Alex Bain
Alexander Bain may refer to: *Alexander Bain (philosopher) (1818–1903), Scottish philosopher. *Alexander Bain (inventor) (1810–1877), Scottish inventor and engineer *Alexander Bain (actor) (born 2001), ''Coronation Street'' actor See also *Alexander Bayne (died 1737), first tenant of the chair of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh * * Alex Bain (other) *Bain (surname) Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi (Jat people, Jatt), and Scottish surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname. Bains shares many of the origins of the surname Baines. Origin of the surname Northern English There are t ...

Alexander Bain (philosopher)
Alexander Bain (11 June 1818 – 18 September 1903) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and education reform. He founded ''Mind'', the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology. Bain was the inaugural Regius Chair in Logic and Professor of Logic at the University of Aberdeen, where he also held Professorships in Moral Philosophy and English Literature and was twice elected Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen. Early life and education Alexander Bain was born in Aberdeen to George Bain, a weaver and veteran soldier, and Margaret Paul. At age eleven he left school to work as a weaver (occupation), weaver hence the description of him as Weevir, ''rex philosophorum''. He also attended lectures at the Mechanics' Insti ...
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Alexander Bain (inventor)
Alexander Bain (12 October 1810 – 2 January 1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He invented the Telegraph Clock, which was a technology of synchronizing many electric clocks placed anywhere in the world; they would all have the exact same time. He also invented and patented the technology of the facsimile machine for scanning images and transmitting them across telegraph lines hundreds of miles away. He installed the railway telegraph lines between Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, for recording messages, to regulate the safe movement of trains, marking time, giving signals, and printing information at different locations. He invented a chemical telegraph technology of being able to transmit across a telegraph line messages at up to 1000 words per minute, while at the time Morse's telegraph could only produce 40 words a minute. Early life Bain was born in Houstry, near Watten, Caithness, Scotland. He was born o ...
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Alexander Bain (actor)
Alexander Anthony Keith Bain (born 25 November 2001) is an English actor. He plays Simon Barlow in ''Coronation Street'', a role he has portrayed since 2008. Early life Alex Bain was born in 2001 to Debra and Paul Bain. He was always into the performing arts, and attended dance, drama and musical theatre lessons from a young age. He attended Walton-le-Dale High School in Preston, Lancashire.After finishing there, he went on to train in Musical Theatre and Dance for 2 years at Shockout Arts in Manchester. Career Bain made his first television appearance in an advertisement for Rice Krispies. His first major role was starring in the BBC drama ''Sunshine'', before moving to the role of Simon Barlow in the soap opera ''Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, terraced street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner-city Salford. Ori ...
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Alexander Bayne
Alexander Bayne of Rires (c. 1675 – June 1737) was the first tenant of the chair of Scots law in the University of Edinburgh. Life Bayne was the son of John Bayne of Logie, Fife, to whom he was served heir in general on 8 October 1700, and descended from the old family of 'Bayne of Tulloch', Dingwall, Rosshire. He was admitted advocate on 10 July 1714, but seems to have had little or no practice. In January 1722 Bayne was appointed curator of the Advocates' Library, and on the establishment of the chair of Scots law in the university of Edinburgh in the same year the town council elected him to fill it. Early in 1726 he retired from the office of curator of the Advocates' Library. In June 1737 he died. Works In 1726 Bayne published an edition of Sir Thomas Hope's ''Minor Practicks''. He appended a ''Discourse on the Rise and Progress of the Law of Scotland and the Method of Studying it''. In 1730 he published ''Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland'' (Edinburgh), for ...
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Alex Bain (other)
Alexander Bain may refer to: *Alexander Bain (philosopher) (1818–1903), Scottish philosopher. *Alexander Bain (inventor) (1810–1877), Scottish inventor and engineer *Alexander Bain (actor) (born 2001), ''Coronation Street'' actor See also *Alexander Bayne (died 1737), first tenant of the chair of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh * * Alex Bain (other) *Bain (surname) Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi (Jat people, Jatt), and Scottish surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname. Bains shares many of the origins of the surname Baines. Origin of the surname Northern English There are t ...