A) Thomas Edison B) Alexander Graham Bell C) Nikola Tesla D) Samuel Morse
A) 1901 B) 1837 C) 1876 D) 1793
A) QR Code B) ASCII Code C) Morse Code D) Binary Code
A) 20 words per minute B) 40 words per minute C) 10 words per minute D) 80 words per minute
A) Silver B) Gold C) Aluminum D) Copper
A) Telegrapher B) Wired Technician C) Coder D) Communicator
A) Telephone B) Television C) Camera D) Radio
A) AT&T B) Sprint C) Western Union D) Verizon
A) Physical exchange of objects bearing messages. B) Transmission of audio messages over distances. C) Sending messages via carrier pigeons. D) The long-distance transmission of messages using symbolic codes.
A) Pigeon post. B) Flag semaphore. C) Smoke signals. D) Carrier pigeon.
A) Heliograph. B) The Chappe optical telegraph. C) Electric telegraph by Cooke and Wheatstone. D) Morse telegraph.
A) Guglielmo Marconi. B) Claude Chappe. C) Samuel Morse. D) Cooke and Wheatstone.
A) Late 18th century. B) 17th century. C) Early 19th century. D) Mid-20th century.
A) United States. B) France and occupied European nations. C) Germany. D) Britain.
A) Flag semaphore. B) Pigeon post. C) The electric telegraph. D) Smoke signals.
A) 1848. B) 1900. C) 1865. D) 1920.
A) A carrier pigeon messaging system. B) A semaphore flag system. C) A telegraph system using reflected sunlight for signalling. D) An electric telegraph system.
A) Germany in 1848. B) Britain in the mid-19th century. C) France during the Napoleonic era. D) Arizona and New Mexico during the Apache Wars.
A) The mid-19th century. B) World War II. C) The early 20th century. D) The Napoleonic era.
A) Optical telegraphy. B) Pigeon post. C) Flag semaphore. D) Wireless telegraphy.
A) Early 20th century. B) 1920 onwards. C) Mid-19th century. D) Late 18th century.
A) The decline of the letter post. B) World War II. C) The invention of the telephone. D) High telegram traffic and falling prices.
A) Wireless telegraphy. B) Pigeon post. C) Alternatives on the Internet. D) Optical telegraphs.
A) Derived from ancient Greek: γραμμα (gramma), meaning something written. B) Means 'to send' C) Indicates a wireless transmission D) Refers to a type of signal
A) The Persians B) The Chinese C) The Greeks D) The Romans
A) Charcoal B) Wolf dung C) Pine needles D) Animal hides
A) 500 kilometres (310 miles) B) 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) C) 750 kilometres (470 miles) D) 1,100 kilometres (700 miles)
A) The Tang dynasty B) The Qing dynasty C) The Ming dynasty D) The Han dynasty
A) The Roman fire signal system B) The Polybius square C) The Han dynasty flag system D) Aeneas Tacticus's system
A) With the newly invented telescope B) Using a mirror C) By sound D) Through smoke signals
A) Abraham Niclas Edelcrantz B) Sir Richard Lovell Edgeworth C) Robert Hooke D) Claude Chappe
A) 1791 B) 1846 C) 1767 D) 1793
A) Austria B) Great Britain C) Germany D) Sweden
A) "The system is operational" B) "Message received" C) "All stations are connected" D) "si vous réussissez, vous serez bientôt couverts de gloire"
A) Ingénieur-Télégraphiste B) Signal Commander C) Telegraph Operator D) Chief Engineer
A) 1855 B) 1837 C) 1793 D) 1846
A) 1846 B) 1880 C) 1855 D) 1895
A) Schilling B) Ronalds C) Gauss and Weber D) Cooke and Wheatstone
A) Military purposes B) Public communication C) Commercial messaging D) Railway signaling
A) 1846 B) 1837 C) 1858 D) 1867
A) 300 baud B) 100 baud C) 66 words per minute D) 50 baud
A) Great Britain B) United States C) France D) Sweden
A) Hughes B) Wheatstone C) Bain D) Calahan
A) Introduction of smoke signals B) Advancements in other communication technologies C) Ineffectiveness in mountainous terrain D) Lack of skilled operators
A) Arthur Korn B) Frederick Bakewell C) Shelford Bidwell D) Giovanni Caselli
A) John Watkins Brett B) Wheatstone C) William Montgomerie D) Michael Faraday
A) Electric signals B) Semaphore flags in each hand C) Motions rather than positions D) Fixed positions
A) 1870 B) 1881 C) 1892 D) 1866
A) 1871 B) 1890s C) 1854 D) 1837
A) Nikola Tesla B) Mahlon Loomis C) William Henry Ward D) Samuel F. B. Morse
A) Rubber B) Copper C) Asbestos D) Gutta-percha
A) Arthur Korn B) Rudolf Hell C) Giovanni Caselli D) Frederick Bakewell
A) Morse B) Unicode C) EBCDIC D) ASCII
A) 1886 B) 1899 C) 1894 D) 1901
A) 15 August 1905 B) 1 January 1896 C) 17 October 1907 D) 31 December 1910
A) 1879 B) 1905 C) 1892 D) 1884
A) Loomis Tower B) Tesla Coil C) Wardenclyffe Tower D) Dolbear Station
A) Alexander Bain B) Arthur Korn C) Édouard Belin D) Shelford Bidwell
A) Germany B) France C) Italy D) Britain
A) Samuel F. B. Morse B) James Bowman Lindsay C) Carl August von Steinheil D) Nikola Tesla
A) 42.7 percent B) 60 percent C) 30 percent D) 50 percent
A) Cable Empire B) All Red Line C) Global Link D) Blue Network
A) 1926 B) 1957 C) 1945 D) 1933
A) Alexander Graham Bell B) William Preece C) Nikola Tesla D) Thomas Edison
A) The Washington Post B) The Jewish Telegraphic Agency C) USA Today D) The New York Times
A) The Signal Corps B) Cooke and Wheatstone C) Robert Stephenson D) US Army surgeon Albert J. Myer
A) Scanning phototelegraph B) Pantelegraph C) Bildtelegraph D) Telefax
A) Agriculture B) Finance C) Newspapers D) Railways
A) 1837 B) 1861 C) 1844 D) 1851
A) Earth currents could supply power for telegraphs. B) There was an electrified atmospheric stratum accessible at low altitude. C) Electric currents could be conducted through water. D) The entire globe of Earth could conduct electrical energy.
A) UK B) Canada C) United States D) Germany
A) Rudyard Kipling B) Stendhal C) Elias Sehlstedt D) Victor Hugo
A) Microwave communication B) Satellite communication C) Telephony D) Radiotelegraphy
A) Morse code B) IP link C) Teletype D) Pulse dialing
A) Nikola Tesla B) Carl August von Steinheil C) James Bowman Lindsay D) Amos Dolbear
A) 1897 B) 1909 C) 1910 D) 1904
A) 1933 B) 1929 C) 1957 D) 1945
A) 1872 B) 1858 C) 1866 D) 1896
A) Alexander Bain B) Giovanni Caselli C) Frederick Bakewell D) Shelford Bidwell
A) Hellschreiber by Rudolf Hell B) Pantelegraph by Giovanni Caselli C) Scanning phototelegraph by Shelford Bidwell D) Bélinographe by Édouard Belin
A) The Red and the Black B) War and Peace C) Madame Bovary D) Lucien Leuwen
A) Kipling's submarine cable B) Chappe's design C) Joseph Chudy's binary code D) Sehlstedt's collection
A) 16 km B) 230 km C) 21 km D) 1 km
A) Troposphere B) Mesosphere C) Ionosphere D) Stratosphere
A) Amos Dolbear B) Mahlon Loomis C) Carl August von Steinheil D) James Bowman Lindsay
A) 1 January 1896 B) 31 October 1899 C) 13 May 1897 D) 25 December 1901
A) Gauss, 1821 B) Nelson A. Miles C) Mance, 1869 D) Begbie, 1870
A) Lack of bipolar encoding B) Use of Morse code C) It saw only limited use initially D) Incompatibility with telegraph lines
A) India B) Ireland C) Australia D) France
A) Heinrich Rudolf Hertz B) William Preece C) Guglielmo Marconi D) George Kemp
A) The 1840s B) The 1860s C) The 1830s D) The 1850s
A) Mirror galvanometer B) Signal lamp C) Oscilloscope D) Telegraph key
A) Britain B) India C) United States D) The Netherlands |