Turkey
This page will naturally bear a relation to the Ottoman Empire and will serve in the shorter term as a structural repository for leads on further research.
TR is the nation code abbreviation for Turkey, within this wiki, and elsewhere.
Patents
We don't yet have records of patents in this country, but we have some indication that patents were being solicited and granted. H.W. Stock, located in "Constantinople", was a Foreign Member of CIPA from 1891.[1] Apparently the foundational patent law was enacted in 1879.[2]
Language
The present Turkish alphabet was mandated in 1928 as part of Atatürk's Reforms.[3] Should we find any patents filed with the Turkish or Ottoman government, during the period on which we are focused, we will quite likely be dealing with a Turkish variation of the Arabic script.
We have the latter-mentioned contemporaneous Arabic script physically on hand, within Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish, compiled on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office, Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division, No. 01024, September, 1915.
People affiliated with Turkey: Richard von Mises, Serkis-Bey Ballian
Patents filed by Turks or by people located in Turkey
- Patent GB-1884-2628 (English title: Navigable balloon and parachute, Inventors: Serkis-Bey Ballian, Supplementary to patent: Patent FR-1883-159430)
- Patent FR-1883-159430 (English title: new apparatus for aerial navigation, Inventors: Serkis-Bey Ballian)
- Patent FR-1908-395771 (English title: Apparatus of aviation - flapping wings, Inventors: Léon Ladislas Czajkowski • Stanislas Koch)
See also:
- Ottoman Aviation Squadrons on English Wikipedia (This has a lot of valuable information.)
- Turkish General Directorate of Civil Aviation
- www.turkpatent.gov.tr
- Some historical context offered by the Turkish Directorate General Of Civil Aviation
References
- ↑ Transactions of the Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, Vol. 24 (1905–1906), frontmatter xvi.
- ↑ Buket Candan, "Intellectual Property Legislation in the Ottoman Era and its Effects on Knowledge Production", Athens Journal of Mediterranean Studies 3(3), 2017, p. 275: "The first Patent Law of Ottomans was again enacted in the Period of Autocracy in 1879. However, Ottomans were underdeveloped in terms of industrialisation compared to Europe and they could not produce technology but they imported technology, so the enactment of the law was in favour of the countries transferring technology. This law had been valid for more than 100 years until the Decree no: 551 having force of Law was in effect in 1995 (Bülbül and Özbay 2010: 51, Kılıçoğlu 2013: 25)."
- ↑ Turkish alphabet on English Wikipedia
