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53 Cards in this Set
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Thomas Edison
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Discovered radio waves in 1883
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James Brinkly
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Gave false medical advice on radio
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Charles Lindberg
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Child's kidnapping was broadcast by radio
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Orson Welles
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War of the worlds, 1984
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Marshall Mcluhan
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The medium is the message
Hot and cold media |
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Johannes Gutenberg
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Invented movable type
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John Zangre
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Ny journalist accused of sedition
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james Bennet
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Investigative journalism
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Nelly Bly
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Went undercover in psych hospital for a report
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William Randolph Hurst
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Yellow Journalism
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Anthony Comstock
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Censorship nigga
Federal post inspector |
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Margaret Sanger
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mailed information on birth control
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John Harrison
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Invents chronometer
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Charles Babbage
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Invents difference engine
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John Patterson
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inventor of national Cash Registry
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Thomas Watson
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Kicked out of NCR, started IBM
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Joseph Henry
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Electromagnetic signal system
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Samuel Morse
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Invented the telegraph
dot dash code language |
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Elisha Grey
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Possibly invented telephone
Never got a patent |
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Alexander Graham Bell
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Turned sound waves into electricity
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Claude Shannon
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Worked for Bell
Created fundamental logic gate theory |
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Alan Turing
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Created universal Turing machine
Makes test for Artificial Intellegence |
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Charles Darwin
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Descent with modification
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Norbert Weiner
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Created improvements on Shannon's targeting system
Proponent of new field of cybernetics |
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William Paley
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Natural theology
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Matthias Schleiden
Thomas Shwann |
"all living things are made of cells"
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Francis Galton
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Transfused lab rat blood
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August Weissman
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Cut off mouse tail to prove genetic heredity
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Gregor Mendel
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bred peas to test genetic breeding
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Thomas Morgan
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Crossed fly species in banana room
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A.H. Sturtervart
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First chromosome mapping
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Frederich Mescher
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Saw nucleic acid in blood
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Nikolai Koltson
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Hereditary molecules
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Erwin Schrodinger
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Called cells "machines for storing energy"
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Oswald Avery
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Genes make proteins
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Erwin Chargas
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saw AT/GC
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Maurice Willis
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Gave Franklin.s data to Watson and Crick
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Watson and Crick
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Discovered the double helix shape of DNA
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Fellipo Bruvellischi
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Made first patent for the Dome of Flourencia
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Noah Webster
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Patented the American Spelling book
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Edward Mugbridge
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Zooproxiscope
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Sigmund Lubin
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Vertical movie production
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Josh baird
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Uses Napkow disk and radiowaves for tv broadcasts
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Vladimir Zworgkin
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used cathode rays to make TV
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Leon Trotskyt
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Workers of the world unite
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Joseph Stalin
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Killed Trotsky
Covered it up with propaganda |
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Joseph Goebbles
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Hitles propaganda master
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Helene Riefenstahl
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Made German propaganda films
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John Napier
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Creates logarithms
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John Orrey
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Determines position of planets
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Vammenar Bush
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Created intergraph
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Aiken and Hopper
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Created a hybring electrical mechanical system for batteries
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John Mauchly
J Eichert |
Created ENIAC
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