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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4918463 | Compact printer having an integral cut-sheet feeder Printer apparatus of the kind having a housing, a print zone and a serial printing device for printing along line sectors of print media that are successively advanced into and out of the print zone includes an integral subsystem for handling discrete she... | 04/17/1990 |
| 4763138 | Compact printer having an integral cut-sheet feeder Printer apparatus of the kind having a housing, a print zone and a serial printing device for printing along line sectors of print media that are successively advanced into and out of the print zone includes an integral subsystem for handling discrete she... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4759646 | Compact battery-powered printer A portion of print medium transport system of an electrically operable printer is constructed to house battery power sources. This construction enables size reduction of the printer. Disclosed embodiments include housing cylindrical batteries in a printer... | 07/26/1988 |
