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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Tribute to the TV remote control
We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives. So what did Eugene J. Polley do? What was the nature of his great leap forward? Did he invent the PC? Did he invent the cellphone? Did he invent the Internet? No. Eugene J....
Tags: Television Industry, Electronics, ABC (tv network), Diabetes, NBC (tv network)
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Tribute to the TV remote control
We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives. So what did Eugene J. Polley do? What was the nature of his great leap forward? Did he invent the PC? Did he invent the cell phone? Did he invent the Internet? No. Eugene J....Tags: Television Industry, Electronics, ABC (tv network), Diabetes, NBC (tv network)
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Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control
Eugene Polley, inventor of the first wireless channel changer, a precursor to the remote control that surfers use to navigate the 500-plus channels offered by modern television, has died. He was 96.
Polley died of natural causes Sunday at a hospital in...Tags: Television Industry, Jay Leno, Engineering, Downers Grove, Lombard
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Eugene Polley, 1915-2012
Television watchers have cause to lift their remote controls for a moment of silence. Eugene Polley, 96, inventor of the first wireless channel changer, died of natural causes Sunday, May 20, at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove,...
Tags: Television Industry, Jay Leno, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (tv program), Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Engineering
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Inventor of the TV remote control dies
Associated PressEugene Polley, the inventor of the first wireless TV remote control, has died. A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says the former Zenith engineer died of natural causes Sunday at a Downers Grove hospital. He was 96. Couch potatoes everywhere have...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Invention and Innovation
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Multiple parties have stakes in case
Tribune staff reportersThe bankruptcy filing by United Airlines' parent, UAL Corp., will reorder the usual corporate relationships among management, labor and vendors, as well as introduce some new players. Here's a who's who of United's reorganization: The judge Eugene R....Tags: United Air Lines, Dynegy Incorporated, Northwestern University, Boeing Co., Judges
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