Languages
Digital communication
Word definitions
Types of communication
Innovative creations and companies
100
This language does not use alphabets.
What is Mandarin Chinese? (They use symbols, or characters to represent individual sounds and entire words.)
100
He invented email and decides to use this symbol to indicate the network it came from.
Who is Ray Tomlinson?
100
A device that produces high-powered light waves of the same color and in the same direction.
What is a laser?
100
Sharing of thoughts, ideas, and information between 2 or more people.
What is communication?
100
Founded the earliest personal computer company.
Who are Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs?
200
This language consisted of lines and triangles - also known as wedges.
What is Cuneiform?
(Historians generally agree that the Sumerians, an ancient people in the Middle East, invented writing around 5,000 years ago.)
200
Government project IN 1969 that connected four computers are four different American Universities.
What is ARPANET?
200
These people usually etched cuneiforms into clay tablets.
Who are scribes?
200
Morse Code
dot,dot,dot,dash,dash,dash,dot,dot,dot stands for?
What is S.O.S.
200
The first one of these came out in 1982 and cost $3,995.00
What is the first cell phone?
300
Language that Dr. L.L. Zamenhof hoped would become the universal second language?
What is Esperanto?
300
This revolutionized twenty-first-communications.
What is the internet?
300
This provides a clue about unfamiliar word’s meaning.
What are context clues?
300
Egyptians wrote on papyrus with pictures that stood for words, sounds, or symbols.
What are hieroglyphs?
300
This company introduces the first car phone.
Who is At&T?
400
The people who specialize in the study of human speech.
What are linguists?
400
Twenty-first-century communication inventions are largely the result of advances in these.
What are lasers?
400
A substance made of wet reeds hammered together.
What is Papyrus?
400
This communication device was a solution that Arthur C. Clarke came up with in 1945 to fix the problem with the Earth’s curve getting in the way of transmission.
What are Communication Satellites?
400
This was introduced in 2007.
What was the first touchscreen smartphone.
500
This takes the form of speech, writing, pictures, or physically signing.
What is Language?
500
These came out in the 1970’s. They were first called “computing machines”.
What are personal computers? (Page 24)
500
Earliest people to use homing pigeons to communicate.
Who were the Egyptians?
500
Awarded the patent so he was remembered in history as the inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
600
Today’s marathons honor this legendary messenger.
Who is Pheidippides? (Page 8)
“The marathon” - Without horses or pigeons communications had to be delivered on foot. An Ancient Greek Soldier once ran 26.2 miles as fast as he could to deliver news of a Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon. The soldier died of exhaustion after delivering the message.
600
Laser light-filled glass cables which are part of a communication system.
What are fiber optics? (Page 22)
600
This form of communication is visible from a distance and difficult for outsiders to decipher.
What are smoke signals? (Page 9)
Greek and Chinese civilizations were using smoke and fire signals to warn about invading armies almost 3,000 years ago. (page 9)
600
The first successful communications using electricity using dash and dots that sounded like taps and beeps.
What is the telegraph? Page 15
