A PERPETUAL POWER THAT WILL GIVE MOTION TO ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY, MILLS ENGINES, CARRIAGES, SHIPS OF WAR, MERCANTILE AND OTHER VESSELS, LIGHTERS, CRAFTS, AND BOATS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
Year: 1801

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PARKES, of Newington, in the County of Surrey, Professor of Phylosophy, 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 Twentieth day of
August, 'in the forty-first year of His reign, give and grant unto me, the said
William Parkes, His especial licence, that I, the said William Parkes, during
the term of years therein mentioned, should and lawfully might use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A PERPETUAL POWER THAT WILL GIVE MOTION TO ALL KINDS OF
MACHINERY, MILLS, ENGINES, CARRIAGES, SHIPS OF WAR, MERCANTILE AND OTHER
VESSELS, LIGHTERS, CRAFTS, AND BOATS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION;" in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me, the said William
Parkes; by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to cause a parti-
cular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within
one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent,.
as in and by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at
large appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
William Parkes, do hereby declare that my said Invention is described in
manner following (that is to say) :-
This grand arcanum or secret of nature is that liquid or fluid composition
called air, not formed by art but by the chymical process of nature.
It is
invisible and inexhaustible, but it is unlimited in its power and effect. It can
be applied to give motion to all sorts of machinery, and it may be worked in
all situations, by land or by water, upon the highest mountain or in the lowest
valley. It is perpetual, for it fills the whole expanse between the earth and the
canopy of heaven. It is obtained without expence, being everywhere present, and
it will give motion to every kind of mechanism, to mills for working iron, spinning
silk, cotton, wool, &c., and for grinding and dressing of corn, to engines for
draining of lands and mines, to pumps, carriages, ships of war, mercantile and
other vessels, to lighters, crafts, and boats of every description, and, in short,
to every thing that requires motion. This perpetual power can be increased
or diminished at the will of the person that applies it, by opening a large valve,
pipe, or cock for the air to pass thro' to the wheel or piston, whereby an
immense saving will be made (by the use of this power) to the public in fuel
for steam engines, in collecting streams of water for mills, and in manual and
other labour. The method of applying this perpetual power to give motion is
by compressing or condensing air into a receiver or reservoir of any form,
with an air pump or bellows fixed to the receiver or reservoir, and conveying
this air from the receiver or reservoir to a wheel with close or open bucketts,
or to a piston by pipes, valves, or cocks. This will give the wheel or piston
motion according to the body of air conveyed to it, and it will have the same
effect upon the mill or engine as water or steam, for it is the stream of water
running upon the wheel, and the expansion of the steam to the piston, that
gives motion; so it is the stream of air running upon the wheel, and tho
expansion of it to the piston, that is the cause of motion to both wheel and
piston, with this advantage, its power can be increased to any magnitude by
compressing a greater body of air into the receiver or reservoir, and conveying
a greater body of it to the wheel or piston; in fact, it is this power which gives
motion to every living thing, for without air we cannot live or breathe, and its
motion will never cease to act upon a machine until the materials of the
machine gives way, for the machine itself will keep the pumps or bellows con-
stantly at work by fixing a crank to the air pump or bellows, by which means
it communicates with the first motion, and the receiver or reservoir is con-
tinually supplied with fresh air, and this gives perpetual motion to the machine

page_text: which nothing else in nature can do. This power may be applied to any
carriages, ships, or boats in the same manner that the steam engine is applied,
or any way the engineer may think most proper.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Parkes, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, the Eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and one.
WILLIAM PARKES.
(L.S.)
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eighteenth day of September,
in the forty-first year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
the said William Parkes came before our said Lord the King in His Chan-
cery, and acknowledged the Instrument aforesaid, and all and every thing
therein contained and specified, in form above written. And also the Instru-
ment aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the several Statutes
made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and
Mary of England, and so forth, and in the seventeenth, twenty-third, and
thirty-seventh years of the reign of His present Majesty King George the
Third.
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