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A
MANUAL
OF
PYROTECHNY;
OR,
A FAMILIAR SYSTEM
OF
Recreative Fire-Works.
BY G. W. MORTIMER.
Admotam rapiunt vivacia sulfura flammam.
Ovid.
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR W. SIMPKIN & R. MARSHALL,
STATIONERS’ HALL COURT, LUDGATE STREET.
MDCCCXXIV.
W. TYLER, PRINTER, 5, BRIDGEWATER SQUARE.
PREFACE.
The Introduction prefixed to the followinglittle Manual supersedes the necessity ofan extended Preface, and leaves little moreto be mentioned than the design and occasionof the work.
The design of it is to be a useful assistantto those who are fond of a rational andscientific amusement, and the occasion of itarises from the great scarcity and generaldifficulty of procuring any work on thesubject; none having appeared worthy ofnotice since that published by LieutenantRobert Jones, in 1760, and those by theFrench Artists mentioned in our Introduction.
In didactic particulars the Author hasoccasionally availed himself of the languageof the best writers, where such has been corroboratedby subsequent experience.
Perspicuity has been a particular objectthrough the work, and when technical terms[iv]have been used they are generally followedby familiar explications, and the Author feelsassured that the whole will be found perfectlyintelligible to every reader. To experiencedPyrotechnists this little work cannot be expectedto afford much additional information,yet to them it may contain some little particularsnot known to them before, whichfrom their practical utility it is hoped will proveacceptable.
The Author publishes this little work,with the desire that it may prove a usefulassistant to those who are unacquainted withthe principles of the art on which it treats.If in any way it should contribute to thispurpose, an apology for obtruding it uponthe Public will certainly be unnecessary.
January 1st, 1824.
CONTENTS.
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