History of Telecommunication

What prompted the development of the telegraph

• a paper shortage

• The idea that messages could be sent electrically

• The Civil War

• The idea that messages were unnecessary

Who has been given credit for the telephone?

• George Washington

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Samuel Morse

• Steve Telephone

In 1884, commercial telegraph service began between what two cities?

• Boston and Nashville

• Dallas and Seattle

• Miami and New York

• New York and Boston

What was the original name for radio that is now used for all forms of radio communication?

• Wireless connection

• Wireless Telegraph

• Telepathic communication

• Wired landline

What is the invention that put radio into it's modern form?

• glass

• Copper wire

• The Audible Tube

• The Audion Tube

What electronics components characterized first, second and third generation computers

• 1st vacuum tubes

  2nd transistors

  3rd integrated circuits

• 1st transistors

  2nd integrated circuits

  3rd vacuum tubes

• 1st integrated circuits

  2nd transistors

  3rd vacuum tubes

• 1st transistors

  2nd integrated circuits

  3rd vacuum tubes

What has become the most used communication method today?

• The internet

• US mail

• televison

• pagers

A ______________________ _______________________ is a transmission which uses digital code (a 0 or 1) to write code on the signal.

• Digital Signal

• Web Address

• Broadcast Communication

• Transmission Medium

_________________ is the name given to a computer directly connected to the internet.

• Host

• Router

• Receiver

• Channel

_________________ is a system of connected computers

that allows the sharing of files and equipment.

• Network

• Router

• Transmitter

• Modulation