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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.

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"Scientific and Public Promotion of the Museum Treasures in National/International Context" (2009-2010)

In 2009 the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova has started the project "Scientific and Public Promotion of the Museum Treasures in National/International Context".

The museum specialists have performed:

investigation of documents in accordance with the directions of research; field research including archaeological excavations at the site Tutora and communication of the results through the organization of two international scientific conferences and two national scientific conferences, by publication of 60 scientific articles in special journals in the country and abroad, by publication of the monograph "Settlement with "Ashepits" near Odaia-Miciurin, Republic of Moldova (Archaeological and Interdisciplinary Investigations)", by publication of two numbers of the museum journal "Tyragetia";
establishment of features of development of Moldavian museology, identification of personalities who have contributed to the development of the museum system in the republic, definition of museum notions for the purpose of elaboration of the Moldavian Museum Encyclopaedia;
systematization of the collections and compiling of collection catalogues: Catalogue of Adornments, Catalogue of Old Documents, Catalogue of Moldavian Icons;
identification of all the existing numismatic treasures in the Republic of Moldova and elaboration of a work "Corpus de tresors de Moldavie" in the framework of the international project GDRE (EU);
promotion of exhibitions in the country and abroad through organization of thematic temporary exhibitions in the museum and through participation in two international exhibitions organized in Iasi and Barlad in the framework of international projects of EU: "Great European Civilizations: Cucuteni-Tripolye Culture" and "Late Antiquity in Prut Basin";
development and publication of a set of promotional materials: a leaflet of the exhibition "Echoes of Centuries", a leaflet of the Diorama of the Iasi-Chisinau Operation, a postcard set "Writing Tools".

Investigations at the Valley of Mills from the municipality of Chisinau