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What does the machine create by drawing a straight line between two points on the board?
a connection
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Along with quick design times, what problem does Multiwire cut down on?
crosstalk
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What makes Multiwire impractical to use when large quantities of a board are needed?
cost
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In simple language, what are the interconnections in an embedding matrix?
wires
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What type of construction is best for applications that need to portion space carefully?
Cordwood
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What gets mounted in the middle of two parallel planes in a cordwood construction?
axial-leaded components
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What do insulating cards prevent between interconnection layers?
shorting
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What type of component has to be used in cordwood construction to its detriment?
nickel-leaded
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What force caused the physical damage to components that affected the Apollo program?
Differential thermal expansion
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Who was the German inventor who wrote in 1903 about conductors being laminated in layers to a board?
Albert Hanson
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What material did Thomas Edison experiment with by trying to chemically attach conductors to it?
linen paper
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What year did Arthur Berry patent his print-and-etch method?
1913
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In Max Schoop's method, what was used to create the flame-sprayed pattern on the board?
a patterned mask
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Who obtained a patent in 1927 for his method of electroplating circuit patterns?
Charles Ducas
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What was Paul Eisler making when he came up with the printed circuit?
a radio set
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What event prompted the United States to adopt the printed circuit to make proximity fuses?
World War II
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When was the printed circuit released for commercial use in the U.S.?
1948
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Who was working on the same type of large-scale application of printed circuits as the U.S. in Britain in the mid-1950s?
Geoffrey Dummer
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What process was created by the U.S. Army that led to innovation in consumer electronics?
Auto-Sembly
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What company developed the first electronic circuit that could be mass produced and was durable enough to be fired from a gun?
Globe Union
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What was the plate used for anti-aircraft proximity fuses in World War II made out of?
ceramic
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Who was in charge of the Centralab Division of Globe Union when the PCB used in anti-aircraft fuses was invented?
Harry W. Rubinstein
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What award did Rubinstein win in 1984 for his contributions?
Cledo Brunetti Award
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Where did Harry Rubinstein attend college?
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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What type of construction was originally used for all electronic components?
through-hole
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In what year was the Auto-Sembly process created?
1949
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Although two men developed the Auto-Sembly process, to whom was the patent officially granted?
U.S. Army
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What year was the patent for the Auto-Sembly process granted?
1956
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Which part of the Auto-Sembly manufacturing process is the most costly?
drilling holes
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Where are Greek States believed to have been settled ?
Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea
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Which two bodies of water are believed to be central to the establishment of the Greek society ?
Greek people have always been centered around the Aegean and Ionian seas
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When was the emergence of the Greek spoken dialect believed to have started ?
the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age.
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Where have the centers of culture been located for the Grecian world historically ?
The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods.
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What other culture did the Greek states share boarders with ?
these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century
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What progression coincided with the the early Greek states that makes it difficult to give credit for the language and differences ?
Paleo-Balkan sprachbund that makes it difficult to delineate exact boundaries between individual languages.
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What is commonly seen in the Greek language that is not a constant ?
The characteristically Greek representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels
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What other language has this same trait ?
word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels is shared, for one, by the Armenian language
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What other things do the two languages seem to have in common ?
phonological and morphological peculiarities of Greek; this has led some linguists to propose a hypothetical closer relationship between Greek and Armenian
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How much evidence of the link between the languages is currently available ?
linguists to propose a hypothetical closer relationship between Greek and Armenian, although evidence remains scant.
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What group of people came with others who left the geographical and historical region in southeastern Europe, now a mutual region between Greece and Albania ?
the Dorians
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When did these groups make the migration ?
Around 1200 BC
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What civilization is the group credited with putting an end to ?
the Mycenaean civilization,
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Is it believed that they truly are responsible in full for the collapse ?
it is likely the main attack was made by seafaring raiders (sea peoples)
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What areas were being explored by others in by sea faring vessels and when are they believed to have arrived ?
seafaring raiders (sea peoples) who sailed into the eastern Mediterranean around 1180 BC
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How did the Greeks look upon their forebears ?
Greeks of classical antiquity idealized their Mycenaean ancestors
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How did they believe their forebears lived ?
Mycenaean period as a glorious era of heroes, closeness of the gods and material wealth
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What literary events were believed to be a fact of truth ?
The Homeric Epics (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) were especially and generally accepted as part of the Greek past
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Who was the author of these tales ?
Homer
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What were the names of some of the figures for the established religion that are based on ancestral ties ?
Zeus, Poseidon and Hades
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What event is believed to be the ethnic basis of the Greeks society?
The ethnogenesis of the Greek nation is linked to the development of Pan-Hellenism
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When did this event occur ?
development of Pan-Hellenism in the 8th century BC.
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What national sporting event was held during this time period still goes on in celebration today ?
the foundational event was the Olympic Games in 776 BC,
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What was the foundation for spirituality and church ?
The works of Homer (i.e. Iliad and Odyssey) and Hesiod (i.e. Theogony)
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What famous spiritual guide and God was a devotional temple made to in the 8th century ?
Oracle of Apollo at Delphi
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The time span that is counted as the classical for the Greeks is from eras ?
classical period of Greek civilization covers a time spanning from the early 5th century BC to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC
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Are there some discrepancies among scholars for the distinction of the period ?
this period into 'Classical', from the end of the Persian wars to the end of the Peloponnesian War, and 'Fourth Century', up to the death of Alexander
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What is so well known about this period ?
It is so named because it set the standards by which Greek civilization would be judged in later eras
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What shiny other name is this time also called ?
The Classical period is also described as the "Golden Age" of Greek civilization
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What did the Greeks do that made it possible for the expansion and growth of the opposite of the Eastern Civilization ?
civilization, and its art, philosophy, architecture and literature would be instrumental in the formation and development of Western culture.
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What Macedonian ruler helped to advance Greek beliefs and ways of life ?
Alexander
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How was this achievement of advancing culture undertaken ?
provided an important outlet for Greek culture, via the creation of colonies and trade routes along the way
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What types of cities did the expansion of the great ruler inspire ?
Hellenistic cities
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Are any relatives of the first people of the Grecian world still around ?
there are still communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan, like the Kalash, who claim to be descended from Greek settlers.
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Name a city that the Greeks nested in ?
cities like Alexandria, Antioch and Seleucia.
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With the secession away from the smaller communities in the Grecian world, what living situation became of great importance ?
the Greeks move towards larger cities and a reduction in the importance of the city-state.
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The kingdoms of Diadochi was comprised of what ?
larger cities were parts of the still larger Kingdoms of the Diadochi.
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How did the cites remind themselves of their beginnings ?
Greeks, however, remained aware of their past, chiefly through the study of the works of Homer and the classical authors.
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What did the Greeks wants to be imparted to their descendants ?
the transmission of the Hellenic paideia to the next generation.
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What academia was heightened during this time of Hellenism ?
Greek science, technology and mathematics are generally considered to have reached their peak during the Hellenistic period.
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When did the religions of the past begin to dissipate ?
decline beginning in the 3rd century BC
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What encouraged the change of faith ?
with the introduction of new religious movements from the East.
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What religions form of worship came from the Eastern sects ?
The cults of deities like Isis and Mithra were introduced into the Greek world.
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What group was significant in the expansion of the Christian faith ?
Hellenized East were instrumental in the spread of early Christianity
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What language are the Apostle's namely believed to have spoken ?
Christianity's early leaders and writers (notably St Paul) were generally Greek-speaking
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What alternative name were the Greeks known by ?
the Greeks identified as Romaioi ("Romans")
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What did the label of Hellenes come to stand for during the Common Era of Greece ?
the name ‘Hellenes’ denoted pagans
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Did the Roman world consider one ethnocentric lineage to be a great concern ?
secondary to religious considerations
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What imperative value was extolled from the Christian community to the Roman world ?
Greco-Roman educational system, although it was from Christianity that the culture's essential values were drawn.
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When did the Byzantine Kingdom come under the impact of the Greeks.
influenced by Greek culture after the 7th century,
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Who ruled Rome during this time period ?
Emperor Heraclius (AD 575 - 641)
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What decision did he make that influenced the culture in an attempt to make things more homogeneous ?
decided to make Greek the empire's official language.
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What made the Eastern Empire be known as the Imperium Graecorum ?
Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne, king of the Franks, as the "Roman Emperor"
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Who was favored by those who lived in the west and mainly used another form of well know verbal language ?
the Latin West started to favour the Franks
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What caused the resurface of the Grecian monotony in politics ?
the fall of Constantinople to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade in 1204
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When did the nation reestablish itself ?
empire was revived in 1261
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What was the specialty of great Pietho and what is famous for ?
philosopher Gemistus Pletho, who abandoned Christianity.
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What was bolstered by the the final downward spiral of the Empire of Trebizond ?
interest in the Classical Greek heritage was complemented by a renewed emphasis on Greek Orthodox identity
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Which factoring war was on gong in 1828 and shares the of a previous scuttle ? ?
second Russo-Turkish War
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When did the emperor Constantine lose rule over in 1453 ?
Fall of Constantinople on 29 May 1453
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What did the populace do in response to the loss ?
many Greeks sought better employment and education opportunities by leaving for the West
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What type of position did Greeks come to hold in the Ottoman Empire ?
in part to the fact that the central hub of the empire, politically, culturally, and socially, was based on Western Thrace and Greek Macedonia
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Who made up the majority of soldiers in the Ottoman Empire ?
men of Greek origin made up a significant proportion of the Ottoman army, navy
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What type of work were must young boys antiquated with in the Ottoman Empire ?
levied as adolescents (along with especially Albanians and Serbs) into Ottoman service through the devshirme.
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How were the population factions of the Ottoman Empire classified ?
religion was the defining characteristic of national groups
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What did it mean to be classified as a Greek by the millet command ?
was applied by the Ottomans to all members of the Orthodox Church, regardless of their language or ethnic origin.
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What moniker did the Greeks grant themselves for distinction ?
The Greek speakers were the only ethnic group to actually call themselves Romioi
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What did the literate segment of Greeks consider to be a part of their ethic lines ?
those educated, considered their ethnicity (genos) to be Hellenic
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Were Christian prized among the Ottomans ?
second-class status of Christians inherent in the Ottoman millet system
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What did the Greeks offer to the Ottoman Empire that was a superb benefit ?
the Greek tradition of education and commerce
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Who held much of the wealth in the Greek society ?
the wealth of the extensive merchant class
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