Nikola Tesla Patents
326 Another method is based upon the fact that the atmospheric air, which behaves as an excellent insulator to currents generated by ordinary apparatus, becomes a conductor under the influence of currents or impulses of enormously high electro-motive force which I have devised means for generating. By such means air strata, Spic which are easily accessible, are rendered available for the production of many desired effects at distances, however great. This method, furthermore, allows advantage to be taken of many of those improvements which are practicable in the ordinary systems of transmission involving the use of a metallic. conductor." Objection is made to claims 22 to 25 inclusive, on the ground that no apparatus for producing the disturbances at the sending station is shown. We hope that this objection will not be insisted upon for the reason that the applicant has described a number of ways for producing such effects which are now well known. He has shown in the drawings, conventionally, such a device, which for purposes of this case would seem to be as intelligible as the conventional representations of an alternating current dynamo or similar device which the Office habitually accepts. There are so many well known forms of generator for this purpose that it would seem that the means adopted by the applicant of indicating such a device, ought, in the light of the specification, which is very full on this point, to be ample. We ask for reconsideration of the application. Cancelled Sub per B Ken. Page Tempe Arty for Desta -3[This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.]
