#Exhibit of the Month

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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Exhibitions

„Urbanism and Architecture”

April 18th – 24th, 2016

On the occasion of the International Day for Monuments and Sites the National Museum of History of Moldova opened an exhibition of urban projects on the re-use of the public space in downtown Chișinău. The projects on display were developed in the framework of the National contest of urbanism and architecture launched by the Embassy of France in Moldova, the Municipality of Chișinău and the Agency of Inspection and Restoration of Monuments.

The exhibition brings together 40 projects made by 17 urban architects who proposed ideas for developing the protected area, the pedestrian area - 31 august 1989 street, in the perimeter of streets Maria Cebotari and Alexandru Pușkin, and of the unprotected area, the Circus with the nearby area on Igor Vieru boulevard. The projects exhibited in the museum present several ideas on the rehabilitation and redevelopment of a section on 31 august 1989 street which is to be transformed into a pedestrian area, and the area of the Circus from Chișinău.

On April 19, at the exhibition opening, were announced the winners of the National Contest of urbanism and architecture. 1st Prize was awarded to the group of architects from Oberliht Association (Borozan Ina, Deleanu Toma, Moldovan Vlad, Vatamaniuc Andrei, Vrednic Stanislav, Us Vladimir, Sprînceana Vitalie) who drafted the project „Development of the protected area, 31 August 1989 street, in the perimeter of A. Pușkin and M. Cebotari streets - pedestrian area". 2nd Prize was awarded to the group of architects Burungiu Ion, Danciu Mihai-Ionuț, Lisnic Inesa and Prunici Ion for the project „Development of the unprotected area, public space - Circus from Chișinău and the nearby area from Renașterii Naționale boulevard". The Special Prize of the Jury was awarded to the group of architects from the Workshop of architecture design OLDARCHITECTURE.