Nikola Tesla Patents
232 ment is in many cases unnecessary for the successful carrying out of my invention, I nevertheless make it a rule to bestow upon this feature the greatest possible care, not only because of the above mentioned advantages which are secured by the observance of the most favorable conditions in this respect, but also, and chiefly, with the object of preventing the receiving circuit from being affected by waves or disturbances emanating from sources not under the control of the operator. The narrower the range of vibretions which are still capable of perceptibly affecting the receiving circuit, the safer will the latter be against extraneous disturbances. To secure the best result it is necessary, as is well known to experts, to construct the receiving circuit,, or that part of the same in which the vibration chiefly occurs, so that it will have the highest possible self-induction and at the same time the least possible resistance. In this manner I have demonstrated the practicability of providing a great number of such receiving circuits --fifty or a hundred or more-- each of which may be called up or prought into action whenever desired, without the others being interfered with. This result makes it possible for one operator to direct, simultaneously, the movements of a number of bodies, as well as 1 to control the action of a number of devices located on the same body, each of which may have a distinct duty to fulfil. In the following description, however, I shall show a still further development in this direction namely how, by making use of merely one receiving circuit, a great variety of devices may be actuated and any number of different functions performed at the will and command of the distant operator. (8)
