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Admiral radio-phonograph, c. 1950, at the Lamar County Historical Museum. In 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, Ross Siragusa founded Continental Radio and Television Corporation (CRTC), which produced consumer electronics such as radios and phonographs. [1] The radios were designed and produced by Radio Products Corporation (RPC), owned by Irwin J ...
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
Admiral: 1940 1979 Aiwa - - Akai: c. 1966: present Alba: 1939 present Formerly part of Harvard International Amstrad - - Andrea Electronics 1947 1978 Apex Digital: 1997 2010 Apple Inc. 1993 present Released the Macintosh TV in 1993 Arcam: 2011 present Arise India: 2012 present AGA AB: 1952 - Audiovox - - Now Voxx International: AWA: 1956 1974 ...
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. Eugene F. McDonald , Zenith President and founder, ordered his engineers to develop a wireless version, but the use of radio waves was soon discounted ...
1950s TV Remote by Motorola SABA corded TV remote. One of the first remote intended to control a television was developed by Zenith Radio Corporation in 1950. 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.
Earlier remotes could turn sets on/off and change channels, but were connected to the TV with a cable. [2] The Flash-matic came in response to consumer complaints about the inconvenience of these cables running from the transmitter to the TV monitor.