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This book offers a well-rounded selection of reliable, well-researched formulas for the most popular exploding fireworks, including M80s, cherry bombs, ash cans, chasers, globe torpedoes, Knallkorpers, aerial bombs, cracker balls, Flashcrackas and more. For academic study only.
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John Donner, who has been honing his skills as a pyrotechnist for more than 30 years, preserves for all time the now all-but-outlawed techniques that makers of traditional fireworks have used and Americans have enjoyed for generations.
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Firecrackers are, without a doubt, one of the older varieties of fireworks, although published historical records do not reveal exactly when firecrackers were invented. Read the first page
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Firecrackers are, without a doubt, one of the older varieties of fireworks, although published historical records do not reveal exactly when firecrackers were invented. Read the first page
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This little paperback is an excellent introduction to the making of your own firecrackers. Divided into a dozen or so chapters, each dealing with a different kind of cracker from a particular country or period in time, the descriptions of how to assemble the devices are extremely lucid with simple, well-drawn diagrams. The book only covers firecrackers, though, so if you're looking for a more general introduction to the multitude of different pyrotechnic devices that exist, this probably isn't your best bet. If indeed it's crackers specifically you want to know about, or if you're just starting out with pyrotechny and want to experiment with a few very simple, satisfying fireworks, this is an excellent read.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an interesting and imformative book, but most of its contents (with the exception of the aerial bomb) are some kind or other of firecracker, and therefor illegal for use by the general public. Also, the materials required (mostly potassium perchlorate/chlorate and aluminium powder are fairly unobtainable by the general public. Even so, a good book to read.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I've got to say that this is really pretty poor, the index is poorly laid out and the reading lists not great either, the writing is awful and the whole thing has the impression of a (US) highschool chemistry class gone wrong.
When I got the book I initially thought that perhaps I was being too critical but I shared it with two contacts, one of whom is a pyrotechnician planning and directing displays and another who makes fireworks and they both said that it was written in a convoluted and inaccessible style. A lot of the jargon is window dressing to make the simple exercises here in appear more complex but to the unacquainted reader it will probably make most of the projects plain impossible.
When I got the book I initially thought that perhaps I was being too critical but I shared it with two contacts, one of whom is a pyrotechnician planning and directing displays and another who makes fireworks and they both said that it was written in a convoluted and inaccessible style. A lot of the jargon is window dressing to make the simple exercises here in appear more complex but to the unacquainted reader it will probably make most of the projects plain impossible.
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Good, easy to understand, interesting!!
This book contains the detail in the composition of the fireworks - fire crackers. The procedures are easy to understand and clear. Read more
Published on 17 Mar 1999
good book
this book is a very good referance guide if you are starting or already making firecrackers, it also has some info on making some very interesting compositions. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 1999
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