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Suggested ReadingShopping for a Remote Control - Compare PricesHistory of the Television Remote ControlRobert Adler< Introduction: History of the Remote Control Robert Adler was associate director of research at Zenith in the 1950s when the company’s founder-president, Commander E.F. McDonald Jr., challenged his engineers to develop a device to "tune out annoying commercials" aka the remote control.
Robert AdlerRobert Adler holds 180 patents for electronics devices, whose applications run from the esoteric to the everyday; he is best known as a pioneer in the development of the remote control.Meet Dr. Robert AdlerAmong Robert Adler's earlier work is the gated-beam tube, which at the time of its introduction represented an entirely new concept in the field of vacuum tubes.
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