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| 60 years from the first radio set made by Radio Popular. (03.06.2009) Francisc VISKY | Hits: 450 Replies: 0 |
| In the Monitorul Oficial ( Monitorul Oficial is the official gazette of Romania , in which all the promulgated bills, presidential decrees, governmental ordinances and other major legal acts are published.) nr. 252 1948, 29 october it is mentioned the fact that S.A.R. Philips- Bucuresti is renamed with Radio Popular Factory as a result of nationalization. From the installation, as radio manufacturer in Romania, Philips manufactured circa 60000 radio sets with imported parts. In the next year 1949, the firs annual plan has started and so the first radio set based on the Russian model Rekord 47. Nobody has had the courage to change the name so the first Radio Popular radio has the same name: Record and an internal code S 49 U . I can not explain the “S” but 49 is stated for the year of introduction in production and “U” for “universal”. AC-DC set. The textile and the model around the dial glass are from Philips (see Philips 32U). It was produced around 20000, S 49 U sets and many more based on the similar Russian products. | |
| The History of Television in Romania (29.03.2009) Wolfgang Scheida | Hits: 379 Replies: 1 |
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Short History of Television in Romania
Special thanks to RM.org member Mrs. Lenuta Chirita from the Musee de la Science et de la Technique Bucharest.
I n Romania, the first pieces of information on television were published in two specialized magazines, Radio Român and Radiofonia , already in 1925.
By then, television had not yet had an official name.
Baird refers to it as televisor – and the Romanian versiosn oscillate between radio-viziune , radioteleviziune and televiziune .
In 1925 the Accoustics and Optics Laboratory within the University of Bucharest carried out the experiment which consisted in the transmission at small distances of some drawings.
George D. Cristescu,physicist, published the first work on television in Romania “On Television” (original title “ Problema televiziunii ”), Bucharest, 1928, where he proposed a new system of mechanical exploration [1]. In 1928 he also carried out the first attempts within Romania of tele-transmission of images.
In November 1937, the Romanian Athenaeum of Bucharest presented within a demonstrative co More... |
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| Radio and Radiophony in Romania (05.10.2005) Lenuta Chirita | Hits: 2734 Replies: 2 |
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In Romania, the first wireless telegraph equipment, imported from France in 1903, was installed on the sea ships: Regele Carol I , Principesa Maria , Împãratul Traian , Dacia , România and at the headquarters of the Romanian Navy Service in Constanþa. The station of S.M.R. acted throughout 600 km ensuring the communication with the ships on the sea [1]. The land army was equipped in 1908 with mobile stations from Germany (three devices with sparks, type Telefunken ) and in 1913 with stations of low power from England (produced by Marconi Company). The equipment was inappropriate so that when Romania entered World War I, the army did not own any device of high power, which could enable the communication at distances of more than 1000 km [2]. Under these circumstances, eng. Emil Giurgea made available his own station built with components More... |
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