Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public

Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public: 1905: Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo uses a radio remote controller to operate a boat more than a mile away in the Bilbao estuary. The crowd is amazed.

Guglielmo Marconi's famous wireless demonstration at London's Toynbee Hall in 1896 used a fixed telegraph-key transmitter to ring a bell attached to a receiver that a colleague carried around ...

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