Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,953 - Method of Intensifying and Utilizing Effects Transmitted Through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 75

362 energy so obtained to operate a receiving device, as set forth." Ey the above amendment we have clearly pointed out the essential distinction between the methods of operation involved in applicant's invention and those cable systems of which the patent to Muirhead cited in Office letter of August 13th is a fair illustration. The applicant discharges the condenser at intervals arbitrarily fixed without reference to the order or duration of the transmitted impulses and thereby accomplishes a very different result from Muirhead or others, who simply charge a condenser and then discharge it at periods determined solely by the potential of its charge. We think the above amendment makes this distinction entirely clear, and we have therefore to ask for an allowance of the application. Respectfully, True Page Kooper Радь -2