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  • 2007
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    Making scientific instruments in the industrial revolution

    This book looks at the four main, and two lesser, English centres known for instrument production outside the capital: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, along with the older population centres in Bristol and York. Making wide use of new sources, Dr Morrison-Low, curator of history of science at the National...
    Morrison-Low, A D

    Scientific apparatus and instruments industry

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    Photography and the Doctor: John Adamson of St Andrews

    Dr John Adamson (1809-70) was the older brother of the better-known Robert Adamson (1821-48), famous for his pioneering photography work with D.O. Hill. John Adamson's photography had to be fitted in around his medical practice in St Andrews. The photographs in this book are drawn mainly from two extremely early...
    Morrison-Low, A D ;   Bruce, David
  • 2010
    Book

    Northern lights: the age of Scottish lighthouses.

    Northern Lights: The Age of Scottish Lighthouses by A. D. Morrison-Low has been published to mark the 200th anniversary in 2011 of the world’s oldest rock lighthouse, on the Bell Rock or Inchcape Reef, off the east coast of Scotland. This fully illustrated book tells the story of Scotland’s lighthouses...
    Morrison-Low, A D
  • 2015
    Book

    Scottish photography: the first thirty years

    This lavishly illustrated book discusses the relationship between art, science and technology which, around 1840, laid a fertile groundwork for photography to flourish in Scotland. It looks at the early professionals including DO Hill, Robert Adamson, James Valentine and George Washington Wilson. The book has been written by Dr Sara...
    Stevenson, Sara ;   Morrison-Low, A D
  • 2016
    Book

    How scientific instruments have changed hands

    This collection of essays discusses the marketing of scientific and medical instruments from the eighteenth century to the First World War. The evidence presented here is derived from sources as diverse as contemporary trade literature, through newspaper advertisements, to rarely-surviving inventories, and from the instruments themselves. The picture may not...
    Morrison-Low, A D
  • 2015
    Book

    Photography: A Victorian sensation

    The souvenir book of the exhibition Photography: A Victorian Sensation at National Museums Scotland June-November 2015. It highlights objects in National Museum Scotland's history of photography collections and describes the public excitement over early photography.
    Morrison-Low, A D