Nikola Tesla Patents
300 Pulses of long duration, it is impracticable to magnify the effects in this manner, and when, on the other hand, it is one furnishing short impulses of extreme rapidity of succession, the advantage obtained in this way is insignificant owing to the radiation and the unavoidable frictional waste in the receiving circuit. These losses reduce greatly both the intensity and the number of the co-operative impulses, and, since the initial intensity of each of these is necessarily limited, only an insignificant amount of energy is thus made available for a single. operation of the receiver. As this amount is consequently dependant on the energy conveyed to the receiver by one single impulse, it is evidently necessary to employ either a very large. and costly and, therefore, objectionable transmitter, or else to resort to the equally objectionable use of a receiving device. too delicate and too easily deranged-. Furthermore, the energy obtained through the co-operation of the impulses is in the form of extremely rapid vibrations and, because of this, unsuitable for the operation of ordinary receivers, the more so as this form of energy imposes narrow restrictions in regard to the mode and time of ts application to such devices. Canelled. рабия братот fer a To overcome these and other imitations and disadvantages which have heretofore existed in such systems of transmission of signals or intelligence, and to ender possible an investigation of impulses or disturbances propagated through the natural media from any kind of source, and their practical utilization for any desired purpose to which they are applicable, is the object of my present invention, which comprises a novel method se nove pe for accomplishing these ends. The method, briefly stated, consists in effecting, during any desired time interval, a storage of energy derived from such impulses, and utilizing the potential energy so accumulated at any desired moment for operating a receiving device 6
