Alexander Bain

Alexander Bain (October 1811 – 2 January 1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. His principal contributions to telegraphy were his improvements to the electric clock and to the chemical telegraph. Bain installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

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