chapter 3 lesson 1 part 2

Question 1

Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent words

Answer 1

3000 BC

Question 2

Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

Answer 2

2900 BC

Question 3

Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used

Answer 3

1300 BC

Question 4

Papyrus roll was used

Answer 4

500 BC

Question 5

Chinese small seal writing was developed

Answer 5

220 BC

Question 6

Book (parchment codex)

Answer 6

100 AD

Question 7

Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese

Answer 7

105 AD

Question 8

Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal
type

Answer 8

1455

Question 9

Samuel Johnson’s dictionary standardized English spelling

Answer 9

1755

Question 10

• The Library of Congress was established
• Invention of the carbon arc lamp

Answer 10

1802

Question 11

Research on the persistence of Vision published

Answer 11

1824

Question 12

First viable design for a digital computer

Answer 12

1830s *

Question 13

He writes the world’s first computer program

Answer 13

• Augusta Lady Byron

Question 14

Invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the United States

Answer 14

1837

Question 15

Motion pictures were projected onto a screen

Answer 15

1861

Question 16

Dewey Decimal system was introduced

Answer 16

1876

Question 17

Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high-speed photography

Answer 17

1877

Question 18

First magnetic recordings were released

Answer 18

1899

Question 19

Motion picture special effects were used

Answer 19

1902

Question 20

Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)

Answer 20

1906

Question 21

Television camera tube was invented by Zvorkyn

Answer 21

1923

Question 22

First practical sound movie

Answer 22

1926

Question 23

Regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the
US

Answer 23

1939

Question 24

ENIAC computer was developed

Answer 24

1946

Question 25

Birth of field-of-information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon

Answer 25

1948

Question 26

Artificial intelligence was separated from information science

Answer 26

Mid 1980s

Question 27

Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson's recipe box metaphor

Answer 27

1987

Question 28

Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CDROM were released

Answer 28

1991

Question 29

RSA (encryption and network security software) Internet security code cracked for a 48-bit number

Answer 29

January 1997

Question 30

RadioShack introduced the first complete personal computer

Answer 30

1977