Turkish inventors, their inventions and famous products of Turkey

The Most Famous Turkish

Inventors, their

Inventions

and

Famous Products

of Turkey

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Akşemsettin He was born in 1389 and he died in

1459. He was the teacher of Fatih

Sultan Mehmet(Mehmed the

Conqueror), philosopher and a

scientist.

He discovered the germ before

microscope was discovered. He

explained germ “Ilnesses spreads

person to person with very little living

creatures which we can’t see” So he

explained the “germ”.

BEHRAM KURŞUNOĞLU

Prof.Dr. Behram Kurşunoğlu was from Trabzon.

He wa a genius scientist and he was called

“Turkish Einstein”. He worked on Modern

Quantum Theory. He was one of the famous

physicist of the world.

Biruni

He was born in 973 and died in 1051.

He was the first man who discovered rotation of

the earth around its own axis . Also he was the

first scientist who talked about the existence of

America, Japan and Cape of Good Hope. He had

books about Maths, Geology, Geography,

Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Astronomy.

Cabir Bin Hayyan

He was a prominent : a Chemist and alchemist,

astronomer and astroleger, engineer, geographer,

philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and

physician. He was the first discoverer of the idea

of atom bomb.

And he explained

“the atomic fission”

1200 years ago.

CAHİT ARF

Cahit Arf was born in 1910 and died in 1997. He

is famous for algebra around the world.

In mathmatics, the Arf invariant

of a nonsingular quadratic form

over a field of characteristic 2 was

defined by Turkish mathematician

Cahit Arf .

CEZERİ

He was the firt Turk who made the automatic

devices. He was an engineer and scientist. He

was the founder of cybernetics and made the

earliest robots. He made machines which worked

by the help of water and machanical aquipments.

Water device

Fatih Sultan Mehmet

(Mehmed the Conqueror)

He was an inventor as well as a Sultan of Ottaman

Empire. When he conquered Istanbul, he

invented the mortar. The mortar called “Şahi” was

the first mortar in the history.

Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil Mahmut Gazi Yaşargil is a Turkish medical

scientist and neurosurgeon. He was born in 1925.

He is the founder of microneurosurgery. Yaşargil

treated epilepsy and brain tumors with

instruments of his own design.

HAREZMİHe was the Turkish mathmatician, astronomer and

geographer who wrote a book about algebra at thefirst time.

He was the founder of algebra.

The word “algebra(cebir)” was

used in his book (El Kitab’ül Muhtasar

Fi Hisab’il Cebri ve’l Mukabele )

at the first time.

Also he was the first mathmatician

who discovered “zero” and

used x unknown quantity.

Today, programming language of the computers

are written consedering algorithmic method of Harezmi.

HEZARFEN AHMET ÇELEBİ

He was the first man who could fly with the wings

which he improved. He lived in 17th century

during Ottoman Age. He flew from Galata tower

to Üsküdar. He flew over the Bosphorus. He was

the pioner of gliding.

MİMAR SİNAN

He was the great architect who has architectural

mystery which still can not be solved. He had a

practical intelligent so he put the biggest cupolas

on the four columns. He discovered the rail

system which is used for buildings to make them

steady. Selimiye Mosque is the mastership of

Mimar Sinan.

Piri Reis

He was the admiral of Ottoman Naval Force and

world wide known geographer and cartographer.

He drew the first world map which is nearly same

as the maps nowadays. He was famous for the

map which shows the America with details.

Surviving fragment of the first World

Map of Piri Reis (1513)Surviving fragment of the second World

Map of Piri Reis (1528)

And we are glad that you are in

Turkey when we introduce the

famous products of our country.

We have an oppurtunity to serve

these famous products to you

when you are here. These are the

products:

Turkish delight

Turkish coffe Tea

Yoghurt Ayran

baklava

And you will be protected from the

harm with the help of amulet

You will see the scarfs with a hand-

craft

And carpets

Thank you