 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 710 pages
...indebted for this method of representing figures with fire. For this purpose, take sulphur reduced to an impalpable powder, and having formed it into a paste...whole Is perfectly dry, arrange some small matches on the principal parts of it, that the fire may be speedily communicated to it on all sides. The same... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pages
...fire. For this purpose, take sulphur reduced to an impalpable powder, and having formed it into a pasta with starch, cover with it the figure you are desirous...whole is perfectly dry, arrange some small matches on the principal parts of it, that the fire may be speedily communicated to it on all sides. The same... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 804 pages
...indebted for this method of representing figures with fire. For this purpose, take sulphur reduced to an impalpable powder, and, having formed it into a paste...whole is perfectly dry, arrange some small matches on the principal parts of it, that the fire may be speedily communicated to it on all sides. The same... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 814 pages
...indebted for this method of representing figures with fire. For this purpose, take sulphur reduced to an impalpable powder, and, having formed it into a paste...from being burnt. When the figure has been covered wiih this paste, besprinkle it while still moist with pulverised gunpowder ; and, when the whole is... | |
 | Frederick Augustus Griffiths - 1839 - 348 pages
...Pitch, and Gum. A PASTE, FOR REPRESENTING ANIMALS. AND OTHER DEVICES IN FIRE. Reduce sulphur to an impalpable powder, and having formed it into a paste with starch, cover with it the figure intended to be represented on fire: which must however have been previously coated over with clay to... | |
 | Jacques Ozanam - 1840 - 850 pages
...indebted for this method of representing figures with fire. For Шs purpose, take sulphur reduced to an impalpable powder, and having formed it into a paste...while still moist with pulverised gunpowder; and when the-wholeis perfectly dry, arrange some small matches on the principal parts of it, that the fire may... | |
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Iv is to the Chinese also that we are indebted for this method of representing figures with fire. For this purpose, take sulphur reduced to an impalpable powder, and having formed it into a paste with starch, cover with it the figure you are desirous... 