Stock Ticker
date: label: date made
content: 1873
name: label: maker
content: Edison, Thomas Alva
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Until the decade of the 1990s, when traders adopted the Internet, tickers provided vital stock market information to businesses and news organizations. Stock tickers were a special type of telegraph receiver designed to print an alphabetical company symbol and the current price of that company’s stock on a paper roll called ticker tape. Thomas Edison made his early reputation as an inventor by designing an improved stock ticker for the Gold & Stock Telegraph Company. The company submitted this ticker to the U.S. Patent Office during the process leading to the issue of patent number 140,488 in 1873 .
label: Location
content: Currently not on view (ticker tape)
topic: label: general subject association
content: Telegraph
label: general subject association
content: Stock Markets
label: general subject association
content: Patent Models
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content: Work and Industry: Electricity
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.252616
label: catalog number
content: 252616
label: patent number
content: 140488
label: accession number
content: 49064
objectType: label: Object Name
content: telegraph ticker receiver
label: Object Name
content: stock ticker
label: Object Name
content: telegraph printer
label: Object Name
content: printing telegraph
label: Object Name
content: telegraph ticker
label: Object Name
content: ticker
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: telegraph ticker receiver; Telegraphy; printer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 15 1/2 in x 14 in x 15 in; 41.91 cm x 39.37 cm x 35.56 cm x 38.1 cm