Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 1,119,732 - Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 7

( T F 1 1 Room No. 91... 43 communications should be cadressed to "The Commusioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." Nikola Tesla, c/o Kerr, Page & Cooper, #120-Broadway, 2-260. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, لبه به UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE, New York, N.Y. Paper No......3... All communications respecting this application should give the serial number, date of filing, and title of invention. Please find below a communication from the EXAMINER in charge of your application, #90,245, filed Jan. 18, 1902, for Apparatus for Transmitting Electrical Energy through the Natural Media. WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 16, 1903. 4 Fr. I. Allen. Commissioner of Patents. This action is in reply to applicant's communication filed March 14, 1903. The requirements for amplification of the specification and for the additional illustration, specified in the last office letter, are repeated. Claims 2 and 3 are allowed. The other claims are believed to be properly rejected on the references of record. In patent No.689,096, a2 is an insulated support connected to a curved conducting surface at a point of low electrical density. Applicant attempts to distinguish his invention from the apparatus disclosed by the references by stating in his argument that he avoids altogether the effect sought by Kinraid. Kinraid's electrode of large radius of curvature is an electrode for discharging electricity into the atmosphere, to another electrode, and it is thought that this is the function of applicant's electrode. If, however, such is not the case, the specification should clearly explain what is meant by the expression "transmitting electrical energy through the natural media, " (See line 5, page 1.) which is stated to be the function of the apparatus disclosed. G. C. Mean Examiner, Division XVI. 15 371703