The boat uses compressed air for propulsion, stored in a battery of four soda bottles, pressurized to 6 bar. The compressed air is used to drive a Tesla turbine of [Integza]’s design ...

A model of Tesla's remote-controlled boat housed at the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

In 1898, Tesla demonstrated a wireless and remote-controlled 'tele-automaton', which most of us today would refer to as a remote-controlled toy boat. Many people assumed there was a tiny monkey ...