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| Johannes Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, is credited with this 15th century invention, said to have aided in transforming culture from the Middle or Dark Ages into the Renaissance. |
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| In 1877, this man happened upon a way to record sound on a tinfoil cylinder inscribed by a stylus. |
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| Emile Berliner, inventor of the carbon microphone transducer used in telephones, greatly improved on Edison’s phonograph by inventing the ______________. |
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| Although this man discovered that it is possible to transmit and receive powerful radio signals when they are tuned to resonate at the same frequency, his lab was consumed in fire, destroying his work. |
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| This 21-year-old inventor patented the wireless radio in 1896, and set up long-distance demonstrations to transmit signals across the English Channel. |
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| Thomas Edison founded __________. |
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| The ____________, a device based on the “Edison Effect,” was later perfected by John Ambrose Fleming. |
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_____________, the first commercial radio station, began regular broadcasting in
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| In 1920, Bell Labs invented the ___________, which replaced the crude recording horn. |
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| __________ invented Vitaphone technology for sound for film. |
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| In 1927, ____________ was the first film with synchronized sound. |
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| The release of the first “talkie” saved what movie studio from bankruptcy? |
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| ________ created the first 331/3 LP in 1931, but it was ____________ that reintroduced the format successfully in 1948. |
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| In 1898, ________ created the first magnetic tape recorder. |
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| Recording technology was improved upon by Curt Stille when he replaced the steel-wire medium with _____________; however, due to the inherent quality of the new medium itself, a constant and heavy background hiss is heard on recordings. |
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| After finding parts of recorders and a library of magnetic recorder during WWII, _________ rebuilt the recorders, using German schematics; the machines were then demonstrated to industry executives and engineers in 1946. |
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| The radio program ________________ became the first commercial user of magnetic tape. |
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| Working in his New Jersey basement, __________ developed multitrack recording by combining an 8-track tape machine with a custom console. |
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| The development of the ____________ in 1947 was seen as a leap forward in recording technology, leading to an explosion of inexpensive, low-cost, high-fidelity consumer audio and video products. |
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| In 1954, ________ released a 3-track tape recorder that utilized 1/2-inch tape, which became the industry standard, and remained so until the late 1960s. |
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| In 1826, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce created the first photograph, which he called a ______. |
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| In 1837, the _______________ was introduced to the public as improvement on Niépce’s photographic process. |
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Match the following people with their photographic achievement:
a Eadweard Muybridge 1 Box Camera
b George Eastman 2 Calotype
c Frederick Archer 3 “Study of motion”
d William Talbot 4 Collodion Wet Plate Process |
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a Eadweard Muybridge 1 Box Camera
b George Eastman 2 Calotype
c Frederick Archer 3 “Study of motion”
d William Talbot 4 Collodion Wet Plate Process
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Match the following people with their motion-picture achievement:
a Thomas Edison 1 “The Great Train Robbery”
b Lumiere brothers 2 Cinematograph
c Edwin S. Porter 3 “A Trip to the Moon”
d Georges Melies 4 Kinetograph |
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a Thomas Edison 1 “The Great Train Robbery”
b Lumiere brothers 2 Cinematograph
c Edwin S. Porter 3 “A Trip to the Moon”
d Georges Melies 4 Kinetograph
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| The Little Tramp was a character played by __________, who is considered the most popular silent film actor. |
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Match the following film legends with their groundbreaking films:
a Orson Welles 1 “The Birth of a Nation”
b Al Jolson 2 “Citizen Kane”
c D. W. Griffith 3 “Fantasia”
d Walt Disney 4 “The Jazz Singer” |
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a Orson Welles 1 “The Birth of a Nation”
b Al Jolson 2 “Citizen Kane”
c D. W. Griffith 3 “Fantasia”
d Walt Disney 4 “The Jazz Singer”
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| Commercially debuted in a 1932 Walt Disney animated film, “Flowers and Trees,” ____________ remained Hollywood’s color system until the early 1950s. |
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| For the film ____________, Orson Welles received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best screenplay. |
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| The first telegraph device, unveiled in 1837, was developed by _________. |
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| On May 11, 1844, the first inter-city telegraph message, quoting the Bible verse “What hath God wrought?” was sent between what two cities? |
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| After developing and patenting the first version of what came to be known as the telephone, ____________ tested his device by speaking through it to his associate, Thomas Watson. |
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| In 1927, __________ transmitted the first electronic TV image. |
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| In 1906, ______________ created what is considered the first animated film. |
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| Introduced in 1904, the ______ was a tube that allowed the amplification of electrical signals. |
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| _______________ was the first person to create believable character animation. |
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