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.
A „fibula” with cultural valences found at Ormeniș-„Tipia Ormenișului”, Brașov county
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. III [XVIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
The authors present a bronze Hallstatt fibula, found in 2005 on south terraces of Tipia Ormenisului, where the Dacian housing (habitat) was an important settlement from the beginning of the first Iron Age. After analysis of printed decorations on the unexposed part of fibula (as seen while being worn), the authors believe that it represents a very stylized woman’s body, giving it more likely, The Great Goddess, from the pantheon of the ancient Trace, attested on the present territory of Romania by thousands of clay figurines from the neo-eneolitic. The discovery of this group of artefacts usually in large warehouse inventories of bronze objects leads the authors to believe that it was, first, the patron goddess of fertility-fecundity, hunters etc., shielding of the goods producing social class. Her essential attributes corresponded to those of the Greek pantheon of Artemis. With some intermittences, the goddess is attested by the archaeological record up to the Roman conquest of Dacia.
Florea Costea, Lucia Savu, Angelica Bălos
Part of a Roman helmet discovered in the Dacian castle from Racoș-Piatra Detunată, Brașov county
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. II [XVII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
Florea Costea
Încă o fibulă hallstattiană descoperită în fortificația de la Racoș-Piatra Detunată
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. IV [XIX], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
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 National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.