Wuebben, Daniel2021-04-202021-04-202021Of robots and rhetoric: Nikola Tesla’s telautomaton and the boundaries of scientific communication (1897–1900) Daniel WuebbenFirst Published April 8, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1177/096366252110037141361-6609http://hdl.handle.net/10115/17688Green Open-Access. From the website: Green Open Access: subscription journal articles deposited in institutional repositories Information for Authors Authors of articles published in subscription journals may share and reuse their article as outlined on the Guidelines for SAGE Authors page and stated in their signed Contributor Agreements. Under SAGE's Green Open Access policy, the Accepted Version of the article may be posted in the author's institutional repository and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. For information about funding agency Open Access policies and ensuring compliance of agency-funded articles, see our Funding bodies, policies and compliance page. Information for Users of the Institutional Repository Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. Users may also download and save a local copy of an article accessed in an institutional repository for the user's personal reference. For permission to reuse an article, please follow our Process for Requesting Permission.This article examines the historical moment surrounding Nikola Tesla’s invention of a radio-controlled submarine boat in 1897. Before this moment, in the early 1890s, Tesla’s rich theoretical understanding of electricity and novel experiments with high-frequency currents and oscillators, later named “Tesla coils,” informed his lectures to scientists and engineers at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, the Royal Society, the French Society of Physicists, and the Franklin Institute. Tesla was celebrated as a “pioneer in electric science” (Hospitalier, 1892: 195) across North America and Europe. His scientific standing was further solidified with the publication of his first book, Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla (Martin, 1894). Yet, a few years later, Tesla began to engage with the philosophical debates related to automaton theory and he failed to accurately communicate his ideas and the practicality of his inventions. These actions splintered the consensus about Tesla’s scientific credentials.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Science CommunicationElectrificationArtificial Intelligenceinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.1177/09636625211003714info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess3325 Tecnología de las Telecomunicaciones