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