CTS FINAL EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS and Answers
Nicéphore Niépce - ANSWER✔✔-created Heliography, 1825-30 perfected process to
capture images on a lithographic plate (lithography)
Louis Jacques Daguerre - ANSWER✔✔-starts as a painter, later partners with Niepce to
commercialize lithography, using silver plates developed with mercury, selling both
portraits and scientific equipment - patent purchased by French Gov't and he receives
lifetime payments
William Henry Fox Talbot: - ANSWER✔✔-Calotype, pioneered PAPER PRINTING,
first negative/positive transfer process which allows scaling and extends the life of
print
George Eastman: - ANSWER✔✔-founder of Kodak company. Marks step between sole
inventor and research corporation, patented role of film (1888)
Etienne Jules Marey - ANSWER✔✔-Interested in animal locomotion and animal muscle
movement. Developed chronophotography (captured 12 fps on a gun-like device)
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, Edward James Muybridge: - ANSWER✔✔-Early work in motion pictures and the
photographic study of motion. Pioneered the zoopraxiscope and proved that all four
legs of a horse come off the ground for more than one frame (made a bet with
Standford)
Thomas Edison: - ANSWER✔✔-Invented the light bulb, phonograph and kinetoscope.
Developed early motion pictures with focus on vaudeville entertainment (nickelodeons,
cinema of attraction). Founded a full film production studio
The Lumiere Brothers: - ANSWER✔✔-Known for their cinematographe motion picture
system. Filmed everyday events, developed sense of realism, and idea of preserving
time through film
Robert Hooke: - ANSWER✔✔-Was the first to visualize a microorganism thanks to the
use of the microscope. Popularized microscope for cell observation. First to use the term
"cell". Published Micrographia. Curator of experiments at the Royal Society
Topsy the Elephant: - ANSWER✔✔-Was involved in a short film, where topsy was
publicly executed via electric shock. (Electric chair was provided by Edison's company).
Early documentation with cinema spectacularizing death
Claude Chappe: - ANSWER✔✔-invented the semaphore telegraph
system,revolutionized communications by dramatically reducing the length of time it
took for messages to travel.
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QUESTIONS and Answers
Nicéphore Niépce - ANSWER✔✔-created Heliography, 1825-30 perfected process to
capture images on a lithographic plate (lithography)
Louis Jacques Daguerre - ANSWER✔✔-starts as a painter, later partners with Niepce to
commercialize lithography, using silver plates developed with mercury, selling both
portraits and scientific equipment - patent purchased by French Gov't and he receives
lifetime payments
William Henry Fox Talbot: - ANSWER✔✔-Calotype, pioneered PAPER PRINTING,
first negative/positive transfer process which allows scaling and extends the life of
George Eastman: - ANSWER✔✔-founder of Kodak company. Marks step between sole
inventor and research corporation, patented role of film (1888)
Etienne Jules Marey - ANSWER✔✔-Interested in animal locomotion and animal muscle
movement. Developed chronophotography (captured 12 fps on a gun-like device)
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, Edward James Muybridge: - ANSWER✔✔-Early work in motion pictures and the
photographic study of motion. Pioneered the zoopraxiscope and proved that all four
legs of a horse come off the ground for more than one frame (made a bet with
Standford)
Thomas Edison: - ANSWER✔✔-Invented the light bulb, phonograph and kinetoscope.
Developed early motion pictures with focus on vaudeville entertainment (nickelodeons,
cinema of attraction). Founded a full film production studio
The Lumiere Brothers: - ANSWER✔✔-Known for their cinematographe motion picture
system. Filmed everyday events, developed sense of realism, and idea of preserving
time through film
Robert Hooke: - ANSWER✔✔-Was the first to visualize a microorganism thanks to the
use of the microscope. Popularized microscope for cell observation. First to use the term
"cell". Published Micrographia. Curator of experiments at the Royal Society
Topsy the Elephant: - ANSWER✔✔-Was involved in a short film, where topsy was
publicly executed via electric shock. (Electric chair was provided by Edison's company).
Early documentation with cinema spectacularizing death
Claude Chappe: - ANSWER✔✔-invented the semaphore telegraph
system,revolutionized communications by dramatically reducing the length of time it
took for messages to travel.
COPYRIGHT © 2025 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
