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Extreme remote control.(Zenith FlashMatic Tuning form Zenith Electronics Corp.)(Brief Article)
If in 1956 you'd had enouGh of Arthur Godfrey's ukulele but were reluctant to leave your easy chair, a remote control was just what you needed.
The most novel was the wireless Zenith FlashMatic Tuning, at left. By aiming the beam at photocells in the picture frame of a compatible Zenith TV, you could turn the set on and off and change stations. The photocells' sensitivity could even be fine-tuned to work with an ...
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