IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER BY THE AID OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT FOR MOTIVE AND TELEGRAPHIC PUR- POSES
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustino Carosio, of Genoa, now of Con-
naught Square, in the County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER BY THE
AID OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT FOR MOTIVE AND TELEGRAPHIC PUR-
POSES."
Sealed the 17th February 1854, and dated the 2nd September 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustino Carosio
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 2nd September 1853.
I, AUGUSTINO CAROSIO, of Genoa, now of Connaught Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER
BY THE AID OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT FOR MOTIVE AND TELEGRAPHIC
PURPOSES to be as follows:-
The electric current which I employ is that obtained from an electric
apparatus similar to or acting upon the principle of "Grove's gas
battery," wherein the electricity produced from the recomposition of
gases is applied to the decomposition of water or other liquid, and the

page_text: gases produced frout such decomposition are turned to account to
supply the gases which are recombined in the battery; and I apply the
electric current obtained from such an apparatus to set in motion any
suitable magnetic apparatus, and thus I obtain a power applicable to
motive and telegraphic purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Augustino Carosio in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st March 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
AUGUSTINO CAROSIO, of Genoa, now of Connaught Square, in the
County of Middlesex, Doctor of Medicine, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seven-
teenth year of Her reign, lid, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Augustino Carosio, Her special
licence that I, the said Augustino Carosio, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Augustino Carosio,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN OBTAINING POWER BY THE AID OF AN ELECTRIC CURRENT
FOR MOTIVE AND TELEGRAPHIC PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Augustino Carosio, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and scal, should particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Augustino Carosio, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same

page_text: is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say:
The electric current which I employ is that obtained from an electric
apparatus similar to or acting upon the principle of Grove's gas
battery, wherein the electricity produced from the recomposition of
gases is applied to the decomposition of water or other liquid; and
the gases produced from such decomposition are turned to account
to supply the gases which are recombined in the battery, as described
in the Specification of Letters Patent for the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, bearing date the Seventh day of March
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and I apply the electric
current obtained from such an apparatus to set in motion any suitable
magnetic apparatus, and thus I obtain a power applicable to motive
and telegraphic purposes.
For example, I employ in combination with the gas battery above
named an electro-magnet, through the coils of which the current
from the battery is made to pass at intervals, causing at each in-
terval an armature to be attracted, which armature, by its own motion,
alternately makes and breaks the galvanic circuit, as in an electro-
magnetic engine, or a De La Rive's condenser.
If a complete magnetic engine is employed its motive power will be
produced by a partial sacrifice only of the electric current, the final
force of which still remains to effect the decomposition of water or
other fluid, whereby a supply of gas for the gas battery is maintained.
By the employment of an electro-magnetic apparatus of the description
known by the name of De La Rive's condenser currents of induction
are produced, which may be employed in place of galvanic battery
currents for telegraphic or other purposes, or they may be united with
the direct current for the decomposition of water or other fluid, whereby
the activity or intensity of that current, and hence the power to be ob-
tained from the entire apparatus, will be considerably augmented.
It is important to observe, that the conducting wires constituting the
coils should be much stouter and shorter than those of electro-magnets
usually employed for telegraphic or motive purposes, where the current
of the battery has to overcome no resistances, except those of the

page_text: conductors, whereas in the present instance it is to retain sufficient
force to decompose the water or other fluid in the voltameter. .
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be perforinrd, I declare that I claim the
obtaining of power by the combined employment of a gas battery
with an electro-magnetic apparatus, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustino Carosio, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
MEDICO AGOSTINO CAROSIO. (L.S.)