The STM’s current thematic exhibition is titled, "Telecommunications in our lives", which shows the characteristics of telecommunications and their development in three themes:

1. Historical development of Telecommunications, which includes:

• Ancient Telecommunications,
• The Telecommunications chronology from mid 17th century until today,
• Screening of scenes from Greek and foreign cinema, using the telephone,
• Interactive Application for the History of Telecommunications,
• Interactive Application for ancient means of Telecommunications.

2. Basic Physics principles which formed the basis for the development of telecommunications, including demonstrations of experiments on the following topics listed below:

Electromagnetism

• Induction Experiments,
• Oersted Experiment,
• Diversion of an electron beam using a magnet,
• Diversion of a current-carrying conductor by means of a magnetic field.

Waves - Optics

• Creation of waves in a water tank,
• Laser Optics: Reflection - Refraction,
• Oscillation of Synthesis: Lissajous Figures, Beats, Amplitude and Frequency Modulation,
• A Short Range Optical Communication System.

Acoustics

• Sound production,
• Sound propagation,
• Sound features,
• Sound phenomena.

Electronics

• Electronic data,
• Lamps / transistors,
• Ιntegrated circuits,
• Digital Logic Gates.

3. Old and modern telecommunications, including museum, photographic, audiovisual and interactive material and information on:

• Wired Telephony,
• Wireless Telephony,
• Satellite Communication,
• Mobile Telephony,
• Different types of Telephone Exchange units, and a demonstration of the operation of the Telephone Exchange unit ATZ-65,
• Radio Communication,
• Sound.

Contributors of the exhibition: Scientific Committee / Working Group for the Organization of the Exhibition

• Evangelos Vitoratos, Professor, Department of Physics, former Director at the STM
• Kordulis Christos, Professor, Department of Chemistry, former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences
• Zelilidis Abraham, Professor, former Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and performing debts of Director at the STM up to 31/8/2010
• Theodoros Deligiannis, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics, Team Coordinator
• Christopher Krontiras, Professor, Department of Physics
• Stavros Kotsopoulos, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Dimitris Lymberopoulos, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Peny Theologi-Gouti, Architect-Ethnologist, Curator at the STM.

Research and Material Collection

• Peny Theologi-Gouti, Architect-Ethnologist, Curator at the STM
• Athena Pilarinos, Electrical Engineer, STM

Exhibition Design

• Peny Theologi-Gouti, Architect-Ethnologist, Curator at the STM

Design and Construction of Experiments

• Theodoros Deligiannis, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physics
• Evangelos Vitoratos, Professor, Department of Physics, Director at the STM
• Spyros Koutsouvelis, Department of Physics
• Giannis Stais, physicist secondary education, volunteer
• Students of the Department of Physics

Study and Coordination of Installation and Activation of the Telephone Exchange ATZ-65 model.

• Costas Bourdoulis, former Technical Staff and Instructor of OTE, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Head of the Installation and Activation of Telephone Exchange ATZ-65
• Costas Kaïpanos, former Technical Staff of OTE
• Andreas Economopoulos, former Technical Staff of OTE 
• Lefteris Raptis, former Technical Staff of OTE

Technical support

• Michalis Revelas, former Technical employee of OTE

Power Installation and Activation

• Costas Dimitrakas and Angelos Angelopoulos, former employees of OTE

Cooperation with OTE

• Miltiadis Sotiropoulos, Regional Director of Telecommunications Region of Southern and Western Greece
• Christos Antonopoulos, Head of Telecommunications Facilities Department of Southern and Western Greece

Cooperation with INTRACOM

• Mihalis Karamanos, Deputy General Manager

Implementation of a digital interactive exhibit on the History of Telecommunications

• Nikolaos Avouris, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Scientific Director
• Peny Theologi-Gouti, Architect-Ethnologist, Curator at the STM
• Vasilis Vlahokyriakos, student

Development of other digital interactive applications

• Dimitrios K. Tsolis, Computer Engineer, MSc, PhD
  Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics
• Intern Students from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics

Development of Interactive constructions

• Spyros Koutsouvelis, Department of Physics
• Rebecca Tsoulou, Architectural Engineer
• Students of the Department of Architecture in the context of an Internship

Donors of Museum Objects

• Members of the Academic Community and private individuals
• European Space Agency
• Hellenic Army General Staff 3^rd Battalion of War Materials
• OSE Hellenic Railways Organization, National Administrator of Railway Infrastructure, Production Management
• OTE Museum of Telecommunications
• Regional Directorate of OTE S.A. -The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Telecommunications region of Southern and Western Greece
• Wind Hellas
• Several Laboratories of the University of Patras and in particular the Laboratories of:

1. Wireless Communications, ECE Department
2. Wired Communications, ECE Department
3. Applied Electronics, ECE Department
4. Electronics Laboratory, Physics Department

Donors of Printable or Audiovisual Material

•  COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A.
•  Educational Television
•  Film Archive ERT- Hellenic Radio Television
•  Goulandris Natural History Museum
•  Greek Safer Internet Awareness Centre, Saferinternet.gr
•  Hellas Sat
•  Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy
•  Hellenic Data Protection Authority
•  Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission
•  National Atomic Energy Commission
•  National Research Foundation
•  Optical Society of America
•  OTE Museum of Telecommunications
•  Research Academic Computer Technology Institute
•  VODAFONE-PANAFON S.A.

Sponsors

• VODAFONE-PANAFON S.A.
• COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A.
• INTRACOM-TELECOM
• OTE S.A.-Telecommunications Region of Southern and Western Greece

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