Postal Museum

Visited the Post Office Museum in an effort to find more science museums in the Budapest area! It is in a small part of town just a few M1 stops from oktogan square, it is a small exhibition of each the postal, telegraph, telephone, and radio systems through out their earliest iterations. Hungary was an innovative plcplace at the start of the postal service. They were the first to use motor vehicles instead of bikes to collect and deliver mail, they invented the postal boxes that had automatic emptying through the bottom into a canvas bag, and they invented a secure lock that ties the mail bags shut that is still in use today. When it came to the telephone they were one of the first countries to create everything required to put the telephone under state control and expand it across the entire country. They also set up a radio center after the initial testing and repair shops for radios as time went on, and built an outstanding structure to transmit signals that supported itself and transmitted signal.

A side note there were two people working and they were so excited to see us and a lot of the stuff that they had still worked and this lady who didn't speak English showed us all of it and it was super fun and interactive, and we learned a lot about the old way people communicated and the inventions that got us closer to the communication system we have today!