Tesla patents, full texts searchable

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exnihiloest

2012.12.23, 12:59:18

I have passed all Tesla's patents to the OCR to make full texts searchable. The result is not perfect due to the poor resolution of the pdf patents, but nevertheless of great help. For a rapid access, the filenames include the patent description and the year.
Tedious work...   Here it is:
http://exvacuo.free.fr/div/Sciences/Brevets/Tesla/

If you see errors or missing patents, tell me it.

poynt99

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2012.12.23, 13:05:23
Thanks Ex.

Appreciate your effort in this regard!

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ion

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2012.12.23, 18:00:10
Thanks EX

I was able to automatically download all to my hard drive in about 15 minutes using HTTrack.
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thx1138

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2015.05.04, 12:02:59
Excellent work. Thank you. I have two foreign Tesla patents not in your collection and a suggestion.

Canada #142,352 - Art of Transmitting Electrical Energy Through Natural Mediums, applied for April 17, 1906, approved March 8, 1912
This one is interesting because of the application date which is after it became clear that the Wardenclyffe project would bot be finished and the fact that it was filed in Canada which would have made it somewhat obscure. It is similar to other transmission patents but has interesting statements in the text.

Great Britain - #14,579 - Improvements In And Relating To The Transmission Of Electrical Energy, applied for July 17, 1901, approved April 24, 1902
This one seems to be similar to other U.S. patents but I haven't examined it in detail. I included it just for completeness of you list.

The suggestion is to include an index like the existing one at the bottom of the list but using the application dates as the sequence. In studying Tesla's work it is very useful to see how one idea leads into the next and how a patent fits into his articles, lectures, and demonstrations. The patent approval dates can be months and even years from when he reduced the idea to a patent application so using the application date is a better indication of the flow of ideas. Likewise, the patent numbers are tied to the grant date so can confuse the sequence when trying to fit his patents into his train of thought.


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