Nikola Tesla U.S. Patent 725,605 - System of Signaling Patent Wrapper Page 72

686 justable resistance and a relay R3. From the above description it will be readily seen that the relay R3 ill be operated only when both contacts and are closed. The apparatus at the sending station may be controlled in any suitable manner, as for instance, by momentarily closing the circuit of the source S, two different electric vibrations being emitted simultaneously or in rapid succession, as may be desired, at each closure of the circuit. The two receiving circuits at the distant station, each tuned to respond to the vibrations produced by one of the elements of the transmitter affect the sensitive devices al and and cause the relays R1 and R2 to be operated and contacts and to be closed, thus actuating the receiver or relay R3, which in turn establishes a contact 3 and brings into action a degice a3 by means of a battery included in a local circuit, as shown. But evidently, if through any extraneous disturbance only one of the circuits at the receiving station is affected, the relay R3 will fail to respond. In this way communication may be carried on with greatly increased safety against interference, and privacy of the messages may be secured. The receiving station shown in Fig. 2 is supposed to be one requiring no return message, but if the use of the system is such that this is necessary, then the two stations will be similarly equipped, and any well known means, which it is not thought necessary to illustrate here, may be resorted to for enabling the apparatus at each station to be used in turn as transg & mitter and receiver. In like manner the operation of a receiver, as R3, may be made dependent instead of upon two, upon more than two -7