File:Thomas Edison stock ticker NMAH-JN2014-3625.jpg
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| Description | 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. | |||
| Date | Photograph taken 2014-06-11 16:38:16 +0200 | |||
| Source | https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_703474 | |||
| Author | Jaclyn Nash (photographer) | |||
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