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.
Historiographical thoughts over the particularities of the Russian and Moldavian administrative system at the beginning of the 19th century
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. II [XVII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
The made investigation had the purpose reflect through the historical graphical sources the impact of foreign governing in Basarabia at the beginning of the XIXth century, and models of tsar administrative system for Basarabia region. During the investigation process the author has relayed on the historical graphical analysis and the com- parison of the situation of internal administrative system in the Country of Moldova as well as in the Russian Empire at beginning of the XIXth century.
By setting the evolution factors of a state organization form applied in the territories with heterogeneous population after the territorial conquests, it has been intended to reevaluate the effects created after such situations and the continuation of that big foreign administrative experience that would substitute the traditional system of Basarabia. The historical graphical reevaluation of tsar administrative activity from Basarabia certifies the fact that this foreign administrative practice in the area between Prut and Nistru at the beginning of the XIXth century had a negative influence on the beginning on the traditional model of local governing.
This fact is due to the methods used by the tsar authorities for the intensification of the process of implementation of its governing system in Basarabia region, and especially to the imperfection that was characteristic for Russian absolutism in that time.
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
