Technology 7 Unit 1: Big Ideas
Communications History UnitAssignment
PART A: Matching
Instructions:Answer all questions on the answer sheet provided. (15 marks).
WORD LIST:
B. Johannes Gutenberg
C. Heliographs
D. Before Christ
E. China / F. Joseph Henry
G. Camera Obscura
H. Tsai Lun
I. Pi Sheng
J. Pictographs / K. microphone
L. Year of Our Lord
M. Papyrus
N. Phoenicians
O. Egyptians
Questions:
1. What does BC mean?
2. What does Anno Domini (AD) mean?
3. What group of people developed the first alphabet around 3500 BC to 2900 BC?
4. What is a word used to describe a written language that uses pictures to mean letters or words?
5. What group of people developed hieroglyphic writing?
6. What country had the oldest record (1400 BC) of writing on bones?
7. Homing pigeons were used by the Greeks in 776 BC to send messages back to Athens to announce the winners of what event?
8. What is the name of the plant used to make parchment that the Egyptians used?
9. What are messages sent by flashing mirrors at the sun?
10. Who invented paper in 105 AD?
11. Who invented the first movable type using clay in 1049 AD?
12. Who invented the printing press with metal movable type in 1455 AD?
13. What basic form ofimage making was invented in 1560 AD?
14. What did Charles Wheatstone invent in 1821?
15. Who invented the first electric telegraph 1831?
PART B: Multiple Choice
Instructions: Answer all questions on the answer sheet provided. (10 marks).
16. Who invented the Morse code in 1835?
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Samuel Morse C) Thomas Edison
17. What country started the Pony Express for mail delivery 1861?
A) United States B) Japan C) England
18. Who patented the electric phone in 1876?
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Samuel Morse C) Thomas Edison
19. What did George Eastman patent in 1888?
A) the Telegraph B) Kodak roll film C) Talking movies
20. Who transmitted the first radio signal across the Atlantic ocean?
A)Guglielmo Marconi B) Samuel Morse C) Alexander Graham Bell
21. Who demonstrated the first talking motion picture in 1910?
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) Charlie Chaplin C) Thomas Edison
22. In what country was the first television broadcasts in 1927?
A) United States B) Canada C) England
23. What was the name of one of the first computers used publicly in 1944?
A) Mark I B) IBM C) Apple
24. What was the name of the first Internet that started in 1969?
A) Mark I B) The Net C) ARPANET
25. In what country did the first cellular phone communication network start in 1979?
A) United States B) Japan C) England
PART C
Instructions:Answer this question on loose leaf and attach to the answer sheet provided. (15 marks)
26. What are5 communications technologiesthat have been createdfrom 1980 to the Present?In your opinion, which of these 5 technologies has had the biggest impact on your life and why. Use the Internet to research your answers. You can use the sites given at the top of the class web page.