Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,953 - Method of Intensifying and Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 21

308 Issert. Weston Dewey Weston Dewey Cancelled per Seeb. do well as in various applications to practical use. do 2: The method hereinbefore described of utilizing disturbances or effects transmitted through the natural media from a distant source, which consists in storing, in a suitable storage device, energy derived from such disturbances or effects, and using the potential energy so accumulated to operate a receiving device. Spec. What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by letters patent, is: The method hereinbefore described of utilizing effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media from a distant source, which consists in storing, in potential form, energy derived from such disturbances or effects, and using the accumulated energy to operate a receiving device. 1: 3: The method hereinbefore, described of utilizing effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media from a distant source, which consists in storing, in a suitable storage device, for succeeding and predetermined periods of time, energy derived from such effects or disturbances, and using the accu-- mulated potential energy so obtained to operate a receiving device. 4: The method hereinbefore described of utilizing effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media from a distant source, which consists in storing, in a suitable storage device, energy derived from such effects or disturbances, and using, for periods of time predetermined as to succession and duration, the accumulated potential energy so obtained to operate a receiving device. 14 This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.]