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.
Some changes in the chronology of the Rhodos amphorae seals discovered in the barbarian surroundings of the Northwestern Pontic space
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. III [XVIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
A new chronological classification of the Rhodos seals, discovered at the barbarian sites from the Northwestern Pontic space and published initially in our monograph, is offered in the article.
The Greek amphorae from the Northwestern Pontic barbarian surroundings of 6th- beginning of the 2nd centuries BC. The need to re-publish the Rhodos seals was motivated by the findings of the new investigations regarding the chronology of the Rhodesian sealed amphorae, which resulted in the elaboration of a new chronology by the Israeli researcher G. Finkielszteijn and which are accepted nowadays by most of the amphorologists as a working instrument. According to this chronology, the Rhodesian sealed amphorae’s appearance in the Northwestern Pontic barbarian surroundings occurs in the period of the 70ies-40ies of the 3rd century BC. The analysis of the Rhodos seals presented in this study makes possible affirming that the final date of the penetration of this Mediterranean center’ goods can be considered the second half of the 2nd century BC and not the beginning of the same century as regarded before.
Natalia Mateevici
Amphora from Chios found in Dubăsari (new object in the collections of NMHM)
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VII [XXII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
Natalia Mateevici
Emblems representing deities on Sinope amphora stamps (based on the Tyras collection)
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XIII [XXVIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
Natalia Mateevici, Evgenya Redina
Amphora stamps of Chersonesos from Koshary, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XV [XXX], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică, Chişinău, 2021
Natalia Mateevici
New Greek amphora stamps found at Argamum/Orgame (excavations 1999-2000)
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XVI [XXXI], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică, Chişinău, 2022
Natalia Mateevici, Pavel Ostapenko, Tatiana Samojlova
Lot of amphora stamps found in the pit no. 16 from Tyras
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VI [XXI], 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.
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
