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Lot Essay
S.A. Kennedy was responsible for the first electric horological patent in North America. Describing himself as an engineer he worked with Morse on the electric telegraph system in the period when Morse was being persued by Alexander Bain for plagiary. It became an obsession for Bain to prove the invention was his and it eventually led to the breakdown in his health and early demise. To add insult to injury the similarity between Bain's first electric clock patent and Kennedy's example is self evident and it was also blatent plagiarism but by then Bain's health was too poor to contest Kennedy. Despite this unfortunate history this clock is unquestionably one of the very first electric clocks ever to be made in America.