Nikola Tesla's Patents
Synopsis
Tesla did patent his tech, contrary to popular belief — though I believe his motives were mainly driven by the financial backers of the tech, and/or to keep them from it.
Contrary to popular belief, Tesla did patent his tech — though I believe his motives were mainly driven by the financial backers of the tech, and/or to keep them from it. Below is the compiled book of his patents, his radiant-energy patent US 685,957 from the local archive, and the indexes where the rest of his grants can be searched.
The complete patents
A 31-page compiled booklet (its running footer reads "Nikola Tesla Secret FREE Energy Patents"). It reproduces, in lightly re-worded form, Tesla's two radiant-energy patents and then follows the same idea through the later aerial-energy patents of Moray, Plauston and Phillips. Open the full viewer · Download the PDF
| Patent | Title | Date | Inventor |
|---|---|---|---|
| US 685,957 | Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy | 5 November 1901 | Nikola Tesla |
| US 649,621 | Apparatus for the Transmission of Electrical Energy | 15 May 1900 | Nikola Tesla |
| US 2,460,707 | Process for altering the structure of lead, cited for Moray's radiant-energy detector | — | Thomas Henry Moray |
| US 1,540,998 | Aerial pick-up system, 37 drawings | June 1925 | Hermann Plauston |
| US 4,685,047 | Apparatus for Converting Radio Frequency Energy to Direct Current | 4 August 1987 | Raymond Phillips Sr. |
Other Tesla documents in the archive
The same archive folder holds a few more Tesla items. Click a cover to open its viewer.
| Document | Pages | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Tesla Death Ray Reconstruction | 3 | Tesla's claimed "death-ray" as reported by the New York Times of 11 July 1934, and a reconstruction of the apparatus |
| Solid-state Tesla Coil (TCL3) | 6 | Construction project for a high-frequency, high-voltage solid-state coil that lights a fluorescent lamp without wires |
| Solid-state Tesla Coil — eBook scan | 6 | A second scan of the same TCL3 project |
| Tesla coil questions and answers | 27 | Q&A on Tesla coil design: disruptive-discharge, vacuum-tube and solid-state coils, and Tesla's own "extra coil" improvement |
US 685,957 — Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 685,957, dated November 5, 1901; application filed March 21, 1901. The patent opens:
It is well known that certain radiations — such as those of ultra-violet light, cathodic, Roentgen rays, or the like — possess the property of charging and discharging conductors of electricity, the discharge being particularly noticeable when the conductor upon which the rays impinge is negatively electrified.
Open in the viewer · PDF — local archive (originally hosted at keelynet.com) · US685957A on Google Patents
Tesla patent indexes
- uspat.com — Tesla patent grants
- Tesla Universe — Nikola Tesla patents
- Twenty-First Century Books — Tesla patents contents
- Google Patents — inventor: Nikola Tesla
References
- Nikola Tesla Patents (compiled) — PDF, local archive
- US 685,957 Apparatus for the Utilization of Radiant Energy — PDF, local archive
- US 685,957 — original keelynet.com copy
- US685957A — Google Patents
- uspat.com/tesla/grant_tesla.html
- teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/patents
- tfcbooks.com/patents/contents.htm
- Google Patents — inventor: Nikola Tesla
Related: Nikola Tesla · Tesla Timeline · Tesla Coil & Capacitor Equations · FBI Vault
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