[GreenKeys] Stock Ticker

[pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com]

Greetings all,

One of my telephone switching collegues just acquired a
stock ticker and is interested in how it works.  Does anyone
here know about them?

Rick's address is below.

Thanks.

PDW

----- Original Message Follows -----
From: Richard Walsh <wepbx at sbcglobal.net>
To: Paul Wills <pdwills at cedarknolltelephone.com>
Subject: Stock Ticker
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:10:37 -0700 (PDT)

> Hi Paul,
> Hope all is well.  Question - do you know anything about
> old stock tickers -  I recently had the good fortune to
> acquire an fine example of the "Universal" stock ticker - 
> one of about 6000 made prior to 1890 (if what I saw on the
> internet is accurate).  
> I am trying to figure out how it works.  It has two
> electromagnet coils - one advances the print wheel to
> orient a specific character, and the other operates a
> print hammer that pushes the paper against the selected
> character. The latter coil also seems to reset some aspect
> - but not as you'd expect - to reset the wheel to the
> first character (there is no spring to reset the wheel
> back to a starting position. I don't know if the system
> required two "telepgraph" circuits - one for each coil?
I
> don't know if local batteries were required. Pictures
> available.  
> Rick
>