Eugene Polley should be ther most popular man on the planet. He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day, often for hours on end. Polley, a self-taught mechanical ...

CHICAGO — A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says Eugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. John Taylor says the former Zenith engineer died of natural causes ...

CHICAGO -- Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction ...

A co-inventor of the TV remote, Eugene J. Polley, has died, at 96, and the remembrances pouring in are fond, and sometimes funny. At the close of his obituary and tribute, Brian Williams of NBC ...

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A bit of fun. I came across a mention of this on a recent No Such Thing As A Fish podcast. It's the Zenith Lazy Bones TV remote control, the very first TV remote, apparently... I'd never heard of it ...

Dr. Robert Adler, a prolific inventor in the field of television, but best known for his work with TV wireless remote control, died on Feb. 15. He was 93. Born in Austria, Adler emigrated to the ...

CHICAGO — Eugene Polley, an electronics engineer who revolutionized American leisure by inventing the wireless TV remote control, a gadget that also featured the first mute function to silence the ...

Couch potatoes everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel surfing. His invention, the first wireless TV remote, began as a luxury, but with the introduction of hundreds ...

Mr Polley, who created the innovative device in 1955, passed away from natural causes in his home of Chicago. He is credited with changing the lifestyles of the Western world after inventing his ...