An account of some remarkable applications of the electric fluid to the useful arts, by Mr. Alexander Bain : with a vindication of his claim to be the first inventor of the electro-magnetic printing telegraph, and also of the electro-magnetic clock
An 1843 London pamphlet by Alexander Bain, published by Chapman and Hall, presenting his account of electrical applications and his claim to invent the electro-magnetic printing telegraph and electric clock. Its plates are precise technical line drawings of mechanisms, with lettered parts, plan and section views, and dated comparisons between Bain's and rivals' designs, offering designers clean schematic diagrams of early 1840s apparatus.
