Media and Culture Mass Communication in a Digital Age 10th Edition by Richard Campbell – Test Bank
Thomas Edison made his first sound recordings on a cylinder wrapped in tinfoil.
A)
True
B)
False
2. | The word phonograph comes from the Latin words phone and graph, which put together mean “recorded speaking.” |
A) | True |
B) | False |
3. | Thomas Edison initially expected his new phonograph to be used as a kind of telephone answering machine. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
4. | Edison’s early cylinder recordings were made out of durable vinyl. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
5. | Unlike Edison’s phonograph, Emile Berliner’s gramophone played flat disks. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
6. | One advantage of polyvinyl records over shellac records is that they were less likely to break. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
7. | A war among vinyl recording disk formats in the late 1940s and early 1950s resulted in the 45-rpm record format being used exclusively for the release of album music collections. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
8. | The Japanese developed audiotape after World War II. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
9. | “Home dubbing” caused the commercial sale of record albums to grow in the 1970s. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
10. | Until the invention of digital recording, records were made using an analog recording process. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
11. | Compact discs hit the market in the early 1980s, and by 2000 their sales were still lagging way behind the albums and cassette tapes most people were familiar with. |
A) | True |
B) | False |
12. | A key factor in the success of the MP3 format is its ability to send or receive music without having to compress sound. |
A) | True |
B) | False |