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 39

17. 30% In an apparatus for transmitting signals or intelligence through the natural media from a sending station to a distant point, the combination of a generator or transmitter adapted to produce arbitrarily-varied or intermitted electrical disturbances or effects in the natural media, a charging circuit at the distant point adapted to receive corresponding electrical impulses or effects from the disturbances or effects so produced, a condenser included in the charging circuit, means included in the charging circuit and acting in synchronism with the impulses therein for commutating, directing or selecting the impulses so as to render them suitable for charging the condenser, a receiving circuit and means for periodically discharging the condenser through the receiving circuit, substantially as described. 30% In / 20: In an apparatus for transmitting signals or intelligence through the natural media from a sending station to a distant point, the combination of a generator or transmitter adapted to produce arbitrarily-varied or intermitted electrical disturbances or effects in the natural media, a circuit at the distant point adapted to receive corresponding electrical impulses or disturbances from the disturbances or effects so transmitted, a storage device included in such circuit and adapted to be charged thereby, a receiving circuit connected with the storage device, a receiver included in the receiving circuit and a device for closing the receiving circuit at arbitrary intervals of time and thereby causing the receiver to be operated by the energy accumulated in the storage device, substantially as described. Nikola Tesla..... Witnesses: Alista Alomares Curtis 7 401