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Manufactured in 1902 by AG vorm Siedel & Nauman in Dresden, Germany.

Dimensions: Length - 38 cm, Width - 35 cm, Height - 20 cm. Weight - 16 kg. It entered the museum collection in 1984, transferred from the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History.

The typewriter features a standard carriage mounted on ball bearings and rollers, along with a keyboard equipped with 42 keys. These contain two complete sets of Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, punctuation marks, numbers, and mathematical symbols, enabling the typing of 126 characters. Beneath the metal casing, the type bars are arranged in a fan-like pattern, holding embossed characters and ink ribbon rollers. When the keys are pressed, the type bars strike the inked ribbon, imprinting characters onto the paper tensioned in the machine's roller system.
The side panels are elegantly decorated with refined cast-iron elements in the Art Nouveau style, displaying the brand name - "Ideal." The Polyglott model, featuring a bilingual keyboard patented in the United Kingdom by Max Klaczko from Riga, Latvia, was produced between 1902 and 1913, marking the first typewriter capable of writing in two languages. The "Ideal Polyglott" typewriter was actively sold in the Russian Empire and gained significant popularity in Poland, Bulgaria, and Serbia.
The typewriter - a mechanical device used for printing text directly onto paper - ranks among the most important inventions of the modern era, as it revolutionized communication. From the late 19th century to the early 21st century, it became an indispensable tool, widely used by writers, in offices, for business correspondence, and in private homes. The peak of typewriter sales occurred in the 1950s when the average annual sales in the United States reached 12 million units. In November 2012, the British Brother factory produced what it claimed to be the last typewriter, which was donated to the Science Museum in London.
The advent of computers, word processing software, printers, and the decreasing cost of these technologies led to the typewriter's disappearance from the mainstream market, turning it into a museum exhibit.
June 23 marks Typewriter Day, commemorating the date when American journalist and inventor Christopher Latham Sholes patented his typewriter. This day celebrates the simple yet revolutionary device that has become history, as well as the remarkable literary achievements it has enabled since 1868.

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„Bessarabians in the Gulag"

June 28th - September 15th, 2016

The National Museum of History of Moldova  opened on Tuesday, June 28 2016, the photo and documentary exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag", dedicated to the victims of Stalinist deportations.
 
The event included the presentation of book „Arhivele memoriei" (Archives of Memory), elaborated within the Public Project „Recovery and historic valorization of the historical memory of the victims of totalitarian communist regime from Soviet Moldavia during the years 1940-1941 and 1944-1953".

The exhibition has on display about 130 photographic images and documents reflecting the experience in the Gulag of Bessarabian families which were raised in three mass deportation waves conducted by the Soviet authorities in 1941, 1949 and 1951. The deportees come from different parts of the country. The display order follows the chronology of deportation operations. Besides photos of deportees, there are shown a few maps of Soviet Gulag, decisions and documents issued by bodies of repression revealing the conduct of deportation operations, working and living conditions in Siberian colonies, regime and everyday live in the Gulag.

A compartment of the exhibition includes several images of monuments installed in memory of the victims of communism. They are meant to remind visitors the need for in-depth study of the totalitarian past, for perpetuation of the memory of the victims of totalitarian communism by building memorial complexes, opening local museums and installing memorial plaques in places of committed crimes and horrors of communism. These actions should be regarded as an imperative of our time, an honorable obligation to history and memory of our predecessors.

The exhibition is displayed on the upper lobby of the museum.

Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag
Exhibition „Bessarabians in the Gulag


 




Independent Moldova
Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
Bessarabia and MASSR between the Two World Wars
Bessarabia and Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the Period between the Two World Wars
Revival of National Movement
Time of Reforms and their Consequences
Abolition of Autonomy. Bessarabia – a New Tsarist Colony
Period of Relative Autonomy of Bessarabia within the Russian Empire
Phanariot Regime
Golden Age of the Romanian Culture
Struggle for Maintaining of Independence of Moldova
Formation of Independent Medieval State of Moldova
Era of the
Great Nomad Migrations
Early Middle Ages
Iron Age and Antiquity
Bronze Age
Aeneolithic Age
Neolithic Age
Palaeolithic Age
  
  

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Manufactured in 1902 by AG vorm Siedel & Nauman in Dresden, Germany. Dimensions: Length - 38 cm, Width - 35 cm, Height - 20 cm. Weight - 16 kg. It entered the museum collection in 1984, transferred from the National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History...

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Visit museum 31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
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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.
©2006-2025 National Museum of History of Moldova
Visit museum 31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Phones:
Secretariat: +373 (22) 24-43-25
Department of Public Relations and Museum Education: +373 (22) 24-04-26
Fax: +373 (22) 24-43-69
E-mail: office@nationalmuseum.md
Technical Support: info@nationalmuseum.md
Web site administration and maintenance: Andrei EMILCIUC

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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.
©2006-2025 National Museum of History of Moldova
Visit museum 31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Phones:
Secretariat: +373 (22) 24-43-25
Department of Public Relations and Museum Education: +373 (22) 24-04-26
Fax: +373 (22) 24-43-69
E-mail: office@nationalmuseum.md
Technical Support: info@nationalmuseum.md
Web site administration and maintenance: Andrei EMILCIUC