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