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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.
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 ...
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...
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.
DR. ROBERT ADLER, a prolific inventor and renowned physicist, perhaps best known as creator of the ultrasonic wireless remote control for television, died February 15, 2007, at the age of 93.
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 ...
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).
For his full interview, see https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/robert-adler
Feb 24, 2016 · Robert Adler was born in Vienna in 1913. He received his doctorate in physics, from the University of Vienna in 1937. He became engaged in patent work there, and later went to England. After the war broke out, he came to Chicago and worked first in the field of measuring instruments. Adler joined Zenith Radio in 1941.
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.
