Object Details
- 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)
- 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
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Electricity
- Communications
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- general subject association
- Telegraph
- Stock Markets
- Patent Models
- Record ID
- nmah_703474
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-8256-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
