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 40

402 e e² Room 91. In the matter of the application of Nikola Tesla, Serial No. 729,812, filed September 8, 1899, Apparatus for Utilizing Effects Transmitted through the Natural Media, Renewed Application. Hon. Commissioner of Patents, tute: Sir:- as follows: New York, May 25, 1901. In the above named application we hereby amend Cancel the first three lines of claim 7 and substi"7. In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects or disturbances transmitted to a distant receiving station, the combination with a source of such effects or disturbances of a circuit distant from the source and adapted to" Cancel the first three lines of claim 8, nd substitute: "8. In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects. or disturbances transmitted to a distant receiving station, the combination with a source of such effects or disturbances of a circuit distant from the source and adapted to have" This amendment is made in order that the patent may unequivocally cover the invention whether it be used in a system in which the electrical effects are transmitted by conduction through the natural media or through an artificial conductor, and for the further reasons which we have -1This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.]