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29 Cards in this Set
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Marconi
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-Wireless telegraph
-successfully transmitted from France to England -promised his telegraph would report international yacht races off Sandy Hook, NJ -hoped to bring down cost of communications |
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Wireless telegraph
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-transmission of coded messages through the air
-means of private communication between two people -used electronic waves to send messages at great distances at the speed of light -would shrink the globe -invented by Marconi |
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Lee De Forest
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-self styled "father or radio"
-invented the audion-first tube with ability to amplify signals |
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audion
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-first tube with ability to amplify signals
-made long-range reception possible and provided the foundation for the modern electronic industry |
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Armstrong
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-created FM broadcasting
-his inventions form the framework for virtually all radio transmission and reception today -discovered regenerative feedback/feedback circuit (made radio possible) -largest shareholder in RCA for a period of time-lost it all when tv came along, and in promoting fm, and suing RCA |
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Fessenden
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-privative AM broadcast: went on the air on Christmas eve 1906
-transmitted music and speech over the air -first to "broadcast" |
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Sarnoff
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-Russian immigrant-rose from paperboy to head of the RCA
-sponsered Armstrong and later Zvorykin in research and invention |
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AM
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-sound carried as an amplitude change in standard carrier wave
-when nothing is being broadcast, transmitter puts out an unchanging carrier wave -problem is that other forms ofr added sound (lightning storm for example) show up on the radio as static |
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FM
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-Armstrong decided to modify frequency instead of amp (set would pay no attention to changes in amp, so only the intended signal would come through)
-no static, richer, deeper music |
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"The panic broadcast" (war of the worlds)
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-broadcast on CBS
-directed/performed by Orson Welles -written by Howard Koch -performed on Halloween night, 1938 -also on tv that night='chase and sanborn hour', and 'the mercury theatre on air' |
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Orson Welles
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-stared in 'The war of the worlds'
-stared in 'The Shadow' |
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Keys of radio show
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1. Narration/Announcer
2. Characters 3. Sound effects 4. Music |
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The Shadow
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-Frank Deadick Jr=first star
-*Orson Welles=second star -Bill Johnstone=3rd star Welles: (the shadow was a fully fledged character, under the identity of Lamont Cranston-a wealthy man in town) -Margo Lane (only person who knew the shadows identity), played by Agnes Moorehead -highest rated show from 1937-38, when welles played the shadow |
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Burnes and Allen
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-starring George Burnes and Gracie Allen
-comedy radio show |
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Nipkow disk
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-mechanical, image scanning device (invented by paul Nipkow) that was a fundimental component in mechanical tv through the 1920s
-spinning disk with circular holes arranged in a spiral pattern that reproduces images line by line |
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Philo T. Farnsworth
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-got idea for technology behind tv while plowing a field at age 14
-patented tv system and tv receiving system in aug. 1930 -his tube camera: image dissector (ideas stolen by Zvorykin) -fought against Zvorykin and RCA for tv patents -at the time of his death, he was working to develop fusion energy |
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Zvorykin
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-worked on tv under RCA at same time as Farnsworth
-stole ideas from Farnsoworth's image dissector (to make his iconoscope) |
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Image dissector
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-the tv tube camera invented by Farnsworth
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Iconoscope
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-the tv tube camera invented by Zvorykin (partially taken from Image dissector)
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Image Orthicon
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-the tv tube camera that combined the best of the image dissector and the iconoscope
-nicknamed the "immy" |
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twenty-one
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-game show in the 50s where a scandal broke: they were feeding answers to certain contenstants
-scandal broke with Van Doren and Stempel |
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Charles Van Doren
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-contestent on 21
-favorite, "all american" so he was taught the answers/what to study/what numbers to ask for, so they would tie then he would win (created more excitment) |
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Herbert Stempel
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-contestent on 21
-instructed to lose to Van Doren on question "what was the 1954 academy award winner?" (answer=marty) |
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Marty
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-film by Paddy Chayetsky
-about a man who cant get a date when all of his friends were getting married -people were shovked because it was such an ordinary story 0won oscar for best picture and actor |
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Paddy Chayetsky
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-creator of film Marty
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the shadows cover character
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Lamont Cranston
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Who played Margo Lane on the Shadow?
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-Agnes Moorehead
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Howard Koch
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wrote the war of the worlds
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shows also on on the night of 'war of the worlds'
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-chase and sanborn hour
-the mercury theatre on the air |
