Best known as the "Father of the TV Remote Control," Dr. Robert Adler is
responsible for a large number of significant scientific contributions to the
electronics industry, including landmark inventions in the field of consumer
products and in sophisticated specialized communications equipment. He holds
more than 180 patents......Dr. Adler developed Zenith's Space Command®
ultrasonic remote control for TV sets, the first practical wireless TV remote,
which Zenith introduced in 1956......Among Dr. Adler's earlier work is the
gated-beam tube which... greatly simplified the sound system in television
receivers, markedly improving reception by screening out certain types of sound
interference while lowering the cost of the sound channel...a synchronizing
circuit which permitted demonstrably greater stability in fringe areas of
television reception....The electron beam parametric amplifier, developed in
1958 by Dr. Adler jointly with Dr. Glen Wade...used by radio astronomers in the
U.S. as well as abroad, and by the U.S. Air Force for long-range missile
detection...instrumental in the 1966 public demonstration...of an experimental
television display using ultrasonic deflection and modulation of a laser beam to
produce a wall-size TV picture without a cathode ray tube...
He was a busy boy, eh? And he had about a zillion awards, too.
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