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IMA
Midterm exam
81
Internet/New Media
Not Applicable
11/04/2005

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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
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