2024 Remapping the Present

When was a telegraph invented?

• 1837
• 1900
• 1799
• 1687

Who invented the telegraph?

• Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Weatstone
• Charles Babbage
• Thomas Newcomen and Adam Watt
• Sir John Harington

How does a telegraph work?

• Sending information by making and breaking an electrical connection
• Carrying sound waves to a thing metal inside and converted into electrical energy which is converted back to sound waves
• two devices connected via cables, radio waves and wires; all data sent is translated into pulses of ligt or electricity, interpreted by the receiving device
• sending information or things by placing them in a mailbox and later got sorted before being sent

Where did an ancient map originate from?

• Greece
• Egypt
• Mexico
• China

Who created the earliest map ever known?

• Anaximander
• Ptolemy
• Mercator
• Pythagoras

The practice of drawing maps is called ...

• cartography
• typography
• geoglogy
• orology

Which one is NOT what helps maps becoming more accurate in the 20th Century?

• X-ray
• aerial photography
• salellite imagery
• remote sensing

A perspective projection of the sphere, through a specific point on the sphere, onto a plane perpendicular to the diameter through the point.

• stereographic
• longitudinal
• cylindrical
• conformal

Answer explanation

or also known as stereographic projection

A conic projection for making maps and charts in which a cone is, in effect, placed over the Earth with its apex aligned with one of the geographic poles.

• Lambert
• Mercator
• Robinson
• Miller

Answer explanation

or also known as Lambert confromal projection

A type of map projection introduced in 1569 by a Flemish cartographer. Often described as a cylindrical projection, but must be derived mathematically.

• Mercator
• Robinson
• Lambert
• Stereographic