A NEW POWER APPLICABLE TO THE PROPELLING OF VESSELS AND BOATS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION THROUGH THE WATER, AND ALSO TO THE PUMPING OF THEM
Year: 1812

page_text: MORGAN'S SPECIFICATION..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MORGAN, of York Street, in the City of Dublin, Doctor of Medicine, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by His
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Nineteenth day of December, in
the fifty-third year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said John
Morgan, my exors, admors, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, that I, the said John Morgan, my exors, adññiors, and
assigns, should and lawfully might, during the term of years therein mentioned,
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and also in all His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations
abroad, my Invention of "A NEW POWER APPLICABLE TO THE PROPELLING OF
VESSELS AND BOATS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION THROUGH THE WATER, AND ALSO TO THE
PUMPING OF THEM;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso
that if I, the said John Morgan, shall not particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, and cause the same to
be enrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that
then the said Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever
thereby granted, shall utterly cease, determine, and become void, as in and by
the same, relation being thereunto had, may more fully and at large.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
John Morgan, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and

page_text: the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly described and
ascertained in manner following (that is to say):
To some convenient part or place or parts or places of, in, or appertaining to
the said vessels or boats, or either of them, I do annex or affix one or more bar or
bars, beam or beams, outrigger or outriggers, of wood or other fit material, in
such manner as that one of the extremities, called the outer extremity, of each
of the said several bar or bars, beam or beams, outrigger or outriggers, shall be
without the said vessels or boats, or any or either of them; and the other of the
said extremities, called the inner extremity, shall be within the vessels or boats,
or any or either of them, or nearly so; and that each of the said bar or bars,
beam or beams, outrigger or outriggers, shall, by means of a joint or other well-
known mechanical contrivance of the nature of an hinge or horizontal cross
axis, or manner or mode of suspension at or near the inner extremity thereof,
be capable of being moved up and down as to the outer extremity thereof in
the manner of an arm or lever; and further, I do annex or affix unto each of
the said outer extremities a block or buoy or floating piece, and I do allow
and suffer the same to bear and float in and upon the external water, and
thereby to produce a tendancy to rise and fall, or an actual rise and fall, of and
in the said outer extremitys, by the re-action of the waves and the respective
weights or buoyancy of the said blocks, buoys, or floating pieces, or to afford
either an absolute or relative motion or change of situation in the said blocks,
buoys, or floating pieces, by reason of the rolling or pitching, as well as of the
rise and fall of the said vessels or boats respectively in or upon the subjacent
and surrounding water and the waves and swell thereof. And further, I con-
nect the said bar or bars, beam or beams, outrigger or outriggers, or blocks,
buoys, or floats, by means of arms, wheels, pinions, blocks, sheaves, pullies, ropes,
bands, or other well-known mechanical organs, instruments, or gears, unto and
with the ordinary and well-known apparatus or machinery for propelling the
said vessels or boats, or for pumping, or performing or effecting any other
needful and suitable mechanical work within, about, or concerning the said
vessels or boats. And I do accordingly, by means of such and the said con-
nection, and of the power so generated, produced, or communicated in, by, or
through the said bar or bars, beam or beams, outrigger or outriggers, propel
the said vessels or boats, or do pump them, or do, perform, and effect other
needful and suitable mechanical work within or at the same, as aforesaid.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Morgan, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord On
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.
JOHN MORGAN. (L.s.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighth day of June, in the
year of our Lord 1813, the aforesaid John Morgan came before our said Lord
the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification aforesaid, and
all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. And
also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the
Statute made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and thirteen.