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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. XIII [XXVIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică
ISSN 1857-0240
E-ISSN 2537-6330

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XIII [XXVIII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică

Chișinău, 2019

I. Researches


Михаил Видейко
The channel kilns in Trypillia Culture and development of pottery

Наталья Бурдо
Spindle whorls of Trypillia-Cucuteni cultural unity

Florin Gogâltan
About the Absolute Chronology of the Late Bronze in the Eastern Carpathian Basin

II.    Papers and surveys


Оксана Олих, Алексей Данильченко, Елена Ревина
Mar’eva Gora in the northeastern Sea of Azov region – a Unique Archaeological Site

Александр Колесник, Никита Манько
On the typology of hammerstones from Neo-Eneolithic workshops of Donbass

Eugen Mistreanu
Settlements of Gumelniţa culture in the Prut-Dniester area (catalog)

Игорь Сапожников, Майя Кашуба
«Corpus of antiques and archaeological findings in Bessarabia» by N. Mogilyansky and Ya. Ebergardt

Виктор Мерц
Copper vessel from from Krivinka 1 settlement

Салтанат Амирова, Мильяна Радивоевич
Copper vessel from from Krivinka 1 settlement. Compositional and metallographic analysis

Елена Избицер
Wagon burials in pits of the Middle Bronze Age in the Don River basin

Виктор Гребенников
Settlements of the epoch late bronze of the left-bank Tiligul Lyman and the basin of r. Berezan (materials for the archaeological map of the Northern Black Sea Coast)

Тудор Сорочянy, Кэтэлин Добринеску, Сорин Айлинкэй, Виталие Бодоликэ, Тибериу Сава
Die Coslogeni-Fundgrube 121 von Cernavodă-„Autobahn 2, km. 152“ (Kr. Constanţa, Rumänien): Treffpunkt hervorragender osteuropäischer Bronzen und Keramik an der westlichen Schwarzmeerküste

Mariana Sîrbu, Sergiu Popovici, Vlad Vornic
The hoard of bronze artifacts discovered near village Haragîş (Cantemir district)

Margareta Simina Stanc, Daniel Ioan Malaxa, Sorin-Cristian Ailincăi
The analysis of faunal remains in Early Iron Age settlement at Enisala-Palanca (Sarichioi Commune, Tulcea County, South-Eastern Romania)

Ion Niculiţă, Aurel Zanoci, Mihail Băţ, Victor Dulgher
Archaeological investigations at the Saharna Mare / „Dealul Mănăstirii” site, Rezina district (2017-2019)

Tatiana Nagacevschi, Angela Simalcsik, Vitalie Sochircă, Margareta Simina Stanc
Interdisciplinary research at Saharna Mare / „Dealul Mănăstirii” site

Natalia Mateevici
Emblems representing deities on Sinope amphora stamps (based on the Tyras collection)

Иван Снытко, Андрей Бондаренко
Coin segments used as weights in the Olbia Polis in the 4th-3rd centuries BC

Aurel Mototolea, Tiberiu Potârniche, Simina Margareta Stanc
Recent Archaeological Investigations on the Tomitan Acropolis (2017-2018). Preliminary Study

Vasile Iarmulschi
On the chronology of the La Tène cemetery at Cammer (Lkr. Potsdam-Mittelmark)

Boris A. Raev
Roman bronzes and door knockers from the Black Sea cities of Central Anatolia. An ethnographic etude

Иван Власенко
Early medieval bone handles of knives with annular notches as one of the possible signs of ethnic attribution of the Tivertsi

Ion Tentiuc, Valeriu Bubulici
The hoard of early medieval tools and weapons found at Sadova-Călăraşi, the Republic of Moldova

Вячеслав Крыжановский
Traces of bronze casting production on the western outskirts of ancient Kyiv

Octavian Munteanu, Angela Simalcsik
Une tombe médiévale avec d’anneaux à boucles decouverte à Butuceni, la région d’Orhei (notes préliminaires)

Mariana Gugeanu, Gheorghe Postică
The research, preservation and restoration of textiles discovered during the archaeological excavations undertaken at the Căpriana Monastery

Ana Boldureanu
Chronicle of coin finds (XII-XIII)

III. Paper and book review


Ana Boldureanu
Александр Владимирович Пачкалов, Золотая Орда по данным нумизматических источников. Монография, Москвa: Кнорус, 2018, 180 pp., ISBN 978-5-4365-2528-0

IV. Scientific events


Zvezdana Dode, Dale Carolyn Gluckman
The 4th Annual Symposium of the International Association for the Study of Silk Road Textiles

V. Homage


Tudor Soroceanu
Wojciech Blajer. Oder: Die Kraft der Ruhe

Florin Gogâltan
Tudor Soroceanu şi cercetarea epocii bronzului

Sergiu Matveev
Profesorul Ion Niculiţă la 80 de ani

 



 

 

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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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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