Tesla patent drawings

Nikola Tesla Patents

Tesla was granted nearly 200 patents worldwide

254 Serb. Speicin Room 85. In the matter of the application. of Nikola Tesla, No. 684,934, filed July 1, 1898, Method of & Apparatus for Controlling the Movements of Floating Vessels. New York, September 26, 1898. Hon. Commissioner of Patents, Sir:- As we desire to make in the specification and claims of the above named application a number of amendnents and alterations, we file herewith a complete copy of specification and claims and request that the same be substituted for that now on file: "To all whom it may concern:- Be it known that I, Nikola Tesla, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the he county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful improvements in methods of and apparatus for controlling from a distance the operation of the propelling engines, the steering apparatus and other mechanism carried by moving bodies or floating vessels, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the drawings accompanying and forming part of the same: P The problem, for which the invention forming the subject of my present application, affords a complete and practicable solution, is that of controlling from a given point the operation of the propelling engines, the steering apparatus and other mechanism carried by a moving ob