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Obit: Robert Adler, 93; credited as co-inventor of TV remote

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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, 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 watching TV a truly sedentary pastime.

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituar...ry?coll=la-news-obituaries&ctrack=1&cset=true
 
He was best known for his 1956 Zenith Space Command remote control, which helped make watching TV a truly sedentary pastime.
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Wow! I didn't know the remote control was invented in '56. When I was a kid in the 60's & 70's, I WAS THE REMOTE CONTROL FOR MY PARENTS! "Hey you...put on channel 4, will ya?"

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