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The Schoolmaster Engineer: Adam Anderson of Perth and St Andrews 1780-1846 (Abertay Historical Society Publication) - Softcover
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The Ferguson Gallery, formerly Perth’s old water works, which now houses the celebrated J.D. Ferguson art collection, is an outstanding feature of Scotland’s industrial archaeology. Strangely, this architectural and engineering triumph, the powerhouse of the city’s first genuinely clean drinking water system, was the creation of a schoolmaster, Dr. Adam Anderson (1780 - 1846), Rector of Perth Academy.
In his revised and extended biographical study of this native of Kincardine-on-Forth, Kenneth Cameron describes the origins and construction of Anderson’s water system and of a bewildering array of other contributions to his adopted city, during a period of rapid economic change, technological advance, social upheaval, and political and religious crises. Anderson’s personal contributions towards the Georgian Fair City’s public service infrastructure, economic well-being, and its environmental preservation were unequaled, and many proved durable.
This study provides, in addition, glimpses of Kincardine’s mercantile past, a worm’s eye view of student life at St. Andrews University at the turn of the 18th century, and of the challenges facing an ambitious itinerant tutor migrating annually between Enlightenment Edinburgh and rural Angus. Political turmoil in Perth in the First Reform Act era, and of strife amongst the professoriate of St. Andrews University, where Anderson secured controversially the chair of natural philosophy nine years before his death, also feature.
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The Schoolmaster Engineer: Adam Anderson of Perth and St Andrews 1780-1846: v. 47 (Abertay Historical Society Publication)
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. 144p illustrated."Educationalist and pioneering engineer, who modernised the utility infrastructure of Perth. Born the son of a ships-master in Kincardine (Fife), Anderson was educated at the University of St Andrews alongside Thomas Chalmers (1780 - 1847), who became a close friend. He began his career as a private tutor at Fern (Angus), and in Edinburgh, but was appointed Rector of Perth Academy in 1809, serving in this role for 28 years. He built the reputation of the school and advocated the inclusion of science, and particularly chemistry, in the curriculum. In 1822, Anderson became involved with a scheme to bring gas lighting to Perth. He gave a series of lectures on the benefits, was appointed to the Board of the Perth Gas Light Company and designed a gasworks for the town. So successful was the project that he asked to supervise similar schemes in Arbroath and Montrose. Anderson went on to improve the inadequate public water supply in Perth, designing a new system which pumped water from the River Tay. He was the architect of the Water Works (or Round House), which now houses the Fergusson Gallery. Completed in 1832, this is said to be the first cast-iron building in the world. Anderson was also involved in improving Perth's port at Friarton and bringing the railway from Dundee." Near fine unmarked condition. See Scans. Seller Inventory # 013018
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The Schoolmaster Engineer: Adam Anderson of Perth and St Andrews 1780-1846
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 2007. x, 147pp. Colour and B&W illustrations. The book is in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean. "In his revised and extended biographical study of this native of Kincardine-on-Forth, Kenneth Cameron describes the origins and construction of Anderson's water system, and of a bewildering array of other contributions to his adopted city, during a period of rapid economic change, technological advance, social upheaval, and political and religious crises." ""Educationalist and pioneering engineer, who modernised the utility infrastructure of Perth. Born the son of a ships-master in Kincardine (Fife), Anderson was educated at the University of St Andrews alongside Thomas Chalmers (1780 - 1847), who became a close friend. He began his career as a private tutor at Fern (Angus), and in Edinburgh, but was appointed Rector of Perth Academy in 1809, serving in this role for 28 years. He built the reputation of the school and advocated the inclusion of science, and particularly chemistry, in the curriculum. In 1822, Anderson became involved with a scheme to bring gas lighting to Perth. He gave a series of lectures on the benefits, was appointed to the Board of the Perth Gas Light Company and designed a gasworks for the town. So successful was the project that he asked to supervise similar schemes in Arbroath and Montrose. Anderson went on to improve the inadequate public water supply in Perth, designing a new system which pumped water from the River Tay. He was the architect of the Water Works (or Round House), which now houses the Fergusson Gallery. Completed in 1832, this is said to be the first cast-iron building in the world. Anderson was also involved in improving Perth's port at Friarton and bringing the railway from Dundee.". Seller Inventory # hScotArchitEtc010
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. 2007. x, 147pp. Colour and B&W illustrations. "In his revised and extended biographical study of this native of Kincardine-on-Forth, Kenneth Cameron describes the origins and construction of Anderson's water system, and of a bewildering array of other contributions to his adopted city, during a period of rapid economic change, technological advance, social upheaval, and political and religious crises." The book is in excellent condition. There are no inscriptions and all contents are tight and clean. Seller Inventory # Engineering136
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