BAIN (Alexander, 1810-1877, Scottish Inventor and Engineer

Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs Williams saying that it will suit them “to dine with you on Saturday. We shall make a previous call at our cousins, at Beckenham. It would make things very easy for us, if your carriage could call and take us up at their house, say about 5 o’clock... It is close by the old church...”, 3 sides 8vo., 9 Stamford Road, Lond, 23rd June, no year

Bain was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He invented the Telegraph Clock, which was a technology of synchronising many electric clocks placed anywhere in the world; they would all have the exact same time. He also invented and patented the technology of the facsimile machine for scanning images and transmitting them across telegraph lines hundreds of miles away.
He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow for recording messages, to regulate the safe movement of trains, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. He invented a chemical telegraph technology of being able to transmit across a telegraph line messages at up to 1000 words per minute, while at the time Morse's telegraph could only produce 40 words a minute.

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