Pyrotechny) Defn: A firework which, while burning, is caused to revolve on an axis by the reaction of the escaping gases.
An artificial firework consisting of a cylindrical case of paper or metal filled with a composition of combustible ingredients, as niter, charcoal, and sulphur, and fastened to a guiding stick.
A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
Defn: A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.
Defn: An ornamental firework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
A kind of firework which gives a brilliant white illumination for signals, etc.
A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.
The chief beauty of any firework device consists in working to exact time.
Some of the prettiest balloon firework effects are those which do not light until they have separated from the balloon and fallen through a varying distance, according to your arrangement.
Firework cases are usually finished off with touch-paper, so that they may ignite immediately.
The prettiest balloon firework effects are those which are not lighted at the time when you let off your balloon, but which take fire apparently of themselves after the balloon has gained a considerable elevation.
Neatness of manufacture is of no account when brought to bear on a toy firework that, after a few moments of ascent, reveals itself to lookers-on merely as a patch of moving light.
An ornamentalfirework which turns round, when in the air, so as to form a scroll of fire.
Beneath his hands painting has become a matter of pure virtuosity, a marvellous, flaring firework that amazes and--leaves us cold after all.
In 1877 he painted the work which laid the foundation of his celebrity, "The Corpus Domini Procession at Chieti," a picture which rose like a firework in its boisterous, exhilarating medley of bright colours.
It will not be very advisable for the firework boy to make his own powder, but still it will not be amiss that he should know how it is prepared.
The following recipes will give the young firework maker a great variety of the most beautiful fires.
But when the Prince had cut his tooth, rejoicings were not only admissible but correct, and the eleventh of December was proclaimed firework day.
But the firework went on, banging and bursting and spluttering even underneath the table.
Just then a regular firework display of flares went up from the Boche line, and they opened a hot burst of machine-gun fire.
They looked for all the world like a huge firework display at the Crystal Palace.
They used to do ascensions with firework trimmings, didn't they?
The wire from the battery was connected with a firework bomb, which, when Tuxall pressed the switch, exploded, releasing a flaming 'dropper.
Tuxall planted a big rock under the barn, fixed it up appropriately with torch and chisel and sent for the Farleys, who are expert firework and balloon people, to counterfeit a meteor.
Every fool would then be a cosmogonic poet producing the firework of the universe under the dome of the infinite.
I received the above information from a very skilful firework maker belonging to the train of artillery, who had an opportunity of seeing the manner in which the trains were laid, and was present at the exhibition.
It was customary, in my memory, for the train of artillery annually to display a grand firework upon Tower-hill on the evening of his Majesty's birth-day.
For a minute, on the fiery background of the African sky, there was a dreadful firework display of scattered brains, smoking blood, and tawny hair.
The carpenters engaged on the firework stage were just then hammering at it violently.
The new sound from thefirework stage was regular and not loud.
But in many instances motion is imparted to the firework as a whole--to the case as well as to its contents.
The following is a brief description of some of the forms of firework most employed:-- Fixed Fires.
At Night the Houses were all illuminated, and a fine Firework was play'd off at the Castle of St. Angelo.
His assistance had been invoked and secured under the pretence that his clients were promoting an amateur firework display, which was true enough, but the display cost the lives of three men, and intentionally so.
I then sought out a most amiable and expert pyrotechnist, a capable workman of genius, who with his own hand makes those dramatic firework arrangements which you sometimes see in Paris.
A Gerb firework with two holes punctured, through which the bit of iron wire passes, and is wound round the battery wires tied to the outside of the case.
Some very amusing experiments with balloons have been devised by Mr. Darby, the eminent firework manufacturer, by which they are made to carry signals of three kinds, and thus the motive or ascending power may be utilized to a certain extent.
He remembered a firework at home, at Williamsburg, on the King's birthday, and afterwards looking at the skeleton-wheel and the sockets of the exploded Roman candles.
At night the city was illuminated, a firework display took place on the Castle Meadow, and the proceedings concluded with the lighting of a huge bonfire opposite the Shirehall.
In the evening the city was illuminated, a firework display was given, on Castle Meadow, and a bonfire lighted on St. James's Hill.
An explosion took place on the premises of Mr. George Coe, firework manufacturer, New Catton.
My fireworktakes the form of a bouquet of young ladies at some "ancestral home" in the country, who have just received a box of books from London--perhaps from Mudie.
Illustration] I've just tried to draw a firework in my pocket-book.
A man's heart is a firework that once in its time flashes heavenward.
About ten o'clock the same evening the most magnificent firework perhaps in the world begins to play from the castle of St Angelo.
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