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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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Events dedicated to the International Day for Monuments and Sites

April 18, 2018

The National Museum of History of Moldova celebrated the International Day for Monuments and Sites through two activities organized by the Department of Public relations, museum education in collaboration with the museographers from the Section of restoration.

With the title "Heritage for our generation", both activities focused on the transmission of information and knowledge to the young public about the importance of national and universal cultural heritage.

The first phase of the "Remaking the history from shards" museum event, organized for a group of students from the Co-operative College of Moldova, consisted of a guided tour around the "History and Civilization" exhibition. The second phase of the museum's activity was carried out in the Ceramic Restoration Laboratory, where restorers Guzun Marina and Ferroni Daniela held a practical workshop on "Conservation and restoration techniques of the ceramic heritage".

During the second event entitled "We give paper a second life", the students of the Co-operative University of Moldova had a meeting with the restorer Constantin Moga. He spoke about the organization and functioning of the restoration of books and historical documents, various materials and techniques meant to save the wealth of written cultural heritage, answered the questions of the participants.