Nikola Tesla Patents
546 minals of the condenser and with each fresh impulse it will be charged to a higher potential. The speed of rotation of the cylinder d being adjustable at will, the energy of any number of separate impulses may thus be accumulated in potential form and discharged through the receiver R upon the brush k coming in contact with one of the segments f! It will be understood that the capacity of the condenser should be such as to allow the storing of a much greater amount of energy than is required for the ordinary operation of the receiver. Since by this. method a relatively great amount of energy, and in a suitable form, may be made available for the operation of a receiver, the latter need not be very sensitive. But, when the impulses are very weak, or when it is desired to operate a receiver very rapidly, any of the well known sensitive devices, capable of responding to very feeble influences, may be used, in the manner indicated, or in other ways. Under the conditions described it is evident that during the continuance of the stationary waves, the receiver will be acted upon by current impulses more or less intense, according to its location with reference to the maxima and minima of said waves, but upon interrupting or reducing the flow of the current the stationary waves will disappear or diminish in intensity. Hence a great variety of effects may be produced in a receiver according to the mode in which the waves are controlled. It is practicable, however, to shift the nodal and ventral regions of the waves at will from the sending station, as by varying the length of the waves under observance of the above requirements. In this manner the regions of maximum and minimum effect may be made to coincide with any receiving station -11This page retyped from microfilm for better readability - Ed.
