Robert Henry Bow Explained
Robert Henry Bow FRSE (1827–1909) was a Scottish civil engineer and photographer.[1]
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.
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Former RSE Fellows 1783-2002. Royal Society of Edinburgh. 31 March 2010.
- Web site: Robert Henry Bow at Historic Camera – History Librarium. historiccamera.com. 10 February 2018.
- Web site: Firth of Tay Bridge Disaster 1879 . Suburban Emergency Management Project (SEMP) . 19 September 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20091009103324/http://www.semp.us/publications/biot_reader.php?BiotID=489 . 9 October 2009 .
- Book: Former Fellows of The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783–2002: Part 1 (A–J) . C D Waterston . A Macmillan Shearer . . 090219884X . July 2006 . 18 September 2015 . 24 January 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130124115814/http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/biographical_index/fells_indexp1.pdf . dead.
- List of the Ordinary Fellows of the Society. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 17 January 2013. 26. 1. xi–xiii. 10.1017/S008045680002648X. 251579034 .
- Edinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1908-9
