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