Robert Henry Bow

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(1827–1909) was a Scottish civil engineer and photographer.

Life

He was born in

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on 27 January 1827. Bow worked with

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and

Thomas Bouch Sir Thomas Bouch (; 25 February 1822 – 30 October 1880) was a British railway engineer. He was born in Thursby, near Carlisle, Cumberland, and lived in Edinburgh. As manager of the Edinburgh and Northern Railway he introduced the first roll-o ...

, 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. In the 1860s he became fascinated with stereoscopic photography. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1869, his proposer being

His address was then 7 South Gray Street on the south side of

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. He died at 7 South Gray StreetEdinburgh and Leith Post Office Directory 1908-9 on 17 February 1909 is buried in the grave of his brother Dr John Campbell Bow (1825–1877) in the

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in southern Edinburgh. The grave lies on the main east–west spine of the south-east section.

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