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Eugene Polley is not the most popular man on the planet. But perhaps he should be.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day.<\/p>\n

Polley, a self-taught mechanical engineer from Chicago, invented the television remote control<\/a> in 1955.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He envisioned a future in which we never had to leave the couch or twitch any muscle more than a finger.<\/p>\n

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Eugene Polley changed our lives for the easier.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Polley worked for Zenith Electronics for 47 years, climbing his way up from stock boy to groundbreaking inventor. He developed 18 different patents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His most consequential innovation, the first wireless TV remote control, was called the Flash-Matic. The few previous control devices were hard-wired to the television.<\/p>\n

It looked like a science-fiction ray gun. It operated the boob tube with beams of light.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Polley\u2019s Flash-Matic replaced the only known remote control TV technology<\/a> at the time, the 8-year-old child.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This primitive and often unreliable form of human labor had begrudgingly walked back and forth to change channels on demand for adults and older siblings ever since the advent of television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“When kids changed the channel, they usually had to adjust the rabbit ears, too,” joked Zenith senior vice president and company historian John Taylor.<\/p>\n

Like millions of Americans over age 50, Taylor logged countless unpaid hours of his youth clicking the dials on the family TV set.<\/p>\n

The Flash-Matic offered a\u00a0“startling new kind of television,” Zenith announced in a press release dated June 13, 1955.<\/p>\n

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The new product, Zenith stated, “uses a flash beam from a small pistol-shaped gadget to turn the set on or off change channels or cut out the sound of long-winded commercials.”<\/p>\n

The Zenith announcement continued, “The magic ray (which is harmless to humans) does all the work. No dangling wires or connected cords are needed.” <\/p>\n

The world has never been the same.<\/p>\n

“For many people, it\u2019s the most-used object in everyday life,” the inventor, at that point long retired, told Sports Illustrated in 1999.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It gets more use than the flush toilet.”<\/p>\n

The descendants of his innovation are everywhere today. Most people have several TV remotes at home, with more at the office or the job site \u2014 and maybe one in an SUV.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Despite the ubiquity of the TV remote, the name of its inventor was almost lost to history.<\/p>\n

Elvis Presley is more famous than Eugene Polley simply because he could swivel his hips.<\/p>\n

Yet who impacts our lives more each day? Eugene Polley had to fight for his legacy after credit for inventing the TV remote first went to a rival engineer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eugene Joseph Polley was born in Chicago<\/a> to Anthony and Veronica (Wachowski) on Nov. 29, 1915.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both were of Polish descent. Veronica came from a well-off family but married a “black sheep” husband, the inventor’s son, Gene Polley Jr., told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Anthony Polley “was a bootlegger” with a colorful history, Gene Jr. said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He ended up running for governor of Illinois.” He even boasted connections at the White House. “My dad got to meet the president when he was a young boy,” Gene Jr. added.<\/p>\n

Despite the father\u2019s ambition and connections, the Polley family possessed limited financial means.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My father wore hand-me-down clothes,” Polley Jr. said. “Nobody would pitch in to help him with an education.”<\/p>\n

The future inventor tried two years of college but dropped out due to a lack of finances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He ended up with a job as a stock clerk in 1935 at what was then called Zenith Radio Company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now a division of LG electronics, Zenith was founded in 1921 in Chicago by a team of partners that included World War I U.S. Navy veteran<\/a> Eugene F. McDonald.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was known around the company as the commander.<\/p>\n

Polley\u2019s work ethic, organizational skills and natural mechanical ability caught the attention of the commander.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the United States entered World War II<\/a> in the 1940s, Polley was part of the Zenith engineering teams who were working on major weapons programs for Uncle Sam.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Polley helped develop radar, night vision and proximity fuses, which use radio waves to ignite ordnance at a set distance from its target.<\/p>\n

American consumer culture exploded after the war \u2014 and Zenith was at the forefront of the rapidly growing television market.<\/p>\n

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Commander McDonald, however, was among those annoyed by the bane of broadcast television: commercial interruptions. He ordered the creation of the remote control so that he had a way to mute the sound during the breaks in programming. The commander, of course, saw the profit potential, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Polley designed a system with a television that contained four photo cells, one in each corner of the console. Users could change both picture and sound by pointing the Flash-Matic at the proper photo cell embedded in the TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He drove to Commander McDonald\u2019s house and installed it for him,” said Polley Jr.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Within a week, the commander said he wanted it in production. It sold like hot cakes \u2014 they couldn\u2019t keep up with demand.”<\/p>\n

“Commander McDonald loved the concepts proven by Polley\u2019s Flash-Matic,” Zenith states in a company history. But he quickly “directed his engineers to explore other technologies for the next generation.”<\/p>\n

Polley\u2019s remote control had its limitations. Most notably, its use of light beams meant ambient light \u2014 such as sunlight moving through a home \u2014 could disrupt the television.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just a year after the Flash-Matic hit the market, Zenith introduced a new product, the Space Command, designed by engineer and prolific inventor Dr. Robert Adler.\u00a0It was a radical departure in technology, using ultrasound instead of light to control the tube.<\/p>\n

The Space Command “was built around aluminum rods that were light in weight and, when struck at one end, emitted distinctive high-frequency sounds \u2026 They were very carefully cut to lengths that would generate four slightly different frequencies.”<\/p>\n

Different frequencies controlled different functions: on\/off, channels and sound.<\/p>\n

It was the first “clicker” remote \u2014 the click caused when a small hammer struck the end of one of the aluminum rods.<\/p>\n

Adler\u2019s Space Command quickly surpassed Polley’s Flash-Matic in sales and popularity.<\/p>\n

And Adler soon replaced Polley in the eyes of the industry as the inventor of the TV remote.<\/p>\n

The National Inventors Hall of Fame actually calls Adler the inventor of the first “practical” TV remote control. Polley is not in the inventors’ club.<\/p>\n

Polley\u2019s pioneering work in remote TV technology was being swept aside.<\/p>\n

“Adler had a reputation for taking credit for collaborative work that was done by other engineers at Zenith,” claims Polley Jr. “It just annoyed the hell out of my father,” he added.<\/p>\n

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The friction was heightened by their different backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Polley was a self-taught mechanical engineer with no college credentials who worked his way up from the stock room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m reluctant to call him a blue-collar guy,” Taylor, the Zenith historian, said. “But he was a scrappy mechanical engineer, a scrappy Chicago guy.”<\/p>\n

Adler was born into an elite family in Austria, studied at the University of Vienna and had a PhD in physics.<\/p>\n

“They were two very different guys,” Taylor, who knew both men later in their careers, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

The breaking point for Polley came when Adler made an appearance on a late-night national talk show and claimed he was the father of the TV remote, said Polley Jr. <\/p>\n

“My father saw that and just erupted,” said the son.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Polley had retired from Zenith in 1982. His late daughter, Joan Polley, set about to help correct history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“She was one of his biggest champions,” said Taylor. “She was the first one who showed up in my office and said, \u2018What\u2019s all this about Bob Adler?'”<\/p>\n

Changing technology helped in Polley’s favor, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Infrared remote controls started to replace Adler\u2019s ultrasound technology in the 1980s. These new remotes powered TV sets with line-of-sight light instead of sound \u2014 as did Polley’s Flash-Matic, though in much more primitive form.<\/p>\n

“Today’s controllers are much closer to Polley’s idea than to Adler’s,” the Guardian of London noted in its obituary of Polley in 2012.<\/p>\n

The switch to infrared technology came just as remotes were finding their way into every American home.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About 60% of televisions were operated by remote-control in 1981, according to Taylor.<\/p>\n

“By the end of the decade, every TV had remote control,” he said.<\/p>\n

The industry recognized both men when Polley and Adler shared an Emmy Award<\/a> in 1997 for\u00a0“pioneering development of wireless remote control for consumer television.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It\u00a0makes me think maybe my life wasn’t wasted. Maybe I did something for humanity \u2014 like the guy who invented the flush toilet,” Polley told the Baltimore Sun in November 2000.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eugene Polley died of natural causes on May 20, 2012. He was 96 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He enjoyed a fruitful career at Zenith for 47 years \u2014 his entire professional career.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But he received only $1 for the patent to the Flash-Matic, as employee inventions belonged to the company.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Commander McDonald gave him a $1,000 bonus in recognition of the technological breakthrough in remote technology.<\/p>\n

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He had lived long enough to receive the acclaim due to him for his innovation; he had lived long enough to see a world in which the remote-control technology he pioneered was so ubiquitous we can\u2019t image life without it.<\/p>\n

Polley and Adler were the subject of a glowing tribute in Sports Illustrated in 1999, which honored them as the magazine\u2019s “Men of the Millennium.”<\/p>\n

Author Steve Rushin made a special effort to single out Polley for his achievement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Yes, society has circled back to Polley\u2019s original concept,” Rushin wrote, noting the technological return to light-powered remote control.<\/p>\n

“This flippin\u2019 genius now has a glorious 75-button remote in his home. An emperor in his easy chair, Polley \u2026 sometimes wears one of those novelty caps sold at truck stops. The cap\u2019s foam crown declares him, now and forever, King of the Remote Control.”<\/p>\n

To read more stories in this unique “Meet the American Who\u2026” series from Fox News Digital, <\/strong><\/i>click here<\/u><\/strong><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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