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

Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. XVII [XXXII], nr. 1, Arheologie. Istorie Antică

Chişinău, 2023

Researches


Mariana Sîrbu
Pottery of the Noua- Sabatinovka-Coslogeni cultural complex. The typology

Tudor Soroceanu
Bronze- und eisenzeitliche Verbindungen in Eurasien. Vorläufige Betrachtungen anhand einer Sondergattung

Papers and surveys


Marian Cosac
Geoarchaeology of two Palaeolithic sites from Întorsura Buzăului (Covasna County, Romania)

Valery Manko, Guram Chkhatarashvili
Trapezes with dorsal flat invasive retouching: the indicator of Neolithic network formation

Eugen Mistreanu
New data on Gumelnița communities in the Yalpug River microzone

Светлана Иванова
Budzhak culture as an archaeological phenomenon

Сергей Д. Лысенко, Сергей Н. Разумов, Светлана С. Лысенко, Николай П. Тельнов
Graves of the Late Bronze Age from barrows in the upper course of the Krasnaya River in the Lower Dniester Region (according to the results of research in 2013-2022)

Aurel Zanoci, Daniel Scherf, Mihail Băț
Times are changed. New data on Iron Age site from Horodiște, Middle Dniester Basin

Natalia Mateevici
Is the Hlinaia amphora type a new type of Heraclean ware?

Александр Варзарь, Александр Постолаки, Ольга Белик
Morphological characterization of the human skeletal remains from a noble Scythian burial on the right bank of the Lower Dniester

Horea Pop, Cătălin Borangic
Possible interrelations between Celts and Dacians in the Șimleu Depression. A chape of the scabbard of a Celtic sword, found in Șimleu Silvaniei-Observator, Sălaj County

Vasile Iarmulschi
Bemerkungen zur „Kleidung“ Gemeinschaften in der ostkarpatischen Waldsteppe in der jüngeren vorrömischen Eisenzeit (auf der Grundlage der Untersuchung der Nekropole von Borosești)

Radu Ota, Cristian Titus Florescu, Gabriel Tiberiu Rustoiu
Stamped Incriptions recently found at Apulum, Roman Dacia

Vasile Mărculeț
Considerations regarding the defense components of the lower Danube limes at the end of the 4th century and the beginning of the 5th century. The land forces recorded by Notitia Dignitatum

Игорь Сапожников, Ольга Айсфельд, Виктор Савченко
The Kunstkamera (Museum) and other archaeological collections of Nikolaev, their creators and the transfer to the Odessa Society of History and Antiquities in the 1840s

Elena Arcuș-Jantovan
Russian coins from the holdings of the National Museum of History of Moldova (first half of the 19th century)

Elena Arcuș-Jantovan
Chisinau-Poltava Highway coin hoard

Paper and book review


Dumitru Condrea
Alexandru Berzovan, At the borders of the Great Steppe: Late Iron Age hillforts between the Eastern Carpathians and Prut (5th-3rd centuries BC). Cluj-Napoca: MEGA, 2022, 310 p. ISBN: 978-606-020-494-7

Information note


Extract from minutes no. 3 of September 19, 2023 meeting of the National Archaeological Commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova

In memoriam


Daniel Spânu
In memoriam Mircea Babeş

 



 

 

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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