* Brashear, John A. A Man Who Loved the Stars: The Autobiography of John A. Brashear. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. Originally published in 1924.
* Hearnshaw, J.B. The Analysis of Starlight, One Hundred and Fifty Years of Astronomical Spectroscopy. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
* Moore, A.D. “Henry A. Rowland”, Scientific American, 246 (1982), 118-26.
W.A. Scoble, “The Blythswood Dividing Engine for Ruling Diffraction Gratings”, National Physical Lab (UK) Collected Researches, 8 (1912), 216-251, plates 1 and 2.
More technical:
Babcock, Horace W. “Diffraction Gratings at the Mount Wilson Observatory”, Vistas in Astronomy, 29 (1986), 153-74.
Brooks, Randall C. “Electron Micrographs of Spectroscopic Gratings” Rittenhouse, 17 (2003), 27-44.
. “Towards the Perfect Screw Thread: the making of precision screws in the 17th–19th centuries”, Transactions of the Newcomen Soc., 64 (1993), 101-120.
Strong, John. “Rowland’s Diffraction-Grating Art”, Vistas in Astronomy, 29 (1986), 137-41.
Sweetnam, George Kean. The Command of Light: Rowland’s School of Physics and the Spectrum. Philadelphia: American Phil. [?] Society, 2000.
Turner, G.L. “The Contribution to Science of Friedrich Adolph Nobert”, Bull. Inst. of Physics & Physical Soc., 18 (1967), 338-48.
Turner, G.L’E. and S. Bradbury, “An Electron Microscopical Examination of Nobert’s Finest Test-plate of Twenty Bands”, Journal of the Royal Microscopy Society, 85 (1966), 435-447.
Warner, Deborah Jean. “The Cover Design: Lewis M. Rutherfurd, Pioneer Astronomical Photographer and Spectroscopist”, Technology and Culture, 12 (1971), 180-216.
. “Rowland’s Gratings: Contemporary Technology”, Vistas in Astronomy, 29 (1986), 125-30.
Note: Most of these resources require some technical knowledge.
Those marked with an asterisk (*) are less technical.
