Engineering / Late Ottoman Empire / Railways and Bridges: كنج مهندس

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Engineering / Late Ottoman Empire / Railways and Bridges: كنج مهندس

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MÜHENDIS MEKTEBI İKTISAD CEMIYETI [Ottoman Society of Engineering and Economy]. Hasan RASIM – Hüseyin HILMI – Osman NURI (ed.). VARIOUS AUTHORS.

[Genç mühendis / Young Engineer]

Istanbul: [Various Publishers] 1324-1330 [1909-1914]

26 issues (of 62) in one volume, 4°: Nos. 1-26, each with 8 pp., nos. 25 and 26 with 16 pp. each, contemporary faux alligator skin card binding (no. 16 mistakenly marked as 15, minor foxing and age-toning, tiny folds in corners, but overall in a good, used condition, binding slightly rubbed, especially around the spine) (#70636).

A set of a rare Ottoman magazines on the modern engineering, issued by Ottoman Society of Engineering and Economy and focusing on the latest achievements, mostly on the railway and bridge-building, which was at the time perfected in order to construct railways through geologically and geographically difficult terrains of the Middle East with two major projects of the Baghdad and Hejaz railways.

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The magazine invited young engineers from the Ottoman Empire and from abroad to publish their articles and sketches. Numerous texts were written by various important engineers and architects, as several of the articles were published unsigned.

The subjects are mostly concentrated on construction of bridges and railways, but also on modern machinery and mathematics. The subjects became important for big projects, such as the construction of the Hejaz Railway, engineering solutions on various parts of the Baghdad railway and water regulations in today’s Iraq.

Worldcat lists two institutional examples (National Library of Israel, Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden).

References: OCLC 1122578209, 73530299.

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