[GreenKeys] First stock ticker debuts 1867

[groupsrichart at gmail.com]

Thomas Edison had his first real success as an inventor making 
improvements to that early stock ticker. Interesting, too, is the type 
of keyboard used on the transmitting apparatus. Looks sort of like a 
small piano keyboard.

http://www.edisonticker.com/universalstockticker/transmitter-for-universal-stock-ticker.htm

Tim WS4V


On 11/14/2018 3:01 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-stock-ticker-debuts
>
> ``On this day in 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in New York
>   City. The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionized the stock 
> market
>   by making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the
>   country. Prior to this development, information from the New York Stock
>   Exchange, which has been around since 1792, traveled by mail or 
> messenger.
>
>   The ticker was the brainchild of Edward Calahan, who configured a
>   telegraph machine to print stock quotes on streams of paper tape 
> (the same
>   paper tape later used in ticker-tape parades). The ticker, which 
> caught on
>   quickly with investors, got its name from the sound its type wheel 
> made.''
>
> -- Dave
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