Nikola Tesla Patents
358 Murhead) sub g In the matter of the application of Nikola Tesla, filed May 29, 1901, Serial No. 62,315, for Methods of and Apparatus for Utilizing Effects or Disturbances Transmitted through Natural Media. Room 91. Hon. Commissioner of Patents, Sir: New York, July 12, 1901. In the above named application we now amend by cancelling claim 1 and substituting there for the following: 1. The method of transmitting and utilizing electrical energy herein described, which consists in producing arbitrarily varied or intermitted electrical disturbances or effects, transmitting the same to a distant receiving station, charging for succeeding and predetermined periods of time a condensor with energy derived from such effects or disturbances, and so operating a receiving device by the discharge of the accumulated potential energy so obtained, as set forth. In claim ll, lines 4 and 5, cancel the words "Through the natural media". With this amendment the application is submitted for reconsideration. We are unable to accept the Examiner's view that the terms of the claims as last presented are fairly anticipated by the reference cited, because they distinctly included as an element the feature of the transmission of the impulses to a distance, but in order to avoid any question on this point we have anenclaim 1 to include the idea of arhitrarily varying or inter
