transmitting electrical energy through the natural media, which consists in producing between the earth and a generator-terminal elevated above the same, at a generating-station,650 electrical impulses of a sufficiently-high electromotive force to render the air strata at or near the elevated terminal conducting, causing thereby current impulses to pass through the air strata, and collecting or 655receiving at a point distant from the generating-station the energy of the current impulses by means of a circuit synchronized with the impulses.
7. The method hereinbefore described of 660transmitting electrical energy through the natural media, which consists in producing between the earth and a generator-terminal elevated above the same, at a generating-station, electrical impulses of a wave length 665so related to the length of the generating circuit or conductor as to produce the maximum potential at the elevated air strata conducting, causing 670thereby a propagation of electrical impulses through the air strata, and collecting or receiving at a point distant from the generating-station the energy of such impulses by means of a receiving-circuit having a length 675of conductor similarly related to the wave length of the impulses.
8. The method herinbefore described of transmitting electrical energy through the natural media, which consists in producing 680between the earth and a generator-terminal elevated above the same, at a generating-station sufficiently high electromotive force to render elevated air strata conducting, causing thereby a propagation or flow of electrical energy through the air strata, by conduction,685 collecting or receiving the energy so transmitted by means of a receiving-circuit at a point distant from the generating station, using the receiving circuit to energize a secondary circuit, and operating translating devices690 by means of the energy so obtained in the secondary circuit.
9. The method hereinbefore described of transmitting electrical energy through the natural media, which consists in generating695 current impulses of relatively low electromotive force at a generating-station, utilizing such impulses to energize the primary of a transformer, generating by means of such primary circuit impulses in a secondary 700surrounding by the primary and connected to the earth and to an elevated terminal, of sufficiently high electromotive force to render the elevated air strata conducting, causing thereby impulses to be propagated through the705 air strata, collecting or receiving the energy of such impulses, at a point distant from the generating-station, by means of a receiving-circuit connected to the earth and to an elevated terminal, and utilizing the energy so710 received to energize a secondary circuit of low potential surrounding the receiving-circuit.
Nikola Tesla.
- Witnesses:
- M. Lawson Dyer,
- G. W. Martling.
