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