W hat now claim invention is—
1.
When the source current opera
tion and produces rapidly pulsating oscil
lating currents the circuit coil cor
responding -induced currents very-much
15 higher potential are generated the second
ary coil and since the potential the same
gradually increases' with the number turns
toward the center and the difference poten
tial between the adjacent turns eompara-
20 tively small very high potential impractica
ble with ordinary coils may successively
obtained.an ordinary conductor.
As the elevation the terminals D', it
is obvious that this matter which will be
determined number things, the
40 amount and quality the work per-
. Thus there high mountains
in the vicinity the terminals should a
45 greater height, and generally they should al
ways altitude much greater than that
of the highest objects near them. In
the former case the connection one termi
nal the receiving apparatus the ground
might not permanent, but might inter- 70
mittently inductively established without
departing from the spirit invention. The combination with transmitting in
strument comprising electrical trans
former having its secondary connected to
ground and elevated terminal respec
tively, and means for impressing electrical 130
oscillations upon its primary, receiving
instrument comprising transformer having
its primary similarly connected ground
and elevated terminal, and translat-
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ting and receiving circuits are attained, and
owing the fact that the points highest po
tential the coils conductors are
coincident with the elevated terminals the
5 maximum flow current will take place in
the two coils, and this, further, necessarily
implies that the capacity and inductance in
each the circuits have such values to
secure the most perfect condition synchro-
io nism with the impressed oscillatious.
The apparatus the receiving-station re
sponds the currents propagated from the
transmitter manner which will well
55 understood from the foregoing description.. Since by
the means described practically any potential
■ that desired may produced, the currents
50 through the air strata may very small, thus
reducing the loss the air. Thecombinationwithatransmittingcoil
or conductor having its ends connected 100
ground and elevated terminal respec
tively, primary coil inductive relation
thereto and source electrical oscillations
in said primary circuit, receiving conduc
tor coil havingits ends connected ground 105
and elevated terminal respectively and
adapted excited currents caused to
be propagated from the transmitter through
the natural medium and secondary circuit
in inductive relation the receiving-circuit o
and receiving devices connected therewith,
as set forth.
Obviously the receiving-coils, transform-
65 ers, other apparatus may movable—as,
for instance, when they are carried ves
sel floating the air ship sea.
The-primary circuit the receiver—that is,
the thin wire coil A'—is excited the cur
rents propagated conduction through the
intervening natural medium from the trans-
6o initter, and these currents induce the sec
ondary coil other currents which are util
ized for operating the devices included the
circuit thereof. 125
4.
As the main object for which the apparatus
is designed produce current excess-
25 ively-high potential, this object facilitated
by using primary current very consid
erable frequency; but the frequency the
currents large measure arbitrary, for
if the potential sufficiently high and the
30 terminals the coils maintained the
proper elevation where the atmosphere is
rarefied the stratum air will serve con
ducting medium for the current produced
and the latter will transmitted through the
35 air, with, maybe, even less resistance than
through.
It noted that the phenomenon here
involved the transmission electrical en
ergy one true conduction and not 75
be confounded with the phenomena elec
trical radiation which have heretofore been
observed and which from the very nature and
mode propagation would render practically
impossible the transmission any appre- 80
ciable amount energy such distances as
are practical importance. formed, the condition the atmosphere,
and also the character the surrounding
country. The combination with transmitting in
strument comprising transformer having its
secondary connected ground and ele- 115
vated terminal respectively, and means for
impressing electrical oscillations upon its pri
mary, receiving instrument comprising
a transformer having its primary similarly
connected ground and elevated ter- 120
minal, and translating device connected
with its secondary, the capacity and induct
ance the two transformers having such
values secure synchronism with the im
pressed oscillations, set forth. The combination with transmitting coil
or conductor connected ground and 85
elevated terminal respectively, and means for
producing therein electrical currents oscil
lations, receiving coil conductor simi
larly connected ground and elevated
terminal, distance from the transmit- 90
ting-coil and adapted excited cur
rents caused propagated from the same
by conduction through the intervening nat
ural medium, secondary conductor in
ductive relation the receiving-conductor 95
and devices for utilizing the current the
circuit said secondary conductor, set
forth.
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