Nikola Tesla was so ahead of his time that there is now also a car industry with his name. In addition to his contribution to alternative current electrical systems, the inventor also predicted smartphones, television, and apparently unmanned craft or drones, which he believed could cause the destruction of humanity.
In a patent granted to him on November 8, 1898, Tesla described an invention that did not require cables or electrical conductors.
Nikola Tesla's patent concerned a way of moving "boats" from the production of waves, or radiation received through the earth, the water, or the atmosphere ”which can reach the object as long as it“ remains within an active area. ”
So yes the inventor was talking about radio waves, which were still relatively new at the time versions of the patent (they were first envisioned in 1867 and began to be used in communications in 1890).
He describes them as "electrical oscillations that do not follow a specific conductive path, but propagate in straight lines through space."
The patent, entitled "Method Of And Apparatus For Controlling Mechanism Of Moving Vessels Or Vehicles", also describes Tesla's predictions for drone wars, and states that it will bring peace between nations because of its "certain and unlimited destructiveness." ”
Tesla's patent and claims were first reported in Dianetwork by technologist Matthew Schroyer when he posted excerpts and a scan of the patent on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/MattSchroyer/status/765217869500026880
It is worth noting that Nikola Tesla predicted the dynamics of drones more than a century before unmanned aerial vehicles (or UAVs) were used in the so-called war on terror. The US alone has killed thousands of people in drone blows.
The first unmanned aircraft used in war, or more specifically, the first unmanned, remote-controlled aircraft was invented in the First World War. It was called Kettering Bug and it was a bomb that carried a biplane that could fly on a predetermined path to a target. The project was not perfected until the end of the war.
