Telephone History Museum In Moscow

 Telephone History Museum In Moscow  

The company ‘Mastertel’ opened a Telephone History Museum which is located at the company’s headquarters in Moscow. Telephones of different world leading telephone producers of 1876-1970 are exhibited there. A rare collection of domestic telephones is also shown there.

On the picture you can see an ATEA desk telephone, 1948, Antwerp. 

A Bell desk telephone, 1890, USA.      

An L. M. Ericsson (Lars Magnus Ericsson) telephone, 1895, Sweden. This telephone with an inductor call became the company’s trademark. The common people called it ‘skeleton-telephone’.   It was widely used in Europe (including Russia) and in the United States, at social infractructure facilities and in apartments.

A Siemens desk telephone, 1878, Germany. This telephone was made of wood and was simultaneously used as a microphone and a receiver. When one of the interlocutors was speaking, the other one had to keep silent. The two of them could not speak at the same time. At first the telephone had no ring. It was used by German postal authorities.

A Siemens & Halske (Siemens) desk telephone, automatic telephone system, model ZBSA 11, 1910, Germany.

Greenhouse by Czech designer Kristina Pojerov

Greenhouse by Czech designer Kristina Pojerov is a suspended glass domed lamp with an inner gutter for growing herbs and other small plants in urban environments. A cylindrical opening in the base permits quick access by hand to the lamps interior, and allows additional light to exit below. The lamp is for sale at Art Light and retails for approximately $1,900.

How to make a mini greenhouse with grow lamp

Jasper and Justin show you how they made there very own mini greenhouse with grow lamp.

watch the method

Sophisticated Wooden Structures

Wonderful Structures Made By The Wood

Along with Stone, Mud and Animal Parts, Wood is certainly One of the Ist Material worked by Primitive Human Beings.

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Microwear Analysis of the Mousterian Stone Tools used by the Neanderthals Show that many were used to work Wood.

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The development of Civilization was closely tied to the development of increasingly greater degrees of skill in working these materials.

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Among early finds of Wooden Tools are the worked sticks from Kalambo Falls, Clacton-on-Sea and Lehringen.

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The spears from Schöningen (Germany) provide some of the first examples of Wooden Hunting Gear.

Flint Tools were used for Carving.

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2 Ancient Civilizations that used Wood-Working were the Egyptians and the Chinese.

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Wood-Working is depicted in many Ancient Egyptian Drawings and a considerable amount of Ancient Egyptian Furniture (such as Stools, Chairs, Tables, Beds, Chests) has been preserved in Tombs.

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Since Neolithic Times, Carved Wooden Vessels are known, for example, from the Linear Pottery Culture wells at Kückhofen and Eythra.

Examples of Bronze Age Wood-Carving include Tree Trunks worked into Coffins from Northern Germany and Denmark.

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As well, the Inner Coffins found in the Tombs were also made of Wood.

The Metal used by the Egyptians for Wood-Working Tools was originally Copper and eventually,

after 2000 BC Bronze as Iron-Working was unknown until much later.

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The site of Fellbach-Schmieden in Germany has provided fine examples of Wooden Animal Statues from the Iron Age.

Wooden Idols from the La Tène Period are known from a sanctuary at the source of the Seine in France.