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Chapter 1
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09/09/2005

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Term
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.
Definition
The printing press
Term
In 1877, this man happened upon a way to record sound on a tinfoil cylinder inscribed by a stylus.
Definition
Thomas Edison
Term
Emile Berliner, inventor of the carbon microphone transducer used in telephones, greatly improved on Edison’s phonograph by inventing the ______________.
Definition
78 rpm flat-disc format
Term
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.
Definition
Nikola Tesla
Term
This 21-year-old inventor patented the wireless radio in 1896, and set up long-distance demonstrations to transmit signals across the English Channel.
Definition
Guglielmo Marconi
Term
Thomas Edison founded __________.
Definition
Columbia Records
Term
The ____________, a device based on the “Edison Effect,” was later perfected by John Ambrose Fleming.
Definition
Diode
Term
_____________, the first commercial radio station, began regular broadcasting in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920.
Definition
KDKA
Term
In 1920, Bell Labs invented the ___________, which replaced the crude recording horn.
Definition
condenser microphone
Term
__________ invented Vitaphone technology for sound for film.
Definition
Bell Labs
Term
In 1927, ____________ was the first film with synchronized sound.
Definition
The Jazz Singer
Term
The release of the first “talkie” saved what movie studio from bankruptcy?
Definition
Warner Brothers
Term
________ created the first 331/3 LP in 1931, but it was ____________ that reintroduced the format successfully in 1948.
Definition
RCA; Columbia
Term
In 1898, ________ created the first magnetic tape recorder.
Definition
Valdemar Poulsen
Term
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.
Definition
a flat steel tape
Term
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.
Definition
John Mullin
Term
The radio program ________________ became the first commercial user of magnetic tape.
Definition
“Philco Radio Time”
Term
Working in his New Jersey basement, __________ developed multitrack recording by combining an 8-track tape machine with a custom console.
Definition
Les Paul
Term
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.
Definition
transistor
Term
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.
Definition
Ampex
Term
In 1826, Joseph-Nicéphore Niépce created the first photograph, which he called a ______.
Definition
Heliograph
Term
In 1837, the _______________ was introduced to the public as improvement on Niépce’s photographic process.
Definition
Daguerreotype
Term
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
Definition
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

A-3 B-1 C-4 D-2
Term
Motion pictures are made possible by a phenomenon known as ________ , which sim-
ply means that the eye retains an image of an object for a short time after the object is removed from view.
Definition
persistence of vision
Term
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
Definition
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

A-4 B-2 C-1 D-3
Term
The Little Tramp was a character played by __________, who is considered the most popular silent film actor.
Definition
Charlie Chaplin
Term
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”
Definition
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”

A-2 B-4 C-1 D-3
Term
Commercially debuted in a 1932 Walt Disney animated film, “Flowers and Trees,” ____________ remained Hollywood’s color system until the early 1950s.
Definition
Technicolor
Term
For the film ____________, Orson Welles received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best screenplay.
Definition
Citizen Kane
Term
The first telegraph device, unveiled in 1837, was developed by _________.
Definition
Samuel Morse
Term
On May 11, 1844, the first inter-city telegraph message, quoting the Bible verse “What hath God wrought?” was sent between what two cities?
Definition
Washington and Baltimore
Term
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.
Definition
Alexander Graham Bell
Term
In 1927, __________ transmitted the first electronic TV image.
Definition
Philo Farnsworth
Term
In 1906, ______________ created what is considered the first animated film.
Definition
J. Stuart Blackton
Term
Introduced in 1904, the ______ was a tube that allowed the amplification of electrical signals.
Definition
Audion
Term
_______________ was the first person to create believable character animation.
Definition
Windsor McKay
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