Discusses the creation and usage of fireworks.

Section I --Of salt-petre -- How to refine salt-petre -- How to pulverize salt-petre -- How to extract salt-petre from damaged gun-powder -- Of sulphur or brimstone -- How to prepare charcoal for fireworks -- To make artificial camphor -- To make the oil of camphor -- Of Benjamin -- Of gun-powder and its original -- Of the composition for gun-powder of different sorts -- To restore damaged gun-powder to its proper strength -- Of silent-powder, commonly called white-powder -- To make silent-powder -- To make gun-powder of different colours -- To make gun-powder white -- To make powder red -- To make yellow powder -- To make green powder -- To make blue powder -- To make pulvis fulminans or thunder in a room -- Section II -- Of the spur-fire -- The composition for the spur-fire -- Characters, or significant signs, for distinguishing the different ingredients used in fireworks -- How to meal gun-powder, brimstone, and charcoal -- To prepare cast iron for gerbes, white fountains, and Chinese fire -- Charges for sky-rockets, &c. -- For rockets of four ounces -- For rockets of eight ounces -- For rockets of one pound -- For sky-rockets in general -- For large sky-rockets -- For rockets of a middling size -- Compositions for rocket stars -- For white stars -- For blue stars -- Coloured or variegated stars -- For brilliant stars -- For common stars -- For tailed stars -- For drove stars -- For fixed pointed stars -- Stars of a fine colour -- Gold rain for sky-rockets -- Silver rain -- For water-rockets -- A sinking charge for water-rockets -- For wheel cases, from two ounces to four pound -- A slow fire for wheels -- A dead fire for wheels -- For standing or fixed cases -- For sun cases -- For a brilliant fire -- For gerbes -- Chinese fire -- Charges for tourbillons -- For four ounce tourbillons -- For eight ounce tourbillons -- For large tourbillons -- For water balloons -- For water squibs -- For mine ports or serpents -- Port fires for firing rockets, &c. -- Port fires for illuminations -- For cones or spiral wheels -- For crowns or globes -- For air balloon fuzes -- Serpents for pots des brins -- For fire pumps -- For a slow white flame -- For amber lights -- For lights of another sort -- For a red fire -- For a common fire -- To make an artificial earthquake -- A table of rocket charges, taken from Siemienawicz -- A table of rocket charges, taken from M. F.*** -- A table of rocket charges, taken from Hanzelet -- A table of rocket charges, taken from Henrion -- A table of rocket charges, taken from Saint Remy, with improvements by M.F.*** -- Remarks on the foregoing tables -- Compositions for stars of different colours -- For stars that carry tails of sparks -- Another sort of stars, which yield some sparks -- For stars of a yellowish colour -- Stars of another sort -- Of the colours produced by the different compositions -- For a white flame -- For a blue flame -- For a flame inclining to red -- Of such ingredients as shew themselves in sparks when rammed in choaked cases -- How to make cotton quick-match -- Ingredients for the match -- Section III -- Of sky-rocket moulds -- A table of dimensions for rocket moulds, in which the rockets are rammed solid -- Of moulds for wheel-cases, or serpents -- How to roll rockets and other cases -- To make tourbillon cases -- To make balloon cases, or paper shells -- Of the method of mixing compositions -- How to preserve steel or iron filings -- The method of driving or ramming of sky-rockets, &c. -- Of the proportion of mallets -- Of the proportion of sky-rockets, with the manner of heading them -- Of the decorations for sky-rockets -- A table of dimensions and poise of rocket-sticks -- The method of boring rockets which have been drove solid -- Of a hand machine used for boring of rockets instead of a lathe -- The manner of making large gerbes -- Of small gerbes or white fountains -- To make paste-board and paper mortars -- Section IV -- The manner of loading air balloons -- Of coehorn balloons -- Of coehorn balloons -- Of royal balloons -- Of royal balloons -- Of eight inch balloons -- Remarks on balloons -- Of eight inch balloons -- Of an eight inch balloon -- Of a compound ten inch balloon -- Of a ten inch balloon of three changes -- To make balloon -- Of tourbillons -- The manner of making mortars, for throwing aigrettes and loading and firing the same -- The manner of making, loading, and firing of pots des brins -- Of pots des saucissons -- To fix one sky-rocket on the top of another -- Of caduceus-rockets -- Of honorary-rockets -- To divide the tail of a sky-rockets, so as to form an arch when ascending -- To make several sky-rockets rise together, in the same direction, and equally distant from each other -- Of signal sky-rockets -- To fix two or more sky-rockets on one stick -- Of sky-rockets without sticks -- Of rain-falls for sky-rockets, double and single -- Of strung stars -- Of tailed stars -- Of drove stars -- Of rolled stars -- Of scrolls for sky-rockets -- Of swarmers or small rockets -- Of the cause of sky-rockets rising -- Of stands for sky-rockets -- Of girandole chests for flights of rockets -- Of serpents or snakes for pots des aigrettes, small mortars, sky-rockets, &c. -- Of leaders or pipes of communication -- Section V -- Of aquatick fireworks -- Of water rockets -- To make pipes of communication, which may be used under water -- Of horizontal wheels for the water -- Of mines for the water -- Of fire globes for the water -- Of odoriferous water balloons -- Of water balloons -- Of water squibs -- To represent a sea-fight with small ships, and to prepare a fire-ship for the same -- To fire sky-rockets under water -- To represent Neptune in his chariot -- To represent swans and ducks in water -- Of fire-fountains for the water -- Section VI -- To make crackers -- Of single reports -- Of marrons -- Of marron batteries -- Of line rockets -- Of the different decorations for line rockets -- Of Chinese flyers -- Of table rockets -- To make wheels and other works incombustible -- Of single vertical wheels -- Of horizontal wheels -- Of spirali wheels -- Of plural wheels -- Of the illuminated spiral wheel -- Of the double spiral wheel -- Of balloon wheels -- Of fruiloni wheels -- Of port-fires for illuminations -- Of common port-fires -- Of cascades of fire -- Of the fire tree -- Of Chinese fountains -- Of illuminated globes with horizontal wheels -- Of the dodecaedron -- Of the yew tree of brilliant fire -- Of stars with points for regulated pieces, &c. -- Of the fixed sun with a transparent face -- Of three vertical wheels illuminated, which turn on their naves upon a horizontal table -- Of the illuminated chandelier -- Of the illuminated yew tree -- Of flaming stars with brilliant wheels -- Of touch-paper for capping of serpents, crackers, &c. -- Of a projected regulated piece of nine mutations -- To make a horizontal wheel change to a vertical wheel with a sun in front -- Of the grand volute illuminated, with a projected wheel in front -- Of the moon and seven stars -- Of the double cone wheel illuminated -- Of fire pumps -- Of the vertical scroll wheel -- Of pin wheels -- Of fire globes -- To thread and join leaders, with the method of placing them on different works -- The manner of placing fireworks to be exhibited, with the order of firing.