Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 645,576 - System of Transmission of Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 65

( 1 ( Obviously also, certain features of my invention here. disclosed will be useful as disconnected from the method itself 12-30-993 as, for example, in other systems of energy transmission, for whatever purpose they may be intended, the transmitting and receiving transformers arranged and connected as illustrated, the feature of a transmitting and receiving coil or conductor, both connected to the ground and to an elevated terminal and adjusted so as to vibrate in synchronism, the proportioning of such conductors or coils as above specified, the feature of a receiving transformer with its primary connected to earth and to an elevated terminal, and having the operative devices in its secondary, and other features or particulars such as have been described in this specification or will readily suggest themselves by a perusal of the same. Sueb B Feb. 24 (12) 19 15 I do not claim in this application the specific construction of the apparatus used for the production and utilization of the currents, such apparatus having been made the subject of an application filed by me on the 20th of March, 1897, Serial No. 628,453. -16This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed. 183