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.

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...