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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.

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Museum Education Seminar

March 30, 2011

The National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova held on March 30, 2011, at 10:00, the Museum Education Seminar "Types and Methods of Museum Pedagogy".

The seminar was attended by professionals in the field of public relations from the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova, National Art Museum of Moldova, National Museum of Ethnography and Natural History, A.S. Pushkin's House-Museum as well as school teachers and university lecturers from Chisinau.

The seminar included nine reports on educational work: Sergiu Branza "Museum educational program of NMAHM", Anna Poluchenkova "Activities on museum pedagogy at A.S. Pushkin's House-Museum", Galina Marzac "Workshop "Archaeological object - an enigma", Tatiana Tihmanovschi „Methods of work with the public at NMENH", Elena Gumene „Dyed eggs workshop", Tatiana Zaremba „Means of historical education: slideshows", Svetlana Pociumban „Children's creative workshop at NAMM", Polina Gridnev „Educational role of a museum", Ina Teleuca „Museum - the space of coexistence and communication between us and others".

In the discussions on these materials there was generalized the experience of the national museums in education of the public, broached the weaknesses of the programs on museum pedagogy, set common goals in integration of museums into school programs through correlation of the course of history with museum exhibition themes, and outlined the general steps in the promotion of museum collections in the public media.

The first seminar on museum education has offered the participants an opportunity to expand the horizons of their professional activities through the fruitful exchange of information and experience. It is agreed that the seminar becomes a traditional, annual event.