200 years of technology development on display at Delta Technology Museum

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Based by the Adem Yılmaz Schooling and Tradition Basis, with the initiative of businessman and sports activities journalist Adem Yılmaz, Delta Technology Museum in Istanbul Çatalca opens as much as the expertise of lovers and researchers rather a lot of used and dealing objects in 15 completely different sections.

Making an announcement concerning the museum, Ece Yılmaz, daughter of Adem Yılmaz and Vice Chairman of Delta Workplace, stated that her father began the work of the museum, which was established in 2012, in 2004.

Yılmaz acknowledged that his great-grandfather was a carpenter, and that his father was first engaged in woodworking after which began to fabricate furnishings.

200 years of technology development is exhibited at Delta Technology Museum – PHOTO GALLERY

“His intention was to make a museum of furnishings produced by Turkish masters”

Noting that his father, who handed away in 2018, was in love with the furnishings trade and tried to serve the trade as a lot as attainable, Yılmaz acknowledged that he wrote the guide “Furnishings Design and Technology from Previous to Current” with the intention to be helpful to the Turkish furnishings trade and to be taught free of cost in universities.

Ece Yılmaz acknowledged that her father, who went by means of an intense analysis course of in the course of the writing of the guide, collected the instruments and gear used within the manufacture of furnishings and emphasised the next:

Later on, he began to gather furnishings produced in Turkey from vintage sellers and auctions. On this approach, he steadily created a small assortment on furnishings. Nevertheless, he couldn’t present the mandatory stock to determine a museum as a result of the furnishings produced in Turkey, particularly within the twentieth century, was idle or was thrown away. In reality, his intention was to make a museum for the Turkish furnishings trade, consisting of furnishings made in Turkey and produced by Turkish masters, in addition to a guide. However the dream of establishing this museum sadly didn’t come true because it couldn’t collect the mandatory stock.

657 objects are exhibited in 15 completely different sections of the museum.

Ece Yılmaz stated that Adem Yılmaz, who has been a sports activities author for various newspapers for a lot of years, is a typewriter lover and collects typewriters as a result of of his occupation.

My father was gathering objects that touched on his personal life and recollections of his youth. These objects additionally embody musical devices. As a result of he was a musician, an individual who cherished music. On the similar time, he was an individual who was in love with the automobiles of the Fifties, the yr he was born. That is why he needed to personal these automobiles, even when solely sporadically. Later, his assortment started to broaden. Musical devices, instruments utilized in furnishings making, automobiles… One grew to become two. Then, ‘Why should not I flip them right into a technology museum?’ an thought got here. Every little thing he had collected by referring solely to his personal recollections was consciously gathered below completely different classes right away.

Ece Yılmaz acknowledged that 657 objects are exhibited in 15 completely different sections of the museum at the second.

There are completely different departments similar to army gear, musical devices, pc applied sciences, printing division, automobiles, typewriters. We now have a radio from the 1850s in our museum. Likewise, now we have a bellows piano made within the 1850s. We even have uncommon gold scales utilized in historic instances. There’s additionally a black practice manufactured within the early 1900s. We purchased this land practice with particular permission from the Turkish Republic State Railways. Our practice got here from Eskişehir to our museum, Çatalca. It took a few week to reach.

he stated.

“We offer an schooling and tour to tell the scholars who come to our museum”

Including to his phrases that his father had established a social facility contained in the factories in Çatalca for the use of the individuals round, Yılmaz added that he additionally ready the museum on this facility with the intention to contribute to the schooling of kids who can’t go to Istanbul.

Yılmaz underlined that artifacts and objects in museums are usually not usually touched and continued as follows:

My father was all the time a believer in theoretical in addition to sensible schooling. That is why he needed the youngsters who got here right here to get into the automobiles, contact them, cope with instruments and gear, see how they work, and didn’t need any obstacles to be positioned in entrance of the objects. What actually mattered to him was expertise. On this sense, there are three components that distinguish our museum from different museums. The primary is that it’s utterly free, the second is that it was established to profit the encircling neighborhood, and the third is to provide our friends, particularly college students, an opportunity to expertise technology by touching all of the objects right here.

Explaining that college students from completely different colleges present curiosity within the museum,

In reality, college students who come to our museum are most stunned once they see computer systems. They do not perceive what typewriters are. Likewise, they ask questions on what scales are and what they do. Normally major and secondary college college students come. Once they need to come, they name and make an appointment. Primarily based on this, we gladly open the door of our museum and provides them an schooling in a approach that may inform them. We additionally present them the water mill, printing machines and weaving machines working in our museum.

he stated.

The journey of technological development because the 1800s

Ece Yılmaz invited those that need to see the developments within the area of technology to see the museum,

We welcome all guests who need to see technological developments in several fields from the start of the 1800s to the top of the twentieth century, free of cost.

stated.

Metalworking, woodworking, textile equipment, printing, agricultural gear technology, automotive applied sciences, bicycle-motorcycle, weighing devices, photographic applied sciences, pc applied sciences, army radio applied sciences, communication radio and tv applied sciences, musical devices and stitching machines are exhibited within the museum.

The museum, the place historic locomotive trains and planes could be seen in its backyard, is open to guests each weekday from 9.00 to 16.00.