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To Fix One Rocket On The Top Of Another When Sky-rockets Are Fixed


one on the top of another, they are called towering rockets, on

account of their mounting so very high. Towering rockets are made

after this manner: Fix on a pound rocket a head without a collar; then

take a four-ounce rocket, which may be headed or bounced, and rub the

mouth of it with meal-powder wetted with spirit of wine: this done,

put it in the head of a large rocket with its mouth downwards; but

before it is put
in, stick a bit of quick-match in the hole of the

clay of the pound rocket, which match should be long enough to go a

little way up the bore of the small rocket, to fire it when the large

rocket is burnt out. As the four-ounce rocket is too small to fill the

head of the other, roll round it as much tow as will make it stand

upright in the centre of the head: the rocket being thus fixed, paste

a single paper round the opening of the top of the head of the large

rocket. The large rocket must have only half a diameter of charge

rammed above the piercer; for, if filled to the usual height, it

would turn before the small one takes fire, and entirely destroy the

intended effect: when one rocket is headed with another, there will be

no occasion for any blowing powder; for the force with which it goes

off will be sufficient to disengage it from the head of the first

fired rocket. The sticks for these rockets must be a little longer

than for those headed with stars, rains, &c.



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