The TV remote as we know it came about for one simple reason – one man’s desire to mute the ads he felt were ruining his TV watching.

in the 1950s in the US, Zenith Electronics president Eugene F McDonald gave the company’s engineers a challenge:
The remote control as we know it was born.

Zenith’s game-changing device was called the Flashmatic, designed by an engineer called Eugene Polley and released in 1955.

He was not an electrical engineer, but a mechanical engineer,” says John Taylor, the in-house historian for Zenith (photo)

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