A History Of Fireworks From Their Origins To The Present Day
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Author | : John Withington |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 471 |
Release | : 2024-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1789149746 |
Bursting with images from across time, a sparkling chronicle of rockets, pinwheels, and more. This book illuminates the glittering history of fireworks, from their mysterious beginnings to the dazzling big-budget displays of today. It describes how they enthralled the world’s royal courts and became a sensation across the British Empire. There are stories of innovations like “living fireworks,” fiercely fought international competitions, and the technology behind modern showpieces viewed by millions. Practitioners say fireworks are an art, and they have inspired artists from Shakespeare, Handel, Dickens, and Whistler to Katy Perry. But John Withington also covers fireworks’ practical uses—rescues at sea, attempts to control the weather—while not ignoring their dangers, accidents, or efforts to make them safer.
Author | : Kevin Salatino |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1998-01-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892364173 |
Festivities such as those exalting the court of Louis XIV, the celebration of James II's London coronation, and the commemoration of the peace celebrations of 1749 at The Hague culminated in dazzling pyrotechnical displays. These were in turn reproduced as prints, paintings, and narrative descriptions. This unique book examines the propagandistic and rhetorical functions these printed records came to serve as vehicles of aesthetic, cultural, and emotional significance.
Author | : Kama Einhorn |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2015-06-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1481438492 |
Light up the sky with this fact-tastic nonfiction Level 3 Ready-to-Read, part of a series about the history of fun stuff! In this book readers will learn all about how fireworks were invented in China over 2,000 years ago, how Queen Elizabeth I created a special honor for the person who created the best fireworks, and much more! A special section at the back of the book includes Common Core–vetted extras on subjects like social studies and math, and there’s even a fun quiz so readers can test themselves to see what they’ve learned! Learning history has never been so much fun!
Author | : Simon Werrett |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2010-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226893774 |
Fireworks are synonymous with celebration in the twenty-first century. But pyrotechnics—in the form of rockets, crackers, wheels, and bombs—have exploded in sparks and noise to delight audiences in Europe ever since the Renaissance. Here, Simon Werrett shows that, far from being only a means of entertainment, fireworks helped foster advances in natural philosophy, chemistry, mathematics, and many other branches of the sciences. Fireworks brings to vibrant life the many artful practices of pyrotechnicians, as well as the elegant compositions of the architects, poets, painters, and musicians they inspired. At the same time, it uncovers the dynamic relationships that developed between the many artists and scientists who produced pyrotechnics. In so doing, the book demonstrates the critical role that pyrotechnics played in the development of physics, astronomy, chemistry and physiology, meteorology, and electrical science. Richly illustrated and drawing on a wide range of new sources, Fireworks takes readers back to a world where pyrotechnics were both divine and magical and reveals for the first time their vital contribution to the modernization of European ideas.
Author | : Anthony F. Aveni |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195171549 |
Halloween, Valentine's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year's Day - these are but a handful of modern holidays descended from the red-letter days, seasonal celebrations we have invented and reinvented over more than five millennia to meet our changing human needs. When we explore their origins, the holidays begin to reflect not only who we are but also why, through oppressed by time and thwarted by the forces of nature, we never seem to lose the will to control the future.
Author | : Jack Kelly |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786739002 |
When Chinese alchemists fashioned the first manmade explosion sometime during the tenth century, no one could have foreseen its full revolutionary potential. Invented to frighten evil spirits rather than fuel guns or bombs-neither of which had been thought of yet-their simple mixture of saltpeter, sulfur, and charcoal went on to make the modern world possible. As word of its explosive properties spread from Asia to Europe, from pyrotechnics to battleships, it paved the way for Western exploration, hastened the end of feudalism and the rise of the nation state, and greased the wheels of the Industrial Revolution. With dramatic immediacy, novelist and journalist Jack Kelly conveys both the distant time in which the "devil's distillate" rose to conquer the world, and brings to rousing life the eclectic cast of characters who played a role in its epic story, including Michelangelo, Edward III, Vasco da Gama, Cortez, Guy Fawkes, Alfred Nobel, and E.I. DuPont. A must-read for history fans and military buffs alike, Gunpowder brings together a rich terrain of cultures and technological innovations with authoritative research and swashbuckling style.
Author | : Jonny Zucker |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2014-12-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781845070762 |
Here is a simple and delightful introduction to the Chinese New Year festival - suitable for even the very youngest child. Follow a family as they let off firecrackers, watch the amazing dragon dances and light their beautiful lanterns to celebrate the start of their New Year.
Author | : John Bate |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1635 |
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Author | : Arnaldo Momigliano |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520078703 |
Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also encouraged imitation and exploitation in later centuries. He reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the first Roman historians and the emergence of national history. In the course of his exposition, he traces the development of antiquarian studies as distinctive branch of historical research from antiquity to the modern period, discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own. All these lectures illustrate Momigliano's unrivaled ability to combine the study of classical texts and the history of classical scholarship. First delivered in 1962, the lectures were revised during the next fifteen years and then held for annotation that was never completed. They are now published from the author's manuscripts, collated and checked by Momigliano's literary executor, Anne Marie Meyer, of the Warburg Institute, with a foreword by Riccardo Di Donato, of the University of Pisa. The text is printed as the author left it. Sather Classical Lectures, 54
Author | : Thomas Ryder |
Publisher | : Carriage Assoc. of America |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1977-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
THE CHATEAU NOKERE COLLECTION by Tom Ryder SOME PICTURES OF THE HARNESS WORLD IN BRITISH SPORTING ART by S. A. Walker BRAKES FOR CARRIAGES by John Philipson SEVENTY YEARS OF DRIVING by Mrs. Dean Bedford GRUBER WAGON WORKS THE STURTEVANT-LARRABEE COMPANY SOME EXPERIENCES OF A NOVICE CARRIAGE BUILDER by S. l. Comwall EQUINE AROJ\1ATICS by Sally Walrond WALTER WINANS - SPORTSMAN EXTRAORDINARY by Tom Ryder BOOK REVIEWS . LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SARCASTIC OBSERVATIONS ON THE BENEFIT OF ONE-HORSE CHAISES. STUNKARD SCHOOL BUS by John and Mildred Frizzell ORIGIN OF THE IRISH JAUNTING CAR by James Young THE CARRIAGE TRADE