The making of rockets in two parts, the first containing the making of rockets for the meanest capacity, the other to make rockets by a duplicate proposition, to 1000 pound weight or higher / experimentally and mathematically demonstrated, by Robert Anderson.
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The making of rockets in two parts, the first containing the making of rockets for the meanest capacity, the other to make rockets by a duplicate proposition, to 1000 pound weight or higher / experimentally and mathematically demonstrated, by Robert Anderson.
Author
Anderson, Robert, fl. 1668-1696.
Publication
London :: Printed for Robert Morden ...,
1696.
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Fireworks -- Early works to 1800.
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"The making of rockets in two parts, the first containing the making of rockets for the meanest capacity, the other to make rockets by a duplicate proposition, to 1000 pound weight or higher / experimentally and mathematically demonstrated, by Robert Anderson." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25366.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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descriptionPage 12
PROPOSITION VIII.
To Head a Rocket.
TUrn a piece of Wood just so big as
your Rocket is, with a Cone at one
end thereof, paste a piece of strong Paper
about the Wood, then paste another piece
of Paper about the Cone, and paste both
Papers together; then put your Stars into
this Paper Vessel, with some Rocket Com∣position
to break the Vessel, then put a
little Paste a little within the sides of this
Paper Vessel, then draw it upon your
Rocket, and paste it to the Rocket, so
your Work is done.
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