1976 Mario Paniconi
(1904/73), Giulio Pediconi (1906/99) and Luigi Vagnetti (1915/80) with the assistance of Giorgio Busio, Pietro Ferri and
Leonardo FoderÃ
At Viale
Europa 243 there is the
Historical
Museum of Post and Telecommunications
It was
moved here from the Roma Prati Post Office in 1977 and it opened only in 1982
It occupies
an area of about 3,500 m² (0.86 acres)
Objects
from the period of the Italian states before the unification until the
establishment of the Republic
It is
unique in its kind in Italy and one of the most important in the world. It can
be visited by appointment only
SOME OF THE
ITEMS IN THE COLLECTION:
Copy of a groma
instrument used in ancient Rome to measure and demarcate land
Phone of
1876 of the Bell Company
Automatic
electronic computer ELEA 9003 dating to 1959 and designed by Enrico Fermi
The first
automatic switchboard with ten lines of 1886 by G.B. Marzi
Encryption
machine Enigma used by the British to decipher the messages of the Nazis
during World War II. It is one of the only three pieces of its kind existing in
the world
Reconstruction
with original pieces of the radiotelegraphic cabin of the ship Elettra designed
by Guglielmo Marconi
Collection
of letterboxes. The oldest is from 1633
Incredible
collection of about 950,000 historical stamps from all over the world
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