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10/29/2005

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Invented the phonograph, uses the cylinder, and started Columbia Records.
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Thomas Edison
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In 1887, What did Emile Berliner invent?
Definition
The 78 rpm flat disc format
Term
Amplification
Definition
Line of Sight
Term
This person patents the wireless radio
Definition
Guglielmo MARCONI
Term
The lack of ______________ limited the wireless radio to use.
Definition
Amplification Technology
Term
What allows for "clean" amplification?
Definition
The Vacuum Tube
Term
What year was the first commercial radio station licensed, and where at?
Definition
1920 in Pittsburg
Term
Who invented the condenser microphone?
Definition
Bell Labs
Term
In 1931, what was introduced by RCA?
Definition
33 1/3, 12 inch, vinyl LP record.
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Who revolutionized recording sounds in 1933 by developing the STEREO?
Definition
Bell Labs, of course.. what didnt he do?
Term
What else happened in 1931?
Definition
The GREAT Depression
Term
In what year did Columbia re-introduce the 33 1/3?
Definition
1948
Term
What was invented in 1935 and was the very first decent quality tape recorder?
Definition
Magnetophon
Term
What was made of WAX and IRON OXCIDE?
Definition
Magnetophon
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Who invented/demonstrated the magnetophon to U.S. industry executives?
Definition
John Mullin!!!
Term
Who became the first commercial user of magnetic tape?
Definition
Bing Crosby
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Who is the father of the multi-track recorder?
Definition
LES PAUL
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What did Les Paul develop?
Definition
the multi-track recorder
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In what year did Ampex release the multi-track recorder?
Definition
1957
Term
What is the Camera Obscura?
Definition
A dark room with pin hole on one side with a light on the outside of the room projecting on the wall.
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What was the Camera Obscura used for?
Definition
to create accurate paintings.
Term
The first photograph was developed by who and named what?
Definition
Joseph Niepce / Heliograph
Term
Joseph Niepce did what?
Definition
found a way to chemically capture an image
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Who was Louis Daguerre?
Definition
formed a partnership with Niepce
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What was the Daguerrotype?
Definition
A faster way of developing pictures
Term
Who developed a Box Camera to the public and named his company KODAK?
Definition
George Eastman
He was also friends with Edison!
Term
Eadweard Muybridge (EDWEIRD) was hired to do what?
Definition
to settle a bet and capture images..
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Who paved the way for development of motion pictures?
Definition
Eadweard Muybridge (EDWEIRD)
Term
Kinetograph
Definition
the first motion picture film camera in the United States
Term
Who created the Kinetograph?
Definition
Thomas A. Edison
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Cinematograph
Definition
the movie/camera projector in ONE!
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Who invented the Cinematograph?
Definition
Lumiere Brothers
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The Lumiere Brothers began charging audiences for what?
Definition
Watching their films.
Term
Who shot the first film narrative in 1902?
Definition
Edwin Porter
Worked for Edison
Term
What is defined as a series of still images that can be repeated indefinately?
Definition
A Cycle.
Term
D.W. Griffith did what?
Definition
increased storytelling abilities of film
Term
What was the first "talkie"
Definition
The Jazz Singer
Term
What was used for talking movies?
Definition
The VITAPHONE
Term
What was the first TRUE color film system?
Definition
Technicolor
Term
What movie created by Orson Welles was a seminal event in film-making?
Definition
"Citizen Kane"
Term
Around 1000 to 500 B.C., the ________ was developed.
Definition
The abacus
Duh! Why didnt you know that?
Term
What did JOSEPH JACQUARD use punch cards for?
Definition
to "program" weaving looms.

The Weavers were mad, and beat him.
Term
Who used punch cards to program?
Definition
Joseph Jacquard.

He was a Pimpsta
Term
Who designed the Engine and Analytical Engine?
Definition
Charles Babbage.

He went to Harvard University.
Term
What did Herman Holleritn develop for the US Census?
Definition
a punch card device to count and tally quickly.
Term
Vannevar BUSH built the __________________ which was used to create ballistic tables.
Definition
Differential Analyzer

bitches.
Term
In 1939, the first Automatic sequence controlled calculator, or also known as the Digital Computer was created by who?
Definition
Brittany Mullin

kidding

IBM
Term
The Harvard Mark 1 was completed in what year
Definition
1944
Term
What did the Harvard Mark 1 do?
Definition
does computations

Also, used in the development of the atomic bomb project.
Term
How many parts did the Harvard Mark 1 consist of?
Definition
750,000
Term
What was the first thing to have a "bug" that was taped to paper?
Definition
The Harvard Mark 2 (II)
Term
EDSAC was what?
Definition
The very first stored program computer

Stored 560 bits, whoa.
Term
UNIVAC I was the
Definition
first commercially available computer.

46 were sold.

It didn't do shit.
Term
What in 1947 led to minaturization of electronic devices?
Definition
Transistor
Term
In the 1960s to the 1970s, What lead to the first microprocessor by Intel?
Definition
Integrated circuits
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