Chapter 1

Question 1

Goal of Lifetime Magazine

Answer 1

pick the top 100 events during the last 1000 years - people places things and ideas - that changed the way we lived on planet earth

Question 2

number one event

Answer 2

the Gutenberg Printing Press

Question 3

what number event was TV

Answer 3

14

Question 4

how many homes does the tv visit every day

Answer 4

two billion

Question 5

iconic face of CBS News “the most trusted man in america”

Answer 5

Walter Cronkit

Question 6

What did Thomas Edison sell to Western Union

Answer 6

Quadruplex Telegraph for $10,000

Question 7

what did the telegraph improve

Answer 7

Samuel Morse’s version allowing 4 separate signals to be sent on a single wire at the same time

Question 8

what did Edison use the money from his first invention for

Answer 8

construct a research laboratory in new jersey where he built the phonograph, electric bulb, and tinkered with alexander Grahm Bell’s telephone technology

Question 9

who invented the wireless telegraph

Answer 9

Guglielmo Marconi

Question 10

Who created the first mechanical television system (not television itself)

Answer 10

Paul Nipkow

Question 11

what principle of television did Nipkow discover

Answer 11

scanning principle

Question 12

What was the rotating disc Nipkow created called?

Answer 12

Nipkow Disc

Question 13

what was the Nipkow Disc

Answer 13

a device consisting of a rapidly rotating disc placed between a scene and a light sensitive selenium element.

Question 14

who was the first to satisfactorily demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves

Answer 14

Heinrich Hertz

Question 15

what did Heinrich Hertz discover

Answer 15

the existence of electromagnetic waves by building an apparatus (transmitter) to produce and detect radio waves.

Question 16

Where did Marconi set up his first shops

Answer 16

both sides of the Atlantic

Question 17

what was Macroni’s company called

Answer 17

Marconi Wireless COmpany of America “American Marconi”

Question 18

Where was Marconi wireless company first set up

Answer 18

New Jersey

Question 19

Where was marconi’s second station

Answer 19

New York City to complement his original US station in Massachusetts

Question 20

what was Marconi’s first long distant message, from where to where

Answer 20

a single S. Cornwall, England to recieving station in St. John’s, Newfoundland

Question 21

what are amateur operators

Answer 21

HAMS

Question 22

Competitor of Marconi

Answer 22

Aubrey Fessenden

Question 23

what was Fessenden’s idea

Answer 23

send continuos wave on which voice would be superimposed as variations of modulations- the radio

Question 24

what was fessenden’s company called?

Answer 24

National Electric Signaling Company - sending a voice over the airwaves

Question 25

What was Lee de Forest’s invention

Answer 25

Audion Tube

Question 26

what was the Audion Tube

Answer 26

glass build detector (receiver) of radio waves was also capable of amplifying and even generating radio waves.

Question 27

where did Lee de Forest present his first invention

Answer 27

paris, on the eiffel tower

Question 28

What was the Radio Act of 1912

Answer 28

the first piece of regulatory communication legislation in American History as a result of the sinking of Titanic. It established that in order to operate a radio frequency (in order to broadcast) you had to obtain a license from the government.

Question 29

What made it illegal for anyone other than the government or military to operate a radio device

Answer 29

World War 1

Question 30

Who did David Sarnoff first work for

Answer 30

American Marconi as a messenger boy

Question 31

gigantic private government monopoly

Answer 31

Radio Corporation of America - RCA