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In this paper, History of Production, Inventions and Discoveries by Mankind (1888), written by Huseyin Vasfi Efendi from Plovdiv where in Bulgaria today, will be presented and evaluated in terms of the history of machinery and technology of the Ottoman Empire. In this book, only inventions, discoveries and innovations are listed chronologically; their technical specifications are not disclosed. Written by the Ottomans at the end of the 19th century, this work has been studied with the idea that it can shed light on the Ottomans' understanding of industrialization and technology, despite the Europeans who lived and realized the industrial revolution earlier.
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I would like to thank for her help for English translation of this paper to Professor Mine Dosay Akbulut. Other thanks to Associate Professor Nazan Karakaş Özür for drawing the map in Fig. 2, and to Dr. Vural Başaran for his support the technical matters of this paper.
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Gokdogan, M.D. (2022). The Contribution of Huseyin Vasfi Efendi from Plovdiv to Ottoman Technological Literature. In: Ceccarelli, M., López-García, R. (eds) Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms. HMM 2022. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98499-1_5
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