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  • TV: Pause to remember the man behind the remote, Robert Adler, dead at 93

    02/16/2007 3:12:56 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 20 replies · 333+ views
    ap on San Diego Union - Tribune ^ | 2/16/07 | Shannon Dininny - ap
    BOISE, Idaho – Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote has died. Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made couch potatoship possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at 93, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday. In his six-decade career with Zenith, Adler was a prolific inventor, earning more than 180 U.S. patents. He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make TV a truly sedentary pastime. The National Academy of Television...