Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 30th Mar., 1889
[Communicated from abroad by DIONISIO PIEDRAHITA, Electrician, of 95, Boulevard
Beaumarchais, Paris, in the Republic of France.]
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of the Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
The object of the present invention is the production of electricity in a more
economical manner than heretofore.
The apparatus which it is proposed to use for this purpose consists of two electrodes,
the one formed by a senii cylinder of retort carbon, the other of a plate of zinc rolled
into the form of an open cylinder.
In applying the invention, say, to a telegraph system, one of these electrodes is
thrust into the earth, at one station, so as to leave its upper edge projecting above
the surface about 2 centimeters, and the other electrode is, in a similar manner,
thrust into the earth at the other station; the electrodes being both placed with their
concave surfaces towards the south pole.
The upper edge of each electrode is fitted at or near the middle with a binding
screw from which a conducting wire is led to a telegraphic instrument of any
ordinary construction, at each station, and the two instruments are connected by a
line wire in the usual manner.
By this arrangement the instruments can be operated just as effectively as if the
electrodes were replaced by batteries of the usual construction.
It is obvious that the invention is applicable to electro-plating, electrotyping,
electric lighting, or to any other purpose to which electricity can be applied, and
the effect.may be augmented by increasing the size of the plates.
Dated this 10th day of January 1889.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Electric Generators.
I HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of the Office for Patents, 6, Breams Buildings,
Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of the present invention is the production of electricity in a more
economical manner than heretofore.
The apparatus which it is proposed to use for this purpose is shown in the accom-
panying drawing as applied to a telegraphic system by way of example.
A is a semi-cylinder of retort, carbon, which is thrust into the earth near one
station, with its concave surface directed towards the south pole, and so as to leave
but about 2 centimetres projecting above the surface of the ground.
B is an open cylinder of zinc which is similarly disposed near the other station,
with its concave face also towards the south, and its edge about 2 centrimetres above
the surface of the ground.
The upper edge of each electrode is fitted, at or near the middle, with a binding
screw, C, D, from which a conducting wire is led to a telegraphic instrument of any
ordinary construction, at each station, and the two instruments are connected by a
line wire in the usual manner.
By this arrangement, the instruments can be operated just as effectively as if the
electrodes were replaced by batteries of usual construction.
It is obvious that the invention is applicable to other purposes to which electricity
can be applied, and the effect may be augmented by increasing the size of the
plates.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
An electric generator consisting of two electrodes, the one of carbon, the other of
zine, inserted in the earth as above described, the connection of which will produce an
electrical current which may be used for telegraphic or other purposes.
Lal: 0741 1...
Rahman 1980
Pobruary
1980
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.