Monday, June 21, 2010

Istanbul Technical University

I read Istanbul Technical University was the world's first (third!) technical institution established in 1773. 

It started as the Imperial Naval Engineers' School (Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Humayun), dedicated to training of ship builders and cartographers. 

Its scope broadened over the years (in 1795 to train technical military staff to modernize the Ottoman army and in 1845 to train architects).  In 1909 is bacme a pubic engineering school with training civil engineers as its focus.



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