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TESLA SHIPS MODEL TELEAUTOMATON

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jul 26, 2022 9:20 pm

The following I received from a German Ship Stamp Collector. I found also that a Yugoslavian stamp was issued in 1956 30Din. stamp sg 823 shows us the same ship's model.

I recently found a stamp showing a boat that has never been described or featured on any stamp. It is Tesla's experimental boat 'TELAUTOMATON'.
According to the MICHEL catalog:

68 years Nikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade. Date of issue: 10/20/2020
Inventions of Nikola Tesla (1856–1943), inventor, physicist, and electrical engineer
961 2020 54 (Din) Remote-controlled model boat "TELAUTOMATON"

In September 1898, Tesla demonstrates his radio-controlled torpedo boat at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (Popular Science July 1956).

Famed inventor Nikola Tesla patented radio control in 1898 and used it to steer his remote-controlled boat, which he called the "TELAUTOMATON," which was 6 feet (1.83 m) long, constructed of iron, and powered by an electric motor, powered by two batteries. Tesla demonstrated his invention on an artificial pond in Madison Square Garden shortly after the end of the Spanish-American War. He claimed he could build a larger version with an explosive warhead to attack enemy ships. Not surprisingly, there were no takers. As a surface boat, the TELAUTOMATON would have needed a high speed, firstly to scout a watchful target ship, and secondly to quickly escape defensive fire from the intended victim.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xr9r7rm
http://cyberneticzoo.com/precyber/1898- ... namerican/
Yugoslavia 1956 30 Din, sg 823, Scott?
Serbia 2020 54Din. Sg 1056, Scott?
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