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Description: | Face incribed "Alexander Bain PATENTEE". Main dial inscribed in Roman numerals, and smaller seconds dial marked in Arabic numerals. DES BAIN, Alexander (Scottish; 1810-1877) Presented to the University in 1936 by Glasgow Councillor William Brownhill Smith, MVO, MBE, who also gave the Hunterian a significant collection of gemstones. It was installed in the museum at the instigation of Professor George Howe, the first James Watt Professor of Electrical Engineering. This particular form of the clock was patented in 1845, but the exact date and place of manufacture is unknown. This may be one of the models designed to be powered by Bain's "Ground Battery", with plates of copper and zinc buried in the ground under the clock. A small leaflet about Bain and his clock was produced by the Hunterian in the 1970s or 1980s - copies are in the Object History File. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | HISTORICAL COLLECTION : TIME : TIMEKEEPING : INVENTION : ELECTROMAGNETIC PENDULUM : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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