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
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