Robert Henry Bow FRSE (1827–1909) was a Scottish civil engineer and photographer.[1]
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Life
He was born in Alnwick on 27 January 1827.[2]
Bow worked with Edward Sang and Thomas Bouch, and his textbooks Economics of Construction in Relation to Framed Structures (1871) and Treatise on Bracing in relation to Bridges and other Structures (1874) drew on calculations he had conducted for Bouch.[3]
In the 1860s he became fascinated with stereoscopic photography.[2]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1869, his proposer being Edward Sang[4] His address was then 7 South Gray Street on the south side of Edinburgh.[5]
He died at 7 South Gray Street[6] on 17 February 1909 is buried in the grave of his brother Dr John Campbell Bow (1825–1877) in the Grange Cemetery in southern Edinburgh. The grave lies on the main east–west spine of the south-east section.
References
- ^ "Former RSE Fellows 1783-2002" (PDF). Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ a b "Robert Henry Bow at Historic Camera – History Librarium". historiccamera.com. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
- ^ "Firth of Tay Bridge Disaster 1879". Suburban Emergency Management Project (SEMP). Archived from the original on 9 October 2009. Retrieved 19 September 2010.
- ^ C D Waterston; A Macmillan Shearer (July 2006). Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) (PDF). ISBN 090219884X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2015.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ "List of the Ordinary Fellows of the Society". Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 26 (1): xi–xiii. 17 January 2013. doi:10.1017/S008045680002648X. S2CID 251579034.
- ^ Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1908-9
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