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.

  1. 10-inch, 78 rpm
  2. 12-inch, 33 ⅓ rpm
  3. 7-inch, 45-rpm
  4. Adolf Zukor
  5. Advanced Research Projects Agency
  6. AGFA
  7. Alexander Graham Bell
  8. Altair 8800
  9. Altair BASIC
  10. Xerox Alto
  11. American Marconi (1899)
  12. American Telephone and Telegraph
  13. an invisible “empire of the air”
  14. answering machines
  15. anti-trust exemption
  16. Apocalypse Now
  17. Apple II
  18. ARPANET
  19. Arthur Judson
  20. “Au clair de la lune” (1860)
  21. audio cassette Tapes (1960s)
  22. audion triode vacuum tube
  23. Auguste and Louis Lumiere
  24. Baby Bells
  25. Baird Television
  26. Big Five (motion pictures, c. 1930)
  27. bit
  28. BITNET, USENET, and NSFNet
  29. block booking
  30. Bob Metcalfe
  31. broadcasting
  32. bulletin board system
  33. byte
  34. Carl Laemmle
  35. Carterphone
  36. CD and DVD
  37. celluloid
  38. Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter
  39. cinematographe
  40. Columbia Broadcasting System
  41. common carrier
  42. Communications Act of 1934
  43. compact discs
  44. David Sarnoff
  45. deregulation
  46. desktop metaphor
  47. digital compression
  48. digital recording
  49. diodes
  50. distributed network
  51. Eadweard Muybrdige
  52. Eduouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
  53. Edwin H. Armstrong
  54. electromagnetic waves
  55. electronic television
  56. email
  57. Emile Berliner
  58. ENIAC
  59. Ethernet
  60. factors leading to decline of movie industry, post–World War II
  61. fax machines
  62. Federal Communications Act
  63. first-run picture palaces
  64. Fleming Tube
  65. Florence Lawrence
  66. Frank Conrad
  67. Gardiner Hubbard
  68. George Eastman
  69. Gramophone (1887)
  70. Grand Cafe screenings
  71. graphophone (1886)
  72. Guglielmo Marconi
  73. GUI
  74. Hannibal Goodwin
  75. Heaven’s Gate
  76. Heinrich Hertz
  77. high-speed LAN
  78. Hollywood auteurs (c. 1970)
  79. home dubbing
  80. Hush a Phone
  81. hypertext markup language
  82. IBM PC
  83. Independents (motion pictures, c. 1912)
  84. integrated services
  85. Intel
  86. interconnection
  87. interlacing
  88. intermixture
  89. internetting
  90. J.C.R. Licklider
  91. James Maxwell
  92. John Philip Sousa
  93. Jules-Etienne Marey
  94. KDKA Pittsburgh
  95. kinescope
  96. kinetograph
  97. kinetoscope
  98. Kingsbury Commitment
  99. latham loop
  100. Lee deForest
  101. Little Three (motion pictures, c. 1930)
  102. Livermore National Lab
  103. Local Area Network
  104. local exchange
  105. long lines
  106. long-distance telephone competition
  107. Ma Bell
  108. Macintosh
  109. magento-optical drives
  110. magnetic disks
  111. magnetic tape
  112. Marconi Wireless Telegraphy Company (1897)
  113. Marcus Loew
  114. Mark Andreesen
  115. Mary Pickford
  116. mechanical television
  117. microcomputers
  118. microprocessors
  119. microwave relay
  120. minicomputers
  121. modem
  122. monopoly
  123. Mosaic
  124. Motion Picture Patents Company
  125. mouse
  126. multichannel sound
  127. music composers
  128. music publishers
  129. National Broadcasting Company
  130. National Television Standards Committee
  131. NBC Red and Blue
  132. New Hollywood (c. 1970)
  133. nickelodeons
  134. Nipkow Disk
  135. oligopoly
  136. open source
  137. packet switching
  138. patent pool
  139. Philo T. Farnsworth
  140. phonograph
  141. photo gun or photographic rifle
  142. price discrimination (in motion pictures)
  143. production, distribution, and exhibition (in motion pictures)
  144. punch cards
  145. quadrophonic sound
  146. Queen Elizabeth
  147. Qwest
  148. Radio Corporation of America
  149. radio with pictures
  150. rags
  151. RCA color vs. CBS color
  152. RCA-Victor
  153. regeneration
  154. Reginald Fesseden
  155. roll film
  156. rotary dialing
  157. SAGE
  158. Sarah Bernhardt
  159. Scott Joplin
  160. sheet music
  161. shellac vs. polyvinyl
  162. ship-to-shore communication
  163. silicon
  164. Sputnik launching
  165. Steinway Piano
  166. stereophonic sound
  167. suburbanization (c. 1950)
  168. talking pictures
  169. Telecommunications Act of 1996
  170. telegraph
  171. Telstar
  172. Texas Instruments
  173. Theodore Vail
  174. Thomas Edison
  175. Tim Berners-Lee
  176. Tin Pan Alley
  177. touchtone dialing
  178. transistors
  179. universal service
  180. Verizon
  181. vertical integration
  182. VHF vs. UHF TV
  183. Victor Talking Machine Company
  184. Victrola
  185. vitagraph
  186. Vladimir Zworkin
  187. WEAF, New York
  188. Western Electric
  189. Western Union
  190. WGY, Schenectady, 1922
  191. wide area network
  192. widescreen cinema and color (motion pictures, c. 1950)
  193. William Fox
  194. William Paley
  195. wireless telegraphy
  196. wireless telephony
  197. WJZ Newark, New Jersey
  198. WKL Dickson
  199. World Wide Web
  200. World’s Fair 1939
  201. Xerox Alto
  202. Xerox PARC
  203. 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.