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17 Cards in this Set
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FCC Chairman |
Charles Denny |
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Founder of Colombia Broadcasting System (CBS) |
William S. Paley |
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First President of RCA |
David Sarnoff |
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Paul Nipkow |
created rotating disk that allowed beam of light to perform "scanning" motion |
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Guglielmo Marconi |
credited with invention of radio |
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Heinrich Hertz |
first to prove existence of electro-magnetic waves |
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Reginald Aubrey Fessendon |
generated continuous wave on which voice was superimposed |
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Lee Deforesst |
invented Audion Tube |
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Frank Conrad |
built the transmitter that would become the first radio station |
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Edwin H. Armstrong |
created frequency modulation transmitter that eliminated static |
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Edwin Noble |
lifesaver king who bought NBC-Blue |
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U.S. Navy |
proposed that there be a monopoly on radio |
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Parnell Thomas |
a congressman who held hearings on communism |
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Fred Muggs |
a chimpanzee regular on the Today Show in the 1950s |
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Philo T. Farnsworth |
invented an apparatus that created nuclear fission |
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John L. Baird |
invented mechanical television |
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GE |
replaced British Marconi as a major shareholder in American Marconi |
