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  • 1. What was the name of the magnetic wire recorder developed by Valdemar Poulsen in 1898?
A) Telegraphone
B) Wiregraph
C) Phonograph
D) Radiophone
  • 2. In what city was Valdemar Poulsen born?
A) Stockholm
B) Paris
C) Vienna
D) Copenhagen
  • 3. What was the profession of Valdemar Poulsen's father, Jonas Nicolai Johannes Poulsen?
A) Engineer
B) Inventor
C) University professor
D) Supreme Court judge
  • 4. At which university did Poulsen study natural sciences?
A) Technical University of Denmark
B) University of Copenhagen
C) University of Paris
D) Royal Institute of Technology
  • 5. What radio technology did Poulsen develop that provided a continuous wave transmitter?
A) Poulsen arc
B) Crystal radio
C) Spark-gap transmitter
D) Vacuum-tube transmitter
  • 6. Who was Poulsen's assistant in developing magnetic recorders?
A) Rebekka Magdalene
B) Jonas Nicolai
C) Franz Josef
D) Peder Oluf Pedersen
  • 7. At which event in 1900 did Poulsen demonstrate his telegraphone?
A) World's Fair in Chicago
B) Copenhagen Technical Exhibition
C) Exposition Universelle in Paris
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) Emperor Franz Josef of Austria
B) The President of France
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) Too much competition
B) Lack of electronic amplification
C) Poor sound quality
D) The invention was illegal
  • 10. In what year did Poulsen obtain his telegraphone patent?
A) 1869
B) 1900
C) 1942
D) 1898
  • 11. In what year did Valdemar Poulsen develop the arc converter transmitter?
A) 1907
B) 1910
C) 1903
D) 1908
  • 12. Whose invention did Poulsen modify to create the Poulsen Arc Transmitter?
A) Lee de Forest
B) Einar Dessau
C) William Duddell
D) Ernst Alexanderson
  • 13. What kind of atmosphere was introduced to the arc as a key modification?
A) Hydrogen
B) Oxygen
C) Nitrogen
D) Helium
  • 14. What type of field was used in the Poulsen Arc Transmitter?
A) Static gravitational field
B) Transverse magnetic field
C) Longitudinal electric field
D) Variable thermal field
  • 15. Which technology eventually supplanted the use of arc transmitters?
A) Vacuum tubes
B) Chemical batteries
C) Spark-gap transmitters
D) Mechanical switches
  • 16. In 1907, the Poulsen system communicated between which two locations?
A) Ejerg and Lyngby
B) Lyngby and Newcastle
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) 145 miles
B) 100 miles
C) 215 miles
D) 295 miles
  • 18. How much power was used for the communication from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 1910?
A) 5 kilowatts
B) 12 kilowatts
C) 3 kilowatts
D) 100 kilowatts
  • 19. Which company licensed Poulsen's arc for use in the United States?
A) General Electric
B) Western Union
C) Federal Telegraph Company
D) Marconi Company
  • 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) Digital encryption
C) Amplitude modulation
D) Frequency hopping
  • 21. Who used a shortwave transmitter to establish contact with Poulsen in 1909?
A) Ernst Alexanderson
B) William Duddell
C) Lee de Forest
D) Einar Dessau
  • 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) Arc transmitter
D) Audion tube
  • 23. When did the use of arc transmitters largely cease?
A) Late 1900s
B) Mid 1930s
C) Early 1950s
D) Early 1920s
  • 24. What technology, besides vacuum tubes, supplanted arc transmitters for long distance telegraphy?
A) Shortwave transmitters
B) Alexanderson alternators
C) Spark-gap systems
D) Singing arcs
  • 25. What year did Valdemar Poulsen marry Frederikke Marie Rasmussen?
A) 1907
B) 1923
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) Geologist
C) Artist
D) Physicist
  • 29. In which city did Valdemar Poulsen die?
A) Copenhagen
B) Frederiksborg
C) Leipzig
D) Gentofte
  • 30. In what year did Valdemar Poulsen die?
A) 1939
B) 1993
C) 1942
D) 1969
  • 31. Where is Valdemar Poulsen buried?
A) Gentofte Cemetery
B) Landemærket 3
C) Frederiksborg Castle
D) Leipzig University
  • 32. Which organization awarded Poulsen a Gold Medal in 1907?
A) Swedish Institute for Engineering Research
B) Danish government
C) Danish Academy of Technical Sciences
D) Royal Danish Society for Science
  • 33. When was the Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal awarded annually?
A) 10 December
B) 23 November
C) 1 January
D) 6 August
  • 34. In what year did Poulsen receive the inaugural Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal?
A) 1942
B) 1969
C) 1907
D) 1939
  • 35. When was the Valdemar Poulsen Gold Medal award discontinued?
A) 2018
B) 1993
C) 1939
D) 1942
  • 36. What is the location of the painting 'Men of Industry'?
A) Frederiksborg Castle
B) University of Leipzig
C) Gentofte Cemetery
D) Landemærket 3
  • 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) 1969
B) 1043
C) 1904
D) 1942
  • 39. A Danish stamp was issued for which anniversary of Poulsen's birth?
A) 50th anniversary
B) 149th anniversary
C) Centennial
D) 150th anniversary
  • 40. In what year was the Danish stamp commemorating Poulsen's birth issued?
A) 1969
B) 1907
C) 2018
D) 1942
  • 41. On which date did Google honor Poulsen with a Doodle?
A) 23 November 2018
B) 23 November 1939
C) 1 January 1969
D) 6 August 1942
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