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