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Image number: RS.9955
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Firework wheels
Date
1635
Object type
Library reference
25892
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 180mm
width (print): 145mm
width (print): 145mm
Description
'The manner of making a fixed wheele which shall cast forth many rockets into the ayre' and 'The manner of making a wheele which shall runne two waies'. Figure 6 from the book Pyrotechnia; or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works, by John Babington, (London, 1635).
Object history
Babington's book is the first description of recreational fireworks in English.
Associated place