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IT is with much regret that we announce the death of Mr. Alexander Bain, which took place at Glasgow on January 2. To many of our readers his name is perhaps unknown, and yet the inventions of Mr. Bain, made when telegraphy was in its infancy, were of the very highest importance. They were perhaps made too soon. Mr. Bain himself never reaped the benefit of them, and would have died in great poverty had it not been for a pension of 80l, a year obtained for him from Mr. Gladstone chiefly through the exertions of Mr. C. W. Siemens, Sir William Thomson, and the Society of Telegraph Engineers.
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Alexander Bain . Nature 15, 218 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/015218a0
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