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.
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VI [XXI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
This article presents some information regarding the relationship of Bessarabian nobleman Vasile Stroescu and Romanians of Bihor County (Romania). These relations are highlighted by a series of unpublished documentary evidences from the Oradea archives. Vasile Stroescu constantly supported cultural institutions on both sides of the Carpathians. Thanks to his donations for the Transylvanian Orthodox clergy between 1910 and 1913, in the amount of about one million crowns, there were saved from Magyarization about two hundred schools and over one hundred and thirty Romanian churches.
List of Annexes: Annex 1. List of the students from the town of Beiuș (Bihor County), who received Stroescu’s scholarships in 1912-1914. Annex 2/1a. The Bishop of Arad Ioan Ignatie Papp notifies the Orthodox Consistory of Oradea Mare, which was under his jurisdiction, about the donation offered by a Bessarabian nobleman Vasile Stroescu. Annex 2/1b. Of the amounts donated by Vasile Stroescu, the Diocese of Arad received 64, 945 crowns and 80 fillér. Of the funds allocated to the Diocese, the Orthodox Consistory of Oradea Mare obtained 25, 978 crowns and 32 fillér. Annex 2/2a. Metropolitan Ioan Mețianu informs the Orthodox Consistory of Oradea Mare about the results of the distribution of funds allocated for the Diocese of Arad. Annex 2/2b. The Metropolitanate of Transylvania, with the residence in Sibiu, requires from the Orthodox Consistory of Oradea Mare the report on the distribution and use of the amounts allocated from the fund of the Diocese of Arad. Annex 2/3. Archpriest of the village of Peșteș asks the Orthodox Consistory of Oradea Mare to allocate 1,000 crowns from the donation made by Bessarabian nobleman Vasile Stroescu to build a school in the village of Butan-Măgești.
Mihail Iliev
The Society for the Protection of War Orphans. The Chișinău Regional Committee (1918-1924)
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.
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
