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

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No. 685,955. Patented Nov. 5, 1901. N. TESLA.. APPARATUS FOR UTILIZING EFFECTS TRANSMITTED FROM A DISTANCE TO A RECEIVING DEVICE THROUGH NATURAL MEDIA. (Application filed Sept. 8, 1899. Renewed May 29

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364 (Serial Number,) fl 62.317 Patent No. 65,955 Nikola Tesla media. Parts of application filed. or New York, Of County of State of Inventiont pparatu effor utilizing effects. transmitter from a

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1. Application. papers. C. K -Sept 30, 1829 Oct, 25. 1895 3. Letter of withdrawal Mch. 14. 19404 5. -19006. 7. & 9. 10. 7.1. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. (191.) 1899. CONTENTS: 23. L

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366 NUMBER (SERIES OF 1900.) 7.812. 62.3.1.7. ssignee. New YorkPATENT NO 685 955 Nikola Tesla Prenewal. 1901 Petition. Affidavit. Specification... Drawing. Model... none. unty of.. New Yorkate of

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J Application.. 1. 3. 4. 10. 11. • Letter of Rureimal Muay 29.19.01. Mag. 22.1.201 Amisud b 12. 13. 14. 15. 16: 17. -18. 19. 20. 21. 23. 2-431. 1901 CONTENTS: papers. fram. TITLE: inapparatus for

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368 State of County of " Odaada UlCara Nikola Tesla, the above named petitioner being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a and resident of New citizen of the United States, York City, in the

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1500 ck. To the Commissioner of Patents; Your Petitioner Nikola Tesla, a citizen of the United States, > residing at New York City, New York, -for in the County of New York and State of prays that

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370 Room No.97. income le attend to the Commissister of Patents, Washington. 3. C." Nikola, Tesla, 2-071. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, All communications respecting thats application shouti give the

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729,812 manner in which these radiations are produced, any extended discussion of the various methods of producing these radiations, has no proper place in this application. The discussion adds

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372 a a' Room 91. In the matter of the application of Nikola Tesla, No. 729,812, filed September 8, 1899, Apparatus for Utiliizing Effects Transmitted through the Natural Media. Hon. Commissioner of

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a 2 1 "Another method consists in passing a current through a circuit, preferably one enclosing a very large area, inducing thereby in a similar circuit situated at a distance, another current, and

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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

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The Honorable Sir: Commissioner of Patents. Approved: United States Patent Office, I have the honor to request that the application of Nikola Tesla, for Apparatus for Utilizing Effects Transmitted

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376 In every application for a patent filed subsequent to December 31, 1897, responsive action must be made by the one year after the last office notion or the case will become abandoned. Inventor

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B 1 2 B² Room 91. Application of Nikola Tesla, No. 729,812, filed September 8, 1899. Apparatus for Utilizing Effects Transmitted through the Natural Media. Hon. Commissioner of Patents, Sir:- New York

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378 In claim 5, line 3, after "combination" insert "with a source of such effects or disturbances". In claim 6, line 2, after "combination" insert "with a source of such effects or disturbances". In

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To the Conumissioner of Patents:- Your petitioner, Nikola Tesla, a citizen of the United States and a resident of the Borough of Manhattan, in the City, County and State of New York, whose post office

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380 Jerte Cancel for ß_ Sub TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: - BE IT KNOWN that I, NIKOLA TESLA, a citizen of the United States, residing at the forough of Manhattan, in the city, County, and State of New

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from here. out. Див. a' out to operate distant receivers have here tof ore been devised by myself and others, and applied with more or less success for accomplishing a variety of useful results. One

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382 in the former case, and, there being no difficulty in energizing powerfully the transmitting circuit a receiver can be easily operated at a distance of several miles. Furthermore, the circuits are

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1 1 J 10 S Another method, which was novel with me and was developed some years ago, is free from all these disadvantages, and has proven itself, in my hands and in those of others, to be the most

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384 Subs very slowly with the distance. It is an incidental advantage, which is often of no small practical importance, that with the observance of obvious rules and precautions, the relative position

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thermore, since in most cases the amount of energy conveyed to the distant circuit is but a minute fraction of the total energy emanating from the source, it is necessary for the attainment of the

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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

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JEJ which the storage device has been charged. The The best form of apparatus for carrying out my invention of which I am now aware and the manner of using the same will be understood from the

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388 t amounts of electricity, of the same sign, to be conveyed to each of the plates or electrodes above mentioned, either continuously or at intervals of time which are sufficiently long, the

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11) path, and any of these, or similar devices capable of fulfilling the requirements may be used in carrying my invention into practice. One such device of familiar construction, which will serve to

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390 In the present case this device consists of a cylinder made partly of conducting and partly of insulating material, e and e' respectively, which is rotated at the desired rate of speed by any

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Per Bthrough the earth, and that it is desired to utilize the se impulses in accordance with my method. be the case, for example, when such a generator is used for purposes of signalling in one of the

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392 course, understood that the capacity of the condenser should be such as to allow the storing of a much greater amount of energy than is required for the ordinary operation of the receiver. Since

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1 and assuming the speed of rotation of cylinder A to be the same, the apparatus will now be evidently adapted for a number of impulses per unit of time twice a great as in the preceding case. In all

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394 purpose. It is also evident that a device, such as I have already referred to, which offers a more ready passage to impulses of one sign or permits only impulses of the same sign to pass, may also

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1 Weston Cancel. for B maihon 8 1: In an apparatus for utilizing effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media, the combination of a charging circuit adapted to be energized by the

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396 fer B7/ /1 (1 1/ circuit, substantially as described. 3 In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects or disturbances transmitted, through the natural media, the combiwith a souse of such

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1 1 In an apparatus for utilizing electrical effects or con(1 with a source of such effects or disturtances nation of of a charging circuit adapted to be energized by the action of such effects or

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398 PB disturbances transmitted through the natural media, the combia or nation of of a circuit conneding points at a distance from the source between which a difference of potential is created by

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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

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400 4 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, a receiving circuit and

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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

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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

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) .) ( ( stated more fully in connection with the amendment filed this day in the original application Serial No. 721,790, of which the present application is a division. We ask tha the application as

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