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Tuesday 12 sepTember 2017

Post Aruba Introduces New Set of Stamps ‘Antique Stamps 2017’

ORANJESTAD - Aruba Post casting. medium for entertainment, and 1840s by Samuel Morse typewriter. It is a beautifully
Aruba N.V. is proud to an- The earliest 1920s radios did education, news, politics (1791-1872) and other in- decorated machine, cov-
nounce they have emitted not show any station num- and advertising. ventors, the telegraph rev- ered in hand painted floral
a new set of stamps recent- bers; instead, their knobs One of the first experimen- olutionized long-distance groupings. Yet this typewrit-
ly called ‘Antiques Stamps were marked with numbers tal wireless television trans- communication. It worked er, for all its imperfections,
2017’. The set consists of would come to shape his-
five (5) stamps namely tory. It was the first to utilize
90c, 130c, 220c, 305c and the now familiar “QWERTY”
420c, for a total amount keyboard.
of Afl. 11,65. The first-day- The Sholes & Glidden type-
envelope costs Afl. 13,15. writer was the first to be
The stamps are designed faster than handwriting
by Mrs. Rhona Lemminga. and with improved carbon
They are printed by the paper; antique typewriters
Johan Enschedé Security could generate multiple
Print. copies of the same docu-
ment. Collectors today can
These stamps will be avail- easily identify vintage type-
able at all the Post Office writers by the brand names
locations, namely in Oran- that are generally stamped
jestad, San Nicolas and Sta. on the fronts of these ma-
Cruz. Make sure that you chines in large letters. The
have this set in your collec- exact age and year can
tion as the stock is limited. be more difficult to deter-
For more information on mine, but serial and model
the ‘Antiques Stamp 2017’ numbers are useful starting
issue, please contact the points.
Philatelic Department at 420 c – The Telephone
528-7678 / main office lo- In 1871 young Alexander
cated at J.E. Irausquinplein Graham Bell a Scot, (1847-
# 9, Oranjestad or visit their 1922), son of Alexander
Facebook page Aruba from 0-100 or sometimes missions was by the Scottish by transmitting electrical Melville Bell, who was the
Stamps. nothing at all. Although inventor, engineer John signals over a wire laid be- inventor of “visible speech,”
90c - The Radio there is no precise criterion Logie Baird on November tween stations and it was an alphabet that used sym-
Commencing in 1890, first for a radio being antique, 25, 1925, in London. The first successfully tested in 1837 bols to represent human
possibilities were explored typically a 50-year-old or color television transmission but is no longer in use to- sounds, moved to Boston,
to deliberately create and World War II vacuum tube was on July 3, 1928 using a day, its fall did give rise to Massachusetts as a teach-
receive radio waves. By set, and a pre-1960 transis- mechanical process. many other forms of long er to the deaf. He worked
September 1895, Gugliel- tor set would qualify. The addition of color to distance communication. on ways to translate the hu-
mo Marconi, a self-taught ¬The Cabinet design, and broadcast television after Telegrams were sent by a man voice into vibrations,
21-year-old from Bologna, the band and frequency 1953 further increased the telegraph machine. They and thus came up with the
had already performed markings on the dial is often popularity of television sets were a fast way to send idea for the telephone. In
simple experiments which a strong indicator of when in the 1960s, and an out- important news for people 1875 Bell began working
had convinced him that it a radio was made. The door antenna became a without telephones. A tele- with his assistant, Thomas
was possible to send signals Cathedral and tombstone common feature of subur- graph operator tapped the Watson, a mechanically-in-
by using electromagnetic style wooden cabinets ban homes. Although the message out in code using clined electrician; by 1876
waves to connect a trans- were most popular during first television transmission a machine called a Morse Bell had uttered the first in-
mitting and a receiving an- the 1930s. took place in England in key. ... This was called a telligible sentence over the
tenna. From 1896 onwards, 130c – Television 1925, collectors find few telegram. phone: “Mr. Watson, come
he was the leading head Television (TV) is a telecom- sets that pre-date 1946. The 305c- Typewriter here, I want you.”
and whose work lead to munication medium used first sets had only five chan- The first American patent It was Alexander Graham
wireless telecommunica- for transmitting moving nels, but by 1949 the addi- for what might be called a Bell that since its invention
tion. images in monochrome tional UHF channels were typewriter was granted to in 1876 that was given a
Within the timeline of radio, (black and white), or in included. Cable television William Austin Burt, of De- patent for the first opera-
many people contributed color, and in two or three was introduced in the 1940s troit, in 1829. However, the tional telephone. The tele-
theory and inventions in dimensions and sound. The and the first TV remote con- breakthrough came in 1867 phone evolved along with
what became radio. Radio term can refer to a televi- troller appeared in 1956. when Christopher Latham the technology of the time.
development began as sion set, a television pro- The first color television set Sholes of Milwaukee with It was this invention that
“wireless telegraphy”. Later gram (“TV show”), or the became available in 1951. the assistance of his friends proved to revolutionize the
radio history increasingly medium of television trans- 220c – Telegraph machine Carlos Glidden and Samuel way people communicate
involves matters of broad- mission. Television is a mass Developed in the 1830s W. Soule invented their first throughout the world.q