Robert Henry Bow

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

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He was born in

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on 27 January 1827. Bow worked with Edward Sang and

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, 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 Edward Sang 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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