Museo Tecnologico della Comunicazione (Collezione Cremona)

PRESENTATION NOTE

The Technology Museum of Communication (Cremona Collection) originates at the beginning of 1950 with an initial collection of various remnants of war. It was later enriched by the acquisition of those devices gradually put out of service by the users as a result of rapid technological innovation. Other sources were the traditional ones: trade between collectors and purchases from flea markets.

Today the collection includes some 1,500 artifacts and is divided into 25 thematic sections of the various evolutionary periods of distance human communication, including two complementary sections with exhibition facilities, giant Marconi, library, video library and various.

Following a historical nature trail takes you back step by step:

• By flashes of fire and acoustic signals with horns and shells of prehistoric people, the trumpets, the trumpets, with headlights and lookout stations and reports of the greek-Roman period;
• In the Middle Ages, some acoustic instruments were also used in the broadcast industry: bells, gongs, tam-tam, megaphones, horns, sirens, etc., not to mention the pigeons which have had a considerable effort by all the warring forces both during the Great War in the Second World War;
• Towards the end of 1700, with the aid of the telescope, it originates the optical telegraph code, also known as aerial telegraphy with the famous "Telegraph Napoleon" and many other traffic light signaling systems made in both Europe and America;
• In the nineteenth century, with the use of Electricity, begins the era of technological communication with the telegraph, telephone, telex and facsimile and then continue with the wireless telegraphy of Guglielmo Marconi until the early days of radio, the broadcasting and television with amateur cameras, video recorders and cell phones;
• The military section includes apparatuses of the transmission systems used in the Atlantic Trasvolate and during the 2nd World War with an appendix to the period of the Cold War, up to the radio aid to navigation systems and radio links;
• Of particular interest to the Intelligence machines with radio-suitcases, Section krypton, devices to wiretap, acoustic environmental protection and decontamination kits for electronic, fotofoniche and crypto-phones, minifotocamere, pocket recorders, on-board direction finders and pitched, beacons and apparatuses for SOS receivers broadband jammers and electronic warfare;
• An appendix to this section consists of telegeofoni, seismic-microphones and Geiger counters;
• For domestic use, there is a section with Amateur Radio and handheld devices for the City Band;
• A terrestrial terminal for satellite communications closes the part of Telecommunications in signals, electrical and electronic;
• Finally, some sections include recorders and sound systems for film cameras and accessories, cameras for amateurs and film projectors and with the personal computer will get information technology;
• Section of tools for the construction of telephone lines, intermediates and various apparatuses amplifiers.

The Collection Cremona has had several opportunities to full or partial exposure in Italy and abroad always getting favorable feedback both in news reports that in some broadcasting services, how can you highlight in the "Summary of the Press."

In the editions from 1998 to 2002 he was listed in the Guinness World Records "for breadth, rarity, diversity and historical importance of memorabilia.

On the occasion of two important events for the historic occasion, the High Patronage of the Presidency of the Republic: in 1993 with President Scalfaro for "was granted Telecoms in History" at the Museum of Roman Ships Lake Nemi, and in 2001 with the President Ciampi for the inauguration of the "Guglielmo Marconi room and Telecommunications in History" at the Museum of Colleferro where temporarily housed the Cremona Collection.

For the celebrations of the centenary of the Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to Marconi in 1909, many exhibits of the collection have been exhibited to the public at several events to commemorate the evolution of the discovery of the Radio Telegraphy Without Wires Guglielmo Marconi, to his subsequent and significant progress and what ensued.