Tuesday, May 22, 2012

A Remote Place

Facebook Share Button Code Mr. Eugene Polley, inventor of the television remote control, passed away Sunday at the age of 96.

Although we tend to think of the wireless remote as a more recent invention, Polley apparently developed one during the 1950s. For whatever reason, it took quite some time to catch on and become more widespread.

In my own household, I believe a remote-control television was not purchased until after the two biological bipedal remotes code-named "me" and "my sister" had moved out of the house.

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