Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| 7100511 | Dual redundancy system for electronic detonators A detonator assembly (10) comprising a housing (12) disclosed and claimed. The assembly comprises an main circuit (11) comprising an electrically operable fuse (16) located in the housing. The assembly further comprises at least a first r... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6374101 | Pager-based controller A pager-based controller including at least one pager configured to receive a signal from a remote location, the at least one pager being further configured to provide an output to change an on-off state of an external electrical component; a heater unit ... | 04/16/2002 |
| 5740235 | User-programmable paging system controller having priority-based, multiple input paging access capability for selectively activating one or more audio/visual paging output devices A paging system controller is accessible from a plurality of input devices, such as an attendant's position, a telephone interface, telephone night bell, programmable switch devices and digital data communications devices, and is user-programmable to resp... | 04/14/1998 |
| 4684944 | Remote control system for rotary device A control system for the remote control of functions on a rotating object from a stationary location is disclosed. The control system, in the disclosed embodiment, constitutes a single channel, four function-select, power transmission system with an encod... | 08/04/1987 |
| 4654661 | Two fault tolerant transmitter activator Apparatus for inhibiting transmissions from a remotely operated sensor system until its transmitter has been found to be free of two specific operative faults.... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4649386 | Data acquisition In a system in which a continuous, periodically repeated, pulse duration type signal is utilized to transmit information to a computer, the pulse duration type signal is converted into a series of clock pulses. The clock pulses are then counted for a peri... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4625205 | Remote control system transmitting a control pulse sequence through interlocked electromechanical relays A remote control system including a central encoder for transmitting a single sequence of control pulses to a plurality of remote decoders, each of which performs a predetermined function when it has received a selected number of pulses. Reliability of th... | 11/25/1986 |
