Tesla Notes 16: The Teleautomaton (Madison Square Garden, 1898)
A boat steered by impulses through the air: the grains that listen, the circuit tuned to one note, and four states of a clockwork that make a machine obey.
Tesla's notebook of 1897 and 1898: how a coherer, a tuned circuit and a four-quarter commutator steered a boat, and why he thought it would end war.
Nikola Tesla
November 5, 2026
22 min