Vocational and technical education institutions in osmanli: conductor school

European countries entered 19th century with technical advantage which progressed in industry with industrial revolution. With parallel to these developments the Ottoman Empire also founded new institutions which serve education in technical areas. These institutions, their first examples in military areas, revealed a new science and educational perspective in Ottoman Country. With Tanzimat, it was institutionalized and technical vocational schools were founded in technical areas. These schools which showed diversity due to increasing demands in Abdulhamid II and Meşrutiyet II periods and played important roles in shaping high educations in republican period. In this study, conductor schools which trained technical personnel to help engineers with increasing need to staff will be examined. In the study, the attention will be paid to the ordinance, opening and development of this school