Q. The place in Kerala where telephone was established for the first time :

A
Kozhikode
B
Alappuzha
C
Thiruvananthapuram
D
Ernakulam
Solution:

Telegraph communication was invented by David Morse in 1838 in USA. Kerala had its first Telegraph offices at Trivandrum, Quilon and Alleppey in 1864. By 1947 almost all the District Head Quarters in Kerala State ,Cochin State and Old Malabar had combined Post and Telegraph offices. Graham Bell invented Voice communication in 1875 ,it came to India in 1890 and in Kerala in 1923 at Cochin with 100 line C B exchange followed by Calicut.

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