Jim Kelley wrote:
"Let`s not get carried away. And I don`t think Tesla was from
Yugoslavia."

WebTV is owned by Microsoft and uses their search engine. Searching for
"radio amateur fact of the day from Tigertek" immediately turned up
their site. I scrolled down to find Tesla`s boat on their March 3
offering:
"On May 18, 1899, Nikola Tesla demonstrated a six-foot-long
radio-controlled boat to members of the Chicago Commercial Club. He had
designed and built the boat the previous year, but only few had seen it
prior to the Chicago Commercial Club demonstration. Club members saw
that could remotely start the boat`s motor, switch flashing boat lights
on and off, and navigate around a miniature lake that he created for the
demonstration. Individuals in the crowd shouted commands that he sent
wirelessly by radio, so that the astonished crowd could see that the
boat actually was being wirelessly-remotely-controlled. Copyright 2005
Tigertek, Inc.

It wasn`t until WW-2 and the U.S. invasion of Salerno when the Germans
tried to repel it using remotely controlled bombers, that radio control
was used so expertly.

I first read about Tesla in "Prodigal Genius", a book supplied by some
donor ro relieve the boredom aboard my navy ship in WW-2. I was a fiesel
engine nechanic interested in electricity and radio so I read it. Tesla
impressed me. He was more famous for his inventions of 3-phase electric
power, the induction motor, and harnessing the power of Niagra Falls for
electricity than he was for radio control. By all accounts he was born
in Yugoslavia, educated in Europe, and came to the U.S. to work for
Thomas Edison who was unimpressed with Tesla. So Tesla went to George
Westinghouse and made a deal.

Incidently. nothing exceeds the speed of light, not even photons which
are supposed to be massless at rest by Einstein`s special law of
relativity. You must have current before it creates a magnetic field.
Current is not instantaneous in any case in a conductor where the
electrons set in motion do have have mass.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI