Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 2002

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Mrs. Gergely Kovács: Afterward to Károly Krammer’s Memoirs

Károly Krammer (1984-?) was a retired postal and telegraphic office senior supervisor. He had headed the Number Two Post office at Nagyvárad (today, Oradea, Romania) for 20 years on end and was a postal worker for 40 years, from 1881 to 1921. In 1941, at the age of 77 he wrote his memoirs, detailing his work and the important events of his life. Krammer’s illustrative style turns back the wheels of time to an era of peace, where he offers close-up images of the major historical figures Gábor Baross and Mihály Gervay. The memoir is at the point where history and the little guy intersect. In this case the little guy is a postal official, who offers us his vantage point. Each section of the memoir is given extra body by his telling of interesting postal history lore. In his tales he reflects the high level of calling that defined the people living in the final third of the 19th century.

Adrienn Kovács: Zeppelins Offer Air Mail Services

The idea of an airship that one could steer first arose back in 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers discovered the hot air balloon. However, the issue of steering remained a continuous problem, triggering a series of construction alternatives. Eventually, a Hungarian designer, Dávid Schwarz, came up with a revolutionary innovation in airship design. Schwarz realized that aluminum was the best material for building an airship frame, and his airship was the first means of transport ever to be made of aluminum. The author begins at the beginning in telling the story of the steerable airship, the Zeppelin, describing Schwarz as the inventor, the developers, the postal services offered by the airships, and the air mail deliveries they made between 1930 and 1937.

Teréz Csécs: Post Offices, Postal Workers, and the Scientific Compendium

In the early 19th century, people working in science decided that they needed an encyclopedic scientific journal alongside the very few literary and news magazines published in Hungarian. The outcome was The Scientific Compendium, first published in 1817. The problem came in getting the new magazine to its readers. At the time, one way of finding the funds for publications was to sell subscriptions, with deliveries going directly from the publisher to the reader, with or without the post office as intermediary. In this study, the author focuses on subscriptions to The Scientific Compendium and postal deliveries, describing the operation of the postal service, the manner in which the magazine was ordered by postal workers, its readership, and the postal workers who wrote for it. She concludes that an increasingly advanced postal network was a major contributor to the 25-year run of the journal, making it one of the most successful periodicals of the era.

László Vizy: Rezső Ócsvár’s Art in Postcard Design

Hand-drawn and painted artistic prints and messages are a separate and noteworthy chapter in the history of the postcard. The Postal Museum toured the country with some three

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