Nikola Tesla Patents
1 1 1 Q By carefully observing well-known rules of scientific design and adjustment of the instruments, the apparatus may be made extremely sensitive and capable of responding to the feeblest influences, thus making it possible to utilize impulses or disturbances transmitted. from very great distances and too feeble to be detected or utilized in any of the ways heretofore known, and on this account the method here described lends itself to many scientific and practical uses of great value. Obviously, the character of the devices and the manner in which they are connected or related may be greatly varied without departing from the spirit of my invention. What I claim as new, and desire to secure by letters patent is: 1. In an apparatus for utilizing effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media from a distant source, the combination of an electrical storage. device, a charging circuit connected therewith and including a device sensitive to the action of the effects or disturbances and determining under their control the flow of current in the charging circuit, a receiving circuit including a receiver, and means for periodically discharging the storage device through the receiving circuit, substantially as described. 2. In an apparatus for utilizing effects or disturbances transmitted through the natural media from a distant source, the combination of a condenser, a charging circuit connected therewith and including a source of electricity and a device sensitive to the action of the effects or disturbances and determining under their con-19This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed] 479
