Vintage Wall Street Stock Ticker black and white
by Paul Ward
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Vintage Wall Street Stock Ticker black and white
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Paul Ward
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This, now obsolete, ticker tape machine was heavily used in the 1950s. The technology used the pre-existing telegraph lines to transmit stock price information almost instantly. The term "ticker" came from the sound made by the machine as it printed.
The ticker tape revolutionized financial markets, as it relayed information from trading floors continuously and simultaneously across geographical distances. Paper ticker tape became obsolete in the 1960s, as television and computers were increasingly used to transmit financial information. The concept of the stock ticker lives on, however, in the scrolling electronic tickers seen on brokerage walls and on news and financial television channels.
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September 7th, 2022
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