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  • 1. What was the name of the magnetic wire recorder developed by Valdemar Poulsen in 1898?
A) Radiophone
B) Wiregraph
C) Telegraphone
D) Phonograph
  • 2. In what city was Valdemar Poulsen born?
A) Copenhagen
B) Paris
C) Stockholm
D) Vienna
  • 3. What was the profession of Valdemar Poulsen's father, Jonas Nicolai Johannes Poulsen?
A) University professor
B) Inventor
C) Engineer
D) Supreme Court judge
  • 4. At which university did Poulsen study natural sciences?
A) Royal Institute of Technology
B) University of Paris
C) University of Copenhagen
D) Technical University of Denmark
  • 5. What radio technology did Poulsen develop that provided a continuous wave transmitter?
A) Crystal radio
B) Vacuum-tube transmitter
C) Poulsen arc
D) Spark-gap transmitter
  • 6. Who was Poulsen's assistant in developing magnetic recorders?
A) Peder Oluf Pedersen
B) Jonas Nicolai
C) Franz Josef
D) Rebekka Magdalene
  • 7. At which event in 1900 did Poulsen demonstrate his telegraphone?
A) World's Fair in Chicago
B) Exposition Universelle in Paris
C) Copenhagen Technical Exhibition
D) International Radio Conference
  • 8. Whose voice was recorded by Poulsen at the 1900 Paris exposition, which is considered the oldest surviving magnetic audio recording?
A) The President of France
B) Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
C) The King of Denmark
D) Peder Oluf Pedersen
  • 9. What was a primary reason for the limited adoption and financial failure of the telegraphone?
A) Poor sound quality
B) Lack of electronic amplification
C) Too much competition
D) The invention was illegal
  • 10. In what year did Poulsen obtain his telegraphone patent?
A) 1898
B) 1942
C) 1900
D) 1869
  • 11. In what year did Valdemar Poulsen develop the arc converter transmitter?
A) 1910
B) 1903
C) 1908
D) 1907
  • 12. Whose invention did Poulsen modify to create the Poulsen Arc Transmitter?
A) Einar Dessau
B) Lee de Forest
C) William Duddell
D) Ernst Alexanderson
  • 13. What kind of atmosphere was introduced to the arc as a key modification?
A) Nitrogen
B) Helium
C) Hydrogen
D) Oxygen
  • 14. What type of field was used in the Poulsen Arc Transmitter?
A) Static gravitational field
B) Variable thermal field
C) Longitudinal electric field
D) Transverse magnetic field
  • 15. Which technology eventually supplanted the use of arc transmitters?
A) Mechanical switches
B) Spark-gap transmitters
C) Chemical batteries
D) Vacuum tubes
  • 16. In 1907, the Poulsen system communicated between which two locations?
A) Lyngby and Newcastle
B) Ejerg and Lyngby
C) Berlin and Copenhagen
D) Los Angeles and San Francisco
  • 17. What was the distance of the wireless telephone communication from Ejerg to Lyngby in 1908?
A) 100 miles
B) 295 miles
C) 145 miles
D) 215 miles
  • 18. How much power was used for the communication from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 1910?
A) 3 kilowatts
B) 12 kilowatts
C) 100 kilowatts
D) 5 kilowatts
  • 19. Which company licensed Poulsen's arc for use in the United States?
A) Western Union
B) Federal Telegraph Company
C) Marconi Company
D) General Electric
  • 20. What type of transmission was the Poulsen Arc Transmitter capable of that earlier spark-gap transmitters could not do?
A) Pulse code modulation
B) Amplitude modulation
C) Frequency hopping
D) Digital encryption
  • 21. Who used a shortwave transmitter to establish contact with Poulsen in 1909?
A) William Duddell
B) Ernst Alexanderson
C) Einar Dessau
D) Lee de Forest
  • 22. What device did Lee de Forest initially use only as a radio detector before realizing its potential for oscillation?
A) Alexanderson alternator
B) Spark-gap generator
C) Audion tube
D) Arc transmitter
  • 23. When did the use of arc transmitters largely cease?
A) Mid 1930s
B) Late 1900s
C) Early 1950s
D) Early 1920s
  • 24. What technology, besides vacuum tubes, supplanted arc transmitters for long distance telegraphy?
A) Alexanderson alternators
B) Singing arcs
C) Spark-gap systems
D) Shortwave transmitters
  • 25. What year did Valdemar Poulsen marry Frederikke Marie Rasmussen?
A) 1923
B) 1907
C) 1894
D) 1942
  • 26. When did Valdemar Poulsen's first wife, Frederikke Marie Rasmussen, die?
A) 1907
B) 1923
C) 1942
D) 1921
  • 27. Who was Valdemar Poulsen's second wife?
A) Christian Henrik Otto
B) Peder Severin Krøyer
C) Frederikke Marie Rasmussen
D) Asta Stoltz Nielsen
  • 28. What was the profession of Valdemar Poulsen's son, Christian Henrik Otto Poulsen?
A) Engineer
B) Artist
C) Geologist
D) Physicist
  • 29. In which city did Valdemar Poulsen die?
A) Frederiksborg
B) Gentofte
C) Leipzig
D) Copenhagen
  • 30. In what year did Valdemar Poulsen die?
A) 1942
B) 1993
C) 1969
D) 1939
  • 31. Where is Valdemar Poulsen buried?
A) Frederiksborg Castle
B) Gentofte Cemetery
C) Landemærket 3
D) Leipzig University
  • 32. Which organization awarded Poulsen a Gold Medal in 1907?
A) Swedish Institute for Engineering Research
B) Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
C) Danish government
D) Royal Danish Society for Science
  • 33. When was the Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal awarded annually?
A) 10 December
B) 1 January
C) 23 November
D) 6 August
  • 34. In what year did Poulsen receive the inaugural Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal?
A) 1907
B) 1969
C) 1939
D) 1942
  • 35. When was the Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal award discontinued?
A) 1942
B) 1939
C) 1993
D) 2018
  • 36. What is the location of the painting 'Men of Industry'?
A) Gentofte Cemetery
B) Landemærket 3
C) Frederiksborg Castle
D) University of Leipzig
  • 37. What does the plaque at Landemærket 3 in Copenhagen commemorate?
A) Poulsen's wedding
B) Poulsen's birthplace
C) The location of his laboratory
D) Poulsen's burial site
  • 38. In what year was the commemorative plaque at Landemærket 3 installed?
A) 1043
B) 1904
C) 1942
D) 1969
  • 39. A Danish stamp was issued for which anniversary of Poulsen's birth?
A) 150th anniversary
B) Centennial
C) 50th anniversary
D) 149th anniversary
  • 40. In what year was the Danish stamp commemorating Poulsen's birth issued?
A) 2018
B) 1969
C) 1907
D) 1942
  • 41. On which date did Google honor Poulsen with a Doodle?
A) 23 November 2018
B) 1 January 1969
C) 23 November 1939
D) 6 August 1942
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