Identify the correct chronological order of the following inventions related to mass communication. Choose the correct answer from the options given below.
1.Cable television
2.Telegraph
3.Telephone
4.MP-3
5.Phonograph
A1, 3, 4, 2, 5
B2, 3, 5, 1, 4 ✓ Correct
C3, 1, 2, 4, 5
D5, 1, 3, 2, 4
Correct answer: (B) 2, 3, 5, 1, 4
Explanation
The correct chronological order of these inventions runs telegraph, telephone, phonograph, cable television and MP-3.
Statement 2 the telegraph is the earliest, emerging in the eighteen forties.
Statement 3 the telephone follows, patented in eighteen seventy six.
Statement 5 the phonograph comes next, invented in eighteen seventy seven.
Statement 1 cable television appears in the mid twentieth century, well after the earlier devices.
Statement 4 the MP-3 is the newest, a digital audio format of the nineteen nineties.
The order thus moves from nineteenth-century electrical devices to a late digital format.
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