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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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Presentation of the book “The process of searching for policemen, soldiers and volunteers who went missing during the Dniester war of 1992" by Simion Carp, PhD, war veteran

August 28, 2022

On August 28, 2022, the National Museum of History of Moldova hosted a presentation of the book with an eloquent title: "The process of searching for policemen, soldiers and volunteers who went missing during the Dniester war of 1992" by Simion CARP, PhD, university lecturer, war veteran.

The organizers of the event, the Stephen the Great Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the "Military Traditions" Public Association in partnership with the National Museum of History of Moldova brought together people interested in the topic addressed, as well as several veterans of the War for the Defense of the Independence and Territorial Integrity of the Republic Moldova.

Those present had the opportunity to get acquainted with the new information revealed in the work, about the persons who went missing during the hostilities in the spring and summer of 1992, as well as about the moral and material problems that their families faced for three decades.

The veterans present at the meeting confirmed the chronicle of the events described in the work and the realities recorded in the author's comments, reliving and mentally reconstructing the tragic moments they went through on the battlefield.

The factual material published in the publication under consideration, i.e., archival documents, interviews with relatives of the missing and their comrades in arms, made an impression on each of those who managed to get acquainted with the work.

The book is a true source of information for the whole society and for each compatriot in particular, serving both as a landmark of historical truth and as a significant proof of the courage and heroism of our people.

In order to provide wider access to the information presented in the work, the organizers also arranged an exhibition of documents and photographs with references to the biographies of those who gave their lives for the national interest.

The event was dedicated to the International Day of the Disappeared (August 30) and at the same time was conceived as a tribute to the Heroes who sacrificed themselves for the Independence of the Republic of Moldova.