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The following list represents the “testable terms” for the material we covered in the second half of the course. Although the list is in alphabetical order, I would recommend reorganizing the list according to some taxonomy. For example, the three format for records—12-inch, 7-inch, and 10-inch— listed here along with the term “shellac vs. polyvinyl” all correspond to the material of a recording disk. Instead of treating these as four separate terms, consolidate them into a single topic that you can more easily handle.
I’m including a plain text version of the list if you wish to have this data in a malleable form.
- 10-inch, 78 rpm
- 12-inch, 33 ⅓ rpm
- 7-inch, 45-rpm
- Adolf Zukor
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- AGFA
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Altair 8800
- Altair BASIC
- Xerox Alto
- American Marconi (1899)
- American Telephone and Telegraph
- an invisible “empire of the air”
- answering machines
- anti-trust exemption
- Apocalypse Now
- Apple II
- ARPANET
- Arthur Judson
- “Au clair de la lune” (1860)
- audio cassette Tapes (1960s)
- audion triode vacuum tube
- Auguste and Louis Lumiere
- Baby Bells
- Baird Television
- Big Five (motion pictures, c. 1930)
- bit
- BITNET, USENET, and NSFNet
- block booking
- Bob Metcalfe
- broadcasting
- bulletin board system
- byte
- Carl Laemmle
- Carterphone
- CD and DVD
- celluloid
- Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter
- cinematographe
- Columbia Broadcasting System
- common carrier
- Communications Act of 1934
- compact discs
- David Sarnoff
- deregulation
- desktop metaphor
- digital compression
- digital recording
- diodes
- distributed network
- Eadweard Muybrdige
- Eduouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
- Edwin H. Armstrong
- electromagnetic waves
- electronic television
- email
- Emile Berliner
- ENIAC
- Ethernet
- factors leading to decline of movie industry, post–World War II
- fax machines
- Federal Communications Act
- first-run picture palaces
- Fleming Tube
- Florence Lawrence
- Frank Conrad
- Gardiner Hubbard
- George Eastman
- Gramophone (1887)
- Grand Cafe screenings
- graphophone (1886)
- Guglielmo Marconi
- GUI
- Hannibal Goodwin
- Heaven’s Gate
- Heinrich Hertz
- high-speed LAN
- Hollywood auteurs (c. 1970)
- home dubbing
- Hush a Phone
- hypertext markup language
- IBM PC
- Independents (motion pictures, c. 1912)
- integrated services
- Intel
- interconnection
- interlacing
- intermixture
- internetting
- J.C.R. Licklider
- James Maxwell
- John Philip Sousa
- Jules-Etienne Marey
- KDKA Pittsburgh
- kinescope
- kinetograph
- kinetoscope
- Kingsbury Commitment
- latham loop
- Lee deForest
- Little Three (motion pictures, c. 1930)
- Livermore National Lab
- Local Area Network
- local exchange
- long lines
- long-distance telephone competition
- Ma Bell
- Macintosh
- magento-optical drives
- magnetic disks
- magnetic tape
- Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company (1897)
- Marcus Loew
- Mark Andreesen
- Mary Pickford
- mechanical television
- microcomputers
- microprocessors
- microwave relay
- minicomputers
- modem
- monopoly
- Mosaic
- Motion Picture Patents Company
- mouse
- multichannel sound
- music composers
- music publishers
- National Broadcasting Company
- National Television Standards Committee
- NBC Red and Blue
- New Hollywood (c. 1970)
- nickelodeons
- Nipkow Disk
- oligopoly
- open source
- packet switching
- patent pool
- Philo T. Farnsworth
- phonograph
- photo gun or photographic rifle
- price discrimination (in motion pictures)
- production, distribution, and exhibition (in motion pictures)
- punch cards
- quadrophonic sound
- Queen Elizabeth
- Qwest
- Radio Corporation of America
- radio with pictures
- rags
- RCA color vs. CBS color
- RCA-Victor
- regeneration
- Reginald Fesseden
- roll film
- rotary dialing
- SAGE
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Scott Joplin
- sheet music
- shellac vs. polyvinyl
- ship-to-shore communication
- silicon
- Sputnik launching
- Steinway Piano
- stereophonic sound
- suburbanization (c. 1950)
- talking pictures
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
- telegraph
- Telstar
- Texas Instruments
- Theodore Vail
- Thomas Edison
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Tin Pan Alley
- touchtone dialing
- transistors
- universal service
- Verizon
- vertical integration
- VHF vs. UHF TV
- Victor Talking Machine Company
- Victrola
- vitagraph
- Vladimir Zworkin
- WEAF, New York
- Western Electric
- Western Union
- WGY, Schenectady, 1922
- wide area network
- widescreen cinema and color (motion pictures, c. 1950)
- William Fox
- William Paley
- wireless telegraphy
- wireless telephony
- WJZ Newark, New Jersey
- WKL Dickson
- World Wide Web
- World’s Fair 1939
- Xerox Alto
- Xerox PARC
- zoopraxiscope
Note: Because the Final Exam is technically cumulative, you should also review the major concepts of the media technologies we covered in the first half of the course, too. Those are not included in this list.