![]() The inventor thus combined the advantages of both models, solving the transport problem suffered by the former and the basket suspension and stability issues affecting the latter. In contrast with the rigid internal frame airships, such as the one invented by the German Count Von Zeppelin, and nonrigid ones, such as Brazilian aviation pioneer Santos-Dumont’s, Torres Quevedo proposed a semirigid system, based on an internal frame of flexible cables which bestowed rigidity on the balloon through internal gas pressure. ![]() Torres Quevedo also made some important contributions to aeronautics, a field in which he carried out important research on dirigible balloons. The plaque can be visited in the Torres Quevedo Museum, at the Civil Engineering School of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, City University of Madrid, Spain, at these coordinates: 40.4468302, - 3.7315760 Dirgible Balloons ![]() With the Telekine, Torres-Quevedo laid down modern wireless remote-control operation principles. In 19 he requested some patents for the system. In 1901, the Spanish engineer, Leonardo Torres-Quevedo began the development of a system, which he called Telekine, which was able to do "mechanical movements at a distance." The system was a way of testing dirigible balloons of his own creation without risking human lives.
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