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.
Heroism and the Transylvanian Romanians in the First World War
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. III [XVIII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
The present study discusses the perceptions on the hero during and after the First World War in official Romanian discourses (from Transylvania and from Romania), regarding the Romanian soldiers from Transylvania who were involved in the war, either fighting for their own country Austria-Hungary, either for their future country Romania.
These are the years when the concept of heroism receives firm and precise connotations. Being a hero comprises a full set of civic and national values that animate the armed man. Generally speaking, war has brought a radical change of register regarding the identification and praise of heroes, regardless of the place where it caused casualties. With Word War I, hero conceptualization is complete. The Romanian space proposes a formula adapted to our own realities, marked by the evolution of war and by its final result, as the hero becomes the creator of “the union”, fulfilling the national dream. In this formula, it became difficult for the Transylvanian soldiers who fought for Austria-Hungary to be seen as heroes.
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.
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
