Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
Radio Memory. Secondary-school students needed to submit a two-page piece of original writing entitled Radio in Our Lives, a 15-minute recording, and a one-sentence message they would gladly send to mankind over the air waves. To our delight, entries arrived from 77 kindergartens, 26 primary schools and six secondary schools. These show what an important part radio plays in children’s lives, which places great responsibilities on broadcasters. The prizes were awarded on May 17, World Telecommunications Day. Regrettably, we could welcome only representatives of the prize-winning kindergartens and schools. Recalling the cheerful hours spent at the celebration, let me quote one of the messages to mankind from a secondary-school entrant: ‘A drop of peace, more blue in the sky, and no more tears seen in the world’s eye.’ Let us hope Hungarian Radio’s programmes will bring a drop of peace into listeners’ hearts, including the many younger people among them. Piroska Farkas Krizsák: Guide and Map for the Radio and Television Museum The guide presents the new permanent exhibition at the Radio and Television Museum, at Diósd Radio Station. The opening on December 1, 1995 coincided with the 70th anniversary of Hungarian broadcasting. The exhibition begins outdoors, with a memorial park to pioneers of Hungarian radio and television, and several large items of equipment. Inside the building, the exhibits are presented in the numbered order shown on the map appended to the guide. The exhibition hall divides structurally into three parts. On the right is the history of radio broadcasting, on the left the history of television broadcasting, and in the gallery, the components and auxiliary equipment used for these. The section on the history of radio begins with Tivadar Puskás’s telephone news dispenser, the experimental wireless broadcasts, and relics of the first wireless telegraph station. The broadcasting experiments begin with Huth’s transmitter of 1923. Visitors also learn about the studio and radio stations, and about the lives of radio listeners. The section on television history begins with the early period of visual broadcasting, and continues with the preparation of programmes and the process of transmission and reception. The exhibits in the gallery include equipment and components used, along with domestic equipment. Equipment for non-entertainment radio communications is shown in the corridor behind the exhibition hall. Here visitors see radio amateurs and the equipment they use, the radios used by the Hungarian Defence Force, the history of Hungarian radio telegraphy, and radio equipment used at sea. The studio and technician’s room off the corridor contain Hungarian Radio equipment still suitable for making programmes. Mrs Gergely Kovács: The Story of the Békésy Exhibition Dr György Békésy (1899-1972), physicist and acoustic postal engineer, became the fifth Hungarian Nobel Prize-winner in 1961, for discoveries about the physical mechanism by which the cochlea in the inner ear is stimulated. 295
