Patent FR-1902-327218

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Wireless navigation system for boats or balloons, inspired while LTQ was carrying out balloon tests and wanted to experiment without endangering humans.

Yuste & Palma give Torres Quevado priority for inventing a navigation system more sophisticated than a simple on/off switch, which used "codewords" in binary to trasmit a finite range of singals. (Compare to Tesla remote control system, demonstrated a few years earlier?)[1]

The motor thus directed can command a rudder; in the case of balloons it could also control a valve for gas, which could be used to change altitude. The navigation system could be connected with onboard compass and barometer. (See p. 3.)

The Spanish patent for the Telekine, Patent ES-1903-31918, was submitted in June 1903.

LTQ demonstrated this technology using a boat in 1905.[2]

Sources

  1. Antonio Pérez Yuste & Magdalena Salazar Palma, "The first wireless remote-control: the Telekine of Torres Quevedo", Conference on the History of Electronics, Bletchley Park, 2004
  2. Randy Alfred, "Nov. 7, 1905: Remote Control Wows Public", Wired, 7 November 1911.

Patent family descending from Patent FR-1902-327218


Year filed 1902
Year granted 1903
Office FR
Patent number 327218
Inventors Leonardo Torres Quevedo
Inventor country ES
Applicant person Leonardo Torres
Applicant firm
Applicant type INDIV
Applicant is inventor? Yes
Original title Système dit Telekine pour commander à distance un mouvement méchanique
English title "Telekine" system for causing mechanical movement at a distance
Tech fields LTA, navigation, electronics, marine, remote control, communications, rudder, balloon, cybernetics, subsystem, instrument, gas
Filing date 1902/12/10
Full specification filed date
Application number
Grant date 1903/03/18
Granted? Yes
Publication date 1903/06/17
Supplementary to patent
Related to aircraft?
Serial number
Patent agent Armengaud aîné
Assigned to
National tech categories FR 12.7
IPCs IPC G05D3/12
CPCs CPC G05D3/127
Family year 1902
First filing? No
Cites these patents
Citations from after 1930
Application ID
INPADOC family ID
Number of text pages 7
Number of diagram pages 3
Number of figures 19
Number of claims