One Response to “Radio Remote”

1. Anson Gu
   June 4th, 2011 @ 11:23 am

   Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), was born in 1856 in Smiljan Lika, Croatia, who was one of the greatest scientists and engineers of 20th centuries. Tesla devoted his whole life to the electrical power, his ideas changed the face of the world, for instance, X-ray machine, radio, remote control, especially for his AC (alternating current) system invention, which be still used today.
   In 1884 Tesla immigrated to the United States, and then he found the employment with Thomas Edison in New Jersey. Soon in 1885, he left this job, and George Westinghouse bought the patent right of Tesla’s AC system to light the world.
   As early as 1892, Nikola Tesla created a basic design for radio. On November 8, 1898 he patented a radio controlled robot-boat, who is the true father of radio.
   In 1901, the first broadcasting system in the world was built on Long Island, which is called Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower, which financed by J.P. Morgan. Tesla wanted to transmit the electricity wirelessly all over the world. Unfortunately, it wasn’t completed as Morgan withdraw the money. However the wireless device ideas had already discovered by him. Until now, we just invented wireless devices such as wireless modem, bluetooth and so on. There is still no wireless electric power transmission in the world.
   He even conceived of a global communication wireless network more than a century before the wireless mobile phone and internet have been explored, and accessed into our everyday lives. He predicted mobile phones in 1909, he talked about his idea in an interview with the New York Times. The modern wireless technologies was influenced by his wireless idea.
   Therefore, Tesla’s exploration is the pioneers of our new media technologies today. His thousands explorations in his entire life have widely distributed on physics, electrotechnics, radiotechics and telecommunications. Whether the radio or television, the internet or mobile phone, all these technologies’ invention were based on what he explored. Especially, the ideas of wireless electronic technology and AC system as the prominent contribution, fundamentally, changed the world, and the way we using our media.
   Eventually, Tesla died with significant debts in 1943, who gave the world so much but received so little for what his done. However, he will never be forgotten by this world, and what he created. As he said: “The present is theirs. The future, for which I really worked, is mine.”