Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,953 - Method of Intensifying and Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 74

J J др In the matter of the application of Nikola Tesla, filed May 29, 1901, Serial No. 62,315, Methods of Utilizing Effects Transmitted through the Room 91. Natural Media. Hon. Commissioner of Patents, lows: Sir:- New York, August 23th, 1901. In the above named application we now anend as folCancel claims 1 and 11, and in lieu thereof substitute 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 condenser with energy derived from such effects or disturbances, and operating a receiving device by discharging at arbitrary intervals, the accumulated potential energy so obtained, as set forth." "1].. The method hereinbefore described of transmitting signals or intelligence from a sending to a distant receiving station, which consists in producing at the former, arbitrarily varied or intermitted electrical disturbances or effects, transmitting the same to the receiving station, charging by the energy derived from such disturbances or effects at the receiving station a condenser, andusing for periods of time predetermined as to succession and duration, the potential -1361