Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 645,576 - System of Transmission of Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 47

[ 1 E 1 } J ed in the transmission of electrical energy is one of true conduction and is not to be confounded with the phenomena of electrical radiation which have heretofore been observed. I do not claim in this application the specific construction of the apparatus used for the production and utilization of the electrical currents, such appara tus having been made the subject of an application filed by me on the 20th of March, 1897, Serial No. 628,453. What I now claim is:- 1. The method of transmitting electrical energy herein described which consists in producing at a given point a very high electrical pressure, conducting the current caused thereby to earth and to a terminal at an thereby elevation at which the atmosphere serves as a conductor there for, and collecting the current by a second elevated terminal at a distance from the first, as set forth. 2. A system for the electrical transmission of energy comprising in combination a source of current of very high pressure, connected respectively with earth and with a terminal at an elevation where the atmosphere forms a conducting path for the current produced, a second elevated terminal at a distance from the first for receiving the current transmitted there from and means for utilizing the said currents, as set forth. Nikola Tesla Cancelled. For. 37, Witnesses: M. Larveon Jys. GW. Marting! -6165