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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. IV [XIX], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
ISSN 1857-0240
E-ISSN 2537-6330

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. IV [XIX], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie

Chișinău, 2010

I. Researches


Vasile Mărculeț
Quelques considerations sur les relations politiques entre la Moldavie et la Venise en 15e siècle et le début du 16e siècle

Dinu Poștarencu
The Bessarabian aristocrats Dicescu

Maria Danilov
Diffusion of imperial press in Bessarabia and censorship institutions

Elena Ploșnița
Some facts regarding memorial valorification of family house Lazo from Piatra, Orhei

II. Papers and surveys


Vlad D. Ghimpu
Romanian mentions in North-Western Russia in the 11th-16th centuries (preliminary research)

Silvia Barcari
Some historiographic aspects regarding the commercial activity of Genoese east of Carpathians and Danube mouth (end of 13th- first half of 14th centuries)

Ion Eremia
Some considerations related to the borders of the Principality of Moldavia in the second half of 14th century – Pocutsia and Colomeea

Ion Eremia
”One of forty sobols” – bag of sobols that included 40 sables?

Mihai Onilă
The population of Morozeni village, Orhei county (end of 15th - beginning of 19th century)

Lilia Zabolotnaia
Some notes about Branković dynasty

Adelaida Chiroșca
Medieval coins discovered at Soroca fortress

Ştefan Lupan
About the library of count Alexandru Sturdza

Valentin Tomuleț, Cristina Gherasim
Some considerations on factors that generated mentality shifts of the landlords in Bessarabia under tsarist domination (1812-1817)

Andrei Emilciuc
The role of grain exports in external commerce of Bessarabia (1812-1830)

Valentin Tomuleț
The establishment of special administration of city Ismail and its role in the evolution of commercial bourgeoisie (1830-1853)

Valentin Tomuleț, Alexandru Bordian
Priority directions in trade and customs policy of tsarism in Bessarabia in the first third of the 19th century

Alina Felea
Some data about the descendants of Manuc Bey (19th century - beginning of 20th century)

Tatiana Chicaroș
School of exact science activity in Chișinău in period of 1873-1918

Ana Grițco
A drugstore of old times Chișinău (end of 19th – beginning of 20th centuries)

Vera Serjant
Advertising factories, plants and warehouses in Bessarabian press (end of 19th - beginning of 20th centuries)

Andrei Emilciuc
The preoccupations of Bessarabia’s Zemstva regarding the commercial navigation on Dniester River (1869-1914)

Vera Serjant
The role of Bessarabian Zemstva in opening the school of viticulture and winemaking from Saharna

Ana Grițco
Constantin F. Cazimir’s activity within the Bessarabian zemstva

Diana Cașu
Sovietization of Bessarabia and policy toward women (1944-1945): the creation of Women’s Assemblies

Elena Postică
Lawsuits initiated against participants of resistance movement from postwar Moldova

Vera Stăvilă
The National Theater „Vasile Alecsandri” from Bălți: historical retrospective

Ольга Щипакина
Data about several biggest air crushes from the history of civil aviation

Liliana Condraticova
L’activité des orfévres de Moldova pendant les années ’70-’80 du XX-ém siécle (l’activité de la Fabrique de Bijoux de Chișinău)

Octavian Zelinski
L’impact de la transition dans l’agriculture sur la façon de vie et la perception des réalités sociales par la population rurale (les résultats d’une recherche effectuée dans le district Anenii Noi)

Gheorghe Postică, Iulia Postică
Considerations regarding the museum policies within the complex Orheiul Vechi and future perspectives

Lucia Marinescu-Tonu
Museum institution in the „globalization trap”

Iulia Postică
Rediscovering The Lost World of Old Europe

III. Paper and book review


Ion Eremia
Mihai Maxim, Noi documente turcești privind Ţările Române și Înalta Poartă (1526-1602), Brăila, Editura Istros, 2008, 341 p.

Maria Danilov
Ştefan Plugaru, Teodor Candu, Episcopia Hușilor și Basarabia (1598-1949). Editura PIM, Iași, 2009, 360 p.

Gheorghe Postică
Elena Ploșnița, Concepte muzeografice cu profil de istorie: retrospectivă și perspectivă. Biblioteca "Tyragetia", Chișinău, 2008, 248p.




 

 

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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#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