MST 100 Test 1 Certification Exam Examples Questions And Answers.

Vertical Communication - correct answer When space is a relative constant and time is a relative variable. Horizontal Communication - correct answer 2 major dimensions: point to point communication and mass communication Transportation based media - correct answer Messages that can travel as fast as they could be physically carried (ex: postal service) Transmission based media - correct answer Messages that can travel at the speed of sound or the speed of light (ex:telegraph) Unmediated communication - correct answer Direct engagement of human perception and senses. (ex: shouting of the human voice) Mediated communication - correct answer When a message can travel as fast as the sender wants. (ex: telephone) Discrete communication - correct answer Communication through a certain source (ex: telegraph) Continuous communication - correct answer Communication by direct contact (ex:telephone) Who initially backed funding for the new Electrical Telegraph System? - correct answer Samuel B. Morse (1844) What was the name of the company formed when original backers of the ETS got out of the business? - correct answer The Associated Press What transportation industry was linked to the telegraph industry? In what way? - correct answer Western Union, to create one giant telegraph system with unified and efficient operations. What organization was created to deal with communication between countries? - correct answer International Telegraph Union In what way in 1866 did communication technology begin to "shrink the world"? - correct answer brought everyone together, making it easier to communicate. What company was formed to house the telephone patents? - correct answer AT&T (American Telegraph & Telephone) What was the name of AT&T's manufacturing subsidiary? - correct answer Western Electric What were two other electrical manufacturing companies that became major players in electronic communications? - correct answer Electric and Westinghouse Who invented the phonograph? (1878) - correct answer Thomas Alva Edison Who invented the gramophone? (1878) - correct answer Emile Berliner What was the ARRL? - correct answer American Radio Relay League (1914) founded by Hiram Percy Maxim. How did the ARRL influence the radio after WW1? - correct answer Radio and wireless operations were nationalized and placed under the control of the navy. So, in 1919 with pressure from businesses and the ARRL, congress gave control of radio and wireless operations back to the private sector. Samuel F.B. Morse - correct answer Inventor of the telegraph (discrete) Alexander Graham Bell - correct answer Inventor of the telephone (continuous) James Clerk-Maxwell - correct answer Inventor of electromagnetic energy Heinrich Hertz - correct answer Demonstrates radio waves in hertz (Hz) which are cycles per second of the measurement of frequency Guglielmo Marconi - correct answer Invents the wireless, American Marconi Reginald Fessenden - correct answer begins experimenting with GE high speed alternator Lee DeForest - correct answer Inventor of Audion tube (amplifier) David Sarnoff - correct answer Inventor of Music Box Memo What was the "music box memo"? - correct answer A message David Sarnoff sent to his bosses ad the American Marconi. He distorts the truth and steals peoples ideas. What was the Mann-Elkins Act(1910)? - correct answer It puts all forms of radio communication under the federal governments jurisdiction under the interstate commerce clause What was the Wireless Ship Act(1910)? - correct answer First ever radio law, it requires all ships of the US travelling over 200 miles off of the coast and carrying over 60 passengers to be equipped with wireless radio equipment with a range of 100 miles Radio Act of 1912 - correct answer US federal law that mandated that all radio station in the US be licensed by the federal government as well as frequently monitoring distress frequencies What is persistence of vision? - correct answer An optical illusion where multiple discrete images blend into a single image in the human mind. Also called "positive after image" What is a thaumatrope? - correct answer A disk with a picture on each side that is attached onto 2 pieces of string. When twirled quickly, the two pictures turn into one due to the persistence of vision What is a magic lantern? - correct answer A photo projector What is a camera? - correct answer A small lightless box that is equipped with a lens and film for recording images What is camera obscura? - correct answer A small opening into a lightless box that will produce an image What is a daguerreotype? - correct answer The first successful photographic process What is meant by the reduction of exposure time? - correct answer As time goes on, exposure time gets less and less What is an actuality film? - correct answer A film that captures a setting or event that would have occurred naturally regardless of a camera What was the "Black Maria"? - correct answer Worlds first film production studio. It wad built film strip for the kinetoscope What was the cinematographe? - correct answer A highly sophisticated camera projector-printer developed by Louis and Auguste Lumiere What was the kinetograph? - correct answer A camera for producing subjects for the kinetoscope