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.
Historic events from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries attested in notes from manuscripts and old books from the Principality of Moldova
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. V [XX], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
After having investigated numerous notes from the manuscripts and old books from the Principality of Moldova dated with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it appears that they are true historical sources contributing to the discovery of our past. These notes can be considered authentic pages of chronicles, documents with narrative character. The authors of the notes were often themselves the witnesses of that they wrote or copied from other sources, they made notes of what they heard “for remembrance”. The thematic of the notes is quite diversified, there is information about the events which marked directly or indirectly the authors, about bad times, reign periods, the difficulties of war or military confrontations, the presence of foreign armies on the Principality of Moldova’ territory, devastations, fires, bad years, epidemics, daily operations etc. These notes are largely double checked by documentary sources or chronicles; they offer true information, supported by historical documents, sometimes new details unknown to history.
Igor Cereteu
The Transylvanien printings from Basarabia (from the second half of XVIIIth and the first decades of XXth centuries
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. II [XVII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
Igor Cereteu
On the distribution of early printed books published in Chișinău
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VI [XXI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
Igor Cereteu
Pages from the history of the Hâncu Monastery library
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VIII [XXIII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
Igor Cereteu
The printings from Neamț Monastery from XIX centuries in Bessarabia
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. III [XVIII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
Igor Cereteu
A manuscript about clergymen of the Nativity Cathedral in Chișinău during 1840-1851
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VII [XXII], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
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 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.