What American couch dweller would not like to shake the hand of Eugene Polley, inventor of the TV remote control?
Polley was an engineer working with Zenith in 1955 when he invented the Flashmatic, the earliest remote-control TV device. The "clicker" is said to have appealed greatly to Zenith's founder, Eugene McDonald, who liked to use it to mute commercials.
An earlier device, the Lazy Bones, also came out of Zenith, but it used a cable that users found problematic. Polley's light-activated device was far more popular and to an extent, changed the way Americans watched the flickering tube.
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