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.
The Kishinev copy of three 14th-century anti-latin writings
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VII [XXII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
The hesychast dispute between Gregory Palamas and Barlaam of Calabria was reflected in several treatises they wrote, which were translated in Church Slavonic as early as in the 1360s. This translation, by a happy coincidence, is kept in its original version in Codex 88 from the collection of the Dečani Monastery. The two Λόγοι ἀποδεικτικοί of Palamas and the Slovo vtoro na latine of Barlaam are known to us in five copies. The oldest one is kept in the Collection of the Noul Neamț Monastery at the National Archives of the Republic of Moldova. The article comes to the following conclusions, on the basis of the manuscript tradition of these three texts and of the known literary and historical facts: 1) the Kishinev copy is the earliest one but less reliable, as far as textual criticism goes, than the Hilandar copy; 2) it was most probably created on Mount Athos; 3) the Kishinev copy is the direct antigraph of a lost common predecessor "v" of the three Visarion of Debar's copies; 4) the "v" copy was created on Athos but how did it get to the Slepce Monastery - directly from there or via Novo Brdo - is an issue for further discussion.
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
