Ahmet Ali Çelikten made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Ahmet Ali Çelikten as Turkish aviator (1883–1969).
Ahmet Ali Çelikten was born at İzmir in 1883. His recorded nationality is the Ottoman Empire.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, national institutions, mass media and mass politics changed both the scale of a career and its risks.
The record gives his occupations as aircraft pilot and military personnel.
Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
Working from the Ottoman Empire shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Ahmet Ali Çelikten died in 1969 at the age of 86. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Worked as aircraft pilot and military personnel
