The Art and Science of Fireworks: 3 Classic Books on Pyrotechnics
Classic Treatises on Pyrotechnic Chemistry, Rocket Design, and Public SpectacleBy Alan St. H. Brock, Thomas Kentish, Robert Jones
Length16h 8m
About this audiobook
This compendium gathers three classic treatments of pyrotechnics at the meeting point of practical craft, chemical inquiry, spectacle, and public culture. Ranging from technical instruction and formulaic detail to historical observation and aesthetic reflection, the volume traces fireworks as both engineered phenomena and theatrical arts. Its selections illuminate the disciplined processes behind combustion, colour, sound, timing, and display, while also preserving the imaginative vocabulary through which fireworks have been understood as emblems of celebration, invention, and controlled danger. Alan St. H. Brock, Thomas Kentish, and Robert Jones represent complementary traditions of specialist writing in which empirical knowledge is inseparable from inherited practice. Their works emerge from a long history of pyrotechnic literature shaped by artisanal transmission, the expanding authority of modern science, and the popular demand for civic and ceremonial spectacle. Read together, these voices reveal how technical manuals can also serve as cultural documents: they register changing assumptions about expertise, safety, materials, and the relation between scientific experiment and visual wonder. The Art and Science of Fireworks is recommended for historians of science, students of performance and material culture, and readers drawn to the intellectual history of making. By placing distinct approaches in dialogue, it offers an unusually broad education in pyrotechnics—its methods, language, risks, and artistic ambitions—and invites readers to consider how knowledge becomes display.
Audiobook details
GenreTechnology, Literary Classics
Length16 hrs 8 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; Or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks
10PART I (pt. 1)
2The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; Or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks
11PART I (pt. 2)
3PREFACE.
12PART II (pt. 1)
4ROCKETS.
13PART II (pt. 2)
5SAXONS.
14Artificial Fire-Works
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6COMPOUND FIREWORKS.
15PREFACE. (pt. 1)
7Pyrotechnics
16PREFACE. (pt. 2)
8Pyrotechnics
17PREFACE. (pt. 3)
9INTRODUCTION
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