A man once made a movie of people going to the moon. He wished that people could hear what his characters. Well a man called Thomas Alva Edison made the first sound machine. It recorded the kid song “Mary had a little lamb.” Thomas called his machine the photograph. So the machine worked when you put tin foil around a cylinder and turn a handle. You shout as loud as you can into a tube. When you play it back you can hear a faint voice. After the foil was taken off it would no longer work. Later on
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A Phonograph, or record player, is an instrument that reproduces sounds through the vibration of a needle, which follows a groove on a rotating phonographic disc. A phonograph disc, which is more commonly known as record, stores replica sound waves as indentations in a curved groove carved on the surface by a needle. When the record is played, a different needle reacts to the waves, and the movements are changed back into sound (Editors). Instruments similar to the phonograph were created early
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Thomas Stewart is an African American inventor, who often collaborated with other inventors to make many useful patents. Thomas was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, In 1823. He was one of the most first African American inventors to be awarded a patent. Stewart worked to produce and create inventions that would make people's lives much easier. His goal was to help his community in any potential way that he could. Just like any African American in the 1800s life wasn't easy for nonwhite people but yet
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Elizabeth Fischer 10/25/2016 HW 6 1) Visual History of Telecommunications 1. When was the first switchboard installed and how many connections did it have? It was installed in 1877. It served 5 subscribers. 2. In what year did communications span the United States? 1915 3. What happened as far as communications in 1935? Talking on the phone could encircle the globe. 4. What was recorded May 16, 1986 and what was the technological improvement involved in the recording? The sound of a pin
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Wow!! I never knew it was so easy to hold my phone with my new popsocket. The popsocket is a great invention people invented. Some inventions come out great, or they come out a failure. Today people are inventing new inventions, that we didn't need twenty years ago. As our population grows, we are needing new inventions. How do inventors know their invention isn't a failure? What can an inventor do to ensure success. An inventor can ensure success if they have the people's opinion. When
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company’s telephone system for its new building which will begin construction in a few months. In order to get a background which will help when developing the new system, your supervisor asked you to research the current Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) currently used by the company. You must research the system components and report back to your supervisor , the Telecommunications Manager, within a week. 1. Describe a local land line phone system based on the following Landline Telephone Components:
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IT320 Ch. 2 Review Questions Pg. 76 (1-6) 1. A telephone's transmitter converts sound waves into electrical waves. The receiver converts electrical waves into sound waves. The standard telephone is a transducer that converts sound waves to electrical waves. 2. Modern phones use a miniature loudspeaker. At the center of a paper or plastic diaphragm is a coil of wire. This coil is suspended by the diaphragm or cone, into a circular slot formed by a permanent magnet. The current containing
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Rotary and Dual Tone Multi-frequency (DTMF) Rotary telephones use pulses to determine which number is being sent. For example, if the sending unit sends 9 pulses, then the number dialed is 9. Dual tone multi-frequency phones use different tones for each number. Each number has a different tone. The tone determines which number has been dialed Wide Area Telecommunications Service (WATS) and leased lines A WATS line is between the telephone company central office and the customer’s premises.
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reached DM 900M which is 10% of total premium revenue. They are having customer loyalty problem that has to be solved. One of the issue here is the establishment of CCC (Customer Care Center). This CCC enables the company to provide customer with one telephone number that will answer all of customer questions due to their contract. They need to professionally train people who could effectively answer a variety of questions and increase the service dramatically. The final objective would be to reduce the
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I checked my credit report recently and this company appeared as an account going into collections. Being that I have had several medical bills over the past few years, I thought maybe it was a possibility that they weren't aware I already paid it, or maybe something was missing somehow. I looked up this company immediately and called. I got a voicemail since it was after office hours. I gave them my name and phone number and requested for someone to call me to explain what this was for. I
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