Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,954 - Method of Utilizing Effects Transmitted through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 39

442 a' Roon 91. In the matter of the application of Nikola Tesla, No. 725, 749, filed August 1, 1899, Methods of Utilizing Effects Transmitted through Natural Media. Hon. Commissioner of Patents, Sir:- now amend as follows: October 20, 1899. In the matter of the application above named we Media". Change the title of the application to read "Methods of Utilizing Effects Transmitted through the Natural On page 1, line 4 of the first paragraph, cancel the words "and apparatus for". On page 1, line 4 of the second paragraph cancel the words "and novel apparatus". Cancel from the 5th line from the bottom of page 1 to the 13th line of page 5, inclusive, and insert: Several ways or methods of transmitting electrical disturbances through the natural media and utilizing them to operate distant receivers are now known, and have been applied with more or less success for accomplishing a variety of useful results. "One of these ways consists in producing, by a suitable apparatus, rays or radiations, that is, disturbances, which are propagated in straight lines through space, directing them upon a receiving or recording apparatus at -1