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