(under the class definition) Subject matter wherein the oscillator comprises means for utilizing the random translatory motions of charged particles for generating a substantially infinite number of waves of different frequencies which are fortuitously related, having no definite phase relationship, period, amplitude or shape. The means may be (1) a solid conductor, the random waves being generated by the thermal agitation of the free electrons, or (2) a thermionic space discharge device, wherein the random waves are caused by random emission of electrons (such as the shot effect in a temperature limited thermionic diode), or (3) a gaseous space discharge device wherein the thermal agitation or electrical excitation of the molecules, ions and electrons of the gas produces the random waves.
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94.1, for molecular or particle resonant type oscillators wherein the generated oscillations are caused by the vibration of the particle, molecule or atom itself and is not due to translational motion of the particle, molecule or atoms as a whole.
