Question

Which of the following is/are correctly matched?

1. Samuel F.B. Morse: Telegraph
2. Guglielmo Marconi: Radio
3. Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 3 only
3. 1 and 3 only
4. 1, 2 and 3

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : 1, 2 and 3

The correct answer is 1, 2 and 3.

Samuel F.B. Morse

• American painter and inventor who developed the electric telegraph (1832–35).
• In 1838 he and his friend Alfred Vail developed the Morse Code.
• It resulted in the tremendous growth of messages through post offices and reduced the physical travel of messengers considerably.

Guglielmo Marconi

• Italian physicist and inventor of the successful wireless telegraph (1896).
• He received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1909.
• He worked on the development of shortwave wireless communication, which constitutes the basis of nearly all modern long-distance radio.
• It meant a giant leap – from an era of communication using wires to communicating without using wires. (wireless)

Alexander Graham Bell

• Scottish-born American inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf.
• His foremost accomplishments were the invention of the telephone (1876) and the refinement of the phonograph (1886).
• Perhaps the most widely used means of communication in the history of mankind.