Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 645,576 - System of Transmission of Electrical Energy Patent Wrapper Page 70

188 Room No. 85. All orications should be addespotis "The Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C." Nikola Tesla, % Kerr, -e-071 n. Any communication respecting this application should give the serial number, date of filing, and title of intention. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, UNITED STATEC PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 23, 1898. and Page, 123 Broadway, New York City. Please find below a communication from the EXAMINER in charge of your application. for System of Transmission of Electrical Energy, filed Sept. 2, 1897, Serial No. 650,343. C. H. Duell Commissioner of Patents. In view of the request last filed, this case has been carefully reconsidered. On page 2 of the amendment filed Oct. 16, 1897, it is stated that the results arrived at are of such character and magnitude, as compared with any heretofore secured, as to render indispensà ble the employment of means and the utilisation of effects essentially different in their characteristics and actions fron those before used or investigated; and again on the same page, lines 20 to 23, "I have devised means whereby I am enabled to generate with safety and ease electrical pressures measured by hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of volts;" and on page 3, lines 10 to 13, that "The system of transmission comprised in my present