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Robert Adler (December 4, 1913 – February 15, 2007) was an Austrian-American inventor who held numerous patents. He worked for Zenith Electronics, retiring as the company's Vice President and Director of Research. His work included developing early sound-based remote controls for televisions, which were the standard for 25 years until ...
Feb 20, 2007 · Robert Adler, a physicist and prolific inventor best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control device, died Feb. 15 in Boise, Idaho. He was 93. The cause was heart failure, said...
Feb 15, 2007 · Robert Adler held 180 patents for electronic devices, whose applications run from the esoteric to the everyday. He was best known as the "Father of the TV Remote Control." Adler was born in Vienna, Austria on December 4, 1913, and was educated there; his academic career culminated in his PhD in Physics at age 24 from the University of Vienna ...
Feb 15, 2007 · Robert Adler invented the first practical, wireless television remote control. Introduced as the "Space Command" by Zenith in 1956, Adler's device was sold with more than nine million televisions before the advent of infrared technology in the 1980s.
Dec 30, 2007 · Robert Adler was an accomplished physicist who adored nature, books and classical music. He didn’t watch much television, but he was nevertheless a genius at improving its gadgetry. His...
In his nearly two-and-a-half-hour interview, Dr. Robert Adler (1913-2007) speaks in great detail about his pioneering work as the developer of the first practical wireless television remote control (co-invented with fellow Zenith engineer Eugene Polley).
Feb 17, 2007 · Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise, Idaho, nursing home at 93 ...
Feb 18, 2007 · Robert Adler, 93, who helped invent the device that created a nation of sedentary television viewers forever flummoxed by the question, “Where’s the remote?” died Thursday, Feb. 15, of heart...
Feb 17, 2007 · Though he was best known as co-inventor of the wireless remote control for television , along with fellow Zenith engineer Eugene Polley), Adler was responsible for a large number of significant...
Dec 27, 2017 · Robert Adler was a brilliant physicist and inventor who narrowly escaped the Holocaust, came to the U.S. to help discover innovations like the electric beam parametric amplifier and...
