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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 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. The Flash-matic's phototechnology was a significant innovation in television and allowed for wireless signal transfer previously exclusive to radio. [1] [2]
Trevor Graham Baylis CBE (13 May 1937 – 5 March 2018) was an English inventor best known for the wind-up radio.The radio, instead of relying on batteries or external electrical source, is powered by the user winding a crank.
By the 1929 model year, Philco was in third place behind Atwater Kent and Majestic (Grigsby-Grunow Corp) in radio sales. In 1930, the company sold 600,000 radios, grossed $34 million, and was the leading radio maker in the country. By 1934, they had captured 30% of the domestic radio market. [9] A Philco 90 "cathedral" style radio from 1931
Life Alert's alarm monitor phone device offering includes an answering machine unit with a emergency call button, a call cancel button, an on off switch and a wall plug in, connected to a telephone line and a pendant-shaped device, typically worn on a necklace or a wristband.
the first to introduce push-button car radios [24] introduced soap operas to radio broadcasts [37] introduced the first non-electric refrigerator (Icyball) [citation needed] introduced the first refrigerator with shelves in the door (Shelvador) [15] launched the world's most powerful commercial radio station (WLW, at 500 kW) [12]
A similar feature called "YouTube Radio" for continuous music playback in resemblance to radio stations was tested in February 2015. [150] Since approximately July 9, 2013, the first page of videos' comment section is no longer included in the watch page's static HTML source code, but instead loaded subsequently through AJAX. [151]
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.