The aim of this article is to present the process of the Ottoman discovery of technological developments in Europe. To reach this end, initially the communication canals enabling the Ottomans to contact with the West since its foundation are dealt with. Subsequently, modus operand of these canals, their impacts and their adoption will be reviewed in detail on the basis of electricity whose increasing influence still continues. Even though, the Ottomans were not oblivious to incredible developments of electricity, from enlightening to communication and transportation, their understanding and perspective to electricity is determined, as the requirement of the historical reality, by the aid of, in the first place, contemporary Ottoman press, travelogues and travel accounts. In the conclusion, the impressions on the process, their effect on the different ways and their role in the shaping of the future is shared with the reader.