INVENTOR DIES

BOISE, Idaho – Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.

[ROBERT ADLER, 93, R.I.P.]
Zenith engineer helped invent the TV remote control.

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 nursing home, Zenith Electronics Corp. said Friday. He was 93.

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 TV a truly sedentary pastime.

BY SHANNON DININNY
Associated Press

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