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