Object Details
maker
Edison, Thomas Alva
Description (Brief)
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 .
Location
Currently not on view (ticker tape)
date made
1873
ID Number
EM.252616
catalog number
252616
patent number
140488
accession number
49064
Object Name
telegraph ticker receiver
stock ticker
telegraph printer
printing telegraph
telegraph ticker
ticker
Object Type
Patent Model
Other Terms
telegraph ticker receiver; Telegraphy; printer
Physical Description
iron (overall material)
brass (overall material)
glass (overall material)
paper (overall material)
Measurements
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
Related Publication
Sewer, Andy; Allison, David; Liebhold, Peter; Davis, Nancy; Franz, Kathleen G.. American Enterprise: A History of Business in America
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Work and Industry: Electricity
Communications
American Enterprise
Exhibition
American Enterprise
Exhibition Location
National Museum of American History
Data Source
National Museum of American History
general subject association
Telegraph
Stock Markets
Patent Models
Link to Original Record
Record ID
nmah_703474