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| Who invented the phonograph and when? |
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| Who invented the 78 RPM format and when? |
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| Who brought magnetic tape recording to the US? |
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| Who developed the first multi-track recorder? |
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| What was the first radio station? |
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| Who created the condenser microphone? |
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| bad timing by RCA because of Great Depression; later Columbia reintroduces to success |
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| What is the story behind the 33 1/3 RPM LP? |
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| Who created the first photograph? |
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| Who improved on the first photograph machine? |
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| What was the first photograph machine called? |
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| Who's camera was also a projector? |
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| What was the first successfull "talkie?" |
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| What is considered the greatest film of all time? |
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| What were the French weaving looms programmed with? |
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| What was the first comercially available computer? |
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| What led to the miniaturization of devices in the 1950s? |
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| Who built the first microprocessor? |
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| What US Agency used Herman Hollerith's machine? |
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| data pathway in a computer |
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| a prime example of an open source OS |
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| this memory is volatile to power |
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| the first personal computer |
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| computer designed to have thousands of users accessing it |
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| connection that only sends one bit at a time |
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| expansion card type that is dedicated for grafx cards |
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| the speed of sound in air |
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| the range of human hearing with regard to frequencies |
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| the range of human hearing with regard to amplitude |
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| 80-20=60; 6 zeros -> ANS: 1,000,000 |
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| How many times more powerful is 80dB than 20dB? |
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| they reinforce each other -> antinode |
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| When two identical waves are in phase, what happens and what do we call it? |
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| SPL (Sound Pressure Level) Meter |
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| What do we use to measure amplitude? |
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| area of higher than normal pressure in a wave |
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| Johannes Gutenburg, a German goldsmith, is credited with this 15th century invention, said to have aided in transforming culture from the Middle Ages into the Rennaisance |
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| In 1877, this man happened upon a way to record sound on tinfoil cylinder inscribed by a stylus |
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| Emile Berliner improved on Edison's phonograph by inventing the ____ |
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| he discovered that it is possible to transmit and receive powerful radio signals when they are tuned to resonate at the same frequency |
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| patented the wireless radio in 1896 |
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| year that KDKA, Pittsburgh first started broadcasting |
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| year that Bell Labs invented the condenser microphone |
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| invented Vitaphone technology for film |
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| year that the Jazz Singer came out |
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| the release of the first "talkie" saved this company from bankruptcy |
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| company that created and first introduced the 33 1/3 LP in 1931 |
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| company that reintroduced the 33 1/3 LP successfully in 1948 |
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| in 1898, he created the first magnetic tape recorder |
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| Curt Stille improved recording technology when he replaced a steel-wire medium with _______ |
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| brought German magnetic recorders back to US after WWII |
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| first radio program to commercially use magnetic tape |
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| first quality tape recorder developed by Nazis in 1935 |
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| ______ released a 3-track tape recorder in 1954, which became industry std until 1960s |
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| released in 1839 as an improvement on Niepce's photographic process |
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| his achievement was "study of motion" |
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| his achievement was the Box Camera |
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| his achievement was the Collodion Wet Plate Process in 1851 |
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| his achievement was the Calotype, which made multiple copies of photos easy to make |
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| Motion pictures are made possible by a human phenomenon known as _____ |
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| made the Kinetograph, the first motion picture camera |
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| shot the first film narrate, "Life of an American Fireman" and "The Great Train Robbery" |
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| shot "A Trip to the Moon" |
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| made The Birth of a Nation |
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| debuted in 1932 with Disney's film "Flowers and Trees," ____ remained Hollywood's color sys until early 1950s |
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| unveiled first telegraph device in 1837 |
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| first inter-city telegraph message sent between what two cities? |
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| transmitted first electronic TV image |
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| created what is considered the first animated film: The Humorous Phases of Funny Faces |
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| introduced in 1904 and allowed the amplification of electrical signals |
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| first person to create believable character animation |
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| data in a computer is represented in a _____ fashion |
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| data stored/processed in a computer in a stream of _____ ones and zeroes |
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| UNIVAC and ENIAC are examples of what kind of computer? |
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| A ____ is a powerful, single-user computer, similar to a PC. |
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| began as so-called dummy terminals for use with mainframes |
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| smaller versions of mainframes |
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| the main circuit board of a PC |
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| a printed board that can be inserted into a computer to give it added capabilities |
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| considered the computer's toolbox |
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| code that represents English characters as numbers |
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| considered the first consumer-priced personal computer |
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| Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded what computer company in 1976? |
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| the first killer app created in 1979 |
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| IBM PC compatibles are called _____ |
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| speed at which the CPU executes instructions is called _______ |
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| speed of the CPU is measured in ______ |
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| collection of wires though which data is transmitted from one part of the computer to another |
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| matter through which sound travels |
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| when changes in air pressure are changed into electrical impulses, those impulses are called ______ |
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| the number of waves passing a single point in a specific time |
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| frequency is measured in ____ |
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| humans perceive change in frequency as high or low sounds, or change in _____ |
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| the maximum displacement, or strength, of a wave |
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| the unit of measure expressing the intensity of a signal on a logarithmic scale |
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| federal entity that regulates workplace noise levels |
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| time required to complete one cycle of a wave |
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| simple and complex waves are the two broad categories of ______ |
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| unit of measurement of phase |
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| different exponents of the same base are called ____ |
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| ____ increase = double power |
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| ____ increase = 10 times the power |
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| one unit of pressure equal to one Newton of force acting uniformly upon a square meter |
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| two or more waves occupying the same space with have this effect on one another |
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| rooms with lots of reflections |
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| rooms with few reflections |
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| multiple reflections off multiple boundaries |
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| a wave that has a lack of vibration at certain pts, between which are areas of maximum vibration are called _____ |
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| pocket of silence, 180 degrees out of phase |
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| in phase, reinforced waves produce _______ |
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| sound energy being absorbed into boundary, which sets that boundary into motion is called _____ |
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| bending of wave around a barrier's edge |
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| perception of hissing, ringing, or other sound in the ears when no external sound is present |
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| naturally occuring sounds are represented by _____ waves |
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| timing differences btwn 2 copies of the same waveform |
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| area of lower than normal area pressure |
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| compression + rarefaction = complete ______ |
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| device used to measure freq. |
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| the faintest sound hearable |
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| 0dB is *supposed* to be the ______________ |
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| threshold of pain (normally) |
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| PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) |
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| type of card used for networking, sound, etc |
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| ISA (Industry Std Archit.) |
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| old, being phased out type of card |
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| type of connections of SCSI, IDE |
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| type of connection of USB, IEEE 1394, PS/2 |
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| year the Altair was released |
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| year the Apple I came out |
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| year the Apple II came out (bought by a lot of schools) |
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| year the first IBM PC clone came out by Compaq |
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| controls motherboard functions |
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| disturbance in atmospheric pressure to which our ears respond |
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| designed the Difference Engine and Analytical Engine in the 1820s |
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| builds the Differential Analyzer from Babbage's plans at Harvard |
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| Differential Analyzer was used to generate ________ |
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| RCA in 1939 at World's Fair |
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| first "official" TV broadcast in the US |
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| created first mechanical TV |
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| worked with cathode ray tube |
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| row of lights across front of stage |
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| horizontal row of lights above the stage |
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| row of lights mounted in the wings of the stage |
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| a trademark used for a machine that sets type on a metal slug, operated by a keyboard |
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| first computer to store a program in its 560 bit memory |
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| according to text, first known writing language |
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