A. G. BELL.

GENERATING EECTRIC CURRENTS.

No. 181,553. at ented Aug. 29, 1876.

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ALEXANDER GRAEAM BELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACEUSETTS,
IMPROVEMENT IN GENERATING ELECTRic cuRRENts.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 S1,553, dated August 29, 1876; application filed
August 12, 1876.

To all whom it may concern: cS bgc. The needle of the galvanometer g

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER GRAHAM -tion is deflected permanently so long as the rota
BELL, of Boston, Massachusetts, have in of N S is continued, and the deflection is
vented certain new and useful Improvements reversed when the direction of the rotation is
in Telegraphy, of which the following is a Figures 1 and 3 illustrate
changed. -
the combination
Specification: of a number of rotating magnets to form an
My invention consists of a method of and
apparatus for inducing a continuous current electro-magnetic battery for use upon tele
graphic lines. . In Fig. 2 the battery is ar.
of electricity upon a telegraphic circuit by the ranged
rotatory motion of permanent magnets, or tity. InforFigs. intensity, and in Fig. 3 for quall
other bodies capable of inductive action, thus resent magnets,1, which2, and 3, N S N S, &c., rep
obviating the necessity of using voltaic bat upon their axes a, b (, b,are caused to rotate
&c., the direction of
teries.
It has long been known that a straight bar the rotationthebeing the same for all. Fig. 4
of magnetized steel can be made to rotate represents manner in which a continuous
upon its axis by passing a current of elec current of electricity may be induced upon
tricity through it from the center to the poles, ament
closed circuit by the rotation of a perma
magnet in the neighborhood of the con
or vice versa. Now, I have discovered that ducting-wire, or vice versa, or by the revolu
, the converse of this is equally true; that the
mechanical rotation of the bar occasions a tion of the one around the other. This figure
continuous current of electricity flowing from represents one way in which this part of my
the center of the bar to the poles, or from the the rotation of bethecarried
invention may into effect, viz., by
magnet in the neighbor
poles to the center, according to the direction hood of the conducting-wire,
of the rotation.
An excited electro-magnet, or a helix of in twoN halves,
S is a permanel)t magnet, divided into
N B and A S, which are magnet
sulated wire through which a continuous cur
rent is passed, may be substituted for the per ically united by an iron cog-wheel, D, fitting
into the corresponding cog-wheels A and B.
manent magnet.
A continuous current of electricity may also Cwheels
is a central support for the axles of the cog
A, B, and D, and it is made of a non
be induced upon a telegraphic circuit by the conducting material. When the cog-wheel D
rotation of the conducting-wire in the neigh is made to rotate by means of suitable mech
borhood of a permanent magnet, or other body
capable of inductive action by the rotation of anism, rotation is also caused in the perma
the permanent magnet in the neighborhood nent magnet N S, the poles N and S turning
of the conducting-wire, or by the revolution in The opposite directions.
of the permanent magnet and conducting-Wire currentsrotation of the poles N and Soccasions
of electricity in the neighboring con
around each other.
In illustration of my method of inducing a ductor W. W. Since N and S turn in oppo
continuous current of electricity upon a tele site directions, the currents induced by their
graphic circuit, I shall show and describe one rotation in W W are in the same direction,
form of apparatus for producing the effect. and do not neutralize each other. The rota
tion of D thus occasions a continuous current
I prefer to employ for this purpose a bar-imag of
net, N S, Figure 1, which can be caused to W,electricity upon the closed circuit W Wig
rotate upon its axis a b by means which it is deflected to theofright
the needle the galvanometer g' being
or left, according to the
unnecessary to describe. A metallic spring, direction of the rotation of D.
c, rests against the center of the permanent The permanent magnet N S, Fig. 4, may
magnet N. S. The instrument so constructed be set in rotation in the interior
may be connected in circuit with a galvan cylinder of copper, so as to obtainofthea full hollow
in
ometer, g, as in Figure 1. When N S is ductive action of the magnet all around; and
caused to rotate upon its axis (, b, a continu the copper cylinders of a number of similar
ous current of electricity traverses the circuit
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instruments may be united in series for quan 2. The combination of the conducting-wire,
tity or intensity in an analogous manner to forming a closed circuit with a permanent
the arrangements shown in Figs. 2 and 3. magnet, or other body capable of inductive
The currents induced in the copper cylinders, action, so that the rotation of the one in the
and the currents induced in the rotating mag neighborhood of the other shall induce a con
nets themselves, may be thrown into the same tinuous current of electricity in the closed- cir
circuit, so as to produce a maximum effect. cuit.
Having described my invention, what I In testimony whereof I have hereunto
claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat signed my name this 22d day of July, A. D.
ent, is- - 1876.
1. The method of inducing a continuous cur
rent of electricity in a closed circuit by the A. GRAEIAM BELL.
rotation of a permanent magnet, or other body Witnesses:
capable of inductive
circuit, -
action, included in the CoRNELIUS FINN,
BENJAMIN KIM BALL.