Postai és Távközlési Múzeumi Alapítvány Évkönyve, 1998

Rövid tartalmi összefoglaló angol nyelven

At the World Post Day in October, the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Post Office Vehicle Garage was celebrated at the Egressy út site, where we exhibited the Museum’s Csonka tricycle. On the same day, the divisional director of the Hungarian Post Office opened our exhibition 100 years of the Post Office Vehicle Garage presenting the history of postal transport. A wreath was laid at János Csonka’s grave in Farkasrét Cemetery by representatives of the Hungarian Post Office and the Garage. In Miskolc, the Postal Museum opened its new Post Horn Philatelic Gallery in Miskolc.

In November we completed the transfer of the picture and drawing store, the document archive and the small printed matter store into the new collection stores.

In December there was another advent exhibition and fair showing art works added to the Postal Museum’s student and craft collections. A separate musical and literary programme related to the event was held every day between the second-last and the last Sunday before Christmas. In commemoration of Faraday’s Christmas lectures we held another Museum Day in Diósd. Eva Ferencz’ lecture, Old Hungarian advent songs and folk prayers closed not only the Advent Salon, but also the Postal Museum’s 1998 events.

Mrs Gergely Kovács: Marginal notes to a Radio History CD-ROM

With the support of the Ministry of Transport, Telecommunications and Water, the Foundation of Postal and Telecommunications Museums released its first CD-ROM, a history of the radio. Released in Hungarian and English versions, it is intended to serve technical education, disseminate technical history, and contribute to international telecommunications policy. Its potential for the latter derives from its wealth of information on all aspects of Hungarian radio communications history, together with the entire historical catalogue of Hungarian radio receiver manufacture.

The volume of the historical and radio-receiver catalogue material collected was such that the text, images and audio material would not fit on a single CD. The history of Hungarian radio and catalogue of receiver was therefore produced in a two-CD set. The first disc is the history of Hungarian radio, and the second the catalogue of receivers.

The history of Hungarian radio is introduced by a brief chronology of the events leading up to the invention of radio and the development of the world’s radio broadcasting (1826-1923).

The beginnings of Hungarian broadcasting were Tivadar Puskás’ Telephone News Service, experiments in wireless transmissions, and the setting up of the first radio station, the spark-telegraph station in Csepel (1914). Experimental broadcasts (1923-1925) culminated in the start of the first regular radio station in December 1925. The history of transmission and studios and changes in stations between 1926 and 1997 are then given year by year.

The first CD is audio material accompanied by images. It also has appendices with facsimiles of the main radio government decrees.

The second CD presents 1066 Hungarian-made radio receivers, with brief technical descriptions and a photograph or reproduction of the contemporary price list and advertisement. The text of the product description is confined to the main characteristics.

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