At about this same time, in 1898, Tesla invented and displayed his spectacular remote control torpedo boat at the Electrical Show at Madison Square Garden, a magnificent building financed by Morgan and designed and managed by the flamboyant architect Stanford White. This machine, which Tesla called the teleautomaton, contained all of the principles of the radio, electrical action at a distance and also the robot. The press billed the creation as a “torpedo boat without a crew”
Did Tesla transmit power to the boat as well? No, it has a storage battery placed within it. Read more from this website.
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