TFM 430 Exam 1 Qs with 100% correct answers

According to Life Magazine's special millennium publication, selecting the top 100 events in the last millennium, what was the number one event? And why was it considered the top event of the millennium? - correct answer Johann Gutenberg's moveable printing press. The reason why it's considered number one is because of his printing press, written documents could now be mass produced and shared with the public. And where did Television land on this same list? - correct answer 14 Who developed the first wireless telegraph in 1895? - correct answer Guglielmo Marconi Which country was the first to capitalize on Marconi's new means of communication? - correct answer british empire What invention (created in 1884) established a scanning technique as a step toward transmitting images? - correct answer Nipkow Disc (1st mechanical tv) In 1901, who sent out the first long-distance wireless message (from Cornwall, England to St John's, Newfoundland, Canada)? And what was the message sent? - correct answer guglielmo marconi, sound of 3 faint clicks and the letter S Competing with Marconi, this inventor focused on transmitting continuous sound (rather than the interrupted wave bursts of Morse code), his ideas becoming fundamental for radio. What is the inventor's name? - correct answer Aubrey Fessenden This glass-bulb detector (or receiver) of radio waves was also capable of amplifying and even generating radio waves. What was the name of this invention? And who invented it? - correct answer The audion tube, invented by Lee de Forest