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Slideshow: A History of TV Remote Controls
A History of TV Remote Controls
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It's hard to imagine life without remote controls, but it's been a long strange path to the modern incarnation we know, and love, today.
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Robert Adler
Considered the father of remote controls, Robert Adler was asked by his superiors at Zenith Electronics to ‘find a new way for television viewers to change channels without getting out of their chairs or tripping over a cable,’. Fellow engineer Eugene Polley created the “Flashmatic” remote control in 1955, while Adler’s submitted the “Space Commander” the following year. Adler went on to become the Vice President and Director of Research at Zenith and before retiring in 1982.
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