Edison & Unger printing telegraph
date: label: date made
content: ca 1872
name: label: patentee
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
label: producer
content: Edison & Unger
label: maker
content: Edison & Unger
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Telegraph Printer, irregular oval base with, 30 keys and a 2-position rotary switch. Four holes in the back, along with one binding post. Gold filigree and floral decorations. A clockwork mechanism with two electromagnets is set on top the base, and a glass dome covers the mechanism. Three keys are missing, as is one governor weight, and the ink wheel. Four loose cloth-insulated wires under the base can be threaded through the four holes to make the external connections. Printed on front: "Edison & Unger / Makers / Newark, N. J." Stamped on side of mechanism mount: "Gold & Stock / Telegraph / Company / Universal Printer / Edison's Patent / No. 141". Tag with unit reads: "Universal printer, forerunner of our present stock ticker. Invented by Thomas A. Edison when 23 years of age, in 1870 and for which General Marshall Lefferts, President of the Gold and Stock Telegraph Company, paid him $40,000 in cash. This was the first sum of money realized by Edison upon the sale of an invention."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from Nellie Ruth Bliss
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.319446
label: catalog number
content: 319446
label: accession number
content: 238754
label: serial number
content: 141
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Telegraph Printer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 14 in x 16 in x 14 in; 35.56 cm x 40.64 cm x 35.56 cm