Nikola Tesla Patents
386 Stet Cancel & maest BB! per B. for dependant on the energy conveyed to the receiver by one. single impulse, it is evidently necessary to employ either a very large and costly and, therefore, objectionable transmitter, or else to resort to the equally objectionable use of a receiving device too delicate and too easily deranged. Furthermore, the energy obtained through the co-operation of the impulses is in the form of extremely rapid vibrations and, because of this, unsuitable for the operation of ordinary receivers, the more so as this form of energy imposes narrow restrictions in regard to the mode and time of its application. to such devices. To overcome these and other limitations andisad; vantages which have here to fore existed in such systems of son of pridals or intelligence and to render possible an investigation of impulses or disturbances propagated through the natural media from any kind of source, and their practical utilization for any desired. purpose to which they are applicable, is the object of my present invention, which comprises a novel apparatus for accomplishing these ends. transmission which is employed at the receiving station The apparatus described in general terms, consists in the combination of a storage device included in a circuit connecting points at a distance from the source of the disturbances, and between which a difference of potential is created by such disturbances, a receiving circuit connected with the storage device, a receiver included in such receiving circuit, and eans for closing the receiving circuit at any desired moment and there by causing the receiver to be operated by the energy with -7
