Job title
Muhendis Kalemi Muavini
Group of job titles: Technical and stores
Stored spellings: Muhendis Kalemi muavini; muhendis kalemi muavini
1 official held the job title Muhendis Kalemi Muavini. Its 4 annual entries run from 1857 to 1865 (AH 1274 to 1281). The median of the 4 recorded monthly salaries is 1,500 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 2 places. The place with the largest number of officials is İzmit, with 1.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1274 to 1281, 4 years with an entry
- 1857 to 1865
- Median monthly salaryfrom 4 recorded salaries
- 1,500 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 2
Profile of the group: Technical and stores
No source read describes Muhendis Kalemi Muavini 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tekirdağ | Edirne province | 1 | 2 | 1857 to 1859 |
| İzmit | İzmit province | 1 | 2 | 1863 to 1865 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madilli Efendi | 1857 to 1865 | 4 | 1,000 to 2,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Muhendis Kalemi Muavini
- 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)