Eugene Polley

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Inventor of First TV Remote Dead
 Inventor of First 
 TV Remote Dead 
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Inventor of First TV Remote Dead

Eugene Polley created the Flash-Matic for Zenith in the 1950s

(Newser) - 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 of channels and viewing technologies it has become a necessity. Polley died of natural causes at a suburban...

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