Nikola Tesla Patents
348 the storage not of effects or disturbances or waves which are, or are xat capable of being transmitted from any source to any definite point, but simply of local atmospheric electricity. We think, moreover, that the plans proposed by these patentaes will be at once recognized as purely chinerical, and so far as their anticipatory effect is concerned, they amount to no more than Franklin's primitive experiment of drawing the electricity from the clouds by the wet kite string and charging a conde nser with it. The object which applicant has in view is to intensify the feeble electrical disturbances which, are transmitted from one place to another through the natural medium so that they may be utilized for a specific purpose. To accomplish this purpose he stores the energy of such effects in a condens er, and by the enormously rapid rate of the discharge, secures the novel result of rendering such energy capable of operating a receiver upon which. in its natural state, it would have no effect. We see no objection to the substitution in the Dewey or Munro systems of a condenser for the storage battery, if one wishes to make such substitution, but the result. would be to defeat even the fanciful scheme which these patentees have in mind, and to reduce them to the Franklin experiment pure and simple. We have amended the specification and claims in order to make clear the distinction between applicant's invention and the references, and we now submit the application for Кии. Радет столи Alleſ for Zeela reconsideration. -19
