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