Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Bain” in chapter 5 of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...emical telegraph which dispensed with the relay-magnet at intermediate stations; and subsequently Gintl, in Austria, and Bonelli, constructed telegraphs of this class, varying in details from that of Bain .
See electro-chemical telegraph.
Wheatstone's first telegraph comprised five pointing needles and as many line wires, requiring the deflection of two of the needles to indicate each letter.
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| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Alexander Bain | 35 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 0 user votes | |
| Bain | 27 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John R. Bain | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| R. R. Bain | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| W. F. Bain | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| William Bain | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| William F. Bain | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| G. C. Bain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Geo M. Bain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| George M. Bain | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| C. Dorsey Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| C. N. Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Carpenter Robert M. Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| E. B. Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Jas Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Jno Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Samuel Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| W. C. Bain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| George Bain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| H. H. Bain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Jack Bain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| P. C. Bain | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.