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ANCOM Launches the Virtual Museum of Telecommunications Equipment
17.05.2013
Today, 17 May 2013, on the World Communications Day, the Romanian Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) opened, on its website – www.ancom.org.ro, a virtual museum of electronic communications equipment, available here.
The museum, consisting of photos of outdated communications equipment provided by the Authority’s personnel, illustrates for the public the evolution of communications equipment through various stages. Among the exhibits, one can see some of the last ebony telephone sets made in Romania, telephone devices used in battle during World War II, the first frequency measurement equipment used by the Authority’s experts, as well as a mini-collection of grandparents’ radio and fixed telephone sets.
”Following the success of the Authority’s communications equipment exhibition launched in 2011, we wanted to further make these exhibits available to people who are keen on this domain and therefore created a virtual museum for all those who wish to discover or, why not, rediscover landmarks in the history/evolution of telecommunications. Thus, we celebrate the World Communications Day - May 17th - while trying to propagate yesterday’s echo into our times, be it in a virtual way only. It is always important to remember where we set off and to keep a clear view on how much we have advanced. This helps us correctly set our future targets”, the ANCOM president, Cătălin Marinescu, declared.
The virtual museum inaugurated today is the Authority’s solution to keep open the equipment exhibition launched in 2011, when it celebrated 20 years since the establishment of the first institutions in charge of the radio spectrum management in Romania. The exhibition could be visited in several cities and towns throughout the country and raised considerable interest and appreciation. The virtual museum, set up by the Authority’s IT specialists, is available on the website www.ancom.org.ro, here.
On the same occasion of the World Communications Day, ANCOM organised at its Bucharest headquarters a seminar on the history of communications, for the children from the Centre of Complex Studies (CSC), a non-profit organisation promoting academic and pragmatic approaches for the purpose of the economic validation of the new theories, models, concepts and notions resulted from studies and research conducted in the field of nonlinear phenomena (dynamic systems, synergetics, self-organisation, chaos theory, fractals). During the seminar, the children visited the equipment museum available at the ANCOM headquarters, learnt about the electromagnetic spectrum and its importance in the history of communications, they could see how the monitoring activity is performed and found how they could become radioamateurs, a first step for a career in communications.
May 17th was declared the World Communications Day 148 years ago, when the first International Telegraph Convention was signed, in Paris, on 17 May 1865, marking the founding of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
