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| Who invented the Printing Press? |
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| Characters carved in wood, then inked and pressed against a substrate |
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| Individual characters molded in clay, then cast in metal for re-use |
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| The process of printing from a raised ink surface. |
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| What did Alois Senefelder invent? |
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| stone writing, a process in which the image printed is rendered on a flat surface treated to retain ink |
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| To set written material to type by hand. |
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| When a machine sets type on a metal slug, operated from a keyboard. |
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| trade mark used for a typesetting machine where the keyboard activates a unit that casts and sets individual characters. |
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| What is phototypesetting? |
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| Printing by the projection of images of type characters on photographic film, then used to make printing plates, think typewriter. |
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| Printing with a plate bearing an image carved into or beneath the plate's surface. |
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| Who invented the Telegraph? |
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| Communications system the sends and recieves simple unmodulated electric impulses, directly connected by wires. |
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| Who invented the telephone? |
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| A telegraphic code consisting of dots, dashes, and spaces. |
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| What did Thomas Edison invent in 1877? |
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| What was the 1st message ever recorded? |
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| Mary had a little lamb by Edison |
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| What did Emile Beliner invent in 1887? |
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| The 78 rpm flat disc Gramaphone. |
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| What is wireless telephony? |
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| Who patented wireless radio in 1896? |
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| What was KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA? |
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| The 1st licensed commercial radio station. |
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| Who invented the 1st condenser microphone? |
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| What made amplification possible for radio? |
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| What did Bell Labs invent for talking movies? |
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| What was the 1st vitaphone release and who was it by? |
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| The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, by Warner Bros. |
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| In 1931 who introduced the 33 1/3 LP? |
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| The great depression did not allow consumers to buy the needed equipment |
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| Who rereleased the 33 1/3 in 1948? |
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| In 1940, what did Disney release that was the 1st public stereo sound production? |
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| Magnetic tape recording machine. |
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Who invented the magnetophone?
Who introduced it to US industry execs.? |
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| What was used to manufacture magnetic tape? |
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| Who was the 1st commercial user of magnetic tape? |
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| Bing Crosby on Philco Radio Time |
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| Who released a 3 track machine with 1/2 inch tape? |
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| Who developed the 1st multi-track recorder? |
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| What caused an explosion of low cost, high fidelity consumer audio and video products? |
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| What was the 1st camera used as far back as 300 b.c? |
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| In 1826, what did Joesph Niepce invent? |
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| What was an improvement made on the Heliograph by Louis Daguerre? |
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| What was the signifigance of the Heliograph? |
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| In 1841, what did William Talbot patent to make multiple copies of photographs? |
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| What did Frederick Archer develop to reduce exposure time? |
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| Who invented the Box Camera? |
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| Whose "study of motion" photographs of a galloping horse made him famous? |
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| What phenomenon causes the illusion of motion? |
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| What was the 1st manufactured motion picture film camera? |
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| What did the Lumiere Bros. call thier motion picture camera? |
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| What was Edison's projection system called? |
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| What 2 films did Edison associate, Edwin S. Porter shoot? |
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Life of an American Fireman
The Great Train Robbery |
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| What was the 1st special effects film shot by George Melies? |
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| Who directed Birth of a Nation? |
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| Who was the most important figure in silent films, and developed the character, the Little Tramp? |
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| What film did Warner Bros. make using the Vitaphone, that became the 1st "talkie" killing silent films? |
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| What was the 3 strip color system called? |
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| What was the 1st film Disney released using technicolor? |
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| What movie did Orson Wells direct that some call the greatest film ever? |
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| What is a series of still images that can be repeated indefinitely? |
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| What optical toy created the illusion of motion? |
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| What is the study of motion? |
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| What is the study of animal locomotion? |
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| Who created the 1st workable tape recorder? |
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| What was max Fleischer's 1st animated film with sound? |
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| Take a Trip on My Airship |
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| What was the 1st Disney film with sound? |
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| What was Sir Williams Crookes working with that was a glass bulb containg a negatively charged elctrode called? |
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| Who invented the 1st mechanical TV in Great Britain? |
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| Who transmitted the 1st electronic TV image that was a simple line and held the early patents? |
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| What was 1 of the 1st TV broadcasts? |
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| What was the 1st Television service? |
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| What was the 1st US TV broadcast? |
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| 1939 New York World's Fair |
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| What commitee was founded to set standards for black & white TV and video? |
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| National Television Standards Commitee (NTSC) |
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| What are the 3 current TV standards? |
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| TV relied on film to record shows that went out to live viewers called what? |
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| What is video's bandwidth? |
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| What is audio's bandwidth? |
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| How fast did early videotape recorders (VTR) reels travel? |
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| VTRs with 4 heads placed 90 degrees apart |
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| Where does the term "helical" come from? |
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| the head scanning path or pattern resembling a spiral |
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| In 1972, What was the 1st made for TV movie shot on videotape? |
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| Who introduced electronic editing in the early 1960s? |
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| What did Dr. Lee deForest invent and was later altered by Western Electric that amplified sound up 130 times its original volume? |
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| Who created the 1st PA (public adress) system? |
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| What did preliminary stagehands use to intesify light sources? |
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| What did Scottish engineer, William Murdock use to develop practical illumination? |
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| Row of lights across the front of the stage |
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| long horizontal row of lights above the stage for general lighting |
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| row of lights usually mounted in a trough reflector and placed on the wings for illuminating areas of specific interest |
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| What was the circuit combination of valves and pipes that monitored gas lighting called? Also the predecessor to todays lighting console |
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| What Edison invention marked the begining of modern stage lighting? |
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| the practical electric lamp |
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| What was the earliest creation of a computer between 1000 and 500 BC? |
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| What did Blaise Pascal create in 1640? |
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| Who was the 1st to use punch cards to program looms? |
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| What 2 early computers did Charles Babbage design? |
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| Difference Engine & Analytical Engine |
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| Who used the punch card for data built by Herman Hollerith? |
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| Who developed Boolean Algebra? |
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| What Co. did Hollerith start and what did it become? |
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| Tabulating Machine Co. (TMC), became IBM in 1924 |
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| What was the "Edison Effect"? |
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| When a metal plate is placed inside a bulb, electrons can be detected flowing from the filament to the plate |
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| What did John AMbrose Fleming create using the Edison Effect? |
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| The 1st vacuum tube, the diode |
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| Who created the Differential Analyzer that was used by the military? |
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| What did IBM call the 1st digital computer formally know as the Automated Sequence Contolled Calculator? |
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| In 1949,What was the 1st stored program computer that stored 560 bits? |
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| In 1951 what was the 1st comercially available computer that did just under 2000 calculations per second? |
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| What was created by Bell Labs in 1947 that led to miniaturization of electronic devices? |
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| Who created the 1st microprocessor in 1970? |
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| What computer was found to have the 1st literal "bug"? |
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| What was Alan Turing's "thought experiment" called that was used for cracking code in WWII? |
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| What was considered the 1st general use electronic computer that dimmed lights in Philadelphia when it came on? |
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| What was invented in 1947 that was more reliable than vacuum tubes? |
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| Who created the 1st true integrated circiut known as a phase shift oscillator? Worked for Texas Instruments |
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| What was the 1st general purpose microprocessor created by Intel in 1974? |
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| Who created the 1st animated film? |
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| Who was the 1st to create believable character movement in anamation? |
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| What was the 1st movie ever produced? By Edison |
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| Early photoghaph developed on a silver or copper plate, sensitive to iodine, developed by mercury vapor? |
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