Eugene Polley should be ther most popular man on the planet. He left a legacy of leisure that billions of people lean upon each and every day, often for hours on end. Polley, a self-taught mechanical ...

February 17, 2007 The man who invented the remote control for the television, Dr. Robert Adler, died this week, giving us a timely reminder of just how fast technology is progressing. Dr. Adler's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — A new documentary tells the story of Ralph Teetor, a blind automotive engineer and the inventor of cruise control.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. 15, 2020 "I wanted to create a way to keep your TV remote, DVD remote and all your other remote controls together and organized in one place," said an inventor, from Water Valley, ...

Few people have ever heard of Ralph Teetor. That’s about to change. Teetor is the mechanical engineer who — despite losing his vision as a child — created the technology we now know as cruise control, ...

CHICAGO — TV watchers have cause to lift their remote controls for a moment of silence. Eugene Polley, 96, inventor of the first wireless channel changer, died Sunday, according to Zenith Electronics, ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I thought there could be an easy and eye-catching way to activate Christmas lights and other electronic holiday décor," said an inventor, from Wichita¸ Kan., ...

PITTSBURGH, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — “I wanted to create a portable way to control the speed of cars traveling around construction zones,” said an inventor, from Pittsburgh, Pa., “so I invented ...