How did the Pony Express improve the way people communicated?

• The Pony Express delivered mail to the West Coast faster.

• The Pony Express was faster at sending messages than the telegraph.

• The Pony Express riders spoke better English than wagon train drivers.

• The Pony Express carried more travelers to the West Coast than

  wagon trains.

When people _________________, they pass their thoughts or information to others.

• invention

• patent

• communicate

• telegraph

An ________________ is something that is made for the first time.

• invention

• patent

• telegraph

• telephone

A __________________ gives a person the right to be the only one making or selling an invention.

• invention

• patent

• telegraph

• represent

_________________ began work to develop a telegraph.

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Samuel Morse

• Benjamin Franklin

A _____________________ is a machine that sends and receives signals through a thin wire.

• invention

• patent

• telegraph

• telephone

Morse Code uses dots and dashes to _________________ letters and numbers.

• invent

• telephone

• telegraph

• represent

_____________________ invented the telephone.

• Samuel Morse

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Guglielmo Marconi

• Benjamin Franklin

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell developed a machine that __________.

• sent messages through the air

• played music through a speaker

• carried a human voice over a thin wire

• carried print messages over a thin wire

How did Guglielmo Marconi change communications technology in 1896?

• He invented a way to send pictures without using wires.

• He invented a way to send messages without using wires.

• He invented a way for people to talk to each other over a wire.

• He invented a machine that sent coded messages over a wire.