Hardcover. Red cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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For conditions, please view photographs. A nice clean copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. This book was for many years Lang’s firework Bible from which the people of Cambridge regularly benefited from Lang’s magnificent firework displays. 

Contents – 1. The History of Fireworks 1 – 2. Firework Materials 25 – 3. General Pyrotechnic Principles 53 – 4. Mixing and Charging 63 – 5. Containers 75 – 6. Stars 85 – 7. Colored Fires, Bengals, Lances, Portfires, Torches 97 – 8. Roman Candles, Comets, Mines 109 – 9. Noisemakers 119 – 10. Rockets 125 – 11. Drivers, Saxons, Tourbillions 135 – 12. Shells 143 – 13. Gerbs, Fountains, Rains, Squibs, Cones 159 – 14. Pinwheels and Crackers 167 – 15. Indoor Fireworks 173 – 16. Fuses, Quickmatch 181 – 17. Smoke 187 – 18. Exhibition Fireworks 193 – 19. The Manufacturing Processes of Firework Composition 205 – References 269 – Index 271 –