Dictionary & Manual of Fireworks was Weingart's original name for the book, later changed by the original publisher, the most recent publisher changed it back because this is a true MANUAL of fireworks. The author took great pains to make his descriptions as clear and understandable as possible. The Manipulations section explains the basic moves, form case rolling to priming. And the Articles of Manufacture section tells all about specific fireworks devices. It's 136 pages of Weingart at his best. The current publisher has taken the second edition and re-keyed it to a modern typeface, added his original illustrations, and published it as a full size boo. No more fuzzy pages and can't read formulations. This is an easy to read, easy to use book that will take its place among your prized fireworks publications.
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DICTIONARY & MANUAL
OF FIREWORKS By George Washington Weingart
Including the Carlisle Papers!
FULL RETAIL PRICE IS
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As described by the publisher American Fireworks News "Weingart's Pyrotechnics. The book that most of us started with. The 1947 edition was the biggie; World War II was just over and chemicals were available once again. A whole generation of kids too young for the war had had their interest in science tweaked by the atomic bomb and all the accompanying pop-science that fascinated the news media. Suddenly Pyrotechnics dropped in the middle of all this interest and availability. The timing was superb. But Pyrotechnics (1947) was not Weingart's first book on making fireworks. Indeed, it wasn't even the name he chose (as you will learn later in this book), nor was it supposed to be his last book, because he was still accumulating data in his final years. As he described in private correspondence (see last pages), he wrote the first version in the early 1930s, apparently self-published it in typewriter version, and tried again in 1937 with an updated version. The name then was Dictionary & Manual of Fireworks. That one was a winner; it was the basic book that would carry on long after his demise. Eventually Chemical Publishing Co. recognized it as a potential best seller and published it in hard cover. The war years put fireworks on hold, but in 1947 the publisher came out with the "final" version. Later a 1968 reprint was offered, and then the public domain printers picked it up. Today anyone searching for fireworks books can usually find several versions available, from photocopied knock-offs, to fairly well done soft cover reprints. We have gone back to 1937 and rekeyed the Dictionary & Manual of Pyrotechnics, renaming it as Weingart wanted it, to Dictionary & Manual of Fireworks. But our version is different - Weingart with a difference! The text is virtually as Weingart wrote it. We decided to keep it that way to preserve his personality in the work. We were apprehensive about republishing the cannon cracker section, and the part about making torpedoes with fulminate. But if we cut them, it wouldn't be Weingart! And there's more. In the final years of his life Weingart was still alert, active, and seeking new fireworks information. He began a written correspondence with one of the grand old men of hobby fireworks, the late Orville Carlisle. Orv, as his friends knew him, operated a shoe store with his brother, in Norfolk, Nebraska, and eventually built a genuine fireworks museum in a room attached to the store. Possessed with boundless energy and a relentlessly curious mind, Orv was not satisfied with just owning a copy of Weingart's book. He just had to ask the author a million questions about how fireworks work. Thus the correspondence began that continued to Weingart's demise in 1948. Orv has blessed us with that correspondence. We first met him in the early 1970s at a PGI convention and began our own correspondence with him. From inventing the toy rocket through building his own visco fuse machine, Orv had done it all, and was quite willing to share it with us, and that included his correspondence with G. W. Weingart. The exchange between these two fireworks minds was fascinating. We've got the Carlisle-Weingart letters, or at least the Weingart side. You'll find them in the final pages of this book. It's fascinating reading for anyone who is a Weingart fan, and we all should be because he started most of us on the hobby path. When you read his letters, you'll learn some inside facts about this book, and his plans for another version. And you'll get some insight into the mind of George Washington Weingart. We owe him." This book is in brand new condition, never used. These books have minor blemishes on the cover that do not meet the quality standards for the publisher. All content is exactly the same. I dare you to find the defect. I will refund your money if the quality is not acceptable.
Published: 1997
Publisher: American Fireworks News Terms:
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