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