WW1: Technology

Question 1

What was founded in 1922?

Answer 1

British Broadcasting company

Question 2

When was the British broadcasting company?

Answer 2

1922

Question 3

How many houses had access to radio because in the first year of the BBC’s operation (1922)?

Answer 3

Half a million homes

Question 4

By what year did the BBC’s radio service reach half a million homes?

Answer 4

1922

Question 5

What happened at the opening of the Wembley Exhibition?

Answer 5

BBC’s microphone stretched above the kings head enabling the King to be heard.

Question 6

What did the Daily mail say about the possibility of hearing the Kings voice over radio?

Answer 6

‘Never before has a King’s voice been heard by his subjects both in his presence and in their own homes as well - to the turn of perhaps a million homes. Such a miracle can do nothing but cement the bonds of Empir’

Question 7

What was made of the King’s broadcast?

Answer 7

Gramophone (Record player) of his broadcast

Question 8

What was the Gramophone Company trade name?

Answer 8

His Masters voice

Question 9

What was the company that had the trade name His Master’s voice?

Answer 9

Gramophone company

Question 10

What did the Gramophone company called, His Masters voice do?

Answer 10

Hundreds of pressings which from Croydon would be flown to every corner of the empire

Question 11

What was the nickname given to radio?

Answer 11

The wonderful wireless

Question 12

What happened on Armistice Day in 1927?

Answer 12

BBC Chief Announcer Hibberd addressed the colonies through the radio

Question 13

When had the BBC Chief Announcer Hibberd addressed the colonies through the radio?

Answer 13

Armistice Day in 1927

Question 14

What did the daily mirror say about the BBC?

Answer 14

‘Brought the mother country’s voice into the Australian shearing shed, The Indian plantation and the Canadian Ranch house alike’

Question 15

What did the US do in the mid-1920s?

Answer 15

Set up the apparatus necessary to relay the broadcast of its own broadcast

Question 16

When had the US set up the apparatus necessary to relay the broadcast of its own broadcast?

Answer 16

Mid 1920s

Question 17

What happened on Christmas 1932?

Answer 17

King George delivered a message on the BBC

Question 18

When did George V deliver a message to the nation?

Answer 18

Christmas Day 1932 on the BBC

Question 19

What was the impact of George V broadcast message from the year 1932?

Answer 19

Effective wartime ritual

Question 20

What happened after 1919?

Answer 20

India and Australia were linked by air travel

Question 21

When were Australia and India linked with Britain by air travel?

Answer 21

After 1919

Question 22

What did the times say about air travel?

Answer 22

‘Who should calculate the effect of the dwindling distance between the far separated parts of the Empire which is the certain result of air traffic’

Question 23

What did newspapers feature about air travel?

Answer 23

Diagrams, symbols and small maps, giving the impression that in a month or so anybody would be able to make a weekend visit to anyone in the empire

Question 24

What happened during the early and mid 1920s at the new London Terminal Aerodome at Croydon?

Answer 24

Crammed with sightseers, who would watch the planes arrive and take off, while long queues waited to pend five shillings on ten-minute trips over the airport in two-seater planes

Question 25

What was crammed with sightseers, who would watch the planes arrive and take off, while long queues waited to pend five shillings on ten-minute trips over the airport in two-seater planes during the 1920s?

Answer 25

The new London Terminal Aerodome at Croydon

Question 26

What signs were put up at the London Terminal Aerodome in Croydon and what was the impact?

Answer 26

Sign posts which would show the distance of places (E.g. Sydney 2000 miles) and therefore it seemed like an inevitability that Britain would be able to reach these places

Question 27

When was the first British national airline (Called Imperial Airways) formed?

Answer 27

1924

Question 28

What was formed in 1924?

Answer 28

The first British national airline, called imperial airways

Question 29

Where were the imperial airways travelling to by 1929?

Answer 29

Egypt 
India 
Australia 
Singapore
Palestine
Burma 
Malaya
Central Africa

Question 30

How many passengers did the imperial airways carry in its first year of operation?

Answer 30

12,000

Question 31

How many letters had the imperial airways carried in its first year of operation?

Answer 31

250,000

Question 32

Over how many miles did the imperial airways carry 250,000 letters and 12,000 passenger?

Answer 32

853,000 miles

Question 33

By the end of the 1920s, how many passengers were using the Imperial airways?

Answer 33

58,000

Question 34

By the end of what decade were 58,000 passengers using the imperial airways?

Answer 34

End of the 1920s

Question 35

How many letters were the imperial airways carrying by the end of the 1920s?

Answer 35

11 million

Question 36

What was the mileage of the imperial airways by the end of the 1920s?

Answer 36

2.5 million

Question 37

How did advertisers display air travel?

Answer 37

Beauty of territory peopled with strange nomadic races that fringe our Empire

Question 38

Who scripted the George V Christmas broadcast in 1932?

Answer 38

Kipling