#Exhibit of the Month

One of the great technical achievements that revolutionized the idea of time and space, opening a new era in the history of communication, is telegraphy. It is based on the transmission of electrical signals through a cable over long distances, allowing people to communicate instantly. The telegraph spread very quickly and a network of wires stretched around the world.

In 1837, the American painter and physicist Samuel Morse invented the first electromagnetic device for telegraphy, patented in 1840. To send messages by wire, Morse developed in 1838 a simple code of dots and dashes, which represented the letters of the alphabet, known as "Morse code ".

Both Morse code and the telegraph machine were improved over time, with the telegraph becoming the most widespread system of communication and information transmission for more than a century, until the advent of the Internet. The telegraph system consisted of a series of stations repeaters along the transmission line route. Each station had an operator who received and transmitted messages by telegraph. The Morse machine transmitted about 25 words per minute, which were recorded in code on a paper tape. The operator in charge of transmitting the message would decode it and write it on paper using a special typewriter.

In Bessarabia, the telegraph entered in 1860: on April 8, the Bender telegraph station began its activity, and on April 24, the one in Chisinau, following the construction of the first Odesa-Chisinau-Leova telegraph line. Currently, telegraph services have been discontinued. The only ones who still use coded communication are radio amateurs.

The Morse telegraph machine shown comes from the Osinoostrovsky electrotechnical plant, Soviet Union, and dates back to 1934. The exhibit was restored by Mihail Culașco.

Virtual Tour

Events Archive

The visit of the NMHM delegation to Ruseștii Noi commune, Ialoveni district

April 10, 2024

On April 10, Ruseștii Noi commune, Ialoveni district, celebrated the first documentary attestation. On this occasion, the local public authorities organized a series of activities within the "500 years of the Ruseștii Noi 1524-2024" event.

At the request of the mayor of the locality, scientific researcher Eugen Mistreanu and museographer Sergiu Bodean were present from the National Museum of History of Moldova. They presented the communication: Archaeological vestiges from the radius of the Rusestii Noi commune (prehistory-middle ages) within the Panel II, "New Rusestii from the Tripolie Cucutani culture to the present day". The report focused on the rich immovable archaeological heritage within the radius of the commune of Ruseștii Noi and on the exceptional mobile archaeological material discovered in the period 1962-1964 in the settlement of Ruseștii Noi I, dated to the middle of the 5th millennium BC. Chr. Speakers familiarized the audience with the importance of the archaeological heritage in the area and its potential for the development of local communities both culturally and economically. They reminded that the vestiges discovered in their locality are an attraction for the public and occupy an important place in the exhibition of the National Museum of History of Moldova, and the settlement of Ruseștia Noi I is an important point in European archeology being found in hundreds of articles and monographs from the country and from abroad.

Last but not least, they joined in the congratulations and sent a word of greeting from the director Dr. hab. Eugen Sava, to one of the few localities in the country that can be proud of such a beautiful "age".