Royal Scottish Society of Arts, 1821-ongoing.
Royal Scottish Society of Arts records, 1819-1973.
Correspondence and administrative material (including minutes and accounts) concerning the Society. Communications, reports, and related correspondence, diagrams, drawings, etc. sent by members of the society. Topics include meteorology, electro-magnetism, mechanics, optics, scientific instrument design and development, and physical and chemical science.
The Royal Scottish Society of Arts was instituted at Edinburgh in 1821 with the title "Society for the Encouragement of the Useful Arts in Scotland," and when incorporated by Royal Charter in 1841 received its present name. The aims of the founders of the Society were "to stimulate and reward genius and mechanical industry and to afford a ready and useful medium of intercourse among men of all ranks, who were engaged either in the pursuits of Science or in the various practical departments of the Arts and Manufactures."
Royal Scottish Society of Arts -- Administration.
Chemistry
Electromagnetism.
Mechanics.
Meteorology
Optics
Physics
Scientific apparatus and instruments -- Design.
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