Remote controls

There has been quite a bit of interest this weekend in my research on the Zenith Space Command remote controls. If this is your first time here, welcome! But if you really love remote controls, here is something for you. New reader Phil spotted this great auction on eBay where

You have to love this damn Internet we have here. The answers are out there. Granted, you can’t simply Google anything to answer all the obscure questions, like which exact models of remote controls came out fifty years ago, but what you can do is find the people who

Ever since the remote control’s co-inventor Robert Adler passed away a few weeks ago, I’ve wanted to own one of the first remote controls. After trolling through eBay every now and then, I finally have in my hands a piece of the history of the button. But there’

On February 15th, a man Robert Adler died at the age of 93 in a nursing home in Boise Idaho. This inventor and engineer was at the center of a key development in the history of the button. He co-invented the remote control. In his six decades working for Zenith,