Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 685,955 - Apparatus for Utilizing Effects Transmitted From A Distance To A Receiving Device Through Natural Media Patent Wrapper Page 12

374 a' face and at an elevation. The electrifications communicated to the earth spread in all directions through the same, reaching a distant circuit, which generally has its terminals arranged and connected similarly to those of the transmitting source and operates upon a highly sensitive receiver. "Another method is based upon the fact that the atmospheric air, which behaves as an excellent insulator to currents generated by ordinary apparatus, becomes a conductor under the influence of currents of impulses of enormously high electro-motive force which I have devised means for generating. By such means air strata, which are easily accessible, are rendered available for the production of many desired effects at distances, however great. This method, furthermore, allows advantage to be taken of many of those improvements which are practicable in the ordinary systems of transmission involving the use of a metallic conductor." .. page of spec follows With the above amendment, which we believe fully relieves the case from objection, we respectfully ask for a reconsideration. 5 Неи. Роде нетори attigi po Vesla. -3This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.]