Nikola Tesla Patents
Sub Speci ris Muvike pub gg ances or effects at the receiving station to charge a condenser, and discharging the accumulated potential energy so obtained through a receiving device at arbitrary intervals of time. 7/12 The method hereinbefore described of transmitting signals or intelligence, which consists in producing trarily varied or intermitted electrical impulses at a sending station, attings such impulses through the natural media to rec diving station, creating by such inpulses corresponding impulses in a circuit at the receiving station, selecting or directing such impulses, if ne cessary, to make then suitable for charging a condenser, charging a condens er vi th electrical energy from such circuit, and discharging the electrical energy so accumulated in the condenser into or through a receiver at arbitrary intervals of time." In the patents cited the objects sought are essentially different from those which applicant contemplates. Weston's patent converts the sun's heat into electricity, stores the electricity and uses the stored energy, when it is convenient to do so. So far as the mere mechanical act of substituting a condenser for the storage battery of this patent is concerned, there would be no difficulty, but such substi tution would appear to be entirely without any useful purpose or result, unless it were intended as a mere demonstration of the fact that the sun's energy could be converted into electrical energy by a thermopile. As to the patents of Dewey and the British patent to Munro, we think it need only be said that they contemplate -18347
