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Below is a list of historic technological nomenclature. Included items are important technical terminology and a system of words used to name things in a particular process, method, or device in history. As Technologies evolves, Name s are required to describe the processes, methods, and devices. Often, the first names and phrases brought into use by are by the inventor(s), by Journalists covering the development, and Marketers trying to sell the services and products. Other terms were developed by the public to explain the technology that they used. Some of these terms were initially widely used, then fell out of the common vernacular. Others failed to "catch on" and never entered common usage in the first place. Sometimes, the technologies themselves were superseded, and the term fell into disuse. COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET ;. ; Infobahn :1990s term for the Internet. DOMESTIC APPLIANCES Radio ; Wireless : Formerly used as a synonym for "radio" (or for a radio receiver), this once-obsolete term has now reentered the language to describe new uses of radio technology, in particular for computer-related functions like "wireless modems". ;s, which required no power source other than the radio signal. ;, forming part of a point-contact detector Diode . ; Transistor ized: When transistor heralded a new age of mobile music, radios markters advertised that the devices used this technology. Since the first "transistorized" radios were much smaller than vacuum tube radios people were used to, for a time "transistorized" conveyed a device's minaturization. As late as the 1970s some even showed the precise ''number'' of transistors. Audio recording ;s and collectors of historic audio. ; receivers and Gramophone s into an applicance that was widely marketed. ; Victrola : A brand name of early wind-up mechanical phonograph built into a furniture cabinet. This popular brand became a common generic name for wind-up phonographs the following generation. TV ;" in the Power Supply discharged and the picture collapsed down to a white dot in the centre of the screen that then faded away over a period of up to a minute. Many people of the 1940s-70s do remember this moment as the set was turned off at the end of viewing. ; to describe what we now call a TV Set ; Sign-off or closedown: Used for the end of transmissions for the day; this has become less frequent in the 24-hour program schedules. ; Monoscope :Special form of cathode ray tube that was used to generate, rather than display, a video signal. TRANSPORT ; Clippy : Obsolete British expression for a female Tram or Bus conductor (ticket collector) ; Phaeton : the horse-drawn equivalent of a sports car ; Post-chaise : a fast, two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage ; Horseless Carriage : Deprecrated term for an automobile or motorcar, but sometimes used to denote early automobiles. Some American states use "horseless carriage" on their registration plates for what other states classify as "antique" automobiles, those over 25 or 30 years old and not used on the public roads for transportation. MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY ;"'' made famous by textile fibre manufacturers such as Courtaulds . ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ; . ; ". ; ). ; Electron Tube and Thermionic Valve :"Tubes" and "valves" are still being made, but these older terms are no longer used. ; Williams Tube or the Williams-Kilburn tube : Developed about 1946 or 1947; a cathode ray tube used to electronically store binary data. SEE ALSO BIBLIOGRAPHY
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