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NUMBER 1
The inventor of the remote control, whose name was Robert Adler, didn’t like watching TV
NUMBER 2
Remote controls, which first appeared in 1956, were originally called ‘space commands’.
NUMBER 3
Robert Adler went to university there in Vienna, where he was born./Robert Adler, who was born in Vienna, went to university there.
NUMBER 4
Adler, who invented more than 180 different things, was a brilliant physicist./ Adler, who was a brilliant physicist, invented more than 180 different things.
NUMBER 5
Adler, whose most successful invention was the remote control, was especially proud of his work on touch screens.
NUMBER 6
His remote control, which was replaced by infrared systems in the 1980s, used ultrasonic frequencies.
NUMBER 7
In 2007, when he was ninety-three, Robert Adler died./ Robert Adler died in 2007, when he was ninety-three./ Robert Adler, who was ninety-three, died in 2007.
NUMBER 8
Adler wasn’t very interested in his own invention, which changed the way we live. /Adler, whose invention changed the way we live, wasn’t very interested in it
