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  2. Eugene Polley - Wikipedia

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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

  3. Radio in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Radio broadcasting has been used in the United States since the early 1920s to distribute news and entertainment to a national audience. In 1923, 1 percent of U.S. households owned at least one radio receiver, while a majority did by 1931 and 75 percent did by 1937.

  4. History of radio - Wikipedia

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    The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of broadcasting.

  5. Marie Van Brittan Brown and Albert L. Brown - Wikipedia

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    On August 1, 1966, the Browns submitted a patent application for their invention. Their attorneys were Polacheck and Saulsbury, a New York firm. [1]The invention consisted, at the door, of an electrically controlled lock, several lensed peepholes with covers, a vertically sliding video scanner (camera) and controlling motors, loudspeaker and microphone as well as associated electronics ...

  6. A look back at what the world was like when AOL began

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    Thirty-five years ago, users heard the infamous dial-up sound for the first time. The '80s were a decade defined by major technological innovations, big hair, cult-classic movies and the start of ...

  7. Benjamin Abrams - Wikipedia

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    Benjamin Abrams (August 18, 1893 – June 23, 1967) [1] was an American businessman and a founder of Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation after his purchase of Emerson Records in 1922. [2] Along with his brothers he invented a number of devices that are commonplace today, among them midget transistor radios, self-powered radios, and clock radios.

  8. Powel Crosley Jr. - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Zenith Flash-matic - Wikipedia

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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. The Flash-matic's phototechnology was a significant innovation in television and allowed for wireless signal transfer previously exclusive to radio. [1] [2]