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- W93682579 abstract "In March 1837 Alexander Bain, a journeyman clockmaker from Wick in the far north of Scotland, came London at the age of 26 seek employment. He obtained lodgings and a workshop, first in Wigmore Street and later in Oxford Street, and besides practising his craft he attended lectures at the Polytechnic Institute, having as he later wrote, `some knowledge of electricity and a strong desire know more'. Before long he had conceived the idea of applying the new concepts of electro-magnetism timekeeping. At that time, of course, the idea that electricity could be carried along wires and could be made do work had only recently become established and there was very little background knowledge available. However, Bain persisted with his experiments and by the summer of 1840 had designed and built not only a model of an electric clock but also the prototype of a printing electric telegraph. At this stage Bain began cast about for someone to join him in furthering his invention. Now it was in the very month of Bain's arrival in London that Cooke and Wheatstone had agreed form a partnership, and this uneasy collaboration of two such very" @default.
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- W93682579 title "The first electric clock" @default.
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