Would believe 1898 fact article incredible let story tell itself TESLA George V Sosic ON SEPTEMBER 2 1897 Chief US Examiner Patents visited labo ratory Nikola Tesla New York visit prompted belief inventors latest patent application went far beyond realm possibility claim practical wireless control system vessels vehicles great dis tance should noted above date preceded Wright brothers air plane six years Tesla gave control system name Teleauto matics now known guidedmissile principle RPV remotely piloted vehicles radio control model aircraft fraternity calls RC article written model aircraft builders fliers writer will refer RC Four years before Tesla shook up Chief US Examiner Patents application patent RC demon strated vacuum-tube radio voice music 1893 Worlds Fair Chicago anyone electronic knowledge can easily see next logical step would convert frequency con trol tuning knowledge other uses such RC automation Tesla showed him bench-mounted RC components working order included transmitters receivers different frequencies tuned antennas reversible electric motorNo 633809 driven servos gear reductions electric motor-driven escapements gear reduc tions separate control function quarter turn shaft reversible electric motor driveshaft propeller intended power model boat constructing Patent Examiner returned office Washington DC firm believer new art RC issued Tesla patent-pending classification RC cause law required thorough patent search other red tape official pat ent number 613809 ultimately issued November 8 1898 date marks PaooooodNov81898 official birthday RC demon N TESLAstrated public Tesla model boat several feet longevery night week two months earlier September 1898 RC boat outlined patent specifications drawings same time Tesla con structing model boat single elec tronic circuit control RC func tions worked out preliminary designs submarine intended sub mit powers US Navy because inevitable Spanish American War used multiple circuitry electric power storage batteries large enough carry six 14-foot Whitehead torpedoes mounted vertically two rows firing controlled transmitter operator mother ship reloading torpedo tubes automatically triggered previous firing Submerging controlled RC valves admitted water ballast Electric motor-driven Westinghouse air compressors would purge water ballast surfacing Aowbr Teslas negotiations Navy brass itless hinted press NMSKOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEORAVISM OR MOVINO VESSELS SR ASAICLAS lAppIiooIo9 TOd JI No Mod)5 SheoSheO 9 zine editors about mind powered war weapon enlist sup port force Navys hand Up time supported him because way making impossible dreams come true single believed electronic magician could pull another rabbit out hat time Briefly Teslas announcement went something like Gentlemen vestigations latest invention begun 1890 recently rushed stage entirely practical reliable method appara tus controlling vessels vehicles wireless great distance opera tor other words makes crewless mind powered torpedo boat entirely possible practical needs done build boat wire proper ly new art suggest name Teleautomatics art absolutely controlling machine such asavesselorvehicle mean its trans latory operations such forward re verse motive power its steering mecha nism loading firing tor pedoes mere exercise will operator mother ship impending Spanish American War small fleet boats operate com pletely submerged could utterly destroy entire Spanish fleet hour enemy fleet single armada navy seek out remainder fleet No633809 N TESLA Palontod Nov 3098 EMORAD DEANS APPARATUS FAR OONOROLLNO NECARAISM OR MOVING VESSELS SR AFAILLOS lOFplO8009 1809011 118904 No Model5 SAootSAor 2 /1/ ~1 L 7 0 -/ 0 1 IF 3 12 Model Aviation Tesla 1895 age 39the year invented radio control 1898 hired Madison Square Garden demonstrations exciting being control RC models spectators Father RC change claim few months state art have advanced sufficient impending war fostered recent extensive investigations will stop intend show same art Teleautomatics will allow war weapon expedite its own mission automatically itself out operator dictate its movements left unto itself will able distinguish between what ought what ought still will able complete mission assigned accurately dispatch can zero enemy ship bouncing wireless signals off its hull have already perfected such plan college designed long cylindrical metal airship completely devoid control surfaces stabilizing fins kind pro pelled imaginary reaction engine now have theoretical design air ship powered guided entirely reaction proven wireless control system route reaction power steering need prime mover sufficient power propel have Teleautomatic aerial torpedo can destroy target thousands miles away accuracy Such things can financed government because private investors interested profit loss statements technical progress Tesla wireless lights made screw existing light sockets Since 1890 used wireless lights exclusively lab oratory Plc courtesy Tesla Museum Left first RC modal ever demonstratedNew York 1898 pioneered work tuned circuits usual question ans wer session case Tesla terviews answers just fantastic prepared statement Teslas plan enlist support press magazine editors normally supported him negative effect newspaper maga zine editors editorially reprimanded him resorting cheap sensationalism get defense contract build weapon couldnt possibly figment imagination rented Madison Square Garden New York week September 1898 publicly refute critics feathers badly ruffled editors normally sup ported him display covered en tire field radio radar electronics included Wireless Morse Code dot dash signals vacuum tube voice music radio radar wirephoto shadowgraph first successful X-ray experi ment RC Teslas RC boat star show performed packed houses night week first under radio guid ance inventor volunteers audience prove its simplicity press public explained operation yet constructed sub marine revealing secrets press magazines took up cause no avail Navy still preferred antiquated methods technical warfare wealthy friend Teslas John Hays Hammond gave Tesla $10000 rent Madison Square Garden week completed several larger model boats under construction though hopes sell Navy RC warfare March 1976 13 Above Details Teslas amazing boat paralleled todays principles Included its radio system feed-back servo also developed loop antenna proportional control servo gear system rudder shows clearly does electric drive motor shaft propeller location batteries relays equipment look very familiar across three-quarters century Below His RC submarine models demonstrated perplexed Navy before SpanishAmerican War could pump Out water ballast shattered vacuum-tube detec tor multiple circuitry loop form antenna inside hill left out RC patent application national defense secret US Patent number 613809 sub stituted specially-designed cylindrical detector vacuum tube shows single electronic circuit relays semi conductors directing battery current desired devices Tesla ready allowed Navy officers send model sub marines out Atlantic ocean com pletely submerged except hooded lights bow stern always knew way bow pointed recalled boats dock surfaced air compressors inside hull Navy still dreaded extra intelligence required technical warfare buried heads sand ironic Tesla never did get subsidies US government cause minor engineers inventors time work defense projects failed sell modification 20-yearold radar system 1917 claimed would bounce signals off hulls deadly World War German submarines Mysteriously Navy didnt offer finance demonstration Tesla once again enlisted press magazines help responded because knew friends relatives would exposed U-boats way France Once again Navy brass buried heads sand Shortly before end World War 1918 Teslas RC system employed Army Air Corps biplane Sperry Gyroscope Co fly pre-programmed mission prove feasibility warfare risk life limb made its take-off ground-operated transmitter flew automatically hundred miles dropped its bombs imaginary target made 180-degree turn re turned its take-off point land ing made RC transmitter analog proportional closed-loop servos throughout Sperry gyroscopes equipped same potentiometers ground transmitter automatic pilot control after take-off war ended fore defense contract awarded happened World War wasnt until 20 years later Army Air Corps revived Teslas RC issued master contract 10-foot wingspan RC model two-cylinder two-cycle engine use target drone machine gunners practice anti-air craft fire left right wing panels alike interchangeable made spruce fabric covering fuselage thin-walled 4130 chrome moly tubing Three longitudinal tubes formed triangular cross section two parallel tubes top single tube bottom RC unit analog feedback potentiometer proportional three channels no ailerons writer witnessed flights Army Air Corps World War II such robust turn response couldnt believe flew ailerons until noticed large movable rudder area tne design Three channel fliers take note day Teslas RC everywhere Thousands modelers state use fun pleasure has orbited other planets has moon times crew carries out combat missions automatically accuracy form guided missiles hi-product array computers used over world operates station ary machinery mobile machinery Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian birth American choice became naturalized citizen 1889 never got recognition deserved mostly because tangled Thomas Edison bested him invention alter nating current electric power light sys tem powers world today wres ted control electrical industry Edison arch enemy turned dustry over George Westinghouse sum $l000000 After paying off seven investors Tesla Electric Com pany used remaining $400000 research develop high-frequency radio electronic inventions money lasted II years climaxed II years transmitting high-frequency electric power wireless distance 26 miles lit up bank 200 light bulbs ran electric motor What soul stirring way spectacular inventor go broke next project venture would attract capital attempted build Radio City Long Island fell through lack investors 33 years before Radio City built New York others developed steam turbine steam-driven electric alternating-current generators motive power ships sea took steam turbine design modified gas turbine built prototypes l00 400 horsepower unveiled gas turbine press stated definitely engine future 14 Model Aviation Teslathe Father RC no doubt main problems con cerning metallurgy would eventually resolved year 1912 engine used until Germany Italy built some jet airplanes 1940 Most Teslas inventions 50 years ahead time interesting note Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy indus try 1901 gave him worldwide pub licity smart enough know telegraph system poles wires form wireless could attract financial backing time worldwide publicity what led public believe Marconi invented radio Tesla sued Marconi infringing patent rights Marconis lawyers man aged drag court case until 1915 US Supreme Court ruled against Tesla declared Marconi official inventor radio because lawyers judges period ab solutely no understanding simple elec trical circuitmuch less sophisticated electronics few months before Teslas death US Supreme Court 1942-43 reversed decision left road open Tesla instigate legal proceed ings collect millions dollars back royalties came too late Tesla because came time penniless semi-invalid very close 5 SheetsSheel 3 H-S llIMAjzfes 1~ AA e-t p JRe*w/oJ- March 1976 15 No 613809 N TESLA No Model METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Applicotroo filed ittly 18981 Patented Nov 8 1898No613809Patented Nov 8 1898 N TESLA METHOD OP AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Application filed ioiy 109fi No Model5 5heels5heet 4 FqjJI6 1 Teslathe Father RC death died January 1943 time atom bomb being developed born July 9 1856 covered wagon days Nikola Teslas RC patent number 613809 issued November 8 1898 positive proof first RC mod eler Perhaps enough RC modelers read article name will perpetuated starting RC Hall Fame naming important RC annual contest after him case name will mentioned RC buffs next year 1956 electronics industry honored Tesla hundredth anniversary birth naming unit magnetic field strength Tesla RC modelers means reading outside radio transmitter tells Teslas putting out Im willing bet guy installed meter has never heard oflesla Teslas inventions discoveries too numerous mention number thousands Most invented head filed away corner brain until enough money make working model hated waste time lecture tours always de mand lecturer own develop ments both abroad well paid desperately needed money support laboratory Tesla Electric Company Teslas favorite invention electro magnetic pendulum knows Tesla coil heart radio electronics automobile ignition systems forced invent because high frequency al ternators hundreds poles continued page 81 No613509PalenSed Nov 5 598 N ILSLA OETUOO OF MW AFFOROFIJS FOR COOTOOLLIOQ UECOOJSIOU OF MOVOSO VESSELS OR VOIFICLOS NFOdilSSflnt ShootS 635 16 Model Aviation Photo froip June 1OO Gentury Magazine shows Tesla laboratory Colorado Springs going over notes midst spectacular experiment Perhaps checking circuitry because got placed on-off-switchl Below First wireless plant world time Colorado Springs fed 1150 amps through antenna also created massive spectacu lar lightning massive thunder claps awesome experiments Radio Technique/Myers continued page 10 less resistance therefore will cool lower average temperature during engine run engine hard start try obtain hotter plug will also improve idling Overall thing separates easy starting hard starting knowledge know starting battery has adequate charge glow plug good condition connections clean tight wire battery plug heavy enough gauge carry current dropping too much volt age will get start last point deserves some comment three-foot length 20-gauge lamp cord will drop volt trying light Cox plug 3 amps Thats enough convert cold day miserable session gashed fingers alcohol fires Use copper can14 gauge goodand keep leads short best way see information want column let know about 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicks ville NY 11801 Editors Note January issue schematic appeared LED devices schematic correct readers ran trouble using 82ohm resistor 82K belongs colors 82K Grey Red Orange Tesla/Sosic continued naae 16 early radio research work satis factory man Teslas caliber got high 30000 cycles wanted much credits coil rapid development radio radar radio control electronic automation drive motivated strong desire keep creative mind occupied quoted statement worst criminals world voluntarily idle statement aptly describes prime motivations average RC modeler Editors Note recent release Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone Calif making powerful transmissions electronic power have ever made possibility has trigued scientists ever since Teslas experi ments Until now concept consid ered inefficient Engineers transmitting 30 kilowatts DC power receiving station mile away believed efficiency 65% may achieved JPL experiments point way transmission energy through spaceas solar collectors space WIN ONE OF THESE 25 GREAT PRIZES! 1st Prize Thayer & Chandler Model E airbrush & compressor kit worth $106 2nd Prize Sullivan deluxe starter & 12v gel cell worth $6490 3rd Prize Dremel shop model kit 371 worth $4995 4th Prize Exacto kit 87 worth $2995 5th Prize AHM heat gun worth $2495 Purchase roll Coverite send us instruction sheet name address printed backside Send sheets wish BUT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE DRAWING entries must postmarked no later Febru ary 28th 1976 Send entries Coverite Dept MAM 2779 Philmont Ave Hunting don Valley Pa 19006 0O 9E1___ JJiJ 2JJ LLLJ LJLJWJ iJ 2JJWLi_______ OF VISTA LABS 7023 D Canoga Ave oga Park Ca 91303 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Complete flying weight 21/2 ozwilI power Models 25 50 wingspan weighing up 10 oz Send 25 Catalog showing com plete line Electric Flight Equipment Accessories VI-lOl System $1950 Hytork 48 Prop Instruction Book $900 Fast Chargers $1450 $2950 See Model Dealer order Direct add 10% Postage Handling Calif Residents also add 6% Sales Tax send Check MO No CODs Hobby Dealers send Information March 1976 81 6th 10th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF CAMOUFLAGE WORTH $995 Famous WW German lozenge pattern silkscreened 4 authentic colors Lightweight Super Coverite IWo scales & 2 11th 15th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF PERMAGLOSS WORTH $890 Lightweight Super Coverite 4 coats PermaGloss paint honded its upper surface non-painters its Cadillac coverings Wont scrafch sag shatter 16th 20th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER WORTH $725 New lightweight Super now 33A % lighter lNeighs less painted silk costs less goes quicker & easier Its ever popular knock down trees covering 21st 25th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF SILKSPUN WORTH $675 unique covering looks like tissue hut log times stronger other covering except own Super
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/03
Page Numbers: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 81
Would believe 1898 fact article incredible let story tell itself TESLA George V Sosic ON SEPTEMBER 2 1897 Chief US Examiner Patents visited labo ratory Nikola Tesla New York visit prompted belief inventors latest patent application went far beyond realm possibility claim practical wireless control system vessels vehicles great dis tance should noted above date preceded Wright brothers air plane six years Tesla gave control system name Teleauto matics now known guidedmissile principle RPV remotely piloted vehicles radio control model aircraft fraternity calls RC article written model aircraft builders fliers writer will refer RC Four years before Tesla shook up Chief US Examiner Patents application patent RC demon strated vacuum-tube radio voice music 1893 Worlds Fair Chicago anyone electronic knowledge can easily see next logical step would convert frequency con trol tuning knowledge other uses such RC automation Tesla showed him bench-mounted RC components working order included transmitters receivers different frequencies tuned antennas reversible electric motorNo 633809 driven servos gear reductions electric motor-driven escapements gear reduc tions separate control function quarter turn shaft reversible electric motor driveshaft propeller intended power model boat constructing Patent Examiner returned office Washington DC firm believer new art RC issued Tesla patent-pending classification RC cause law required thorough patent search other red tape official pat ent number 613809 ultimately issued November 8 1898 date marks PaooooodNov81898 official birthday RC demon N TESLAstrated public Tesla model boat several feet longevery night week two months earlier September 1898 RC boat outlined patent specifications drawings same time Tesla con structing model boat single elec tronic circuit control RC func tions worked out preliminary designs submarine intended sub mit powers US Navy because inevitable Spanish American War used multiple circuitry electric power storage batteries large enough carry six 14-foot Whitehead torpedoes mounted vertically two rows firing controlled transmitter operator mother ship reloading torpedo tubes automatically triggered previous firing Submerging controlled RC valves admitted water ballast Electric motor-driven Westinghouse air compressors would purge water ballast surfacing Aowbr Teslas negotiations Navy brass itless hinted press NMSKOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEORAVISM OR MOVINO VESSELS SR ASAICLAS lAppIiooIo9 TOd JI No Mod)5 SheoSheO 9 zine editors about mind powered war weapon enlist sup port force Navys hand Up time supported him because way making impossible dreams come true single believed electronic magician could pull another rabbit out hat time Briefly Teslas announcement went something like Gentlemen vestigations latest invention begun 1890 recently rushed stage entirely practical reliable method appara tus controlling vessels vehicles wireless great distance opera tor other words makes crewless mind powered torpedo boat entirely possible practical needs done build boat wire proper ly new art suggest name Teleautomatics art absolutely controlling machine such asavesselorvehicle mean its trans latory operations such forward re verse motive power its steering mecha nism loading firing tor pedoes mere exercise will operator mother ship impending Spanish American War small fleet boats operate com pletely submerged could utterly destroy entire Spanish fleet hour enemy fleet single armada navy seek out remainder fleet No633809 N TESLA Palontod Nov 3098 EMORAD DEANS APPARATUS FAR OONOROLLNO NECARAISM OR MOVING VESSELS SR AFAILLOS lOFplO8009 1809011 118904 No Model5 SAootSAor 2 /1/ ~1 L 7 0 -/ 0 1 IF 3 12 Model Aviation Tesla 1895 age 39the year invented radio control 1898 hired Madison Square Garden demonstrations exciting being control RC models spectators Father RC change claim few months state art have advanced sufficient impending war fostered recent extensive investigations will stop intend show same art Teleautomatics will allow war weapon expedite its own mission automatically itself out operator dictate its movements left unto itself will able distinguish between what ought what ought still will able complete mission assigned accurately dispatch can zero enemy ship bouncing wireless signals off its hull have already perfected such plan college designed long cylindrical metal airship completely devoid control surfaces stabilizing fins kind pro pelled imaginary reaction engine now have theoretical design air ship powered guided entirely reaction proven wireless control system route reaction power steering need prime mover sufficient power propel have Teleautomatic aerial torpedo can destroy target thousands miles away accuracy Such things can financed government because private investors interested profit loss statements technical progress Tesla wireless lights made screw existing light sockets Since 1890 used wireless lights exclusively lab oratory Plc courtesy Tesla Museum Left first RC modal ever demonstratedNew York 1898 pioneered work tuned circuits usual question ans wer session case Tesla terviews answers just fantastic prepared statement Teslas plan enlist support press magazine editors normally supported him negative effect newspaper maga zine editors editorially reprimanded him resorting cheap sensationalism get defense contract build weapon couldnt possibly figment imagination rented Madison Square Garden New York week September 1898 publicly refute critics feathers badly ruffled editors normally sup ported him display covered en tire field radio radar electronics included Wireless Morse Code dot dash signals vacuum tube voice music radio radar wirephoto shadowgraph first successful X-ray experi ment RC Teslas RC boat star show performed packed houses night week first under radio guid ance inventor volunteers audience prove its simplicity press public explained operation yet constructed sub marine revealing secrets press magazines took up cause no avail Navy still preferred antiquated methods technical warfare wealthy friend Teslas John Hays Hammond gave Tesla $10000 rent Madison Square Garden week completed several larger model boats under construction though hopes sell Navy RC warfare March 1976 13 Above Details Teslas amazing boat paralleled todays principles Included its radio system feed-back servo also developed loop antenna proportional control servo gear system rudder shows clearly does electric drive motor shaft propeller location batteries relays equipment look very familiar across three-quarters century Below His RC submarine models demonstrated perplexed Navy before SpanishAmerican War could pump Out water ballast shattered vacuum-tube detec tor multiple circuitry loop form antenna inside hill left out RC patent application national defense secret US Patent number 613809 sub stituted specially-designed cylindrical detector vacuum tube shows single electronic circuit relays semi conductors directing battery current desired devices Tesla ready allowed Navy officers send model sub marines out Atlantic ocean com pletely submerged except hooded lights bow stern always knew way bow pointed recalled boats dock surfaced air compressors inside hull Navy still dreaded extra intelligence required technical warfare buried heads sand ironic Tesla never did get subsidies US government cause minor engineers inventors time work defense projects failed sell modification 20-yearold radar system 1917 claimed would bounce signals off hulls deadly World War German submarines Mysteriously Navy didnt offer finance demonstration Tesla once again enlisted press magazines help responded because knew friends relatives would exposed U-boats way France Once again Navy brass buried heads sand Shortly before end World War 1918 Teslas RC system employed Army Air Corps biplane Sperry Gyroscope Co fly pre-programmed mission prove feasibility warfare risk life limb made its take-off ground-operated transmitter flew automatically hundred miles dropped its bombs imaginary target made 180-degree turn re turned its take-off point land ing made RC transmitter analog proportional closed-loop servos throughout Sperry gyroscopes equipped same potentiometers ground transmitter automatic pilot control after take-off war ended fore defense contract awarded happened World War wasnt until 20 years later Army Air Corps revived Teslas RC issued master contract 10-foot wingspan RC model two-cylinder two-cycle engine use target drone machine gunners practice anti-air craft fire left right wing panels alike interchangeable made spruce fabric covering fuselage thin-walled 4130 chrome moly tubing Three longitudinal tubes formed triangular cross section two parallel tubes top single tube bottom RC unit analog feedback potentiometer proportional three channels no ailerons writer witnessed flights Army Air Corps World War II such robust turn response couldnt believe flew ailerons until noticed large movable rudder area tne design Three channel fliers take note day Teslas RC everywhere Thousands modelers state use fun pleasure has orbited other planets has moon times crew carries out combat missions automatically accuracy form guided missiles hi-product array computers used over world operates station ary machinery mobile machinery Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian birth American choice became naturalized citizen 1889 never got recognition deserved mostly because tangled Thomas Edison bested him invention alter nating current electric power light sys tem powers world today wres ted control electrical industry Edison arch enemy turned dustry over George Westinghouse sum $l000000 After paying off seven investors Tesla Electric Com pany used remaining $400000 research develop high-frequency radio electronic inventions money lasted II years climaxed II years transmitting high-frequency electric power wireless distance 26 miles lit up bank 200 light bulbs ran electric motor What soul stirring way spectacular inventor go broke next project venture would attract capital attempted build Radio City Long Island fell through lack investors 33 years before Radio City built New York others developed steam turbine steam-driven electric alternating-current generators motive power ships sea took steam turbine design modified gas turbine built prototypes l00 400 horsepower unveiled gas turbine press stated definitely engine future 14 Model Aviation Teslathe Father RC no doubt main problems con cerning metallurgy would eventually resolved year 1912 engine used until Germany Italy built some jet airplanes 1940 Most Teslas inventions 50 years ahead time interesting note Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy indus try 1901 gave him worldwide pub licity smart enough know telegraph system poles wires form wireless could attract financial backing time worldwide publicity what led public believe Marconi invented radio Tesla sued Marconi infringing patent rights Marconis lawyers man aged drag court case until 1915 US Supreme Court ruled against Tesla declared Marconi official inventor radio because lawyers judges period ab solutely no understanding simple elec trical circuitmuch less sophisticated electronics few months before Teslas death US Supreme Court 1942-43 reversed decision left road open Tesla instigate legal proceed ings collect millions dollars back royalties came too late Tesla because came time penniless semi-invalid very close 5 SheetsSheel 3 H-S llIMAjzfes 1~ AA e-t p JRe*w/oJ- March 1976 15 No 613809 N TESLA No Model METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Applicotroo filed ittly 18981 Patented Nov 8 1898No613809Patented Nov 8 1898 N TESLA METHOD OP AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Application filed ioiy 109fi No Model5 5heels5heet 4 FqjJI6 1 Teslathe Father RC death died January 1943 time atom bomb being developed born July 9 1856 covered wagon days Nikola Teslas RC patent number 613809 issued November 8 1898 positive proof first RC mod eler Perhaps enough RC modelers read article name will perpetuated starting RC Hall Fame naming important RC annual contest after him case name will mentioned RC buffs next year 1956 electronics industry honored Tesla hundredth anniversary birth naming unit magnetic field strength Tesla RC modelers means reading outside radio transmitter tells Teslas putting out Im willing bet guy installed meter has never heard oflesla Teslas inventions discoveries too numerous mention number thousands Most invented head filed away corner brain until enough money make working model hated waste time lecture tours always de mand lecturer own develop ments both abroad well paid desperately needed money support laboratory Tesla Electric Company Teslas favorite invention electro magnetic pendulum knows Tesla coil heart radio electronics automobile ignition systems forced invent because high frequency al ternators hundreds poles continued page 81 No613509PalenSed Nov 5 598 N ILSLA OETUOO OF MW AFFOROFIJS FOR COOTOOLLIOQ UECOOJSIOU OF MOVOSO VESSELS OR VOIFICLOS NFOdilSSflnt ShootS 635 16 Model Aviation Photo froip June 1OO Gentury Magazine shows Tesla laboratory Colorado Springs going over notes midst spectacular experiment Perhaps checking circuitry because got placed on-off-switchl Below First wireless plant world time Colorado Springs fed 1150 amps through antenna also created massive spectacu lar lightning massive thunder claps awesome experiments Radio Technique/Myers continued page 10 less resistance therefore will cool lower average temperature during engine run engine hard start try obtain hotter plug will also improve idling Overall thing separates easy starting hard starting knowledge know starting battery has adequate charge glow plug good condition connections clean tight wire battery plug heavy enough gauge carry current dropping too much volt age will get start last point deserves some comment three-foot length 20-gauge lamp cord will drop volt trying light Cox plug 3 amps Thats enough convert cold day miserable session gashed fingers alcohol fires Use copper can14 gauge goodand keep leads short best way see information want column let know about 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicks ville NY 11801 Editors Note January issue schematic appeared LED devices schematic correct readers ran trouble using 82ohm resistor 82K belongs colors 82K Grey Red Orange Tesla/Sosic continued naae 16 early radio research work satis factory man Teslas caliber got high 30000 cycles wanted much credits coil rapid development radio radar radio control electronic automation drive motivated strong desire keep creative mind occupied quoted statement worst criminals world voluntarily idle statement aptly describes prime motivations average RC modeler Editors Note recent release Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone Calif making powerful transmissions electronic power have ever made possibility has trigued scientists ever since Teslas experi ments Until now concept consid ered inefficient Engineers transmitting 30 kilowatts DC power receiving station mile away believed efficiency 65% may achieved JPL experiments point way transmission energy through spaceas solar collectors space WIN ONE OF THESE 25 GREAT PRIZES! 1st Prize Thayer & Chandler Model E airbrush & compressor kit worth $106 2nd Prize Sullivan deluxe starter & 12v gel cell worth $6490 3rd Prize Dremel shop model kit 371 worth $4995 4th Prize Exacto kit 87 worth $2995 5th Prize AHM heat gun worth $2495 Purchase roll Coverite send us instruction sheet name address printed backside Send sheets wish BUT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE DRAWING entries must postmarked no later Febru ary 28th 1976 Send entries Coverite Dept MAM 2779 Philmont Ave Hunting don Valley Pa 19006 0O 9E1___ JJiJ 2JJ LLLJ LJLJWJ iJ 2JJWLi_______ OF VISTA LABS 7023 D Canoga Ave oga Park Ca 91303 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Complete flying weight 21/2 ozwilI power Models 25 50 wingspan weighing up 10 oz Send 25 Catalog showing com plete line Electric Flight Equipment Accessories VI-lOl System $1950 Hytork 48 Prop Instruction Book $900 Fast Chargers $1450 $2950 See Model Dealer order Direct add 10% Postage Handling Calif Residents also add 6% Sales Tax send Check MO No CODs Hobby Dealers send Information March 1976 81 6th 10th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF CAMOUFLAGE WORTH $995 Famous WW German lozenge pattern silkscreened 4 authentic colors Lightweight Super Coverite IWo scales & 2 11th 15th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF PERMAGLOSS WORTH $890 Lightweight Super Coverite 4 coats PermaGloss paint honded its upper surface non-painters its Cadillac coverings Wont scrafch sag shatter 16th 20th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER WORTH $725 New lightweight Super now 33A % lighter lNeighs less painted silk costs less goes quicker & easier Its ever popular knock down trees covering 21st 25th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF SILKSPUN WORTH $675 unique covering looks like tissue hut log times stronger other covering except own Super
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/03
Page Numbers: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 81
Would believe 1898 fact article incredible let story tell itself TESLA George V Sosic ON SEPTEMBER 2 1897 Chief US Examiner Patents visited labo ratory Nikola Tesla New York visit prompted belief inventors latest patent application went far beyond realm possibility claim practical wireless control system vessels vehicles great dis tance should noted above date preceded Wright brothers air plane six years Tesla gave control system name Teleauto matics now known guidedmissile principle RPV remotely piloted vehicles radio control model aircraft fraternity calls RC article written model aircraft builders fliers writer will refer RC Four years before Tesla shook up Chief US Examiner Patents application patent RC demon strated vacuum-tube radio voice music 1893 Worlds Fair Chicago anyone electronic knowledge can easily see next logical step would convert frequency con trol tuning knowledge other uses such RC automation Tesla showed him bench-mounted RC components working order included transmitters receivers different frequencies tuned antennas reversible electric motorNo 633809 driven servos gear reductions electric motor-driven escapements gear reduc tions separate control function quarter turn shaft reversible electric motor driveshaft propeller intended power model boat constructing Patent Examiner returned office Washington DC firm believer new art RC issued Tesla patent-pending classification RC cause law required thorough patent search other red tape official pat ent number 613809 ultimately issued November 8 1898 date marks PaooooodNov81898 official birthday RC demon N TESLAstrated public Tesla model boat several feet longevery night week two months earlier September 1898 RC boat outlined patent specifications drawings same time Tesla con structing model boat single elec tronic circuit control RC func tions worked out preliminary designs submarine intended sub mit powers US Navy because inevitable Spanish American War used multiple circuitry electric power storage batteries large enough carry six 14-foot Whitehead torpedoes mounted vertically two rows firing controlled transmitter operator mother ship reloading torpedo tubes automatically triggered previous firing Submerging controlled RC valves admitted water ballast Electric motor-driven Westinghouse air compressors would purge water ballast surfacing Aowbr Teslas negotiations Navy brass itless hinted press NMSKOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEORAVISM OR MOVINO VESSELS SR ASAICLAS lAppIiooIo9 TOd JI No Mod)5 SheoSheO 9 zine editors about mind powered war weapon enlist sup port force Navys hand Up time supported him because way making impossible dreams come true single believed electronic magician could pull another rabbit out hat time Briefly Teslas announcement went something like Gentlemen vestigations latest invention begun 1890 recently rushed stage entirely practical reliable method appara tus controlling vessels vehicles wireless great distance opera tor other words makes crewless mind powered torpedo boat entirely possible practical needs done build boat wire proper ly new art suggest name Teleautomatics art absolutely controlling machine such asavesselorvehicle mean its trans latory operations such forward re verse motive power its steering mecha nism loading firing tor pedoes mere exercise will operator mother ship impending Spanish American War small fleet boats operate com pletely submerged could utterly destroy entire Spanish fleet hour enemy fleet single armada navy seek out remainder fleet No633809 N TESLA Palontod Nov 3098 EMORAD DEANS APPARATUS FAR OONOROLLNO NECARAISM OR MOVING VESSELS SR AFAILLOS lOFplO8009 1809011 118904 No Model5 SAootSAor 2 /1/ ~1 L 7 0 -/ 0 1 IF 3 12 Model Aviation Tesla 1895 age 39the year invented radio control 1898 hired Madison Square Garden demonstrations exciting being control RC models spectators Father RC change claim few months state art have advanced sufficient impending war fostered recent extensive investigations will stop intend show same art Teleautomatics will allow war weapon expedite its own mission automatically itself out operator dictate its movements left unto itself will able distinguish between what ought what ought still will able complete mission assigned accurately dispatch can zero enemy ship bouncing wireless signals off its hull have already perfected such plan college designed long cylindrical metal airship completely devoid control surfaces stabilizing fins kind pro pelled imaginary reaction engine now have theoretical design air ship powered guided entirely reaction proven wireless control system route reaction power steering need prime mover sufficient power propel have Teleautomatic aerial torpedo can destroy target thousands miles away accuracy Such things can financed government because private investors interested profit loss statements technical progress Tesla wireless lights made screw existing light sockets Since 1890 used wireless lights exclusively lab oratory Plc courtesy Tesla Museum Left first RC modal ever demonstratedNew York 1898 pioneered work tuned circuits usual question ans wer session case Tesla terviews answers just fantastic prepared statement Teslas plan enlist support press magazine editors normally supported him negative effect newspaper maga zine editors editorially reprimanded him resorting cheap sensationalism get defense contract build weapon couldnt possibly figment imagination rented Madison Square Garden New York week September 1898 publicly refute critics feathers badly ruffled editors normally sup ported him display covered en tire field radio radar electronics included Wireless Morse Code dot dash signals vacuum tube voice music radio radar wirephoto shadowgraph first successful X-ray experi ment RC Teslas RC boat star show performed packed houses night week first under radio guid ance inventor volunteers audience prove its simplicity press public explained operation yet constructed sub marine revealing secrets press magazines took up cause no avail Navy still preferred antiquated methods technical warfare wealthy friend Teslas John Hays Hammond gave Tesla $10000 rent Madison Square Garden week completed several larger model boats under construction though hopes sell Navy RC warfare March 1976 13 Above Details Teslas amazing boat paralleled todays principles Included its radio system feed-back servo also developed loop antenna proportional control servo gear system rudder shows clearly does electric drive motor shaft propeller location batteries relays equipment look very familiar across three-quarters century Below His RC submarine models demonstrated perplexed Navy before SpanishAmerican War could pump Out water ballast shattered vacuum-tube detec tor multiple circuitry loop form antenna inside hill left out RC patent application national defense secret US Patent number 613809 sub stituted specially-designed cylindrical detector vacuum tube shows single electronic circuit relays semi conductors directing battery current desired devices Tesla ready allowed Navy officers send model sub marines out Atlantic ocean com pletely submerged except hooded lights bow stern always knew way bow pointed recalled boats dock surfaced air compressors inside hull Navy still dreaded extra intelligence required technical warfare buried heads sand ironic Tesla never did get subsidies US government cause minor engineers inventors time work defense projects failed sell modification 20-yearold radar system 1917 claimed would bounce signals off hulls deadly World War German submarines Mysteriously Navy didnt offer finance demonstration Tesla once again enlisted press magazines help responded because knew friends relatives would exposed U-boats way France Once again Navy brass buried heads sand Shortly before end World War 1918 Teslas RC system employed Army Air Corps biplane Sperry Gyroscope Co fly pre-programmed mission prove feasibility warfare risk life limb made its take-off ground-operated transmitter flew automatically hundred miles dropped its bombs imaginary target made 180-degree turn re turned its take-off point land ing made RC transmitter analog proportional closed-loop servos throughout Sperry gyroscopes equipped same potentiometers ground transmitter automatic pilot control after take-off war ended fore defense contract awarded happened World War wasnt until 20 years later Army Air Corps revived Teslas RC issued master contract 10-foot wingspan RC model two-cylinder two-cycle engine use target drone machine gunners practice anti-air craft fire left right wing panels alike interchangeable made spruce fabric covering fuselage thin-walled 4130 chrome moly tubing Three longitudinal tubes formed triangular cross section two parallel tubes top single tube bottom RC unit analog feedback potentiometer proportional three channels no ailerons writer witnessed flights Army Air Corps World War II such robust turn response couldnt believe flew ailerons until noticed large movable rudder area tne design Three channel fliers take note day Teslas RC everywhere Thousands modelers state use fun pleasure has orbited other planets has moon times crew carries out combat missions automatically accuracy form guided missiles hi-product array computers used over world operates station ary machinery mobile machinery Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian birth American choice became naturalized citizen 1889 never got recognition deserved mostly because tangled Thomas Edison bested him invention alter nating current electric power light sys tem powers world today wres ted control electrical industry Edison arch enemy turned dustry over George Westinghouse sum $l000000 After paying off seven investors Tesla Electric Com pany used remaining $400000 research develop high-frequency radio electronic inventions money lasted II years climaxed II years transmitting high-frequency electric power wireless distance 26 miles lit up bank 200 light bulbs ran electric motor What soul stirring way spectacular inventor go broke next project venture would attract capital attempted build Radio City Long Island fell through lack investors 33 years before Radio City built New York others developed steam turbine steam-driven electric alternating-current generators motive power ships sea took steam turbine design modified gas turbine built prototypes l00 400 horsepower unveiled gas turbine press stated definitely engine future 14 Model Aviation Teslathe Father RC no doubt main problems con cerning metallurgy would eventually resolved year 1912 engine used until Germany Italy built some jet airplanes 1940 Most Teslas inventions 50 years ahead time interesting note Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy indus try 1901 gave him worldwide pub licity smart enough know telegraph system poles wires form wireless could attract financial backing time worldwide publicity what led public believe Marconi invented radio Tesla sued Marconi infringing patent rights Marconis lawyers man aged drag court case until 1915 US Supreme Court ruled against Tesla declared Marconi official inventor radio because lawyers judges period ab solutely no understanding simple elec trical circuitmuch less sophisticated electronics few months before Teslas death US Supreme Court 1942-43 reversed decision left road open Tesla instigate legal proceed ings collect millions dollars back royalties came too late Tesla because came time penniless semi-invalid very close 5 SheetsSheel 3 H-S llIMAjzfes 1~ AA e-t p JRe*w/oJ- March 1976 15 No 613809 N TESLA No Model METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Applicotroo filed ittly 18981 Patented Nov 8 1898No613809Patented Nov 8 1898 N TESLA METHOD OP AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Application filed ioiy 109fi No Model5 5heels5heet 4 FqjJI6 1 Teslathe Father RC death died January 1943 time atom bomb being developed born July 9 1856 covered wagon days Nikola Teslas RC patent number 613809 issued November 8 1898 positive proof first RC mod eler Perhaps enough RC modelers read article name will perpetuated starting RC Hall Fame naming important RC annual contest after him case name will mentioned RC buffs next year 1956 electronics industry honored Tesla hundredth anniversary birth naming unit magnetic field strength Tesla RC modelers means reading outside radio transmitter tells Teslas putting out Im willing bet guy installed meter has never heard oflesla Teslas inventions discoveries too numerous mention number thousands Most invented head filed away corner brain until enough money make working model hated waste time lecture tours always de mand lecturer own develop ments both abroad well paid desperately needed money support laboratory Tesla Electric Company Teslas favorite invention electro magnetic pendulum knows Tesla coil heart radio electronics automobile ignition systems forced invent because high frequency al ternators hundreds poles continued page 81 No613509PalenSed Nov 5 598 N ILSLA OETUOO OF MW AFFOROFIJS FOR COOTOOLLIOQ UECOOJSIOU OF MOVOSO VESSELS OR VOIFICLOS NFOdilSSflnt ShootS 635 16 Model Aviation Photo froip June 1OO Gentury Magazine shows Tesla laboratory Colorado Springs going over notes midst spectacular experiment Perhaps checking circuitry because got placed on-off-switchl Below First wireless plant world time Colorado Springs fed 1150 amps through antenna also created massive spectacu lar lightning massive thunder claps awesome experiments Radio Technique/Myers continued page 10 less resistance therefore will cool lower average temperature during engine run engine hard start try obtain hotter plug will also improve idling Overall thing separates easy starting hard starting knowledge know starting battery has adequate charge glow plug good condition connections clean tight wire battery plug heavy enough gauge carry current dropping too much volt age will get start last point deserves some comment three-foot length 20-gauge lamp cord will drop volt trying light Cox plug 3 amps Thats enough convert cold day miserable session gashed fingers alcohol fires Use copper can14 gauge goodand keep leads short best way see information want column let know about 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicks ville NY 11801 Editors Note January issue schematic appeared LED devices schematic correct readers ran trouble using 82ohm resistor 82K belongs colors 82K Grey Red Orange Tesla/Sosic continued naae 16 early radio research work satis factory man Teslas caliber got high 30000 cycles wanted much credits coil rapid development radio radar radio control electronic automation drive motivated strong desire keep creative mind occupied quoted statement worst criminals world voluntarily idle statement aptly describes prime motivations average RC modeler Editors Note recent release Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone Calif making powerful transmissions electronic power have ever made possibility has trigued scientists ever since Teslas experi ments Until now concept consid ered inefficient Engineers transmitting 30 kilowatts DC power receiving station mile away believed efficiency 65% may achieved JPL experiments point way transmission energy through spaceas solar collectors space WIN ONE OF THESE 25 GREAT PRIZES! 1st Prize Thayer & Chandler Model E airbrush & compressor kit worth $106 2nd Prize Sullivan deluxe starter & 12v gel cell worth $6490 3rd Prize Dremel shop model kit 371 worth $4995 4th Prize Exacto kit 87 worth $2995 5th Prize AHM heat gun worth $2495 Purchase roll Coverite send us instruction sheet name address printed backside Send sheets wish BUT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE DRAWING entries must postmarked no later Febru ary 28th 1976 Send entries Coverite Dept MAM 2779 Philmont Ave Hunting don Valley Pa 19006 0O 9E1___ JJiJ 2JJ LLLJ LJLJWJ iJ 2JJWLi_______ OF VISTA LABS 7023 D Canoga Ave oga Park Ca 91303 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Complete flying weight 21/2 ozwilI power Models 25 50 wingspan weighing up 10 oz Send 25 Catalog showing com plete line Electric Flight Equipment Accessories VI-lOl System $1950 Hytork 48 Prop Instruction Book $900 Fast Chargers $1450 $2950 See Model Dealer order Direct add 10% Postage Handling Calif Residents also add 6% Sales Tax send Check MO No CODs Hobby Dealers send Information March 1976 81 6th 10th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF CAMOUFLAGE WORTH $995 Famous WW German lozenge pattern silkscreened 4 authentic colors Lightweight Super Coverite IWo scales & 2 11th 15th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF PERMAGLOSS WORTH $890 Lightweight Super Coverite 4 coats PermaGloss paint honded its upper surface non-painters its Cadillac coverings Wont scrafch sag shatter 16th 20th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER WORTH $725 New lightweight Super now 33A % lighter lNeighs less painted silk costs less goes quicker & easier Its ever popular knock down trees covering 21st 25th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF SILKSPUN WORTH $675 unique covering looks like tissue hut log times stronger other covering except own Super
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/03
Page Numbers: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 81
Would believe 1898 fact article incredible let story tell itself TESLA George V Sosic ON SEPTEMBER 2 1897 Chief US Examiner Patents visited labo ratory Nikola Tesla New York visit prompted belief inventors latest patent application went far beyond realm possibility claim practical wireless control system vessels vehicles great dis tance should noted above date preceded Wright brothers air plane six years Tesla gave control system name Teleauto matics now known guidedmissile principle RPV remotely piloted vehicles radio control model aircraft fraternity calls RC article written model aircraft builders fliers writer will refer RC Four years before Tesla shook up Chief US Examiner Patents application patent RC demon strated vacuum-tube radio voice music 1893 Worlds Fair Chicago anyone electronic knowledge can easily see next logical step would convert frequency con trol tuning knowledge other uses such RC automation Tesla showed him bench-mounted RC components working order included transmitters receivers different frequencies tuned antennas reversible electric motorNo 633809 driven servos gear reductions electric motor-driven escapements gear reduc tions separate control function quarter turn shaft reversible electric motor driveshaft propeller intended power model boat constructing Patent Examiner returned office Washington DC firm believer new art RC issued Tesla patent-pending classification RC cause law required thorough patent search other red tape official pat ent number 613809 ultimately issued November 8 1898 date marks PaooooodNov81898 official birthday RC demon N TESLAstrated public Tesla model boat several feet longevery night week two months earlier September 1898 RC boat outlined patent specifications drawings same time Tesla con structing model boat single elec tronic circuit control RC func tions worked out preliminary designs submarine intended sub mit powers US Navy because inevitable Spanish American War used multiple circuitry electric power storage batteries large enough carry six 14-foot Whitehead torpedoes mounted vertically two rows firing controlled transmitter operator mother ship reloading torpedo tubes automatically triggered previous firing Submerging controlled RC valves admitted water ballast Electric motor-driven Westinghouse air compressors would purge water ballast surfacing Aowbr Teslas negotiations Navy brass itless hinted press NMSKOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEORAVISM OR MOVINO VESSELS SR ASAICLAS lAppIiooIo9 TOd JI No Mod)5 SheoSheO 9 zine editors about mind powered war weapon enlist sup port force Navys hand Up time supported him because way making impossible dreams come true single believed electronic magician could pull another rabbit out hat time Briefly Teslas announcement went something like Gentlemen vestigations latest invention begun 1890 recently rushed stage entirely practical reliable method appara tus controlling vessels vehicles wireless great distance opera tor other words makes crewless mind powered torpedo boat entirely possible practical needs done build boat wire proper ly new art suggest name Teleautomatics art absolutely controlling machine such asavesselorvehicle mean its trans latory operations such forward re verse motive power its steering mecha nism loading firing tor pedoes mere exercise will operator mother ship impending Spanish American War small fleet boats operate com pletely submerged could utterly destroy entire Spanish fleet hour enemy fleet single armada navy seek out remainder fleet No633809 N TESLA Palontod Nov 3098 EMORAD DEANS APPARATUS FAR OONOROLLNO NECARAISM OR MOVING VESSELS SR AFAILLOS lOFplO8009 1809011 118904 No Model5 SAootSAor 2 /1/ ~1 L 7 0 -/ 0 1 IF 3 12 Model Aviation Tesla 1895 age 39the year invented radio control 1898 hired Madison Square Garden demonstrations exciting being control RC models spectators Father RC change claim few months state art have advanced sufficient impending war fostered recent extensive investigations will stop intend show same art Teleautomatics will allow war weapon expedite its own mission automatically itself out operator dictate its movements left unto itself will able distinguish between what ought what ought still will able complete mission assigned accurately dispatch can zero enemy ship bouncing wireless signals off its hull have already perfected such plan college designed long cylindrical metal airship completely devoid control surfaces stabilizing fins kind pro pelled imaginary reaction engine now have theoretical design air ship powered guided entirely reaction proven wireless control system route reaction power steering need prime mover sufficient power propel have Teleautomatic aerial torpedo can destroy target thousands miles away accuracy Such things can financed government because private investors interested profit loss statements technical progress Tesla wireless lights made screw existing light sockets Since 1890 used wireless lights exclusively lab oratory Plc courtesy Tesla Museum Left first RC modal ever demonstratedNew York 1898 pioneered work tuned circuits usual question ans wer session case Tesla terviews answers just fantastic prepared statement Teslas plan enlist support press magazine editors normally supported him negative effect newspaper maga zine editors editorially reprimanded him resorting cheap sensationalism get defense contract build weapon couldnt possibly figment imagination rented Madison Square Garden New York week September 1898 publicly refute critics feathers badly ruffled editors normally sup ported him display covered en tire field radio radar electronics included Wireless Morse Code dot dash signals vacuum tube voice music radio radar wirephoto shadowgraph first successful X-ray experi ment RC Teslas RC boat star show performed packed houses night week first under radio guid ance inventor volunteers audience prove its simplicity press public explained operation yet constructed sub marine revealing secrets press magazines took up cause no avail Navy still preferred antiquated methods technical warfare wealthy friend Teslas John Hays Hammond gave Tesla $10000 rent Madison Square Garden week completed several larger model boats under construction though hopes sell Navy RC warfare March 1976 13 Above Details Teslas amazing boat paralleled todays principles Included its radio system feed-back servo also developed loop antenna proportional control servo gear system rudder shows clearly does electric drive motor shaft propeller location batteries relays equipment look very familiar across three-quarters century Below His RC submarine models demonstrated perplexed Navy before SpanishAmerican War could pump Out water ballast shattered vacuum-tube detec tor multiple circuitry loop form antenna inside hill left out RC patent application national defense secret US Patent number 613809 sub stituted specially-designed cylindrical detector vacuum tube shows single electronic circuit relays semi conductors directing battery current desired devices Tesla ready allowed Navy officers send model sub marines out Atlantic ocean com pletely submerged except hooded lights bow stern always knew way bow pointed recalled boats dock surfaced air compressors inside hull Navy still dreaded extra intelligence required technical warfare buried heads sand ironic Tesla never did get subsidies US government cause minor engineers inventors time work defense projects failed sell modification 20-yearold radar system 1917 claimed would bounce signals off hulls deadly World War German submarines Mysteriously Navy didnt offer finance demonstration Tesla once again enlisted press magazines help responded because knew friends relatives would exposed U-boats way France Once again Navy brass buried heads sand Shortly before end World War 1918 Teslas RC system employed Army Air Corps biplane Sperry Gyroscope Co fly pre-programmed mission prove feasibility warfare risk life limb made its take-off ground-operated transmitter flew automatically hundred miles dropped its bombs imaginary target made 180-degree turn re turned its take-off point land ing made RC transmitter analog proportional closed-loop servos throughout Sperry gyroscopes equipped same potentiometers ground transmitter automatic pilot control after take-off war ended fore defense contract awarded happened World War wasnt until 20 years later Army Air Corps revived Teslas RC issued master contract 10-foot wingspan RC model two-cylinder two-cycle engine use target drone machine gunners practice anti-air craft fire left right wing panels alike interchangeable made spruce fabric covering fuselage thin-walled 4130 chrome moly tubing Three longitudinal tubes formed triangular cross section two parallel tubes top single tube bottom RC unit analog feedback potentiometer proportional three channels no ailerons writer witnessed flights Army Air Corps World War II such robust turn response couldnt believe flew ailerons until noticed large movable rudder area tne design Three channel fliers take note day Teslas RC everywhere Thousands modelers state use fun pleasure has orbited other planets has moon times crew carries out combat missions automatically accuracy form guided missiles hi-product array computers used over world operates station ary machinery mobile machinery Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian birth American choice became naturalized citizen 1889 never got recognition deserved mostly because tangled Thomas Edison bested him invention alter nating current electric power light sys tem powers world today wres ted control electrical industry Edison arch enemy turned dustry over George Westinghouse sum $l000000 After paying off seven investors Tesla Electric Com pany used remaining $400000 research develop high-frequency radio electronic inventions money lasted II years climaxed II years transmitting high-frequency electric power wireless distance 26 miles lit up bank 200 light bulbs ran electric motor What soul stirring way spectacular inventor go broke next project venture would attract capital attempted build Radio City Long Island fell through lack investors 33 years before Radio City built New York others developed steam turbine steam-driven electric alternating-current generators motive power ships sea took steam turbine design modified gas turbine built prototypes l00 400 horsepower unveiled gas turbine press stated definitely engine future 14 Model Aviation Teslathe Father RC no doubt main problems con cerning metallurgy would eventually resolved year 1912 engine used until Germany Italy built some jet airplanes 1940 Most Teslas inventions 50 years ahead time interesting note Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy indus try 1901 gave him worldwide pub licity smart enough know telegraph system poles wires form wireless could attract financial backing time worldwide publicity what led public believe Marconi invented radio Tesla sued Marconi infringing patent rights Marconis lawyers man aged drag court case until 1915 US Supreme Court ruled against Tesla declared Marconi official inventor radio because lawyers judges period ab solutely no understanding simple elec trical circuitmuch less sophisticated electronics few months before Teslas death US Supreme Court 1942-43 reversed decision left road open Tesla instigate legal proceed ings collect millions dollars back royalties came too late Tesla because came time penniless semi-invalid very close 5 SheetsSheel 3 H-S llIMAjzfes 1~ AA e-t p JRe*w/oJ- March 1976 15 No 613809 N TESLA No Model METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Applicotroo filed ittly 18981 Patented Nov 8 1898No613809Patented Nov 8 1898 N TESLA METHOD OP AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Application filed ioiy 109fi No Model5 5heels5heet 4 FqjJI6 1 Teslathe Father RC death died January 1943 time atom bomb being developed born July 9 1856 covered wagon days Nikola Teslas RC patent number 613809 issued November 8 1898 positive proof first RC mod eler Perhaps enough RC modelers read article name will perpetuated starting RC Hall Fame naming important RC annual contest after him case name will mentioned RC buffs next year 1956 electronics industry honored Tesla hundredth anniversary birth naming unit magnetic field strength Tesla RC modelers means reading outside radio transmitter tells Teslas putting out Im willing bet guy installed meter has never heard oflesla Teslas inventions discoveries too numerous mention number thousands Most invented head filed away corner brain until enough money make working model hated waste time lecture tours always de mand lecturer own develop ments both abroad well paid desperately needed money support laboratory Tesla Electric Company Teslas favorite invention electro magnetic pendulum knows Tesla coil heart radio electronics automobile ignition systems forced invent because high frequency al ternators hundreds poles continued page 81 No613509PalenSed Nov 5 598 N ILSLA OETUOO OF MW AFFOROFIJS FOR COOTOOLLIOQ UECOOJSIOU OF MOVOSO VESSELS OR VOIFICLOS NFOdilSSflnt ShootS 635 16 Model Aviation Photo froip June 1OO Gentury Magazine shows Tesla laboratory Colorado Springs going over notes midst spectacular experiment Perhaps checking circuitry because got placed on-off-switchl Below First wireless plant world time Colorado Springs fed 1150 amps through antenna also created massive spectacu lar lightning massive thunder claps awesome experiments Radio Technique/Myers continued page 10 less resistance therefore will cool lower average temperature during engine run engine hard start try obtain hotter plug will also improve idling Overall thing separates easy starting hard starting knowledge know starting battery has adequate charge glow plug good condition connections clean tight wire battery plug heavy enough gauge carry current dropping too much volt age will get start last point deserves some comment three-foot length 20-gauge lamp cord will drop volt trying light Cox plug 3 amps Thats enough convert cold day miserable session gashed fingers alcohol fires Use copper can14 gauge goodand keep leads short best way see information want column let know about 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicks ville NY 11801 Editors Note January issue schematic appeared LED devices schematic correct readers ran trouble using 82ohm resistor 82K belongs colors 82K Grey Red Orange Tesla/Sosic continued naae 16 early radio research work satis factory man Teslas caliber got high 30000 cycles wanted much credits coil rapid development radio radar radio control electronic automation drive motivated strong desire keep creative mind occupied quoted statement worst criminals world voluntarily idle statement aptly describes prime motivations average RC modeler Editors Note recent release Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone Calif making powerful transmissions electronic power have ever made possibility has trigued scientists ever since Teslas experi ments Until now concept consid ered inefficient Engineers transmitting 30 kilowatts DC power receiving station mile away believed efficiency 65% may achieved JPL experiments point way transmission energy through spaceas solar collectors space WIN ONE OF THESE 25 GREAT PRIZES! 1st Prize Thayer & Chandler Model E airbrush & compressor kit worth $106 2nd Prize Sullivan deluxe starter & 12v gel cell worth $6490 3rd Prize Dremel shop model kit 371 worth $4995 4th Prize Exacto kit 87 worth $2995 5th Prize AHM heat gun worth $2495 Purchase roll Coverite send us instruction sheet name address printed backside Send sheets wish BUT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE DRAWING entries must postmarked no later Febru ary 28th 1976 Send entries Coverite Dept MAM 2779 Philmont Ave Hunting don Valley Pa 19006 0O 9E1___ JJiJ 2JJ LLLJ LJLJWJ iJ 2JJWLi_______ OF VISTA LABS 7023 D Canoga Ave oga Park Ca 91303 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Complete flying weight 21/2 ozwilI power Models 25 50 wingspan weighing up 10 oz Send 25 Catalog showing com plete line Electric Flight Equipment Accessories VI-lOl System $1950 Hytork 48 Prop Instruction Book $900 Fast Chargers $1450 $2950 See Model Dealer order Direct add 10% Postage Handling Calif Residents also add 6% Sales Tax send Check MO No CODs Hobby Dealers send Information March 1976 81 6th 10th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF CAMOUFLAGE WORTH $995 Famous WW German lozenge pattern silkscreened 4 authentic colors Lightweight Super Coverite IWo scales & 2 11th 15th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF PERMAGLOSS WORTH $890 Lightweight Super Coverite 4 coats PermaGloss paint honded its upper surface non-painters its Cadillac coverings Wont scrafch sag shatter 16th 20th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER WORTH $725 New lightweight Super now 33A % lighter lNeighs less painted silk costs less goes quicker & easier Its ever popular knock down trees covering 21st 25th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF SILKSPUN WORTH $675 unique covering looks like tissue hut log times stronger other covering except own Super
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/03
Page Numbers: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 81
Would believe 1898 fact article incredible let story tell itself TESLA George V Sosic ON SEPTEMBER 2 1897 Chief US Examiner Patents visited labo ratory Nikola Tesla New York visit prompted belief inventors latest patent application went far beyond realm possibility claim practical wireless control system vessels vehicles great dis tance should noted above date preceded Wright brothers air plane six years Tesla gave control system name Teleauto matics now known guidedmissile principle RPV remotely piloted vehicles radio control model aircraft fraternity calls RC article written model aircraft builders fliers writer will refer RC Four years before Tesla shook up Chief US Examiner Patents application patent RC demon strated vacuum-tube radio voice music 1893 Worlds Fair Chicago anyone electronic knowledge can easily see next logical step would convert frequency con trol tuning knowledge other uses such RC automation Tesla showed him bench-mounted RC components working order included transmitters receivers different frequencies tuned antennas reversible electric motorNo 633809 driven servos gear reductions electric motor-driven escapements gear reduc tions separate control function quarter turn shaft reversible electric motor driveshaft propeller intended power model boat constructing Patent Examiner returned office Washington DC firm believer new art RC issued Tesla patent-pending classification RC cause law required thorough patent search other red tape official pat ent number 613809 ultimately issued November 8 1898 date marks PaooooodNov81898 official birthday RC demon N TESLAstrated public Tesla model boat several feet longevery night week two months earlier September 1898 RC boat outlined patent specifications drawings same time Tesla con structing model boat single elec tronic circuit control RC func tions worked out preliminary designs submarine intended sub mit powers US Navy because inevitable Spanish American War used multiple circuitry electric power storage batteries large enough carry six 14-foot Whitehead torpedoes mounted vertically two rows firing controlled transmitter operator mother ship reloading torpedo tubes automatically triggered previous firing Submerging controlled RC valves admitted water ballast Electric motor-driven Westinghouse air compressors would purge water ballast surfacing Aowbr Teslas negotiations Navy brass itless hinted press NMSKOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEORAVISM OR MOVINO VESSELS SR ASAICLAS lAppIiooIo9 TOd JI No Mod)5 SheoSheO 9 zine editors about mind powered war weapon enlist sup port force Navys hand Up time supported him because way making impossible dreams come true single believed electronic magician could pull another rabbit out hat time Briefly Teslas announcement went something like Gentlemen vestigations latest invention begun 1890 recently rushed stage entirely practical reliable method appara tus controlling vessels vehicles wireless great distance opera tor other words makes crewless mind powered torpedo boat entirely possible practical needs done build boat wire proper ly new art suggest name Teleautomatics art absolutely controlling machine such asavesselorvehicle mean its trans latory operations such forward re verse motive power its steering mecha nism loading firing tor pedoes mere exercise will operator mother ship impending Spanish American War small fleet boats operate com pletely submerged could utterly destroy entire Spanish fleet hour enemy fleet single armada navy seek out remainder fleet No633809 N TESLA Palontod Nov 3098 EMORAD DEANS APPARATUS FAR OONOROLLNO NECARAISM OR MOVING VESSELS SR AFAILLOS lOFplO8009 1809011 118904 No Model5 SAootSAor 2 /1/ ~1 L 7 0 -/ 0 1 IF 3 12 Model Aviation Tesla 1895 age 39the year invented radio control 1898 hired Madison Square Garden demonstrations exciting being control RC models spectators Father RC change claim few months state art have advanced sufficient impending war fostered recent extensive investigations will stop intend show same art Teleautomatics will allow war weapon expedite its own mission automatically itself out operator dictate its movements left unto itself will able distinguish between what ought what ought still will able complete mission assigned accurately dispatch can zero enemy ship bouncing wireless signals off its hull have already perfected such plan college designed long cylindrical metal airship completely devoid control surfaces stabilizing fins kind pro pelled imaginary reaction engine now have theoretical design air ship powered guided entirely reaction proven wireless control system route reaction power steering need prime mover sufficient power propel have Teleautomatic aerial torpedo can destroy target thousands miles away accuracy Such things can financed government because private investors interested profit loss statements technical progress Tesla wireless lights made screw existing light sockets Since 1890 used wireless lights exclusively lab oratory Plc courtesy Tesla Museum Left first RC modal ever demonstratedNew York 1898 pioneered work tuned circuits usual question ans wer session case Tesla terviews answers just fantastic prepared statement Teslas plan enlist support press magazine editors normally supported him negative effect newspaper maga zine editors editorially reprimanded him resorting cheap sensationalism get defense contract build weapon couldnt possibly figment imagination rented Madison Square Garden New York week September 1898 publicly refute critics feathers badly ruffled editors normally sup ported him display covered en tire field radio radar electronics included Wireless Morse Code dot dash signals vacuum tube voice music radio radar wirephoto shadowgraph first successful X-ray experi ment RC Teslas RC boat star show performed packed houses night week first under radio guid ance inventor volunteers audience prove its simplicity press public explained operation yet constructed sub marine revealing secrets press magazines took up cause no avail Navy still preferred antiquated methods technical warfare wealthy friend Teslas John Hays Hammond gave Tesla $10000 rent Madison Square Garden week completed several larger model boats under construction though hopes sell Navy RC warfare March 1976 13 Above Details Teslas amazing boat paralleled todays principles Included its radio system feed-back servo also developed loop antenna proportional control servo gear system rudder shows clearly does electric drive motor shaft propeller location batteries relays equipment look very familiar across three-quarters century Below His RC submarine models demonstrated perplexed Navy before SpanishAmerican War could pump Out water ballast shattered vacuum-tube detec tor multiple circuitry loop form antenna inside hill left out RC patent application national defense secret US Patent number 613809 sub stituted specially-designed cylindrical detector vacuum tube shows single electronic circuit relays semi conductors directing battery current desired devices Tesla ready allowed Navy officers send model sub marines out Atlantic ocean com pletely submerged except hooded lights bow stern always knew way bow pointed recalled boats dock surfaced air compressors inside hull Navy still dreaded extra intelligence required technical warfare buried heads sand ironic Tesla never did get subsidies US government cause minor engineers inventors time work defense projects failed sell modification 20-yearold radar system 1917 claimed would bounce signals off hulls deadly World War German submarines Mysteriously Navy didnt offer finance demonstration Tesla once again enlisted press magazines help responded because knew friends relatives would exposed U-boats way France Once again Navy brass buried heads sand Shortly before end World War 1918 Teslas RC system employed Army Air Corps biplane Sperry Gyroscope Co fly pre-programmed mission prove feasibility warfare risk life limb made its take-off ground-operated transmitter flew automatically hundred miles dropped its bombs imaginary target made 180-degree turn re turned its take-off point land ing made RC transmitter analog proportional closed-loop servos throughout Sperry gyroscopes equipped same potentiometers ground transmitter automatic pilot control after take-off war ended fore defense contract awarded happened World War wasnt until 20 years later Army Air Corps revived Teslas RC issued master contract 10-foot wingspan RC model two-cylinder two-cycle engine use target drone machine gunners practice anti-air craft fire left right wing panels alike interchangeable made spruce fabric covering fuselage thin-walled 4130 chrome moly tubing Three longitudinal tubes formed triangular cross section two parallel tubes top single tube bottom RC unit analog feedback potentiometer proportional three channels no ailerons writer witnessed flights Army Air Corps World War II such robust turn response couldnt believe flew ailerons until noticed large movable rudder area tne design Three channel fliers take note day Teslas RC everywhere Thousands modelers state use fun pleasure has orbited other planets has moon times crew carries out combat missions automatically accuracy form guided missiles hi-product array computers used over world operates station ary machinery mobile machinery Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian birth American choice became naturalized citizen 1889 never got recognition deserved mostly because tangled Thomas Edison bested him invention alter nating current electric power light sys tem powers world today wres ted control electrical industry Edison arch enemy turned dustry over George Westinghouse sum $l000000 After paying off seven investors Tesla Electric Com pany used remaining $400000 research develop high-frequency radio electronic inventions money lasted II years climaxed II years transmitting high-frequency electric power wireless distance 26 miles lit up bank 200 light bulbs ran electric motor What soul stirring way spectacular inventor go broke next project venture would attract capital attempted build Radio City Long Island fell through lack investors 33 years before Radio City built New York others developed steam turbine steam-driven electric alternating-current generators motive power ships sea took steam turbine design modified gas turbine built prototypes l00 400 horsepower unveiled gas turbine press stated definitely engine future 14 Model Aviation Teslathe Father RC no doubt main problems con cerning metallurgy would eventually resolved year 1912 engine used until Germany Italy built some jet airplanes 1940 Most Teslas inventions 50 years ahead time interesting note Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy indus try 1901 gave him worldwide pub licity smart enough know telegraph system poles wires form wireless could attract financial backing time worldwide publicity what led public believe Marconi invented radio Tesla sued Marconi infringing patent rights Marconis lawyers man aged drag court case until 1915 US Supreme Court ruled against Tesla declared Marconi official inventor radio because lawyers judges period ab solutely no understanding simple elec trical circuitmuch less sophisticated electronics few months before Teslas death US Supreme Court 1942-43 reversed decision left road open Tesla instigate legal proceed ings collect millions dollars back royalties came too late Tesla because came time penniless semi-invalid very close 5 SheetsSheel 3 H-S llIMAjzfes 1~ AA e-t p JRe*w/oJ- March 1976 15 No 613809 N TESLA No Model METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Applicotroo filed ittly 18981 Patented Nov 8 1898No613809Patented Nov 8 1898 N TESLA METHOD OP AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Application filed ioiy 109fi No Model5 5heels5heet 4 FqjJI6 1 Teslathe Father RC death died January 1943 time atom bomb being developed born July 9 1856 covered wagon days Nikola Teslas RC patent number 613809 issued November 8 1898 positive proof first RC mod eler Perhaps enough RC modelers read article name will perpetuated starting RC Hall Fame naming important RC annual contest after him case name will mentioned RC buffs next year 1956 electronics industry honored Tesla hundredth anniversary birth naming unit magnetic field strength Tesla RC modelers means reading outside radio transmitter tells Teslas putting out Im willing bet guy installed meter has never heard oflesla Teslas inventions discoveries too numerous mention number thousands Most invented head filed away corner brain until enough money make working model hated waste time lecture tours always de mand lecturer own develop ments both abroad well paid desperately needed money support laboratory Tesla Electric Company Teslas favorite invention electro magnetic pendulum knows Tesla coil heart radio electronics automobile ignition systems forced invent because high frequency al ternators hundreds poles continued page 81 No613509PalenSed Nov 5 598 N ILSLA OETUOO OF MW AFFOROFIJS FOR COOTOOLLIOQ UECOOJSIOU OF MOVOSO VESSELS OR VOIFICLOS NFOdilSSflnt ShootS 635 16 Model Aviation Photo froip June 1OO Gentury Magazine shows Tesla laboratory Colorado Springs going over notes midst spectacular experiment Perhaps checking circuitry because got placed on-off-switchl Below First wireless plant world time Colorado Springs fed 1150 amps through antenna also created massive spectacu lar lightning massive thunder claps awesome experiments Radio Technique/Myers continued page 10 less resistance therefore will cool lower average temperature during engine run engine hard start try obtain hotter plug will also improve idling Overall thing separates easy starting hard starting knowledge know starting battery has adequate charge glow plug good condition connections clean tight wire battery plug heavy enough gauge carry current dropping too much volt age will get start last point deserves some comment three-foot length 20-gauge lamp cord will drop volt trying light Cox plug 3 amps Thats enough convert cold day miserable session gashed fingers alcohol fires Use copper can14 gauge goodand keep leads short best way see information want column let know about 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicks ville NY 11801 Editors Note January issue schematic appeared LED devices schematic correct readers ran trouble using 82ohm resistor 82K belongs colors 82K Grey Red Orange Tesla/Sosic continued naae 16 early radio research work satis factory man Teslas caliber got high 30000 cycles wanted much credits coil rapid development radio radar radio control electronic automation drive motivated strong desire keep creative mind occupied quoted statement worst criminals world voluntarily idle statement aptly describes prime motivations average RC modeler Editors Note recent release Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone Calif making powerful transmissions electronic power have ever made possibility has trigued scientists ever since Teslas experi ments Until now concept consid ered inefficient Engineers transmitting 30 kilowatts DC power receiving station mile away believed efficiency 65% may achieved JPL experiments point way transmission energy through spaceas solar collectors space WIN ONE OF THESE 25 GREAT PRIZES! 1st Prize Thayer & Chandler Model E airbrush & compressor kit worth $106 2nd Prize Sullivan deluxe starter & 12v gel cell worth $6490 3rd Prize Dremel shop model kit 371 worth $4995 4th Prize Exacto kit 87 worth $2995 5th Prize AHM heat gun worth $2495 Purchase roll Coverite send us instruction sheet name address printed backside Send sheets wish BUT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE DRAWING entries must postmarked no later Febru ary 28th 1976 Send entries Coverite Dept MAM 2779 Philmont Ave Hunting don Valley Pa 19006 0O 9E1___ JJiJ 2JJ LLLJ LJLJWJ iJ 2JJWLi_______ OF VISTA LABS 7023 D Canoga Ave oga Park Ca 91303 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Complete flying weight 21/2 ozwilI power Models 25 50 wingspan weighing up 10 oz Send 25 Catalog showing com plete line Electric Flight Equipment Accessories VI-lOl System $1950 Hytork 48 Prop Instruction Book $900 Fast Chargers $1450 $2950 See Model Dealer order Direct add 10% Postage Handling Calif Residents also add 6% Sales Tax send Check MO No CODs Hobby Dealers send Information March 1976 81 6th 10th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF CAMOUFLAGE WORTH $995 Famous WW German lozenge pattern silkscreened 4 authentic colors Lightweight Super Coverite IWo scales & 2 11th 15th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF PERMAGLOSS WORTH $890 Lightweight Super Coverite 4 coats PermaGloss paint honded its upper surface non-painters its Cadillac coverings Wont scrafch sag shatter 16th 20th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER WORTH $725 New lightweight Super now 33A % lighter lNeighs less painted silk costs less goes quicker & easier Its ever popular knock down trees covering 21st 25th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF SILKSPUN WORTH $675 unique covering looks like tissue hut log times stronger other covering except own Super
Edition: Model Aviation - 1976/03
Page Numbers: 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 81
Would believe 1898 fact article incredible let story tell itself TESLA George V Sosic ON SEPTEMBER 2 1897 Chief US Examiner Patents visited labo ratory Nikola Tesla New York visit prompted belief inventors latest patent application went far beyond realm possibility claim practical wireless control system vessels vehicles great dis tance should noted above date preceded Wright brothers air plane six years Tesla gave control system name Teleauto matics now known guidedmissile principle RPV remotely piloted vehicles radio control model aircraft fraternity calls RC article written model aircraft builders fliers writer will refer RC Four years before Tesla shook up Chief US Examiner Patents application patent RC demon strated vacuum-tube radio voice music 1893 Worlds Fair Chicago anyone electronic knowledge can easily see next logical step would convert frequency con trol tuning knowledge other uses such RC automation Tesla showed him bench-mounted RC components working order included transmitters receivers different frequencies tuned antennas reversible electric motorNo 633809 driven servos gear reductions electric motor-driven escapements gear reduc tions separate control function quarter turn shaft reversible electric motor driveshaft propeller intended power model boat constructing Patent Examiner returned office Washington DC firm believer new art RC issued Tesla patent-pending classification RC cause law required thorough patent search other red tape official pat ent number 613809 ultimately issued November 8 1898 date marks PaooooodNov81898 official birthday RC demon N TESLAstrated public Tesla model boat several feet longevery night week two months earlier September 1898 RC boat outlined patent specifications drawings same time Tesla con structing model boat single elec tronic circuit control RC func tions worked out preliminary designs submarine intended sub mit powers US Navy because inevitable Spanish American War used multiple circuitry electric power storage batteries large enough carry six 14-foot Whitehead torpedoes mounted vertically two rows firing controlled transmitter operator mother ship reloading torpedo tubes automatically triggered previous firing Submerging controlled RC valves admitted water ballast Electric motor-driven Westinghouse air compressors would purge water ballast surfacing Aowbr Teslas negotiations Navy brass itless hinted press NMSKOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MEORAVISM OR MOVINO VESSELS SR ASAICLAS lAppIiooIo9 TOd JI No Mod)5 SheoSheO 9 zine editors about mind powered war weapon enlist sup port force Navys hand Up time supported him because way making impossible dreams come true single believed electronic magician could pull another rabbit out hat time Briefly Teslas announcement went something like Gentlemen vestigations latest invention begun 1890 recently rushed stage entirely practical reliable method appara tus controlling vessels vehicles wireless great distance opera tor other words makes crewless mind powered torpedo boat entirely possible practical needs done build boat wire proper ly new art suggest name Teleautomatics art absolutely controlling machine such asavesselorvehicle mean its trans latory operations such forward re verse motive power its steering mecha nism loading firing tor pedoes mere exercise will operator mother ship impending Spanish American War small fleet boats operate com pletely submerged could utterly destroy entire Spanish fleet hour enemy fleet single armada navy seek out remainder fleet No633809 N TESLA Palontod Nov 3098 EMORAD DEANS APPARATUS FAR OONOROLLNO NECARAISM OR MOVING VESSELS SR AFAILLOS lOFplO8009 1809011 118904 No Model5 SAootSAor 2 /1/ ~1 L 7 0 -/ 0 1 IF 3 12 Model Aviation Tesla 1895 age 39the year invented radio control 1898 hired Madison Square Garden demonstrations exciting being control RC models spectators Father RC change claim few months state art have advanced sufficient impending war fostered recent extensive investigations will stop intend show same art Teleautomatics will allow war weapon expedite its own mission automatically itself out operator dictate its movements left unto itself will able distinguish between what ought what ought still will able complete mission assigned accurately dispatch can zero enemy ship bouncing wireless signals off its hull have already perfected such plan college designed long cylindrical metal airship completely devoid control surfaces stabilizing fins kind pro pelled imaginary reaction engine now have theoretical design air ship powered guided entirely reaction proven wireless control system route reaction power steering need prime mover sufficient power propel have Teleautomatic aerial torpedo can destroy target thousands miles away accuracy Such things can financed government because private investors interested profit loss statements technical progress Tesla wireless lights made screw existing light sockets Since 1890 used wireless lights exclusively lab oratory Plc courtesy Tesla Museum Left first RC modal ever demonstratedNew York 1898 pioneered work tuned circuits usual question ans wer session case Tesla terviews answers just fantastic prepared statement Teslas plan enlist support press magazine editors normally supported him negative effect newspaper maga zine editors editorially reprimanded him resorting cheap sensationalism get defense contract build weapon couldnt possibly figment imagination rented Madison Square Garden New York week September 1898 publicly refute critics feathers badly ruffled editors normally sup ported him display covered en tire field radio radar electronics included Wireless Morse Code dot dash signals vacuum tube voice music radio radar wirephoto shadowgraph first successful X-ray experi ment RC Teslas RC boat star show performed packed houses night week first under radio guid ance inventor volunteers audience prove its simplicity press public explained operation yet constructed sub marine revealing secrets press magazines took up cause no avail Navy still preferred antiquated methods technical warfare wealthy friend Teslas John Hays Hammond gave Tesla $10000 rent Madison Square Garden week completed several larger model boats under construction though hopes sell Navy RC warfare March 1976 13 Above Details Teslas amazing boat paralleled todays principles Included its radio system feed-back servo also developed loop antenna proportional control servo gear system rudder shows clearly does electric drive motor shaft propeller location batteries relays equipment look very familiar across three-quarters century Below His RC submarine models demonstrated perplexed Navy before SpanishAmerican War could pump Out water ballast shattered vacuum-tube detec tor multiple circuitry loop form antenna inside hill left out RC patent application national defense secret US Patent number 613809 sub stituted specially-designed cylindrical detector vacuum tube shows single electronic circuit relays semi conductors directing battery current desired devices Tesla ready allowed Navy officers send model sub marines out Atlantic ocean com pletely submerged except hooded lights bow stern always knew way bow pointed recalled boats dock surfaced air compressors inside hull Navy still dreaded extra intelligence required technical warfare buried heads sand ironic Tesla never did get subsidies US government cause minor engineers inventors time work defense projects failed sell modification 20-yearold radar system 1917 claimed would bounce signals off hulls deadly World War German submarines Mysteriously Navy didnt offer finance demonstration Tesla once again enlisted press magazines help responded because knew friends relatives would exposed U-boats way France Once again Navy brass buried heads sand Shortly before end World War 1918 Teslas RC system employed Army Air Corps biplane Sperry Gyroscope Co fly pre-programmed mission prove feasibility warfare risk life limb made its take-off ground-operated transmitter flew automatically hundred miles dropped its bombs imaginary target made 180-degree turn re turned its take-off point land ing made RC transmitter analog proportional closed-loop servos throughout Sperry gyroscopes equipped same potentiometers ground transmitter automatic pilot control after take-off war ended fore defense contract awarded happened World War wasnt until 20 years later Army Air Corps revived Teslas RC issued master contract 10-foot wingspan RC model two-cylinder two-cycle engine use target drone machine gunners practice anti-air craft fire left right wing panels alike interchangeable made spruce fabric covering fuselage thin-walled 4130 chrome moly tubing Three longitudinal tubes formed triangular cross section two parallel tubes top single tube bottom RC unit analog feedback potentiometer proportional three channels no ailerons writer witnessed flights Army Air Corps World War II such robust turn response couldnt believe flew ailerons until noticed large movable rudder area tne design Three channel fliers take note day Teslas RC everywhere Thousands modelers state use fun pleasure has orbited other planets has moon times crew carries out combat missions automatically accuracy form guided missiles hi-product array computers used over world operates station ary machinery mobile machinery Nikola Tesla Yugoslavian birth American choice became naturalized citizen 1889 never got recognition deserved mostly because tangled Thomas Edison bested him invention alter nating current electric power light sys tem powers world today wres ted control electrical industry Edison arch enemy turned dustry over George Westinghouse sum $l000000 After paying off seven investors Tesla Electric Com pany used remaining $400000 research develop high-frequency radio electronic inventions money lasted II years climaxed II years transmitting high-frequency electric power wireless distance 26 miles lit up bank 200 light bulbs ran electric motor What soul stirring way spectacular inventor go broke next project venture would attract capital attempted build Radio City Long Island fell through lack investors 33 years before Radio City built New York others developed steam turbine steam-driven electric alternating-current generators motive power ships sea took steam turbine design modified gas turbine built prototypes l00 400 horsepower unveiled gas turbine press stated definitely engine future 14 Model Aviation Teslathe Father RC no doubt main problems con cerning metallurgy would eventually resolved year 1912 engine used until Germany Italy built some jet airplanes 1940 Most Teslas inventions 50 years ahead time interesting note Marconi introduced wireless telegraphy indus try 1901 gave him worldwide pub licity smart enough know telegraph system poles wires form wireless could attract financial backing time worldwide publicity what led public believe Marconi invented radio Tesla sued Marconi infringing patent rights Marconis lawyers man aged drag court case until 1915 US Supreme Court ruled against Tesla declared Marconi official inventor radio because lawyers judges period ab solutely no understanding simple elec trical circuitmuch less sophisticated electronics few months before Teslas death US Supreme Court 1942-43 reversed decision left road open Tesla instigate legal proceed ings collect millions dollars back royalties came too late Tesla because came time penniless semi-invalid very close 5 SheetsSheel 3 H-S llIMAjzfes 1~ AA e-t p JRe*w/oJ- March 1976 15 No 613809 N TESLA No Model METHOD OF AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Applicotroo filed ittly 18981 Patented Nov 8 1898No613809Patented Nov 8 1898 N TESLA METHOD OP AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MECHANISM OF MOVING VESSELS OR VEHICLES Application filed ioiy 109fi No Model5 5heels5heet 4 FqjJI6 1 Teslathe Father RC death died January 1943 time atom bomb being developed born July 9 1856 covered wagon days Nikola Teslas RC patent number 613809 issued November 8 1898 positive proof first RC mod eler Perhaps enough RC modelers read article name will perpetuated starting RC Hall Fame naming important RC annual contest after him case name will mentioned RC buffs next year 1956 electronics industry honored Tesla hundredth anniversary birth naming unit magnetic field strength Tesla RC modelers means reading outside radio transmitter tells Teslas putting out Im willing bet guy installed meter has never heard oflesla Teslas inventions discoveries too numerous mention number thousands Most invented head filed away corner brain until enough money make working model hated waste time lecture tours always de mand lecturer own develop ments both abroad well paid desperately needed money support laboratory Tesla Electric Company Teslas favorite invention electro magnetic pendulum knows Tesla coil heart radio electronics automobile ignition systems forced invent because high frequency al ternators hundreds poles continued page 81 No613509PalenSed Nov 5 598 N ILSLA OETUOO OF MW AFFOROFIJS FOR COOTOOLLIOQ UECOOJSIOU OF MOVOSO VESSELS OR VOIFICLOS NFOdilSSflnt ShootS 635 16 Model Aviation Photo froip June 1OO Gentury Magazine shows Tesla laboratory Colorado Springs going over notes midst spectacular experiment Perhaps checking circuitry because got placed on-off-switchl Below First wireless plant world time Colorado Springs fed 1150 amps through antenna also created massive spectacu lar lightning massive thunder claps awesome experiments Radio Technique/Myers continued page 10 less resistance therefore will cool lower average temperature during engine run engine hard start try obtain hotter plug will also improve idling Overall thing separates easy starting hard starting knowledge know starting battery has adequate charge glow plug good condition connections clean tight wire battery plug heavy enough gauge carry current dropping too much volt age will get start last point deserves some comment three-foot length 20-gauge lamp cord will drop volt trying light Cox plug 3 amps Thats enough convert cold day miserable session gashed fingers alcohol fires Use copper can14 gauge goodand keep leads short best way see information want column let know about 70 Froehlich Farm Rd Hicks ville NY 11801 Editors Note January issue schematic appeared LED devices schematic correct readers ran trouble using 82ohm resistor 82K belongs colors 82K Grey Red Orange Tesla/Sosic continued naae 16 early radio research work satis factory man Teslas caliber got high 30000 cycles wanted much credits coil rapid development radio radar radio control electronic automation drive motivated strong desire keep creative mind occupied quoted statement worst criminals world voluntarily idle statement aptly describes prime motivations average RC modeler Editors Note recent release Jet Propulsion Laboratory Goldstone Calif making powerful transmissions electronic power have ever made possibility has trigued scientists ever since Teslas experi ments Until now concept consid ered inefficient Engineers transmitting 30 kilowatts DC power receiving station mile away believed efficiency 65% may achieved JPL experiments point way transmission energy through spaceas solar collectors space WIN ONE OF THESE 25 GREAT PRIZES! 1st Prize Thayer & Chandler Model E airbrush & compressor kit worth $106 2nd Prize Sullivan deluxe starter & 12v gel cell worth $6490 3rd Prize Dremel shop model kit 371 worth $4995 4th Prize Exacto kit 87 worth $2995 5th Prize AHM heat gun worth $2495 Purchase roll Coverite send us instruction sheet name address printed backside Send sheets wish BUT TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE DRAWING entries must postmarked no later Febru ary 28th 1976 Send entries Coverite Dept MAM 2779 Philmont Ave Hunting don Valley Pa 19006 0O 9E1___ JJiJ 2JJ LLLJ LJLJWJ iJ 2JJWLi_______ OF VISTA LABS 7023 D Canoga Ave oga Park Ca 91303 1 ELECTRIC FLIGHT SYSTEM Featuring HYTORK 48 MOTOR & PLANETARY GEAR UNIT Complete flying weight 21/2 ozwilI power Models 25 50 wingspan weighing up 10 oz Send 25 Catalog showing com plete line Electric Flight Equipment Accessories VI-lOl System $1950 Hytork 48 Prop Instruction Book $900 Fast Chargers $1450 $2950 See Model Dealer order Direct add 10% Postage Handling Calif Residents also add 6% Sales Tax send Check MO No CODs Hobby Dealers send Information March 1976 81 6th 10th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF CAMOUFLAGE WORTH $995 Famous WW German lozenge pattern silkscreened 4 authentic colors Lightweight Super Coverite IWo scales & 2 11th 15th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF PERMAGLOSS WORTH $890 Lightweight Super Coverite 4 coats PermaGloss paint honded its upper surface non-painters its Cadillac coverings Wont scrafch sag shatter 16th 20th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF LIGHTWEIGHT SUPER WORTH $725 New lightweight Super now 33A % lighter lNeighs less painted silk costs less goes quicker & easier Its ever popular knock down trees covering 21st 25th PRIZES ONE ROLL OF SILKSPUN WORTH $675 unique covering looks like tissue hut log times stronger other covering except own Super