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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

2. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?

3. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?

4. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?

5. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who first conceived the idea of a machine that could think and under what circumstances?

2. Why did Ada Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

3. Who first at the concept of "bandwith" and in what context was it first conceived?

4. Who was Claude Shannon?

5. Who developed the Principia Mathematica and what did it provide?

6. What did Claude Shannon create from examining the statistical makeup of the English language?

7. Who invented the "first" telegraph?

8. Who invented the telegraph and what is its fundamental functionality?

9. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what young woman?

10. What was the purpose of Cawdrey's wordbook, "A Table Alphabeticall?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why electricity opened up the field of communication? How did the electric telegraph function and why was it superior to the earlier French version? How did the telegraph impact global communications?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of "telegraph" was invented by two French brothers and how did it function. What was the downside of this invention? Why was human error a factor in this process?

Essay Topic 3

Explain in detail the drum communications methods of the sub-Saharan African tribes and how it relates to the Morse Code. What analysis was made of the Kele language and why was it important in understanding the transferring of information?

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