Early Telecommunication Devices Reading Answers

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Updated On Oct 03, 2023

Early Telecommunication Devices Reading Answers

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This article contains the Early Telecommunication Devices reading answers.

Early Telecommunication Devices is a real Reading test passage that appeared in the IELTS.

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Early Telecommunication Devices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13, which are based on the Reading Passage below. Find the practice test with the Early Telecommunication Devices PDF here.

Answers

The answers with explanations are given below

Question Number	Answers	Keywords	Location of Keywords
1.	Cooke and Wheatstone	William Cook and Charles Wheatstone, patented in England in 1845	Paragraph A, Lines 7-8
2.	Western Union Company	In 1851, twelve of these companies come together	Paragraph C, Lines 4-6
3.	Reis	Phillip Reis, in 1861 that he labelled the telephone	Paragraph D, Lines 4-5
4.	Telephones	the US patent office for their respective telephones	Paragraph E, Lines 11-12
5.	Harmonic telegraph	perfected by Thomas Edison, in 1881.	Paragraph E, Last 2 lines
6.	C	the invention of the telephone, a system known as a harmonic telegraph	Paragraph E, Lines 2-5
7.	A	Patented in England in 1845, British rail companies	Paragraph A, Last 3 lines
8.	E	Edison	Paragraph E, Last 2 lines
9.	D	Western Union, asked Elisha Gray to make refinements	Paragraph F, Lines 4-6
10.	B	Pacific Union, based on the telephone design of Phillips Reis.	Paragraph G, Lines 13-16
11.	Awkward to use/ Difficult to transport/ Expensive	Proved to the awkward to use, difficult to transport and expensive to build	Paragraph B, Lines 2-3
12.	Rail stations	Western Union, telegraph offices, almost all in rail stations.	Paragraph C, Last 2 lines
13.	Musical tones	Reis’s invention, limited to transmitting musical tones,	Paragraph D, Last 2 lines
14.	Harmonic telegraph	Perfection of the harmonic telegraph proved too difficult	Paragraph E, Lines 7-8

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