This is what printing looked like in the olden days . Photo : Blaž Zupančič .
Tito ’ s Lincoln Continental . Photo : Aleksander Šenekar .
The first car came to the museum in 1953 , and over the next seventy years it multiplied into extensive collections of all sorts of road vehicles . The exhibitions Our Beloved Car 8 and Motorcycles from Koper sum up the first century of motoring in Slovenia and the history of the only Slovenian motorcycle manufacturer , Koper-based Tomos factory .
Jauny Braille typewriter allows blind and visually impaired to write in Braille alphabet , ca . 1930 . Photo : Nada Žgank , Domen Pal .
Significant both as technical heritage and because of its historical value , the collection of limousines that were in possession of Yugoslav President Tito has a special place in our museum . It is complemented with the first armored state car purchased in the independent Slovenia .
Besides Austro-Daimler and Wanderer ( produced before and few years after WWI ), the car collection includes a 1930 ’ s Chrysler limousine , which was one of popular American car brands in our country . Photo : Dragan Arrigler .
Lincoln Continental — a four-door cabriolet with the 8V engine , fitted with air-conditioning , power seats and a lot of other amenities , was donated to Tito by the staff of the Zagreb Fair in September 1965 . Tito used it on the Brioni Islands until 1979 , driving around his many guests from all walks of life ; among others a famous on-and-off couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . Burton visited Yugoslavia in the preparation for the role of Marshal Tito in a 1973 partisan film The Battle of Sutjeska . 9
8 Other than a Baron and the owner of the first car in Carniola ( Benz Velo Comfortable , 1898 ), Anton Codelli ( 1875 – 1954 ) was a prolific inventor . His first patented invention was an ignition system for automobile engines ( the patent was also registered in the USA ), and his most acclaimed a device for mechanical transmission of an image at a distance . In Togo , Africa , he was involved in the construction of a radiotelegraph station “ guilty ” of the first radio transmission between Africa and Europe in late 1913 – a remarkable achievement at that time . 9 From Burton ’ s diary entries recording a trip with ( at the time ) his wife E . Taylor to visit Tito in preparation of the film : August 7 , 1971 . He met Churchill , who
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