Source: El País, 17/03/2007
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Telekino International recognition for an invention of Leonardo Torres Quevedo to control ships and dirigibles
The remote control, which generates daily as many domestic disputes to get its control, is a very useful gadget with a long history behind it. It was the English engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo (1852-1936) who in 1903 designed, built, tested and patented the first remote control. He called Telekino. It was not the only invention of this restless Cantabria born engineer who has completed his studies in Madrid in 1876. In addition to his experiments came Telekino such notable contributions as the first dirigible English, the first shuttle capable of transporting people who started at Mount Ulia of San Sebastian in 1907. One of those shuttles created by Torres Quevedo, the English Aerocar , continues today to operate on the Niagara Falls.
This man, who gained recognition from his contemporaries and refused the post of Minister of Public Works in 1918, was a forerunner of modern computing. Proof of this chess-players a taste of what we now call "artificial intelligence and electromechanical Arithmometer , a calculator together with a typewriter, history of digital computers.
The prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE ), has now recognized the invention of Telekino - tele (distant) and kino (movement) - included in your list Official Milestones (Milestones ) in the history of engineering [1 ] [ 2 ]. This is the first time a English creation comes in as a select list, where Torres Quevedo now shares the spotlight with Benjamin Franklin, Alessandro Volta, Guglielmo Marconi, between 65 and recognized landmarks. Two Leonardo Torres Quevedo (grandson and great grandson), together with other descendants of the celebrated engineer milestone yesterday with the authorities of the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It unveiled a plaque at the School of Civil, in the room devoted to Torres Quevedo, where the prototype-running-the Telekino. Three
impulses go straight ... seven pulses, 10 degrees to starboard ... eight pulses, 20 degrees to starboard ... These commands move the propeller and the ship's wheel attached to Telekino. Torres Quevedo created to control the airship without anyone in danger in the tests, but tested the remote with a boat at the Casa de Campo in Madrid and then in 1906 in the estuary of Bilbao.
The demonstration worked perfectly but the lack of support for its application will probably disappoint the engineer, who left the work.
More info: Torres Quevedo, L. (1907). The Telekino . Public Works Magazine , 55, Volume I (1653) pp. 325-328.
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