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   Ticker tape

   One of the earliest practical stock ticker machines, the Universal Stock Ticker developed by Thomas Edison in 1869, had an alphanumeric printing speed of approximately 1 character per second. ... ↑ Who Invented the Stock Ticker?
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   Thomas Edison

   This allowed him to make his early fortune with the stock ticker, the first electricity-based broadcast system. ... The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World.
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   Typewriter

   Although electric typewriters would not achieve widespread popularity until nearly a century later, the basic groundwork for the electric typewriter was laid by the Universal Stock Ticker, invented by Thomas Edison in 1870.
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   General Electric

   The brand is also reflected by the GE New York Stock Exchange ticker symbol. ... Thomas Edison
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   List of inventors

   Thomas Edison, (1847-1931), USA — phonograph, commercially practical light bulb, motion picture projector, stock ticker, etc ... Also invented an automobile that featured a Flywheel, Brake, Gear Box, and Bearing.
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   Timeline of historic inventions

   Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. ... 1870: Stock ticker: Thomas Alva Edison

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• List of inventors,
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