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