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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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„The Great Union. From Victory in World War I to the Coronation of the Great Romanian Sovereigns”

March 23 - April 14, 2018

The Cotroceni National Museum, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute "Mihai Eminescu" in Chisinau, organized on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 15.00, at the National Museum of History of Moldova, the opening of the exhibition "The Great Union. From Victory in World War I to the Coronation of the Great Romanian Sovereigns", a photo-documentary project that is part of the series of cultural events that the Cotroceni National Museum dedicated to the Centenary of the Great Union.

After Brașov, Iaşi and Galați, the Cotroceni National Museum aims to display this exhibition outside the borders of Romania. Symbolically, the international travel of exhibition "The Great Union. From Victory in World War I to the Coronation of the Great Romanian Sovereigns" begins in Chişinău, in the context of the celebration of the 100^th anniversary since the Union of Bessarabia with Romania.

Through this exhibition, the Cotroceni National Museum highlights the role of the Royal Family of Romania in accomplishing the national unity of the Romanian state.

In addition to photographs portraying King Ferdinand and Queen Maria on the front of the Great War, the audience will also see original images from the collections of the Cotroceni National Museum, captured at the return of the sovereigns in Bucharest during the peace talks or the crowning ceremony at Alba Iulia from 1922.

The exhibition will be open to the public in the hall on the ground floor of the National Museum of History of Moldova from March 23 to April 14, 2018.