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 Les Invalides, 42

Liber Ignium, 13, 14

Licenses for fireworks, 67

Lifeboat Institution, 175

Lifting charge, 104, 108, 109

Light balls, 106

" ground, 157

" parachute, 157

Lighter, 108

Lights, Bengal, 120

" Coston, 175

" signal, 66

" signal, hand, 175

" Véry signal, 164, 171, 172

Li Hung Chang, 50

Line-carrying rocket, 176

Line rockets, 26, 50, 97

Linseed oil, 140

Living fireworks, 51

Lloyd's signal station, 175

London, 28

Longueman, 33

"Lord Cobham's Head," 35

Louis XIV, 20, 24

Louis XV, 21

Louis XVI, 22

Louvre, 20

Lushalan, Mr., 62

Lutzelberg, Victory of, 22

Lyceum, 37

Lyons, 20, 21

Machine for fireworks, 28, 34

Macintosh, 162

Madame la Première, 21

Madras, 55

Madura, 55

Magazine fired, 83

Magnesium, 150, 173

" flash composition, 178

Mahteb, 11

Majendie, K.C.B., Sir V. D., 68

Making crackers, 92

Malaga, 42

Mallet, 72

Manilla Bay, Battle of, 49

Manley, Captain, 176

Manufacture of fireworks, 57

Maori King, 50

Marcus Graecus, 13, 91

Marinari, 34

Maroon, Aerial, 109

Maroons, 43

Marryat, Captain, 32

Marylebone Gardens, 34

Match, 121, 122

" pipes, 125

" quick, 108, 124, 125

" raw, 125

Mealed gunpowder, 96, 99, 100, 106, 116, 118, 119, 125, 138

Mechanical pieces, 53

Mercury fulminate, 67

Mestre, 158

Metz, 162

Meyer, Captain Moritz, 145, 159

Mica, 146

Military coloured smokes, 172

" Encyclopedia, 107

" fêtes, 1852, 43

Mine, 110

" of serpents, 110

" on wheel, 133

Miners' squib, 179

Mixing, 73

Mortars, 4, 16, 87, 193, 104, 105, 106, 110

Mortram, 33, 38, 61, 77

Mosaiques, 127

Moscow, 45

Mould for rocket charging, 94

Mulberry Gardens, 35

Munitions, 76

Naphtha, 6

Napoleon, 42

" Louis, 42

" Marriage of, 42

Newhaven accident, Conn., U.S.A., 83

New Wells, 35

Nile, Battle of the, 40, 49

Nipple, 98

Nitrate of baryta, 145

" copper, 145

" potash, 138

" strontia, 146

Nitre, 7, 138

Nomenclature of rockets, 94, 95

North Woolwich Gardens, 37

Nunhead experiments, 68

" factory, 47, 68

Nuremburg, 23