HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

Question 1

Used to convey messages from about 700 B.C.E.

Answer 1

Carrier pigeons

Question 2

It is where the first long-distance communication
systems were based on (e.g. drums and horns,
smoke signals and beacon fires).

Answer 2

signals of sound and light

Question 3

_________ alerted the British of the arrival of the
Spanish Armada in _______ C.E.

Answer 3

Signal Fires, 1588

Question 4

The Chinese used _______ as signals to warn of an
imminent attack on the ___________.

Answer 4

rockets, Great Wall

Question 5

Native Americans communicated by covering and
uncovering a ________ with a blanket to produce ____________ or by beating _____.

Answer 5

bonfire, smoke signals, drums

Question 6

The British Navy sent signals at night by raising and
lowering a _______, which coincidentally was the same way _________ was signaled with news of the arrival of the British.

Answer 6

lantern, Paul Revere

Question 7

In instances when clear vision was difficult (e.g., fog),
______ or ______ and ________ sent signals.

Answer 7

bellS, whistleS, fired weaponS

Question 8

Used in traditional long-distance communication until almost 1800

Answer 8

horse-mounted dispatch riders

Question 9

_________________ developed an __________________ (semaphore) system of stations built on rooftops or _______ that were visible from a great distance in year _________.

Answer 9

Frenchman Claude Chappe, optical telegraph, towers, 1793

Question 10

Each semaphore station consisted of a column-like _______ with a moveable ______. Attached to the beam were two moveable ________.

Answer 10

tower, beam, arms

Question 11

In a sempahore, the beam and arms were swiveled with ______, conveying different signal patterns representing upper- and lowercase _______, _________ marks, and __________. A set of patterns was translated into words by an _________ at another station, who then sent it on to the next station.

Answer 11

ropes, letters, punctuation, numbers, observer

Question 12

Semaphore, This system allowed the ______ to send a concise message over _____ miles (160 km) in less than ____ min as long as visibility was good.

Answer 12

French, 100, 5

Question 13

_____________ developed another type of optical telegraph system
with ten collapsible _____________, which when placed in various positions formed combinations of numbers that were translated into ________, _________, or _______. _______ semaphore systems were also used in Boston, New York City, and San Francisco at that time.

Answer 13

SWEDE A. N. EDELCRANTZ, iron shutters, letters, words, phrases, crude

Question 14

________________ transmitted the first practical ___________ in ______, by sending electricity through a long set of wires to produce ______________ that was used to ring a bell.

Answer 14

Joseph Henry, electrical signal,1830, electromagnetism

Question 15

____________ patented the first functional electrical ______________ system in ______: the electric telegraph with its system of electrical ________ identified as ______ and ______ that eventually became known as Morse Code.

Answer 15

Samuel Morse, communication, 1831, impulses, dots, dashes

Question 16

The first message sent by electric telegraph was
“What hath God wrought,” from the Supreme Court
Room in the U.S. Capitol to the railway depot at Baltimore on ______________.

Answer 16

May 24, 1844

Question 17

In _________, there were over ________ telegraph offices in operation across America and the East and West coasts were connected.

Answer 17

1861, 2,000

Question 18

In electrical telegraph,

Six years later, the first _____________ was
laid, connecting _______ and the United States. The telegraph flourished as a method of long-distance communication throughout the world.

Answer 18

transatlantic cable, England

Question 19

________________ invented an electrical speech machine that transmitted voice over wires and became known as the _______, on __________, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Answer 19

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL , telephone, March 10, 1876

Question 20

“Mr. Watson, come here, ______________!” were the first words accidentally spoken into the new invention of Alexander Graham Bell.

Answer 20

‘I want you’ , unya ikaw want ka?

Question 21

In _________, the first telephone company, ______________, was formed and over 30 000 phones were in use.

Answer 21

1880, American Bell

Question 22

About _________, over ten million American Bell System telephones were in service.

Answer 22

1920

Question 23

______________ was an italian inventor who demonstrated the first radio transmission in _______ that was received out of a line of sight (about 2 miles) on the grounds of his family estate in Italy.

Answer 23

GUGLIEMO MARCONI , 1895

Question 24

Six years later (1901) in Newfoundland, Canada, Marconi’s radio received a weak signal that was sent across the ________ by one of his associates in __________, England. The signal was an “___” sent in Morse Code format, “dot, dot, dot.” It demonstrated that radio waves could bounce off the ______________.

Answer 24

Atlantic Ocean, Cornwall, S, upper atmosphere

Question 25

The first true radio message was sent a year later, which is year________.
Less than 50 years after the telephone was invented, transatlantic communications from New York to ________ became operational with signals transmitted by ___________.

Answer 25

1902, London, radio waves

Question 26

____________ was an Italian physicist who invented a ______________ in _______ for transmitting pictures, the first commercial _____ system.

Answer 26

GIOVANNI CASELLI , pantelegraph , 1865, fax

Question 27

The first transmission of pictures over telephone wires was publicly demonstrated on _____________.

Answer 27

May 19, 1924

Question 28

On _____________, John Logie Baird of Scotland gave the first public demonstration of a _____________ with images of living human faces, not just outlines or silhouettes. It was with this use of ___________ that transmission of pictures took a major step toward the television we use today.

Answer 28

January 23, 1926, mechanical television, radio waves