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