Job title
Muhendis Kalemi Basmemur
Group of job titles: Technical and stores
1 official held the job title Muhendis Kalemi Basmemur. Its 3 annual entries run from 1895 to 1898 (AH 1313 to 1315). The median of the 3 recorded monthly salaries is 765 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1313 to 1315, 3 years with an entry
- 1895 to 1898
- Median monthly salaryfrom 3 recorded salaries
- 765 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Technical and stores
No source read describes Muhendis Kalemi Basmemur by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Technical offices of the Post and Telegraph ministry, among them the telegraph factory, the Engineer Office (mühendis kalemi) and the science office (fen kalemi). The factory, opened in 1869, made and repaired telegraph instruments, batteries and postal goods; the science office was directed for years by the French electrician Emile Lacoine.
History
Until 1869 all telegraph machines were imported. From 1883 the ministry sent graduates of Darüşşafaka to study telegraphy in Paris; those who returned were given posts of importance, and in 1901 two of them held posts at the head of the Engineer Office and of the factory.
Sources
- Davison, Roderic H. (1990). The advent of the electric telegraph in the Ottoman Empire. In Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923, 133-165. Austin: University of Texas Press. Read in the Turkish translation by Durdu Mehmet Burak, OTAM 14 (2003), 347-386; pages are those of the translation.Pages or part: 365. Used for: summary, history.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 30, 105-108, 141 (appendix B). Used for: summary, history.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 3 | 1895 to 1898 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahmut Hamdi Bey | 1895 to 1898 | 3 | 765 to 800 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Muhendis Kalemi Basmemur
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)