Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1995
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Békésy worked from 1926 to 1946 as a postal engineer at the Postal Experimental Station. His early acoustic investigations concerned locating faults and measuring interference on telephone lines. Later he turned to acoustic design of radio studios. While working to perfect the telephone receiver, he discovered in 1928 the mechanical characteristics governing nerve transmission in the inner ear. He constructed the audiometer that bears his name in 1924. Appointed a university professor in 1933, he was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1939 and a full member in 1946. After that, he moved abroad, teaching at Harvard University from 1947, and serving as a professor at the University of Hawaii from 1966 until his death. The bequest, consisting of his experimental equipment and scientific documents, was presented to the Foundation in 1995, by Professor Mary Bittermann, head of the George Bekesy Neurobiology Laboratory at the University of Hawaii. The exhibition in the Békésy Memorial Rooms at the Diósd Radio and Television Museum tells how the bequest was repatriated and outlines Békésy’s life and career: his parents’ house, student years, work in Hungary as a postal engineer, university professor and academician, and years in the United States. The last topic is augmented by an exhibition of the experimental equipment he employed in his examinations of the Mach bands and his research into the health of the sensory organs. Ákos Somoskéri: The Information System at the Radio and Television Museum The idea of a computerised multi-media system came as I was choosing the sound system for the exhibition hall and the equipment to provide an audio guide. Alternative plans were made, one just for sound, and the other for sound and vision as well. The dominant considerations when choosing suppliers for the computer were the guarantee aspects. The multiplicity of subject-matter meant that the task needed to be shared. Eminent experts at Antenna Hungária PLC provided the materials presenting specialist fields, while museum staff of the Postal and Telecommunications Museum Foundation wrote about the historical exhibits. The written word was placed on computer either manually or using a lap scanner. The edited material was then recorded on video tape in a sound studio and digitalized on a computer with a Sound Blaster sound card. This material could be cut into sections. Obtaining photographs to fit the written texts was a further problem. These were digitalized, either with a video camera, a Screen Machine card and associated software, or with a lap scanner. Both these methods have advantages and drawbacks. The processed pictures and audio materials are handled by a menu written in ‘C’ language. László Garai: The Birth of Diósd Radio Station I was appointed head of Székesfehérvár Radio Station in 1936. As such I was not only a witness, but an active participant in the development of short-wave transmission. However, many difficulties and obstacles had to be overcome before the development could begin. It was eventually decided at the beginning of the 1940s to augment the existing transmitters by building a separate short-wave radio station at Diósd. The buildings were 296
