Paper 1 · Communication
UGC NET June 2024 Cancelled (18.06.2024) Shift-I
Which technology first marked a separation between transportation and communication?
ATelegraph ✓ Correct
BProjection
CPrinting
DPhotography
Correct answer: (A) Telegraph — The telegraph first separated communication from transportation, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The telegraph first separated communication from transportation, so that is the answer.
★Before the telegraph, a message could travel only as fast as a person or vehicle carrying it.
★The telegraph sent messages over wires as electrical signals.
★So information could move without any physical object being transported.
★This split communication from the movement of goods and people.
★So the telegraph first marked this separation.
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