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[Wellcome MS Sinhalese 388].
Date: 19th century- Pictures
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A green field littered with a variety of figures with fireworks representing a celebration of Canberra's gay and lesbian community by the AIDS Action Council and Department of Health and Community Care. Colour lithograph by Kath McCann, 1995.
Date: '95[1995]Reference: 669762i- Pictures
A man and two children are standing on the steps outside a house, the little girl has a sparkler in her hand and looks startled by it and the boy holds other fireworks in his hand. Wood engraving by H. Beard.
Reference: 29096i- Books
Dr William H. Browne M.A.; PhD.; LRCP; LRCS : (pyrotechnist) / Ken Authrey (pseud.).
Jackson, L. A.Date: 1994- Audio
Frank Rowntree recordings. Reel 66.
Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
Leclerc, le Sieur
Leclerc, le SieurDate: 1693Reference: MS.3208- Books
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Artificial fire-works, improved to the modern practice, from the minutest to the highest branches; Containing Aigrettes Amber-Lights Balloons Batteries Chinese Fire-Ships Cohorns Cones Crackers Cascades Dodecadrons Ducks Earthquakes Flights Flyers Fountains Gerbes Globes Gold-Rain Grand Volutes Leaders Lights Mines Matches Mortars Marrons Moons Neptune's Chariot Potts Pumps Rain-Fall Rockets Sea-Fights Silver-Rain Spur-Fire Squibs Stars Sky-Rockets Swans Swarms Thunder in Rooms Towering-Rockets, double and single Tourbillons Trees Water Fire-Works Wheels Yew-Trees With all their Ingredients, Compositions, Preparations, Machines, Moulds, and Manner to make them, refining Salt-Petre, and to extract it from damaged Gunpowder, &c. With about 100 of the principal Figures beautifully engraved on Copper Plates. The second edition, With the Addition of many new and beautiful Fire-Works, and 3 large Copper-Plates. By Robert Jones, Lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery.
Jones, Robert, Captain.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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La pirotechnia, o sia trattato dei fuochi d'artificio / Di Giuseppe Antonio Alberti Bolognese.
Alberti, Giuseppe Antonio, 1712-1768.Date: 1749- Archives and manuscripts
Variétés diverses compositions pour les arts
Date: Late 18th centuryReference: MS.4909- Archives and manuscripts
Firework (artwork)
Date: 1973Reference: PP/RSI/B/1/1/11/3Part of: Rita Simon Collection- Books
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La pyrothecnie [sic] pratique, ou dialogues entre un amateur des feux d'artifice, pour le spectacle, et un jeune homme curieux de s'en instruire.
Date: 1780- Books
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Metallurgiae pyrotechnicae, et docimasiae metallicae fundamenta ... / Eruditis placide disquirenda exhibet Joh. Christianus Fritschius.
Fritsch, Johann Christian, -1735.Date: [1700]- Books
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A description of the royal fireworks : prepared for celebrating the universal joy, for the inestimable blessing afforded by God to the King, Queen, and people of these realms, in the happy birth of the most illustrious Prince of Wales, presented on the Thames over-againts White-hall, on Tuesday night the 17th of July, 1688, before both their Majesties, the Queen Dowager, the Prince and Princess of Denmark, and the whole court.
Date: [1688]- Audio
Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 6, Reels 66-80.
Date: 1972- Archives and manuscripts
Wholesale Chemist and Druggist's Formula Book, 19th century
Date: early 19th centuryReference: MS.8751- Audio
Frank Rowntree compilation recordings. Part 5, Reels 81-97.
Date: 1972- Digital Images
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Human chromosomes in a cancer cell
Paul J.Smith &Rachel Errington- Books
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Mathematical recreations: or, a collection of many problems extracted out of the ancient and modern philosophers: as, secrets and experiments in arithmetick, geometry, cosmography, horologiography ... &c. ... / Written first in Greek and Latin, lately compil'd in French by Henry van Etten [pseud.], and now in English ... Whereunto is added the description and use of the double horizontal dyal, and the general horological ring: invented and written by William Oughtred.
Leurechon, Jean, 1591-1670.Date: 1674- Books
Pirotechnia / del Signor Vannvccio Biringvccio Senese, nella quale si tratta non solo della diuersità delle minere ma anco di quanto si ricerca alla pratica di esse, e che s'appartiene al l'arte della fusione, ò getto de metalli. Far campane, artigliarie, fuochi artificiati, & altre diuerse cose vtilissime.
Biringucci, Vannoccio, 1480-1539?Date: [1678]- Books
Traité des feux d'artifice pour la spectacle / [Amédée François Frézier].
Frézier, Amédée François, 1682-1773.Date: 1747- Books
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New fire-works, at the Prospect Hotel, Hooper's Hill, Margate. Signior Hengler & Co. Artists in fire-works, of Vauxhall, inform the Nobility and Gentry of Margate, Ramsgate, and their environs, that they will exhibit a grand and brilliant display of fire-works, on Thursday evening next, the 7th August, 1800, In a far superior style to any yet displayed in this Place. order of firing. 1. Three Signal Rockets 2. Battery of Maroons 3. A Bengal Fire 4. The Grand Wheel of Boreas, in Blue, White, Green, and Brilliant Fires, surrounded with Brilliant Stars 5. A Grand Battery of Sofison Volland 6. A Horizontal Girandole Wheel, with Roman Candles and Mines 7 A Vertical Wheel in Brilliant Fire, in which will appear a Contact between the Sun and Moon 8. A Flight of Rockets 9. The Grand Star of Malta, in Four Mutations, in Radiant and Brilliant Angelic Pires 10. A Battery of Sofison Volland 11. A Grand Air Balloon 12. A Brilliant Sun, will change six times into at Brilliant Star, and finishes with a Brilliant Glory 13. Les Drous Ballanciers illuminated 14. A Flight of Rockets 15. A Grand Piece of Four Mutations; a Brilliant Sun; a double Etclioger, which forms more than a 100 Circles, and finishes in a fix'd Star 15. The whole to conclude with a Grand Piece of Mechanical Fire-Works, picturesquely displaying the Daemons of Envy in two Snakes opposed to two Butterflies, in their natural and variegated Colours, as drawn by a natural Historic Painter. This Piece is really moveable, and the Snakes will appear as if alive Admission One Shilling each Person. doors to be opened at six o'clock, and the fire-works to begin at nine. Tickets may be had at the Printing Office, Parade, Margate; and at the Bar of the Prospect Hotel. Letters or Orders directed for Signior Hengler, at his Office, facing the Free-Mason's Charity School, near the Obelisk, St. George's Fields, will be duly honored. In case of Bad Weather the Exhibition will be on the next Fine Evening following.
Hengler & Co.Date: [1800]- Books
Récréations mathématiques composées de plusieurs problèmes plaisans & facetieux d'arithmetique, geometrie, astrologie, optique, perspectiue, mechanique, chymie, & d'autres rares & curieux secrets : plusieurs desquels n'ont iamais esté imprimez ... le tout representé par figures.
Date: 1629- Ephemera
Dreadful explosion of the fire-work manufactory of Mons. D'Ernst, in Doughty Street, Lambeth Walk, and loss of four lives : London: Sunday, Maarch 13, 1842.
Date: 1842- Archives and manuscripts
Feuer-Buech
Date: 1584Reference: MS.272- 3-D Objects
2 January 2022 : Siddhling’s winter onesie with pincushion head and firework in pocket.
Michell, MarionDate: