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.
Imposition of Soviet legislation on the Romanian territory to the east of the Prut during the first Soviet occupation
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VI [XXI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
In the course of the first, as well as the ulterior Soviet occupation communist authorities from Moscow managed MSSR basing on Soviet legislation, operating in all union republics. For successful implementation of general public repressions, People’s Commissariat for Justice of the USSR had created in Bessarabia double system of justice bodies, for those on the left bank. Thus, there were founded circuit and district courts, which contributed to creation of several court districts in certain Bessarabian regions.
In order to adjust new territorial possessions to soviet legislation, on the territory of the MSSR there was put in circulation USSR legislation by means of law codes of the Ukrainian SSR.
Moreover, for communist regime the Soviet legislation was just a justification of communist theory and had been broken every time Kremlin authorities needed to justify criminal policy. The example of this is creation of MSSR, which broke even Soviet legislation.
Mariana S. Țăranu
Khrushchev’s Thaw and liberation of Bessarabians from the Gulag (1953-1963)
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XI [XXVI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
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.