File – In this Jan. 25, 1955, file photo, Charles Hard Townes, Columbia University professor and Nobel laureate, explains his invention the maser during a news conference in New York City. Townes, who did most of the work that would make him one of three …
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 Telegraph.co.uk |
Inventor of battery that powers high-tech items dies
The Seattle Times Ovshinsky, who never went to college yet transformed the alternative energy, information and automotive industries with his inventions, died of prostate cancer Wednesday at his home in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., according to his son Harvey. He was 89. Stanford Ovshinsky, innovative designer of energy-conversion devices, dies at 89 Hybrid car battery inventor Ovshinsky dead at 89 Stanford Ovshinsky, noted inventor, dies at 89 |
 San Francisco Chronicle |
Stanford R. Ovshinsky Dies at 89, a Self-Taught Maverick in Electronics
New York Times Stanford R. Ovshinsky, an iconoclastic, largely self-taught and commercially successful scientist who invented the nickel-metal hydride battery and contributed to the development of a host of devices, including solar energy panels, flat-panel displays … Stan Ovshinsky, inventor of a battery used in hybrid cars, dies in Detroit … Stanford Ovshinsky, whose inventions led to flat-screen TVs and the Toyota … Stanford Ovshinsky man of sustainable power and memory has passed |
 TheChronicleHerald.ca |
Inventor of TV remote dies
TheChronicleHerald.ca A spokesman for Zenith Electronics says engineer Eugene Polley, the inventor of the device, died last Sunday. (LG ELECTRONICS) CHICAGO — Television lovers everywhere can pause and thank Eugene Polley for hours of feet-up channel changing. Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control Eugene Polley Dead: Inventor Of TV Remote Dies At 96 Remembering Eugene Polley, an Inventor of the TV Remote |
 Los Angeles Times |
Eugene Polley dies at 96; inventor of wireless TV remote control
Los Angeles Times Polley felt he did not receive proper credit for his invention. Eugene Polley holds his Flash-Matic television remote control. “This is the greatest thing since the wheel,” he told the Chicago Tribune in 2007. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / January … Eugene Polley, inventor of TV remote, dies at 96 Inventor Of The TV Remote Dies |