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Making boats do what you like without actually needing to be aboard seems to have been popular, for it was today in 1906 that a Spanish inventor called Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrated his telekino, a device which enabled him to pilot an unmanned boat to shore.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sandi Toksvig 2011
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The telekino is now seen as the beginning of remote control, but it was clearly not the end.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sandi Toksvig 2011
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The telekino is now seen as the beginning of remote control, but it was clearly not the end.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sandi Toksvig 2011
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Making boats do what you like without actually needing to be aboard seems to have been popular, for it was today in 1906 that a Spanish inventor called Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrated his telekino, a device which enabled him to pilot an unmanned boat to shore.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Sandi Toksvig 2011
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“In 1903, Leonardo Torres Quevedo presented the Telekino at the Paris Academy of Science, accompanied by a brief, and making an experimental demonstration. In the same time he obtained a patent in France, Spain, Great Britain, and the United States. The Telekino consisted of a robot that executed commands transmitted by electromagnetic waves. It constituted the world's first apparatus for radio control and was a pioneer in the field of remote control. In 1906, in the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Torres successfully demonstrated the invention in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore. Later, he would try to apply the Telekino to projectiles and torpedoes, but had to abandon the project for lack of financing.�?
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