IELTS Academic Reading ‘Early Telecommunication Devices’ Answers

Updated On Apr 17, 2021

IELTS Academic Reading ‘Early Telecommunication Devices’ Answers

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The IELTS Academic Reading: Cambridge Reading Sample; ‘Early Telecommunication Devices’ with answers. The post will discuss the answers to questions 1-14.

Early Telecommunication Devices

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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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