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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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Event dedicated to persons with disabilities „I am important! My rights matter”

19 July 2016

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in partnership with the World Health Organization and NGO SOMATO, are organizing in the courtyard of the National Museum of History of Moldova an informal dialogue - "I am important! My rights matter" - between groups of people with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities and various national and international actors.

The event was held on July 19, between 11:00 and 14:00 hours, in the courtyard of the National Museum of History of Moldova. This activity was a premiere for Moldova.

Agenda of the event "I am important! My rights matter":
11.00-11.30 Registration of participants
11.30-12.00 Official opening
12.00-12.30 Awarding of trophies for activism, motivation and involvement to seven
groups of persons with special needs
12.30-13.00 Informal communication, poetry recital, exhibition, interactive games
13.30-14.00 Jazz performance and end of event

The event was attended by representatives of seven representing groups of persons with psychosocial and intellectual disabilities from Bălți, Soroca, Ungheni, Orhei, Cimișlia, Cahul and Chișinău; officials from the UN, representatives of embassies accredited in Moldova, Equality Council, ministries.

In the opening ceremony spoke: Viorelia Bătrânac-Moldovan, Senior State Adviser to the Prime Minister on social issues; Dafina Gercheva, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations (UN) and the Permanent Representative of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Moldova; Yan Feldman, Chairman of the Equality Council; dr. hab Eugen Sava, General Director of the National Museum of History of Moldova, who sent messages of encouragement and support for people with special needs.

At the opening, also spoke Ruslan Carlan, representative of the group from Cimișlia, who addressed the issue of social exclusion of this group from the decision-making processes, despite the ratification by Moldova of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

The event provided an opportunity for people with special needs to communicate during three hours with representatives of central authorities and civil society, with some UN agencies and diplomatic missions regarding the difficulties they face, the need to ensure equal opportunities, to protect and promote the rights of persons with disabilities.

During the event was open a sale exhibition with works made by disabled people, on the background one could hear poetry and jazz music. An interactive whiteboard was installed, which provided people with special needs the opportunity to learn the non-discriminatory terminology.

Event dedicated to persons with disabilities „I am important! My rights matter”