Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,954 - Method of Utilizing Effects Transmitted through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 51

454 fected thereby unequivocally cover a feature of the invention which such claims in their original form could be relied on to cover only by invoking the doctrine of equivalents. In other words, the invention, so far as it relates to the transmission & electrical effects by conduction, is directly applicable to systems involving the use of an artificial line conductor as well as to those which rely solely upon the natural media, and this fact, if not explicitly recognized in the original application, is obvious, and it would be an unnecessary abridgement of applicant's rights to insert any words in the claims which might be regarded as limitations. We ask that the application be considered as amended. ки. Гардеонис айзу и тела. -2