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The Leading Fireworks

The leading simple fireworks are rockets, Roman candles, flowerpots or gerbs, mines, and their adaptations or varieties; quick fires of different kinds and colors in cases, such as golden rain, spur &c.; slow fires in cases and pots, as blue lights, Bengal lights, &c. These form the fundamental principles of all pyrotechnic display. The endless variety of their combinations in the shape of vertical and horizontal wheels and "set pieces," requires considerable fertility of invention and mechanical ingenuity, combined with a thorough practical knowledge of the nature of firework compositions, and the appropriate means of displaying them to the best advantage. The weights used in the following receipts are avoirdupois.