Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 1,119,732 - Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 5

( J J ITALIL Room 91. Application of Nikola Tesla, Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Media, filed January 18, 1902, Serial No. 90,245. Hon Commissioner of Patents, 90245Reg. for Brundif. 14√3 Sir:- 2 MAR 14 1903 U.S. PITENT DESVE New York, March 13, 1903 Reconsideration of the above entitled application is requested. The references of record have nothing in common with the invention of applicant, who utilizes the well known property of an electrode of a large radius of curvature, in an entirely different manner and for an entirely different purpose. In the first place he aims at preventing the leakage of the high tension currents from the entire apparatus, and not simply from an electrode. This is not the case in the patents cited--in fact this idea is inconsistent with the object sought by the patentee. The electrodes described would not be suitable for use in the sense of Tesla's invention. There is no insulating support, and nothing whatever to show that, if Kinraide's electrodes were used in the sense of Tesla's improvement, electricity would not leak cut from the conducting supports, which are of comparatively small diameter. The cardinal features of applicant's invention are entirely wanting from Kinraide's disclosure, the latter's employment of an electrode of curved contour merely serving to localize, as it were, a specific effect, which effect Tesla's invention 13 -1371 701