Patent · 1901 · age 45

US Patent 685957: Apparatus for the utilization of radiant energy

Kept from patents.google.com · 2 files · 705 KBCall number TES PT1901.06

Provenance

Source: patents.google.comalso patentimages.storage.googleapis.com
Retrieved: 1 October 2026
Source terms (summary): Google terms: automated access against robots.txt counts as abuse
Rights: Public domainPatent text by Tesla, who died in 1943.Basis: author death year 1943, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.
Formats: HTML, PDF scan
Fingerprint: 89b76644f630e9823b5604bc18f6888742a1e3b84b674ea447194db51e4d07a2sha256 of the file (64 characters). Any change to the file changes this code.
Cite as: Nikola Tesla, US Patent 685957: Apparatus for the utilization of radiant energy (1901). Long Keeping, call number TES PT1901.06. https://longkeeping.com/nikola-tesla/us-patent-685957-apparatus-for-the-utilization-of-radiant-en/

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Notes on this copy

#1The file carries images, and no check is recorded yet that none of them is a picture of the person (the collection keeps no likenesses).
#2Machine-read text (OCR), not proofread, with no page images in the file to check it against.

Original

googlepatents_US685957A.html

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Files

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googlepatents_US685957A_scan.pdf	PDF scan	576 KB	patentimages.storage.googleapis.com	9b638578b50cdc40d728229fac02e1a4b0bb820688a95c28b040f310ae267cda	Public domainPatent text by Tesla, who died in 1943.Basis: author death year 1943, under a life-plus-70-years rule, as of 2026; other rules, such as the United States publication-date rules, are not assessed.Held in the archive: its images await the archive's likeness review. Its source (another site)