In 1906, an inventor steered a boat by remote control for the first time
Long before the age of drones and televisions, a Spanish inventor stunned crowds by using invisible radio waves to pilot a boat full of passengers across the water from the safety of the shore.
In 1906, Leonardo Torres Quevedo made history at the Bilbao Abra by demonstrating the Telekino, the world's first true radiocommand system. Standing on the coast, he used a wireless transmitter to guide an electric boat more than two kilometers away, even with people on board.
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