[GreenKeys] First stock ticker debuts 1867

[Bruce Gentry]

Were the old tickers ever used in horse parlors, or would they be too 
slow? Also, did the news stand have a "Western Union Naval Observatory 
Time" clock?

     Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY


On 11/14/18 5:03 PM, Jim Haynes wrote:
> The earlier tickers, the ones housed in glass bell jars, became too slow
> for the NYSE around 1929.  When they were replaced by a newer model made
> by Teletype, which used a six-bit binary code instead of the stepping
> principle of the earlier ones, the old tickers were repurposed by W.U.
> for reporting baseball scores and that sort of thing.  There was one of
> those in my home town circa 1950.  The customer was a news stand, which
> had several tables in the back where a bunch of old geezers sat at tables
> playing dominoes all day, and presumably betting on the baseball games 
> when it was baseball season.  Perhaps the old geezers were WW-I veterans
> on pensions.  They drank coffee and Cokes because the town was in a dry
> county.
>
>
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