 186 • 186 Pinwheel 186 Saxon 187 Five - Pointed Star 187 Spur - Fire , for Flower - Pots and Star - Candles 187 Tourbillion 187 ...
... Roman Candle 185 Rocket Bursting Fire Starting Fire Wheel and Fixed Case Squib and Serpent 185 185 185 186 • 186 Pinwheel 186 Saxon 187 Five - Pointed Star 187 Spur - Fire , for Flower - Pots and Star - Candles 187 Tourbillion 187 ...
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... room for the air to escape up the side , till it is full . If the lead is poured in rapidly , the confined air , expanding , jerks the metal B up , and may cause serious injury . A pound ROMAN CANDLES To Make a Roman Candle.
... room for the air to escape up the side , till it is full . If the lead is poured in rapidly , the confined air , expanding , jerks the metal B up , and may cause serious injury . A pound ROMAN CANDLES To Make a Roman Candle.
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... ROMAN CANDLE STAR . Take the former , fig . 1 , which , as said before , is 1 inch long ; have a cylindrical piece of turned wood , box , beech , or ma- hogany , fig . 2 , about 2 inches long , and of a diameter to just ... Roman Candle Star.
... ROMAN CANDLE STAR . Take the former , fig . 1 , which , as said before , is 1 inch long ; have a cylindrical piece of turned wood , box , beech , or ma- hogany , fig . 2 , about 2 inches long , and of a diameter to just ... Roman Candle Star.
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... ROMAN CANDLE SCOOPS . No species of fireworks require greater care in their construction than roman candles . In the first place the stars must be fierce , that they may light thoroughly : next , they must not be driven out with too ...
... ROMAN CANDLE SCOOPS . No species of fireworks require greater care in their construction than roman candles . In the first place the stars must be fierce , that they may light thoroughly : next , they must not be driven out with too ...
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Academy Notes bend blowing-powder bore bottom bradawl brass tube Calomel Charcoal charged Chlorate of Potash choke clay cloth extra colour composition copper crackers Crown 8vo cylindrical damp dextrine drive Edited Engravings Facsimile fasten fire fixed flat funnel fuse gerbe gilt edges gore grain powder grain-powder half hole inch broad inch diameter inches long inches square JUSTIN MCCARTHY lances leader length mallet match Meal powder meal-powder mortar mouth nail naphtha Nitre Number numerous Illustrations OUIDA ounce paper paste piece of deal piece of double-crown piece of wood pinwheel pipe plaster of paris Portrait quickmatch Realgar rocket roll roman candle round sash-tool scoop screw sheet shell Shellac side Sir NOEL PATON slip spindle squibs stars stick string strip Strontian Sulphur Nitre Sulphuret Take a piece tenon touch-paper tourbillion turned Vegetable black Vols volume wheel WILKIE COLLINS wire
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