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FEU D’ARTIFICE À VERSAILLES POUR LE MARIAGE DU DAUPHIN, 1735. FROM A WATER-COLOUR DRAWING BY MOREL TORRÉ.
Copyright. Brock. Sutton]
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Display at the Tercentenary Fetes, Quebec, July 23rd, 1908. The largest display ever fired in the Western Hemisphere. From a drawing by C. M. Padday.
PYROTECHNICS: THE HISTORY AND ART OF FIREWORK MAKING
BY A. St. H. BROCK, A.R.I.B.A.
WITH NUMEROUS COLOURED AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON: DANIEL O’CONNOR 90 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C.1 MCMXXII
Dedicated to the memory of my brother Wing-Commander Frank Arthur Brock, R.N.A.S. Killed at Zeebrugge April 23rd, 1918
. . . . . . . . . . . be bright and busy While hoaxed astronomers look up and stare From tall observatories, dumb and dizzy, To see a Squib in Cassiopeia’s Chair! A Serpent wriggling into Charles’s Wain! A Roman Candle lighting the Great Bear! A Rocket tangled in Diana’s train, And Crackers stuck in Berenice’s Hair!
Ode to Madame Hengler, Firework-maker to Vauxhall By THOMAS HOOD.