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One of the great technical achievements that revolutionized the idea of time and space, opening a new era in the history of communication, is telegraphy. It is based on the transmission of electrical signals through a cable over long distances, allowing people to communicate instantly. The telegraph spread very quickly and a network of wires stretched around the world.

In 1837, the American painter and physicist Samuel Morse invented the first electromagnetic device for telegraphy, patented in 1840. To send messages by wire, Morse developed in 1838 a simple code of dots and dashes, which represented the letters of the alphabet, known as "Morse code ".

Both Morse code and the telegraph machine were improved over time, with the telegraph becoming the most widespread system of communication and information transmission for more than a century, until the advent of the Internet. The telegraph system consisted of a series of stations repeaters along the transmission line route. Each station had an operator who received and transmitted messages by telegraph. The Morse machine transmitted about 25 words per minute, which were recorded in code on a paper tape. The operator in charge of transmitting the message would decode it and write it on paper using a special typewriter.

In Bessarabia, the telegraph entered in 1860: on April 8, the Bender telegraph station began its activity, and on April 24, the one in Chisinau, following the construction of the first Odesa-Chisinau-Leova telegraph line. Currently, telegraph services have been discontinued. The only ones who still use coded communication are radio amateurs.

The Morse telegraph machine shown comes from the Osinoostrovsky electrotechnical plant, Soviet Union, and dates back to 1934. The exhibit was restored by Mihail Culașco.

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„Bauhaus imaginista”

7-26 August 2019

The National Museum of History of Moldova together with the German Cultural Center AKZENTE invites you on August 7, 2019, at 6 pm, at the opening of the Bauhaus Imaginista exhibition.

Bauhaus Imaginista is an international project made on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus School in Germany, which has become one of the most important trends of modern architecture and an international style.

In its approach, the exhibition includes research conducted by curators, texts and images arranged on four thematic and conceptual chapters: Corresponding With, Learning from, Moving Away and Still Undead. For this purpose, artist Luca Frei developed a structure - partly sculpture, partly exhibition architecture - as a space where visitors can interact with the objects of the exhibition. A central role in the installation is occupied by the computer terminal, from which visitors can browse the online magazine of the Bauhaus Imaginista and can print the materials as image or text.

A separate film program presents works by contemporary artists and researchers Kader Attia, Otolith Group, Wendelien van Oldenborgh and Zvi Efrat on topics related to the Bauhaus movement.

The anniversary exhibition Bauhaus Imaginista "100 years of Bauhaus" is a collaboration between the Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar, the Goethe-Institut and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. The curators of the project are Marion von Osten and Grant Watson, who also collaborate with an international team of scientists.

The exhibition will be open to public between August 7 and 26, 2019.