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The Zenith Flash-Matic was the first wireless remote control, invented by Eugene Polley in 1955. It had only one button that was used to power on and off, channel up, channel down, and mute. It had only one button that was used to power on and off, channel up, channel down, and mute.
A Zenith Space Command 600 remote control A box advertising a remote control system often referred to as "Space Command Tuning" The original television remote control was a wired version, released in 1950, that soon attracted complaints about an unsightly length of cable from the viewer's chair to the television receiver.
This set feature provided Philco with an answer to Zenith's wireless remote control, “Space Command”, which had been introduced the same year. The Predicta was announced to the industry in 1958, and launched to the public the following year at the 1959 Miss America pageant, which was sponsored by Philco.
Zenith's allocation was later moved to channel 2. [4] In 1947, Zenith announced a perfected pay television system and selected the name "Phonevision" as the trademark for the concept. [2] In 1950, in preparation for the public pay television test, the experimental station moved from the Zenith factory to the Field Building and became KS2XBS. [3 ...
By the time of his retirement from Zenith, officially in 1982, Adler was the company's Vice President and Director of Research. He remained a technical advisor to Zenith until 1999. In 1980, Adler was awarded the Edison Medal. In 1997, Adler and Polley were jointly awarded an Emmy Award by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died at age 86. ... TV’s ‘Tarzan’ in the 1960s, dies at 86. WJZY. The Associated ...
Eugene Polley (November 29, 1915 – May 20, 2012) was an electrical engineer and engineering manager for Zenith Electronics who invented the first wireless remote control for television. Life and career
The first wireless remote control for a television US-based Zenith consists of a better flashlight, with which one lights up in one of the four devices corners to turn the unit on or off, change the channel or mute the sound. 1956 The company Metz introduces radio device type 409 / 3D. First mass production of printed circuit boards. This ...