Regarded by many as an eccentric genius, Nikola Tesla's system of alternating ... he paved the way toward robots, radio, radar, remote control, and the wireless transmission of messages and ...

But aviation history apparently forgot the hybrid tilt-rotor/tilt-wing helicopter-airplane that Nikola Tesla dreamed ... engines to radio and remote control, Tesla invented big.

A trailblazing visionary and inventor, Nikola Tesla ... using the Tesla coil and four tuned circuits for transmitting and receiving. He also pioneered radio control, which he patented in 1898.