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Article Citation - WoS: 7Citation - Scopus: 8Transferring Technical Knowledge To Turkey: American Engineers, Scientific Experts, and the Erzincan Earthquake of 1939(Royal Society Publishing, 2022) Tunc,T.E.; Tunc,G.On 27 December 1939, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Erzincan, Turkey, claiming close to 33 000 lives, and leaving 100 000 injured and 250 000 homeless. World War II was in its initial stages, and the USA was particularly concerned about the vulnerable situation in Turkey, since there was a possibility that it would join forces with Germany, as the Ottoman Empire had done in World War I. Consequently, the Turkish request for information on 'a type of quake resistant concrete construction understood to have been developed in California', resulted in a flurry of correspondence between numerous Turkish and American actors, including the US State Department, which supplied this material with notable attentiveness. As this article will argue, this request not only represents an early critical juncture in the transfer of earthquake engineering knowledge from the USA to Turkey, but also illustrates how diplomacy and engineering can intersect at pivotal points in time. Engineers and other scientific experts strengthened the Turkish-American relationship during this period, thereby laying the foundation of the technical cooperation that would flourish during the Cold War. This watershed moment also resulted in immediate developments in Turkey, such as the development of a comprehensive national disaster management programme, a seismic zone map, and earthquake building codes. © 2021 The Author(s).Article EĞİTİMİN TEKNOLOJİ İLE SINAVI(Herkese Bilim Teknoloji, 2017) Erton, İsmailTeknoloji… Bu kelimeyi her gün telaffuz etmeyen veya her gün, her saat, her dakika nimetlerinden istifade etmeyen var mı? En azından evlerimizde kullandığımız elektrik bile beli bir teknolojik altyapıyı gerektiriyor. Hayatın hemen her alanında ve her sektörde teknoloji kullanılıyor. Eğitim sektörü de elbette bu pastadan payını alıyor. Günümüzde eğitim teknolojileri denilince herkesin aklına cep telefonları, tablet veya dizüstü bilgisayarlar ve projeksiyon cihazları geliyor. Oysa, 1795 yılında Nicolas-Jacques Conte’nin kurşunkalemi bulması veya Christopher Sholes’in 1868 yılında QWERTY klavyeye sahip ilk daktiloyu geliştirmesi de zamanın müthiş icatları veya başka bir deyişle teknolojik gelişmeleriydi. Peki ne değişti? Eskilere, yani X kuşağı ve öncesine soracak olursanız şu anki teknolojiye duyulan ihtiyaç çok abartılı ve gereksiz. Oysaki Y ve Z kuşakları için elektriklerin 5 dakika kesilmesi ve internetin devre dışı kalması tamammül edilemez bir durum! Aslında her kuşak kendine göre haklı argümanlar barındırıyor.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 9Refrigeration Technology in Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman Period Hospitals(Gazi Univ, 2014) Ozcan, Zuhal; Disli, Gulsen; Interior Architecture and Environmental DesignThe precise identification of ancient refrigeration systems is problematic, since nearly every technological advance is the result of long accumulation of human experience shaped according to the environmental, cultural, social and climatic conditions of the period and region. Besides, the scarcity of firsthand documentary records doubles the problem. Therefore, in the course of the discussions, being aware of the difficulties of the subject matter, it was an important phase to fill the gap in the area of history of refrigeration technology by the help of the hospital cases in Anatolia. It takes the form of a case study that focuses as much on the context and motives for the possible refrigeration technologies used and applied in historical hospital buildings.
