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 restoration of a lăicer from the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th century from the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova’s collections
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. III [XVIII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
The lăicer – a traditional striped long and narrow carpet – is an indispensable object from the traditional household. As other traditional objects it developed concurrently with the other arts (scores in wood, stitch, pottery); the ornaments from the lăicers, barks, carpets, in many forms and variants, appear also on other creations and confirm the unity in the popular arts’ diversity. The art of weaving carpets developed from simple wool lăicers dyed with vegetal dye with different bark ornaments, adorned all over the surface with various geometric motifs, vegetal, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic stylizations. The lăicer had been collected from I. Mateevici, inhabitant of village Brînzeni from Edineț district. The threads are of wool, the length – 1,81 m, the width – 1,61 m, handmade. It was highly deteriorated with breaks and previous interventions. It has been manually cleaned of rotten wool threads and eaten by moth, of dust and dirt; the patching sew previously to stop the lăicer’s deterioration was removed. New warp threads were introduced in the breaks. All the breaks from the surface of the lăicer have been worked out with wool thread respecting the ornament and chromatics. The object has been photographed, conserved and included in the collections of the museum after restoration.
Ecaterina Bondarenco
Restoration of headwear from the National Museum of History of Moldova
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VIII [XXIII], 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.