Ticker
['tɪkə] or ['tɪkɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape.
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Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
Edited by Adela
Examples
- Take my ticker and such of your things as you can SPARE, and send them to Balls--we must, of coarse, have the sum to-night. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The exchange is connected by private telegraph wires and ticker wires with every important financial center. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It will be understood that electromagnets were the ticker's actuating agency. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Miss Crawley, I know, paid a hundred down for the chain and ticker. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The same ticker was used on the London Stock Exchange. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The conception of the stock ticker dates from this incident. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pope, was already active in the same direction, Mr. Callahan, with ready wit, transformed his indicator into a ticker that would make a printed record. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The name of the ticker came through the casual remark of an observer to whom the noise was the most striking feature of the mechanism. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It is not to be inferred, however, that the modern stock ticker has anything to do with the making or losing of fortunes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- His interest in the subject went back to his connection with General Lefferts in the days of the evolution of the stock ticker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison, then only twenty-one, had less business experience than the promoter, through whose manipulation he soon lost his financial interest in this early ticker enterprise. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This was the prototype of the familiar _ticker_ of the stock broker’s office, seen in Figs. 10 and 11. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Note has been made above of his invention of a stock ticker in Boston, and of his establishing a stock-quotation circuit. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- However, the Edison conduits once in use, both the public and even the telephone, telegraph and ticker companies acknowledged their feasibility. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The factory work at this time related chiefly to stock tickers, principally the Universal, of which at one time twelve hundred were in use. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Indeed, it was through the intrinsic merits of his improvements in stock tickers that he made his real entree into commercial life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The indicators or stock-tickers of this company were a new device, and were distributed through most of the large brokerage houses of the city. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When some of the bills fell due, and I couldn't deliver tickers to get a supply of money, I gave a note. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As to the removal from Newark, he may be allowed to tell his own story: I had a shop at Newark in which I manufactured stock tickers and such things. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I kept this position, made many improvements, devised several stock tickers, until the Gold & Stock Telegraph Company consolidated with the Gold Indicator Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To show what they mean, however, it might be noted that New York City alone has 3000 stock tickers, consuming 50,000 miles of record tape every year. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He began by manufacturing his improved stock-tickers, and he met with very considerable success. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- In addition, stock tickers, telephones, telephone switchboards, and typewriters were made the Hammond typewriters were perfected and made there. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He removed a loose contact spring that had fallen between the wheels, and immediately the tickers began to work again. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As for tickers, as poor Rawdon called watches, her apartments were alive with their clicking. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- This idea was strengthened shortly afterward when the Western Union raised the monthly rental of the stock tickers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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