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