A CERTAIN COMPOUND OR CERTAIN COMPOUNDS TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Harrison, of Oldham, in the County of
Lancaster, Schoolmaster, William Bradbury, ofthe same Place, Mechanic,
James Buckley, of the same Place, Weaver, and Dan Garside, of the
same Place, Engineer, for the Invention of "A CERTAIN COMPOUND OR
CERTAIN COMPOUNDS TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER,"
Sealed the 26th April 1861, and dated the 29th October 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Harrison, William
Bradbury, James Buckley, and Dan Garside at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th October 1860.
We, EDWARD HARRISON, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, School-
master, WILLIAM BRADBURY, of the same Place, Mechanic, JAMES BUCKLEY,
of the same Place, Weaver, and DAN GARSIDE, of the same Place, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A CERTAIN COMPOUND
OR CERTAIN COMPOUNDS TO BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER," to be as
follows:-
Our Invention consists of an admixture of certain saccharine matter or
matters (saccharum) with potash, or a certain preparation or certain pre-
parations therefrom, carbon, coal or cannel, starch, and sulphur, and a plant
commonly called or known as "club moss" (lycopodium clavatum).
The saccharum employed is saccharine matter containing indefinite pro-

page_text: portions of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. This, when mixed with a
preparation from potash and other above named ingredients, and also com-
bined with the plant or parts of the plant, called "club moss" (lycopodium
clavatum), forming a chemical combination becomes, when ground, granulated
and glazed, the substitute for gunpowder for which Letters Patent are sought.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Harrison, William Bradbury, James Buckley, and
Dan Garside in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th April 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, EDWARD
HARRISON, of Oldham, in the County of Lancaster, Schoolmaster, WILLIAM
BRADBURY, of the same Place, Mechanic, JAMES BUCKLEY, of the same Place,
Weaver, and DAN GARSIDE, of the same Place, Engineer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year
of Her. reign, did; for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant

page_text: unto us, the said Edward Harrison, William Bradbury, James Buckley, and
Dan Garside, Her special licence that we, the said Edward Harrison, William
Bradbury, James Buckley, and Dan Garside, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Edward Harrison, William
Bradbury, James Buckley; and Dan Garside, our 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 "A CERTAIN COMPOUND OR CERTAIN COMPOUNDS TO BE USED AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the
said Edward Harrison, William Bradbury, James Buckley, and Dan Garside,
or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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 Edward Harrison, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement, that is to say:
Our Invention consists of an admixture of certain saccharino matter or
matters (saccharum) with potash, or a certain preparation or certain pre-
parations therefrom, carbon, coal, or cannel, starch and sulphur, and a plant
commonly called or known as "club moss" (lycopodium clavatum).
The saccharum employed is saccharine matter containing indefinite pro-
portions of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. This, when mixed with a
preparation from potash and other above named ingredients, and also com-
bined with the plants or parts of the plant called "club moss" (lycopodium
clavatum), forminga chemical combination, becomes, when ground,granulated
and glazed, or otherwise prepared, the substitute for gunpowder.

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generat
This admixture is suitable for rifies and Towing
sporting purposes. Any other variations either in the proportions orquantities
e! some or all of the above ingredients may be made in order to obtain gun-
powder of the different qualities and strengths required.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Harrison, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
EDWARD HARRISON. (L.S.)