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Details Title: IMA Description: Midterm exam Total Flash Cards: 81 Created: 11/04/2005 08:25:01	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Johannes Gutenberg Definition Printing Press 15th century Term Invented the Phonograph Definition 1877 Thomas Edison Term Invented the 78 rpm flat disk\ When Definition Emile Berliner 1887 Term Nikola Tesla Definition Predicted wireless radio Lab was consumed in fire Term Guglielmo Marconi When Definition pattented the wireless radio 1896 Term Founder of Columbia Records? Definition Thomas Edison Term What was KDKA? Where was it? Definition First radio station Pittsburg, Pa. 1920 Term Condeser microphone When Definition Bell labs 1920 Term Who invented Vitaphone technology Definition Bell Labs Term The Jazz Singer When Definition The first film with syncronized sound 1927 Term Who released the first "talkie" Definition Warner Brothers Term Who Created the 33 1/3 lp What year Definition RCA 1931 Term Who succesfully reintroduced the 33 1/3 lp When Definition Columbia Records 1948 Term Who created the first magnetic tape recorder. When Definition Fritz Pfleumer 1898 Term John Mullin Definition in 1946 introduced U.S. to magnetic recorders Term The first commercial user of magnetic tape? Definition "Philco Radio Time" Term Who developed multi track recording? Definition Les Paul Term When was the transistor invented? Definition 1947 Term In 1954 who developed the 3 track tape recorder that utilized 1/2in tape. Definition Ampex Term Joseph Niepce created the photograph in 1826 what did he call it? Definition Heliograph Term "The Great Train Robbery" Definition Edwin S Porter Term Cinamatograph Definition Lumiere brothers Term "A Trip to the Moon" Definition Georges Melies Term Kinetograph Definition Thomas Edison Term "Study of Motion" Definition Eadweard Muybridge Term Box Camera Definition George Eastman Term collodion wet plate process Definition Fredrick Archer Term Calotype Definition William Talbot Term The little tramp was played by who? Definition Carlie Chaplain Term "Citizen Kane" Definition Orson Wells Term "The Jazz Singer" Definition Al Jolsen Term "The birth of a Nation" Definition D.W. Griffith Term "Fantasia" Definition Walt Disney Term the first telegraph device unveiled in 1837 Definition Samuel Morse Term The first inter-city telegraph was sent between what two cities Definition Wasington and Baltimore Term Who invented the telephone Definition Alexander Graham Bell Term in 1927 who transmitted the first TV image Definition Philo Farnsworth Term data in a computer is represented by Definition bytes Term how many ones and zeros are n a byte Definition eight Term UNIVAC and ENIAC are examples of what type of computer Definition Mainframe Term a powerful single user computer similar to a pc Definition workstation Term so called dummy terminals Definition microcompuers Term The main circuit board of a pc Definition motherboard Term can be inserted into a computer to give it added capabilities Definition expansion card Term the computers toolbox Definition OS operating system Term a code that represents english characters as numbers Definition ASCII Term the first consumer priced pc Definition Altair 8800 Term steve jobs and steve wozniak created what company Definition apple computers Term The first Killer Application Definition VisiCalc Term IBM compatible computers made by other companies Definition clones Term the speed at which the cpu processes info Definition clock speed Term the speed at which the cpu executes instructions is measured in Definition Hz Term the collection of wires through which data is transmited Definition bus Term compression and rarefaction of a wave Definition a cycle Term any matter through which sound travels Definition medium Term a microphone coverts air pressure to electrical impulse which is called Definition signal Term Frequency is defined as Definition the number of waves passing through a single point in a specific time Term frequency is measured in Definition Hertz Term humans percieve change in frequency as change in Definition pitch Term the maximum displacement or strength of a wave is known as it Definition amplitude Term intensity of a signal on a logarithmic scale Definition decibel Term range of human hearing Definition 20 - 20k hz Term regulates work place noise levels Definition OSHA Term devide the speed of a wave by its frequency to get its Definition wavelength Term the time it takes to complete one cycle of a wave Definition period Term simplex and complex waves are the two types of Definition waveform Term unit of measurement of phase Definition degree Term different exponents of the same base are called Definition logarithms Term what increase will double the sound power Definition 3dB Term a unit of pressure equal to one newton Definition pascal Term two waves occupying the same space will cause Definition interference Term two waves occupy the same space and reinforce each other Definition in phase Term two wave are 180 degrees out of phase Definition cancellation Term a room with lots of reflections Definition live room Term a room with few reflections Definition dead room Term multiple reflections off of multiple boundries Definition reverberations Term a wave that has a lack of vibration, between areas of maximum vibration Definition standing waves Term a pocket of silence in a room Definition Node Term a place where the source wave and its reflection reinforce each other in phase Definition antinode Term when the energy of a sound wave is absorbed into a boundry and sets it into motion Definition transmission Term bendin of a wave arround the edge of a barrier Definition diffraction