MG3 Unit 4 Reading Assessment Quiz

Was television invented overnight?

• Yes

• No

The two main schools of thought were: Paul Nipkow’s rotating disks and a cathode-ray tube developed independently by, Campbell-Swinton and Rosing.

• True

• False

• Not Mentioned

Philo Farnsworth transmitted ____________ and he used ______________.[ Choose 2 things]

• a dollar sign

• Parker's system

• a dissector tube

• plasma TVs

The earliest proposal for color television was patented in 1904, so the concept of color TV is 160 years.

• True

• False

• Not Mentioned

Television is called “the tube” by some people because people fail to make the connection between the ______________________________ and the ___________________________ . [ Choose two ]

• sound system

• television set

• digital technology

• cathode-ray tube

Parker’s system affected the developments of TVs by making televisions _______________________ .

• colored

• flat

• cost-effective

• connected to the Internet

Louis W. Paker patented the iconoscope .

• True

• False

• Not Mentioned

in paragraph 3, the word [his] refers to ______________

• Vladmir Zworykin

• Paul Nipkow

• the television

• school of thought