# Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

An audiobook by Alan St. Hill Brock, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 57 min, English).

Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a brief history of pyrotechnics from origins in the East through the present. Part II delves more into a description of the fireworks themselves, there manufacture, and some modern uses, and a tribute to his brother, Wing-Commander Frank Arthur Brock, R.N.A.S. Killed at Zeebrugge April 23rd, 1918. From his introduction: “My object has not been to write a text-book on firework-making, but rather to trace the art from earliest times, and to give a description of the development and process of manufacture. . . . My excuse for adding another volume to the literature of the art is that I am of the eighth generation of a family of pyrotechnists, whose work, I venture to claim, has not been without its effect.” - Summary by Larry Wilson

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## Chapters

0. Dediction and Introduction (5:41): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_00_brock_64kb.mp3
1. The Origin of Pyrotechny (5:29): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_01_brock_64kb.mp3
2. Pyrotechny in the East (12:19): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_02_brock_64kb.mp3
3. Pyrotechny in Europe (17:56): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_03_brock_64kb.mp3
4. Pyrotechny in Europe (continued) (16:42): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_04_brock_64kb.mp3
5. London Pleasure Gardens (13:47): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_05_brock_64kb.mp3
6. Fireworks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Part 1 (17:02): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_06_brock_64kb.mp3
7. Fireworks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Part 2 (22:29): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_07_brock_64kb.mp3
8. Firework Manufacture (30:17): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_08_brock_64kb.mp3
9. Modern Firework Manufacture (17:16): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_09_brock_64kb.mp3
10. Firework Accidents (23:29): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_10_brock_64kb.mp3
11. Simple Fireworks, Rocket Class (24:50): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_11_brock_64kb.mp3
12. Simple Fireworks, Shell Class (12:28): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_12_brock_64kb.mp3
13. Simple Fireworks, Mine Class (10:15): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_13_brock_64kb.mp3
14. Simple Fireworks, Saxon and Lance Classes (8:46): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_14_brock_64kb.mp3
15. Compound Fireworks (16:46): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_15_brock_64kb.mp3
16. Compound Fireworks (continued) (9:02): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_16_brock_64kb.mp3
17. Firework Compositions (19:00): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_17_brock_64kb.mp3
18. Modern Firework Compositions (16:29): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_18_brock_64kb.mp3
19. Military Pyrotechny (25:02): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_19_brock_64kb.mp3
20. Military Pyrotechny in the Great War (18:06): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_20_brock_64kb.mp3
21. The Civil Use of Fireworks (11:43): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_21_brock_64kb.mp3
22. List of the Principal Ingredients Used in Pyrotechny at the Present Time (2:35): https://archive.org/download/pyrotechnics_2304_librivox/pyrotechnics_22_brock_64kb.mp3