A New Tesla Apparatus

In the forms of high-frequency apparatus heretofore devised by Mr. Tesla, and in high-potential generators generally, a cessation of flow has, says the New York Electrical Engineer, naturally been caused during the interruption of the circuit necessary to obtain the "break." In order to produce a continuous high-frequency discharge Mr. Tesla has recently designed an apparatus, which, briefly stated, "consists of the combination of two condensers with a circuit controller so operated by a motive device as to charge and discharge the condensers alternately, whereby one will be discharging while the other is being charged, and conversely." The effect of such an arrangement would appear to be simply to double the number of discharges per second, and to complicate a necessarily somewhat delicate arrangement of apparatus.