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Lazy Bones was originally a comic strip in the British comic Whizzer and Chips. It made its first appearance in 1978. The strip was about a boy called Benny Bones, who would constantly fall asleep everywhere, much to the annoyance of his parents. Until 1986, the strip was drawn by Colin Whittock, [1] and moved to Buster in 1990 after Whizzer ...
In 1950 Zenith came up with a remote control called the "Lazy Bones" which was connected with wires to the TV set. The next development was the "Flashmatic" (1955), designed by Eugene Polley , a wireless remote control that used a light beam to signal the TV (with a photosensitive pickup device) to change stations.
The remote, called Lazy Bones, [15] was connected to the television by a wire. A wireless remote control, the Flash-Matic , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] was developed in 1955 by Eugene Polley . It worked by shining a beam of light onto one of four photoelectric cells , [ 17 ] but the cell did not distinguish between light from the remote and light from other ...
Bones Ely (1863–1952), American Major League Baseball player; Bones Hyland (born 2000), American basketball player; Bones McKinney (1919–1997), American basketball player and coach; Sean Ryan (swimmer) (born 1992), American distance swimmer; Dick Tomanek (1931–2023), American Major League Baseball pitcher; Jon Jones (born 1987), American ...
K'nuckles runs out to tell Flapjack and Flapjack rips up the x, mistakenly thinking K'nuckles has come to apologize. K'nuckles tells Flapjack what is going on and Flapjack is horrified. So they take a wrapper and draw an x on it and give it to Peppermint Larry for candy. Peppermint Larry ends up on Pickle Island instead of Candied Island.
Knabusch and Shoemaker then upholstered their innovation and marketed it as a year-round chair. The chair was a success; they held a contest to name it—La-Z-Boy was the winner. [3] In 1969, after years primarily as a manufacturer of recliners, La-Z-Boy started designing other products including reclining sofas, sleep sofas and modular groups.
The past half-century has produced some of the most significant and astounding inventions ever developed in human history, and many notable ones came to life in the United States.
Midge Williams came from a talented family. Her grandfather Joshua had been a music teacher, her mother Virginia Louise was an artist, and her uncle Henry played the violin. She also had a half-brother named Lester Williams who worked as a jazz musician. Midge and her three of her brothers formed a song and dance act called the Williams Quartette.