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 37

12 In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media, the combination of a circuit connecting points at a distance from the source between which a difference of potential is created by //such effects or disturbances, a storage device adapted to be charged with the energy supplied by such circuit for succeeding and predetermined periods of time, a receiving circuit, a receiver included in the receiving circuit, and means for conpecting the receiving circuit with the storage device for periods of time predetermined as to succession and duration and thereby causing the receiver to be operated by the energy accumulated in the storage device, substantially as described. 13 18: In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media, the combination of a circuit connecting points at a distance from the source, between which a difference of potential is created by such effects or disturbances, a condenser included in such circuit and adapted to be charged by the current in the same, a receiving circuit connected with the condenser, a receiver included in such receiving circuit, and a device adapted to close the receiving circuit at arbitrary intervals of time and thereby cause the receiver to be operated by the electrical energy. accumulated in the condenser, substantially as described. (1 sion and duration and thereby causing the receiver to be operated by the energy accumulated in the storage device, substantially as described. 4 36:14 In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media, the combination of a charging circuit distant from the source and energized by the effects or disturbances, a storage device included 5 399