Nikola Tesla Patents
472 Fig. 4, in a shunt to the resistance F, or inserted in any suitable way in the circuit containing the receiver, for example, as illustrated in Fig. 5, in both of which figures the various devices are lettered to correspond with those in Fig. 1, so that the figures become self explanatory. Again, the several instruments may be connected in the manner of a Wheatstone bridge, as will be hereinafter explained with reference to Fig. 2, or otherwise connected or related, but in each case the sensitive device will have the same duty to perform, that is, to control the energy stored and utilized in some suitable way for causing the operation of the receiver in correspondence with the intermittances or variations of the effects or disturbances, and in each instance, by a judicious selection of the devices and careful adjustment, the advantages of my method may be more or less completely secured. I find it preferable, however, to follow the plan which I have illustrated and described. It will be observed that the condenser is an important element in the combination. I have shown that, by reason of its unique properties, it greatly adds to the efficacy of this method. It allows the energy accumulated in it to be discharged instantaneously, and therefore in a highly effective manner, it magnifies, in a large degree, the current supplied from the battery and, owing to these features, it permits energy to be stored and discharged at practically any rate desired and thereby makes it possible to obtain in the receiving circuit very great changes of the current strength by impressing upon the battery current very small variations. Other means. -12This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.
