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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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Publications Journal „Tyragetia"


Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. I [XVI], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
ISSN 1857-0240
E-ISSN 2537-6330

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. I [XVI], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică

Chișinău, 2007

I. Researches


Вячеслав М. Бикбаев
Petreni “Towers” (from archaeological interpretation of aerial photographs to reconstruction of the Cucuteni-Tripolye settlements life)

Ion Niculiță, Aurel Zanoci, Tudor Arnăut
Fortifications of the Early Iron Age settlement Saharna Mare

Valeriu Banaru
Zur Verbreitung rotfi guriger Keramik im Nordwesten des Pontos Euxeinos (Bemerkungen zu einem Buch über Handel und Gebrauch attischer Gefäße im pontischen Raum)

Валерия П. Былкова
Late Scythian Settlements in the Lower Dnieper Region: chronology and attribution

Adrian Husar
State and Church in the Later Roman Empire: Valentinian I, Valens and the Arian crisis

II. Papers and surveys


Nicolae Chetraru
Early Paleolith site Bobulești V

Ilie Borziac, Vitalie Burlacu
Epipaleolithic Svider in the Carpathian-Dniester area

Ilie Borziac, Nicolae Chetraru
Cucuteni stone articles treasure found at Costești village

Сергей М. Агульников, Евгения Ф. Редина
The burial cemetery “Zmeinaya Balka”, near village of Kosary, Odessa district

Alin Frînculeasa
Contributions apres des tombes Jamnaja dans Muntenia.Recherches archéologiques

Татьяна И. Демченко
Kurgans on the left bank of the Middle Prut (excavations of 1982 and 1984)

Сергей М. Агульников
The Belozerka culture horizon from the settlement Kriničnoe

Ion Niculiță, Andrei Nicic
Archaeological research conducted at the settlement Saharna-Dealul Mănăstirii

Viorel Stoian
Babadag inventory pieces from Siliștea, Brăila county

Иван Власенко
Hallstatt cultural-chronological horizons of multilevel settlement Ivancea II

Dragoș Măndescu
The sling – a less known weapon of the Getes

Alexandru Levinschi
Preliminary data about initial period of getian settlement in fortified Saharna Mare

Octavian Munteanu, Vasile Iarmulschi
Pilot excavations at Horodca Mică fortification

Aurel Zanoci, Mihail Băț
Archeological researches conducted in 2006 at the Thracian-Getian settlement Saharna „La Şanț”

Evgeniya Redina, Natalia Mateevici
Sinope amphorae at Košary site, Odessa district, Ukraine

Marius Alexianu
Un aspect de l’économie thrace: esclaves contre sel

Octavian Bounegru
The expedition of Histrian admiral Hegesagoras to western Black Sea

Marek Żyromski
Power, legitimization and propaganda in Imperial Rome

Florian Matei-Popescu, Alexander Falileyev
A Note on ISM V, 115

Larisa Ciobanu
Les vestiges de la culture Sântana de Mureș-Černjachov de Sîngerei

Petre Mocanu
Christianity North of the Balkans in light of the archaeological materials (4th - 6th c. AD)

Ion Tentiuc
Aspects of funeral rite and ritual in the Prut-Dniester region in the early Middle Ages (The Molești-Ialoveni necropolis)

Iulia Postică
Public archaeology of museum complex Orheiul Vechi

Ana Boldureanu
Monetary finds chronicle (I)

III. Paper and book review


Игорь Манзура
Дергачев В.А. О скипетрах. Этюды в защиту миграционной концепции М. Гимбутас. Revista arheologică. vol. I. Nr. 2. Chișinău, 2005, 166 стр. ISSN 1857-016X.

Victor Cojocaru
Heinz Heinen, Antike am Rande der Steppe. Der nördliche Schwarzmeerraum als Forschungsaufgabe (Antichitatea la marginea stepei. Spațiul nord-pontic ca temă de cercetare), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2006, 91 p., 23 fig.

Mihaela Paraschiv
O exegeză a psihologiei fricii. Alexander Rubel, Cetatea înspăimântată. Religie și politică la Atena în timpul războiului peloponesiac, Editura Universității „Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Iași, 2006, 404 p.

Vlad Vornic
Octavian Liviu Şovan, Necropola de tip Sântana de Mureș-Černjachov de la Mihălășeni (județul Botoșani), Editura „Cetatea de Scaun", Târgoviște, 2005, 354 p.+390 pl., ISBN 973-7925-51-3

Ion Ursu
Adrian Ioniță, Spațiul dintre Carpații Meridionali și Dunărea Superioară în secolele XI-XIII, Editura Academiei Române, București, 2005, 228 p.+56 pl., ISBN 973-27-1215-5

Sergiu Popovici
Aurel Vîlcu, Theodor Isvoranu, Eugen Nicolae, Les Monnaies d'or de l'Institut d'Arheologie de Bucarest, Moneta, Wetteren 2006, 253 p., abrevieri, indice de catalog, 32 planșe, 884 fi g., 1 hartă, ISBN 90-77297-29-4

 



 

 

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#Exhibit of the Month

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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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