125 years - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1990 - 10 Pfennig

125 years of UIT On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the International Telecommunications Union (Union Internationale télécommunications - UIT), the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic issues four multi-color special postage stamps and one block. Special cancellation from 15 May to 14 July 1990 125 years of UIT The International Telecommunications Union - Union internationale des télécommunications (UIT) - is the oldest and largest international organization. Founded on May 17, 1865, as an International Telegraph Union, UIT was granted special UN status in 1947 by a treaty with the United Nations under Article 57 of the UN Charter. The UIT currently comprises 166 member states; the GDR joined the telecommunications association on April 3, 1973 at. The fundamental goal of the UIT is to promote international cooperation and to develop suggestions for the improvement of all types of telecommunication. For this purpose, the Telecommunications Union shall harmonize international law on participation in international telecommunications, adopt operational, legal and charging regulations and technical standards, prepare the introduction of new services (such as telecopying over the telephone network) and use of space for the purposes of Telecommunications promoted. The stamp series gives an overview of significant stages of the technical development of telecommunications. 10 Pfennig value: type printing Telegraph of E. Hughes 1855 and portrait The Englishman E. Hughes constructed 1855 a type pressure telegraph. In addition to the apparatuses of Wheatstone (1848), Bain (1843) and Siemens (1850), this is one of the first apparatuses to give lasting signs over long distances (hence remote message). The Hughes Telegraph was first used on the Worcester-Springfield line in 1856 and introduced to Europe in 1858. The use on long international lines next to the Morseapparait took place from 1868 on the basis of a resolution of the International Telegraph Congress in Vienna in the same year. After all, the efficiency was already 19 words per minute when transmitting a telegram (modern teletypes transmit several hundred words per minute).