Leonardo Torres Quevedo conceives the system in 1901 and carries out his first functional experiments in 1902 with a tricycle steered remotely via wireless telegraphy, before patenting in 1903 the Telekino, a system that transmits commands over a distance via Hertzian waves to control mechanical movements without cables or an operator at the controlled point. He publicly demonstrates it in 1906 in the port of Bilbao, remotely controlling a boat before King Alfonso XIII. It is the first documented wireless remote-control system applied to a real vehicle, predating Tesla's remote control of a model (1898, without application to a real vehicle under operational conditions) and any equivalent commercial system. Torres Quevedo did not commercialize the invention; his company did not obtain sufficient funding from the Spanish state. The technical principle of the Telekino is the direct basis of all modern remote control systems.