Hírközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány, Évkönyv, 2005
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
summary of the four-month-long restoration documented on nearly 100 pages. The Postal Museum provided the author with the portfolio of images. The study presents the material in the century-old portfolio before and after restoration and during the various phases of the restoration process. It concludes that the very used and damaged images were fully restored in the process, that they were physically and chemically stabilized, and that, if stored and maintained carefully they would not deteriorate any further. András Bálint Kapi: Postal services of ancient Rome In its heyday, the Roman Empire was a huge military power. The giant empire had excellent roads along which the most outstanding postal organization of the antique world, the cursus publicus, operated. In the beginning, its use was restricted to persons who had written permits. The study presents the evolvement, development, and operation of the Roman age postal organization, and offers glimpses into the writings of the era, and into its transportation and cargo delivery history. It makes mention of the only Roman road map still in existence, the Tabula Peutingeriana, though that too is but a copy of the original. One copy of a volume issued in 1753, which contains and discusses the Peuting- er tables - and which played a significant role in the on-time and quick arrivals of both military campaigns of the era and of postal vehicles - can be found in the Postal Museum’s collection. László Jakab: The CB 35 telephone celebrates 70th anniversary The CB 35 automatic telephone receiver was built under a patent owned by the Royal Hungarian Post Office, and it was a top-of-the-line development in telephony. It had a casing of compressed Bakelite, a hygienic Bakelite receiver, a replaceable boxed earpiece and microphone, and a modernized dial with numbers. It had a built-in 1000 ohm alternating current ringer, an induction coil with an anti-side-tone connection, a connecting cable and a wall plug. It was available in black, red, green, brown, and white. Typical features were perfect formal beauty and shiny surfaces as smooth as glass. It was lightweight and much smaller than older models. This is the description we can read in Standard Electric’s 1940 catalogue, where the manufacturer described the telephone the author has reviewed in this study. László Jakab: Telephones then and now In 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell registered his patent, he had no idea of the tremendous development the telephone would undertake from the days when Thomas Alva Edison, the Wizard of Menlo Park simply called it a tele-ringer. But, Bell did have an inkling into the importance of his invention, which, he felt, had resolved a truly major problem. The past 120 years have firmly underlined the viability of the telephone and its use in areas hitherto inconceivable, in providing services for human communication. The true development of telephony - following the initial experimental phase - began with the appearance of the first switchboards. Budapest was the fourth city in Europe to have 253
