The Remote Control and Beyond: The Legacy of Robert Adler
@inproceedings{Acebrn2007TheRC, title={The Remote Control and Beyond: The Legacy of Robert Adler}, author={Juan A. Acebr{\'o}n and Renato Spigler}, year={2007} }
Robert Adler, best known as the co-inventor of the television remote control, died in February at the age of 93. He had been active, as a con-sultant in ultrasonics, well beyond the age of 90. Indeed, the last of his approximately 180 U.S. patents is dated February 1, 2007—two weeksbefore his death.Adler was born in Vienna in 1913 and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1937. Not long afterward he fledVienna for the United States, to escape Nazi persecution. In the…
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