Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,953 - Method of Intensifying and Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 15

302 force, and are adapted to be brought into, and out of contact It will now readiwith each other in any convenient manner. ly seen that if the disturbances, of whatever nature they may cause be, cause definite amounts of electricity, of the same sign, to be conveyed to each of the plates or electrodes above mentioned, either continuously or at intervals of time which are sufficiently long, the condenser will be charged to a certain potential, and, an adequate amount of energy being thus stored during the time determined by the device effecting the discharge of the condenser, the receiver will be periodically operated by the electrical energy so accumulated. But very often the character of the impulses and the conditions of their use are such that, without further provision, not enough potential energy would be accumulated in the This is the case. condenser to operate the receiving device. when, for example, each of the plates or terminals receives electricity of rapidly changing sign, or even when each receives electricity of the same sign but only during periods which are In such short as compared with the intervals separating them. instances I resort to the use of a special device, which I insert in the circuit between the plates and the condenser for the purpose of conveying to each of the terminals of the latter, electrical charges of the proper quality and order of succession to enable the required amount of potential energy to be stored in the condenser. There are a number of well-known devices - either without any moving parts or terminals, or with elements with reciprocated or rotated by the application of a suitable force - which offer a more ready passage to impulses of one sign, or direction than to those of the other, or permit only impulses of one kind or order of succession to traverse a path, and any of these, or similar devices capable of fulfilling the requirements, may be used in carrying my method into practice. Camelled ・Sub Spee.. 8 [This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.]