In 1956 Robert Adler patented the enhanced version of his “Flashmatic” and named it “Space Commander”. These days most people in the industrial countries use it nearly every day.
What am I talking about? It sounds a bit like a story taken from the movie “Back To The Future” but in fact it is the origination of the television remote control.
Last week the former MIT Inventor of the Week and Zenith’s chief engineer, Robert Adler, died of heart failure at a Boise nursing home at the age of 93. Take time to read a short obituary of this great inventor with Austrian roots: The Robert Adler of the TV Remote
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