The first logic gate.

Nikola Tesla was a gifted inventor and the one who sparked the beginning of the electronic age, a genius in electrical and mechanical engineering he was born 1856 in Smiljan  Croatia,  his father Milutin an orthodox priest who was a very stern man but also a very considerate loving man with a talent for writing poetry, his mother Djuka  a gifted inventor who had a photographic memory, for this reason Nikola credited his ability too absorb knowledge and believed that his mothers photographic memory was hereditory even being passed down to him giving him the ability to learn off many books by heart and to do excellent tasks such as being able to do manners of calculus in his mind of which would lead his teachers too believe that he was cheating.  Also having the incredible ability too see his inventions with intimacy in his mind knowing the exact calculations and measurements before even laying a hand too creating it.
Nikola tesla began his studies in Smiljan in a gymnasium and continued on too Graz university where he studied  in electrical and Mechanical engineering.
Nikola tesla moved too america in 1884 in order too meet Thomas Edison after a dispute they quickly separated ways because of a there inability to work with each other due too different methodology in there designing process.  Thomas Edison largely due to the fact of his informal education was very tedious in his inventions, choosing too use step by step methods to create his inventions this meant that the design process was very slow.
Tesla was the opposite of this he was able too create entire inventions in his mind.  Tesla has over 278 patents but most off his inventions he did not patent and  other ones are missing due too military aerospace and advancement's in technology that could have had implications on economic blocks. The invention that I will be talking about in this blog is the remote controlled boat which was the first use of remote control ever too control a vessel with radio waves.  Created by Nikola tesla in 1898 it was show cased in Madison square garden.  It electrified the crowds in Madison square garden which some decried as magic not believing that such a feat was impossible too do.
The boat was a 4 foot vessel and controlled in an indoor pool.

[1] Picture of Tesla displaying his Remote controlled boat in Madison square garden. 

Using a radio control device he was able too manoeuvre a boat also he was able to turn the two led's on and off by a switch. From his patent in 1898 [2] it is written That "As to that part of my invention which involves the production of suitable waves or variations and the conveying of the same to a remote receiving apparatus capable of being operated or controlled by their influence, it may be carried out in various ways" this represents that the method that he used was by sending waveforms through the air that were recieved at the apparatus and that the boat could read these waveforms and be operated through the use of "electromatic induction" upon a conductor.  Another piece of genius was hidden inside this device by the use of the operation off a technology that was used to determine  hertzian waveforms. The waveforms were picked up by the antenna that was centred at the middle of the boat.  Through the frequency of the waveforms the antenna was connected too two logic gates which were able to determine toggle actions due to different signals.  Take into account that this was in 1898 that this was created 14 years before the date that the first logic gates were said to be invented in 1912.  By use of these logic gates the boat was able to move right or left also the leds were able too be turned on and off.[3]
This is a piece written by Leland Anderson [3]

That said, there is clear evidence that Tesla’s early inventions laid the foundation for the modern computer..according to Leland Anderson and expert in field of engineering and technical patents:

“I am puzzled by the reluctance of some in the computer technology field to acknowledge Tesla’s priority in this regard in contrast to the adulation given to Messrs, Brattain, Bardeen and Shockley for the invention of the transistor which made electronic computers a practical reality.  Telsa’s patents contain the basic principles of the logical AND circuit element.  The simultaneous occurrence of two or more prescribed signals at the input to device element produced an output form the device element.  Thus the subject early Tesla patents, which were designed to achieve interference protection from outside influences in the command of radio controlled weapons, have proved to be an obstacle for anyone attempting a basic logical AND circuit element patent in this era of modern computer technology”  

                                                     [4]  Design of the boat.
The problem is that Nikola Tesla did not write out calculations of his inventions so we do not have exact explanations of how it operated.
                                             
By -Michael Nolan