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38 Cards in this Set
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Who did Claude Chappe say the telegraph was a key invention for?
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Military
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What great idea did Chappe come up with?
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Communication through towers
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Alexander Graham Bell created what?
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The telephone prototype which later became the accepted invention
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What did Thomas Edison do to improve the telephone?
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He improved the mouthpiece
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What other invention enhancement is Edison known for in the telephone/telegraph era?
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Stock Ticker
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What did Charles Jackson do?
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Helped Morse develop a way to record incoming signals on paper automatically.
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Who was William Orton?
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The president of Western Union
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What did Orton do?
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Worked to keep Western Union a monopolistic powerhouse dominating the telegraph industry.
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What did Francis Ronalds do?
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Worked on an electric telegraphy invention by suing electricity to synchronize clocks in or to spell out messages.
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Almon Strowger
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Out of anger he created the mechanical switchboard thus eliminating the need for local operators
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Samuel Morse
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Came up with the accepted prototype for the electric telegraph by using a "bi-signal" that later evolved into dots and dashes what we know today as morse code.
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James Maxwell
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had the idea that light and heat are related and travel in waves
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Elisha Gray
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First created a device thaty could copy a written message telegraphically
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Who invented the harmonic telegraph
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Elisha Gray
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Davy
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designed the needle telegraphy and chemical telegraph
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What did Davy lose?
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A lawsuit to Wheatstone and Cooke over rights to the telegraph.
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Theodore Vail
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Head of AT&T and when their
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Whar did T. Vail do to keep AT&T dominant after their patent expired?
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came up with long distance (long lines)
idea of national monopoly research through bell labs |
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Wheatstone
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scientist and co-inventor of the electric telegraph
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Cooke
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worked with wheatstone on the development of the mechanical telegraph
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Martinville
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invented the photoautograph which was used to teach the deaf to talk
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Reiss
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created an early prototypr telephone based on breaking the electrical current
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Wilber
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the patent official in teh gray and bell case who admittingly took bribes
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What are the typed of SSN?
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-existing tech.
-requirements of a tech. -industry prompted -government regulation -general social forces |
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SRP is the ______ on the adoption of a tech.
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breaks
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SSN is the ________ on the adoption of a tech.
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accelerator
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Explain the settlement of AST and AT&T (Gray and Bell)
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Bell offers patents to Gray for $100,000. Gray says no. Phone takes off Gray sets up AST to compete with Bell Telephones. Bell makes Gray's Western Electric his supplier. Gray gets $100,000 and more business. Bell gets 7 mil over next 15 yrs.
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Explain Wheatstone and Cooke vs Davy case
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W & C beat out davy for the rights to the telegraph
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Explain Wheatstone and Cooke vs Morse
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W & C win because their device is less complex.
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What is the process of creating an invention?
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ideation-->usable tech-->prototype-->accepted prototype
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What is ideation?
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moving an idea from point a to point b
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Leyden jars
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early way of storing electricity particularly static electricity
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Helmholtz
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triggered a tuning fork with electricity
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Ems telegraph
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main cause of Franco-Prussian war
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Harmonic Telegraph
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invented by Gray and was the basis for the telephone
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Mediamorphisis
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the transformation of communication media
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explain the 30 year rule
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decade 1 excitement
decade 2 fails to meet expectations decade 3 aadopted, common |
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technomyopia
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over-estimate the short term effect of a new tech...then we under-estimate its long term effect
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