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A practical manual that provides recipes, construction techniques, and safety guidance for producing fireworks and pyrotechnic devices. It covers compositions and methods for stars, roman candles, rockets, shells, tourbillions, gerbes, crackers, maroons, lances, and colour effects; procedures for making matches, quickmatch, and fuses; filling and charging cases; and building wheels, balloon bodies, and guiding tubes. The work also describes tools, scales, and firing arrangements, emphasizing reproducible mixtures, colour production, reliable ignition, and safer handling for both amateurs and experienced practitioners.
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