Editing Nikola Tesla (section)

=== Radio remote control ===

[[File:Tesla boat1.jpg|thumb|upright|In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a radio-controlled boat, which he hoped to sell as a guided torpedo to navies around the world.<ref>W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University Press – 2013, p.&nbsp;231.</ref>]]

In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a boat that used a [[coherer]]-based [[radio control]]—which he dubbed "telautomaton"—to the public during an electrical exhibition at [[Madison Square Garden (1890)|Madison Square Garden]].{{sfn|Jonnes|2004}} Tesla tried to sell his idea to the US military as a type of radio-controlled [[torpedo]], but they showed little interest.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6aStP3Du5cgC&pg=PT50 |first=P. W. |last=Singer |title=Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century |date=2009 |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-1-4406-8597-2 |via=Google Books |access-date=10 September 2012 |archive-date=23 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323123553/https://books.google.com/books?id=6aStP3Du5cgC&pg=PT50#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> Remote [[radio control]] remained a novelty until World War I and afterward, when a number of countries used it in [[glide bomb|military programs]].<ref>Fitzsimons, Bernard, ed. "Fritz-X", in ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of 20th Century Weapons and Warfare'' (London: Phoebus, 1978), Volume 10, p.1037.</ref> Tesla took the opportunity to further demonstrate "Teleautomatics" in an address to a meeting of the Commercial Club in Chicago, while he was traveling to [[Colorado Springs, Colorado|Colorado Springs]], on 13 May 1899.