Pyrotechnic art

This recently produced subnsnce forms another vsh uable addition to the pyrotechnics art. Containing even more oxygen than the chlorate it is less liable to decomposition due to the laclt that it is a salt of perchloric acid which is a much more Aable acid than chloric from which the chlorate is derived. It can be aubAttuted for the chlorate in most mixings and can be safely used in connection with sulphur. 

Werrett S (2010) Fireworks pyrotechnic arts and sciences in European history. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, p 181... 

The process of designing a pyrotechnic mixture begins with the selection of oxidizer and fuel, and proceeds to incorporate additional components to achieve the exact pyrotechnic effect and bum rate desired in the end item. It is at this point that pyrotechnics takes on the dual nature of an art and science, and experience is often the only thing that can be reHed upon for the solution of a difficult problem. 

Ellem (Ref 138, p 181) also describes pyrotechnic means of producing explosive and whistling sound. Recent advances in the art of generating oscillating light signals are described in Section 8 of this article... 

Theoretical Analysis of Resonance Tube , The Singer Company, Final Report KD 72-82 (1972) 58) F.J. Valenta, The State of the Art of Navy Pyrotechnic Delays , Expls Pyrots (The Franklin Institute Research Laboratories) 5, Nos 11 12 (Nov-Dec 1972). See also Ref 144, pp 185—95. See also Some Factors Affecting Burning Rates and Variability of Tungsten and Manganese Delay Compositions , Ref 144, pp 157—83. See also Mil Spec for Tungsten Delay Compositions , MIL-T-23132A (June 1972) 59) C.F. Parrish et al, Radiation... 

McLain, J.H. Pyrotechnics, from the Viewpoint of Solid State Chemistry, Franklin Research Center Norristown, PA, 1980 Shimizu, 77 Fireworks, the Art, Science and Technique, Maruzen, Tokio 1981... 

Ding Jing, "Pyrotechnics in China," presented at the 7th International Pyrotechnics Seminar, Vail, Colorado, July, 1980. T. Shimizu, Fireworks - The Art, Science and Technique, Dub. bv T. Shimizu, distrib. bv Maruzen Co., Ltd., Tokyo, 1981. 

Fireworks are a part of die field of civilian pyrotechnics (Greek pyr, fire techne, art) the rest of the field is railway fusees and torpedoes. Military pyrotechnics includes lights for signals and illumination, noise makers for training, heat sources, smokes, and some minor rocket effects. Many of the same formulas and devices are used in both fields with the military devices more sturdily built... 

Franklin Institute (FI). An American scientific establishment founded in 1824 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and located at 20th. Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Devoted to Science and Mechanical Arts, it has published since 1826 the Journal of the Franklin Institute, while since 1968 it publishes the moothly newsletter "Explosives and Pyrotechnics , edited by Mr Gunther Cohn,... 

The name pyrotechnic is derived from the Greek words pyr (fire) and techne (an art), which describes the effect observed from a burning pyrotechnic composition. These effects include the production of coloured smoke, noise, and the emission of bright-coloured light. Pyrotech-... 

The manufacture of pyrotechnics from the Renaissance onward has been conducted, and still is practiced in certain places, as a household art or familiar craft. The artificer1 needs patience and skill and ingenuity for his work. For large-scale factory production, the pyrotechnist has few problems in chemical engineering but many in the control of craftsmanship. His work, like that of the wood-carver or bookbinder, requires manual dexterity but transcends artistry and becomes art by the free play of the imagination for the production of beauty. He knows the kinds of effects, audible and visible, which he can get from his materials. He knows this as the graphic artist knows the appearance of his... 

A. St. H. Brock, Pyrotechnics The History, and Art of Fireworks Making, London, 1922. This is a scholarly and handsome book, bountifully illustrated, which contains excellent accounts both of the history of fireworks and of present manufacturing practice. The author comes from several generations of fireworks makers. 

According to Brock, the use of chlorate in pyrotechnic mixtures, initiating the modern epoch in the art, first occurred about 1830. Lieut. Hippert of the Belgian artillery published at Bruxelles in 1836 a French translation, Pyrotechnie raisonnee, of a work by Prussian artillery Captain Moritz Meyer in which one chapter is devoted to colored fires, and listed several com-... 

A mixture known as black powder revolutionized the art of warfare whenever it was applied to the propulsion of missiles. Black powder is a mixture of potassium nitrate (saltpeter), charcoal, and sulfur in varying proportions, granulation, and purity. A typical composition of a modern black powder is saltpeter 75%, charcoal 15%, and sulfur 10%.7 A mixture of saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur with other ingredients was used in China and India in the eleventh century for incendiary and pyrotechnic purposes long before true black powder was invented.8 History often deals in conjecture and opinion and it is not known for certain when and by whom black powder was invented, or when and by whom it was applied to the propulsion of a missile from a firearm. The composition of black powder was first recorded by English Franciscan monk Roger Bacon in 1249, but he did not apply it to the propulsion of a missile from a firearm. This use of black powder is usually credited to a German Franciscan monk Berthold Schwartz in the early fourteenth century.9... 

Theae are one of the moH beautiful pyrotechnical effeHa known to the art. Take a 3 lb. rocket and fill the apa e above the clay with grain powder. Cover this with a circular piece of peilorated paper secured by a... 

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