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Electrical flow that reverses periodically, most US houses use it

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Alternating Current (AC)

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Unit of electric current

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Ampere

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AM radio, strength of radio waves are varied

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Amplitude Modulation

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NADA goal to put a man on the moon, ended in 1974

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Apollo Program

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Program that put two men on the moon (Armstrong and Aldrin). Third crew member was Collins. July 20, 1969

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Apollo 11

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The advanced research project agency network that Department of Defense created in the 60s to connect research and military. The technical foundation to the internet

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ARPANET

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American Standard Code for Information Exchange that standardized communications between different machines. Replaced by UNICODE

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ASCII

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Device powered by nuclear fission

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Atomic Bomb

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Amount of data carried by a digital communication medium. Expressed in hertz

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Bandwidth

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UPC, the barcode

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Universal Product Code

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The speed of data transmission in a system expressed in bits per second

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Baud Rate

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Inventor and scientist born in Scotland. Invented the telephone in 1876 and devoted most of his life to technology for deaf people

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Alexander Graham Bell

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The smallest unit of information used in computing

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Bit

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Nuclear reactor in which plutonium (among others) are created as byproducts

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Breeder Reactor

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Unit of information made up of bits (typically 8)

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Byte

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Stores electrical charge and returns it to the circuit

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Capacitor

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CRT, used for early televisions and monitors

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Cathode Ray Tube

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CD-ROM

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Compact disc read only memory

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CERN located in Geneva with research based on particle physics

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European Council for Nuclear Research

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Electric current easily passes through this (e.g. copper, aluminum)

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Conductor

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A poor conductor (e.g. glass, wood, plastic)

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Dielectric

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22
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Elections flow in one direction (DC)

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Direct Current

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23
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What does DVD mean?

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Digital Versatile Disc

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Inventor with over 1000 patents. Created the light bulb and phonograph

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Thomas Edison

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A thin coat of metal applied to material
Electroplating
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FM radio
Frequency Modulation
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The point where the lever is balanced when force is exerted
Fulcrum
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18th/19th century English inventor of the commercial steamboat. Introduced the North River Steamboat (aka Clermont) that sailed the Hudson River in 1807 with passengers taken to Albany and back
Robert Fulton
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A thin cover of metal applied over iron or steel to prevent rust
Galvanizing
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Founded Microsoft in 1977 with Paul Allen. IBM adopted his OS in 1981. (microcomputer software)
Bill Gates
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22,000 miles above earth and rotates with the planet to remain over a particular spot
Geosynchronous Satellite
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A reservoir for excess heat in machines
Heatsink
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A system operated or moved by a fluid
Hydraulic
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Electrical currents store energy temporarily in magnetic fields before returning it to the circuit
Induction
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A material that does not easily transmit energy
Insulator
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What does laser stand for?
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
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A second added during a year because the earth's rotation is slowing down
Leap Second
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Won the 1909 Nobel prize for physics. Inventor of wireless telegraph (forerunner to the radio)
Marconi
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One million units (byte, hertz, watts)
Mega
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Nasa initiative of putting a man into orbit between 1961-1963
Mercury Program
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Prefix meaning one billionth (used for seconds and in tech)
Nano
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Prefix meaning one trillionth (used for seconds, meters)
Pico
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A unit of electrical resistence
Ohm (named for George Ohm)
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A supplemental operation used when power demand is high (often natural gas)
Peaker Plant
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A part or accessory separate from the CPU (e.g. keyboard, mouse)
Peripheral
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Chemical products derived from oil and natural gas (most plastics)
Petrochemical
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A series of instructions given to a computer to direct it on carrying out operations
Program
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What does Radar stand for?
Radio Detection and Ranging
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Solving problems in a linear fashion from start to finish
Serial Processing
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The element that semiconductors are made from. Used in glass, concrete, brick, pottery
Silicon
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Spacecraft that exploded after liftoff in 1986, killing all seven crew members
Challenger
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The name of the aircraft that Lindbergh flew. First solo nonstop transatlantic flight from Long Island to Paris in 1927. Currently housed at the Smithsonian
The Spirit of St Louis
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A civilian supersonic aircraft designed to transport passengers at speeds greater than the speed of sound
Supersonic Transport (SST)
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A partial meltdown in 1979 happened at this nuclear site in Londonderry Township, PA
Three Mile Island
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Between 300-3000 MHz
Ultra High Frequency (UHF)
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Between 30-300 MHz
Very High Frequency (VHF)
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Launched in 2002, blocks explicit content on televisions
V-Chip
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Landed in 1976 on Mars and sent photos and information about the surface back to Earth
Viking Program
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Machine learning technology for voice recognition
Natural Language Processing
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The heating process to strengthen natural rubber
Vulcanization
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18th century Scottish inventor of steam engines that started the industrial revolution
James Watt
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A site in Nevada designed for permanent storage of nuclear waste
Yucca Mountain

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