VIPS Flashcards
Benjamin Day
Publisher of the New York Sun, he ushered in the era of the penny press when, on September 3, 1833, he began offering his paper on the streets for a penny.
Guglielma Marconi
Italian inventor and creator of radio telegraphy, or wireless transmission, in 1899.
Howard Armstrong
Inventor of FM radio transmission; Columbia University engineering professor.
James Carey
Communication scholar and historian who has shaped a cultural-studies approach to communication theory.
Johannes Gutenberg
German printer creditied with creating the first mechanical printing press in Europe in 1455.
Lee de Forest
Considered the “Father” of Radio Broadcasting technology because of his inbention that permitted reliable voice transmissions for both point-to-point communication and broadcasting.
Marshall Mcluhan
A communication scholar who wrote Understanding Media and The Gutenberg Galaxy, among other books. He is perhaps most famous for vreating the “global village” metaphor regarding electronic mediaand is often misunderstood phrase, “the medium is the message.”
Mathew Brady
A famous photographer of the nineteenth century who took portraits of many well-known people of his day as well as Civil War battlefield photographs
Thomas Alva Edison
Inventor whose inventions include the electric light, the phonograph, and the Kinetoscope. Edison’s lab in Menlo Park, New Jersey, had over sixty scientists and produced as many as four hundred patent applications a year.
David Sarnoff
Head of RCA. He helped push the development of television as a mass medium yet blocked the development of FM radio for years because its adoption would hurt AM listenership and reduce demand of AM radio receivers, which RCA produced and sold.
Vladamir Zworykin
Inventor of an improved cathode-ray tube he called the “iconoscope” tjat os the basos fpr the CRT’s still used today in some television sets and computer monitors. He is considered one of the fathers of electronic television.
