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Bain's clock
Alexander Bain (1810-1877) produced the first electromagnetically operated pendulum clock in 1842. This step lead to the awesome accuracy of the atomic clock. Bain was first interested in signalling time to distant clocks; he used an ordinary clock fitted with contacts operated by the pendulum to send pulses of current to subsidiary clocks.
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