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16 Cards in this Set
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camera obscura
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a dark box or room with a small hole in it that allows an inverted image of an outside scene to be shown n the opposite inner wall
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Louis Daguerre
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a French scene painter and inventor of the daguerreotype an early type of photography
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Mathew B. Brady
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A famous photographer of the 19th century who took portraits of many well-known people of his day as well as Civil War battlefield photographs.
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Thomas Alva Edison
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Inventor whose inventions include the electric light, the phonograph, and the Kinetoscope Edison's lab in Menlo Park, NJ had over 60 scientists and produced as many as 400 patent applications
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George Melies
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An early French filmmaker who pioneered the use of special effects in film in order to show imaginative stories
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independent films
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films made by production companies outside the main Hollywood studios
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product placement
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a form of advertising in which brand name goods or services are placed prominently within movie content that is otherwise devoid of advertising, demonstrating the convergence of programming with advertising content
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cathode-ray tube (CRT)
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a device, still used in most television screens and computer monitors in which electrons are transmitted to a screen for viewing
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John Logie Baird
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Scottish inventor who created the first mechanically scanned television device, in 1923. His thirty-line TV had better resolution than the first attempts at electronic televisions
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Vladimir Zwarykin
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Inventor of an improved cathode-ray tube he called the "iconoscope" that is the basis for the CRTs still used today in television sets and many computer monitors. He is considered one of the fathers of electronic television.
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high definition television (HDTV)
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Modern tv technology that produces a much higher resolution image, sharer color, a wider aspect ratio, and superior audio to traditional tv. The term was first used by the Japanese organization NHK to describe a system they called HI-Vision
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digital television (DTV)
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an all-digital television system in which all information, broadcast by cable or through the air, is in digital or computer-readable form
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multi-cast
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the simultaneous transmission of multiple channels of compressed content, or in some cases the same content but at different times
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community antenna television (CRTV)
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also known as cable television it was developed in 1948 so communities in hilly or remote terrain could still access television broadcasts
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coaxial cable
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an insulated and conduction wire that is typically used for most cable television connections
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optical fiber
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a transparent filament, usually made of glass or plastic, that uses light to carry information. This makes transmission of information much faster and with much greater capacity than twisted-pair copper wires or coaxial cable
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