MUSEUM OF POST AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
An off-site unit of the Technical Museum of Slovenia , the Museum of Post and Telecommunications is housed in the Polhov Gradec Mansion . 10 It gives an overview of the history of post from prehistory to modern days , 11 while the permanent exhibition ( Tele ) communications in the Past , at Present , and in the Future ! illustrates the development of telecommunications from Morse telegraph to the first mobile phones .
Designed in 1978 by Davorin Savnik , the ETA 80 telephone manufactured by Iskra also makes part of the MoMA permanent collection on industrial design . Photo : Mare Cotič-Trojer .
Our visitors can test some exhibits themselves , for instance the manual and automatic telephone exchanges . Installed in Ljubljana in 1927 , Strowger was the first automatic telephone exchange in the Kingdom of Serbs , Croats and Slovenes .
The mansion has a beautiful park with a rose garden . Photo : Dragan Arrigler .
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Strowger automatic telephone exchange . Photo : Blaž Zupančič . is a whole lot more to be discovered …
10 In the first half of the 19th century , Count Richard Ursini von Blagay became the owner of the Polhov Gradec estate and mansion . Count Blagay was a botany enthusiast , and in 1837 he was brought an unknown flowering plant by one of the locals . He immediately knew that something important was found , assuming it was probably a daphne . He was right , his daphne was really a new species , named in his honor Daphne blagayana . 11 Lovrenc Košir ( 1804 – 1879 ) was a civil servant with the Austro-Hungarian Royal Postal Accountancy Office . In 1835 , he proposed improvements to the postal service and the introduction of an adhesive tax-paid postmark – a postage stamp . His idea was ahead of its time and rejected by the authorities . His latter attempts to be acknowledged as the inventor of postal stamps failed because his original proposal documents were lost .
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