This paper will provide a broad review for the accounts of electricity through the articles appeared in the Ottoman popular press from 1862 to 1914. Travelling between Ottoman periodicals by grasping electricity through their pages, the paper will mainly deal with the actual developments of electrification in several places of the Ottoman Empire and their presentation in the periodicals, circulation of scientific knowledge through the pages of journals and the accounts of experts, engineers and journalists regarding the electrical developments in the Empire. While the actual developments of electrification in several places of the Ottoman Empire could be traced from the Ottoman popular magazines and journals regarding the science urban issues; the way that the electricity presented in the Ottoman press as well as the accounts of scholarly electrical knowledge in the journals offers a good case regarding the communication of sciences targeted for the public at large in the Empire. In addition, the accounts of the experts and the engineers pertaining to the electrical developments helps to highlight the expert view about electricity as well as the ongoing huge infrastructural developments in the leading cities of the Empire, especially Istanbul. The negative critiques held by some of the journalists especially in the early 20th century for the urban change, for instance the critiques around electrified trams destroying a public garden or the historical buildings on their way or the positive critiques on the easy transportation provided by the electrified trams, all show different reactions for the technological change going on in the Empire. Regarding the sources of this paper, the periodicals published in the Ottoman Empire (1862-1914) in Ottoman Turkish, French and English will be used. The date 1862 stands for the publishing of Mecmua-i Fünûn; being the first popular science journal of the Ottoman Empire and the year 1914 stands for the opening date of Istanbul’s first electrical plant.