Let's hope he died on his couch,WITH his remote in his hand !!! Job well done Mr. Adler......... =D> Peggs At 04:47 PM 2/16/07, dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >*BOISE, Idaho* (AP) -- Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The >co-inventor of the TV remote has died. > >Robert Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene >Polley for the device that made couch potatoship possible, died Thursday >of heart failure at a Boise 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 TV a truly >sedentary pastime. > >The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded Adler and >co-inventor Polley, another Zenith engineer, an Emmy in 1997 for the >landmark invention. > >Adler joined Zenith's research division in 1941 after earning a >doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna. He retired as >research vice president in 1979, and served as a technical consultant >until 1999, when Zenith merged with LG Electronics Inc. > >The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published his most recent patent >application, for advances in touch screen technology, on February 1. > >(from cnn.com) > >-- > >Doug Keller >Wis-Kel Electronics >101 Freeland Ave. >Terra Alta, WV >USA 26764 >dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx >dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.tech-assist.org >"Learn from the mistakes of others, because you >won't live long enough to make them all yourself" > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm >Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation >Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". >Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ Peggs' Electronics 1519 West 2nd Street Owensboro,KY 42301 270-926-4968 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remove: http://www.tech-assist.org/remove.htm Set Vacation mailto:ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=set%20techassist%20vacation Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/