The Living Museum of Bulgarian Technology
“These are the last years in which something serious can still be done to save the vanishing history of Bulgarian technology. Now is the time for concrete deeds,” says Anton Orush. And his deeds are astonishing. Over 12 years of enormous effort, he has assembled the most complete collection of Bulgarian technology in existence, along with a whole sea of information about its past and present. At just 30, he is a living encyclopedia, and his home is a remarkable library of stories. Let us set off on an unforgettable technological visit.
02Radio-TV-Gramophone: 5 Unexpected Bulgarian Technologies
Did you know that the mains voltage in Bulgaria wasn’t always 220 volts? Or that a fascinating Bulgarian computer game from the early ’80s turned into… a prophecy with its very title? What did the first Bulgarian electric scooters look like? And could the “hipsters of the ’60s” who rode them also get themselves a radio-TV-gramophone… provided they could carry 120 kilograms on their shoulder? Once again we set off through the colorful history of Bulgarian technology with the most precise and captivating guide. For 15 years now, Anton Orush has been gathering a sea of information (and exhibits) about its past and present. His incredible life, worthy of a novel, was one of the first digital stories. So here we go, boarding the time machine for 5 stops back in history: 5 fascinating stories from the past of technology in our lands.
03Six Forgotten Treasures of Bulgarian Technology
What set the old Bulgarian ancestors of the computer mouse apart? What exactly is punched tape? What did the first electronic chess set made in Bulgaria look like? And how did the world's largest floppy disks come to be… Bulgarian? Anton Orush is the living archive of Bulgarian technology, and the creator of “Sandacite” shows us six of his remarkable finds.
