Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1994
Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven
The Vienna-Pozsony service began using Bain needle-and-dial sets in 1847 and various Morse-system sets in 1850. Hughes-system rhythmic letter-printing sets were introduced in 1867, replacing the Morse system first on international lines and then on busier domestic lines. Anew system of much higher quality came into use in the early 1930s: arrhythmic, asynchronous letter-printing telegraph. Teleprinters on this principle still operate on the Telex, TGX and Gentex networks. Two types of Morse-system set, with uncovered and covered relief writers, were used until 1885, when Popovits, inspector of posts and telegraph, and Brausewetter, a Szeged watchmaker, converted the relief-writer telegraph to an ink system. The study recounts the management’s efforts to replace the relief writers with sets using ink (Digney, Estienne, Siemens). These, however, were costly and complicated, and only came into use in small numbers. In 1889, telegraph machines based on designs by Inspector-General József Kiss and Chief Technical Adviser József Hollós were adopted as standard by the Hungarian telegraph service. A brief account is given of how the various types of Morse-system machine and their accessories worked and when they were in service. Margit Rákóczi: Expansion of the Postal Museum Library After an order by Gábor Baross, Minister of Public Works and Transport, in 1888, the Royal Hungarian Post began to found and develop specialized libraries in the inspectorates. Many years later, the stock of these libraries formed the foundation for the library at the Postal Museum. Through expert collection work and purchases, the Foundation now has a library of 9,157 volumes on branch history. The discarded material from branch libraries has also swelled the museum library over the years. In this way, most of the library of Pon Ltd, which was wound up, came into the museum library’s possession in December 1994, including the accession book used from 1942 to 1981, which will be instructive for posterity. Mrs Gergely Kovács: Marginal Notes on an Exhibition The article points to some lessons to be drawn from organizing the exhibition „The Golden Age of the Hungarian Post and Memorial to Mihály Gervay”. Missing volumes of periodicals are listed, and the importance is underlined of the personal relics and archive collections, without which it would have been impossible to present the life and almost half a century’s postal career of Gervay (1819-1896), the first postmaster general of the Royal Hungarian Post, founded after the 1867 Compromise with the Habsburgs. A number of documents hitherto unpublished or only published in German are reprinted. Finally comes a proposal for commemorating Gervay appropriately, for instance by naming the Irány utca Specialized Postal and Banking Secondary School after him. 215
