About Thomas Drummond
Captain Thomas Drummond, from Edinburgh was a Scottish British Army officer, civil engineer and senior public official. He used the Drummond light which was employed in the trigonometrical survey of Great Britain and Ireland. He is sometimes mistakenly given credit for the invention of limelight, at the expense of Sir Goldsworthy Gurney. It was Drummond, however, who realised its value in surveying.
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An interesting statement of the claims of Thomas Drummond, of New Penshaw, near Houghton-Le-Spring in the County of Durham to the ancient honours & entailed estates of the Earldom of Perth
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