Milestones:Early Developments in Remote-Control, 1901
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This site provides a brief history of the development of remote control devices by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres-Quevedo. He was the first person to lay down the modern remote control operation principles, which he expressed in a prototype that he patented in 1903 under the name Telekine.
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