Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005

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Collectors of stamps will certainly know what the museum holds for them as para- philatelic exhibits. Others might want to read Mrs. István Szegedi’s writing first, then look at the exhibition. I did it vice versa, and I was not aware what I saw.

Bearing in mind another remarkable anniversary, Ibolya Bartók researched the opening of the independent Postal Museum 50 years ago. Her article contains new and exciting details about this institution of a glorious past.

In 1925, when the now 80-year-old Hungarian Radio started, the arsenal of Hungarian culture was completed with a mighty weapon - implies the memoir of Piroska Farkas Krizsák. Some of the studies submitted for the competition My Life and the Radio, organised in cooperation with public and commercial radio channels, are also included in the volume. The title is justified; the radio, whose technique has changed significantly but its importance as a telecommunications weapon is just the same, has often shaped even the very lives of people.

Is the style of this foreword inappropriate? Probably because the tip of the tool I am writing with is not good, or perhaps because I did not catch the meaning of András Bálint Kapi’s writing on the Roman postal service. Interestingly, I did understand the hodometer.

Reading László Jakab’s article, I started thinking how wastefully we live nowadays. The world has become too fast, the things we use soon become obsolete and we throw them away. Where are, for example, the cell phones of 15 years ago (in a museum for a long time). Though my grandson might not be too happy with a phone bought 5 years ago, a CB 35 from the 70’s would make a nice gift for anyone, wouldn’t it? “What comes next?”

Adrienn Kovács wrote in a refreshingly interesting manner about the history of carrier- pigeons. We already know a lot about these nice and clever, lovable birds with an excellent sense of orientation, but if you wonder what decorations a pigeon may receive, how they could replace telecommunications, what the life of a carrier-pigeon is worth and many other details, you should read the study.

I just realise that I am writing a new table of contents. Let me then encourage you to read the rest instead, and I hope that you will agree with the foreword.

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