Eugene Polley dies

[Channel Hopper]

Not a familiar name ?

How about Flash-matic ?


_http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18164200

 

[Llew]

Another Zenith engineer, Robert Adler, improved the remote control using sound waves and then ultrasonics, before the use of infrared technology in remotes. He was also a nonogenarian when he died in 2007.

http://www.satellites.co.uk/forums/meeting-place/89042-remote-control-inventor-dies.html