This Day in History:
First Stock Ticker Debuts.
November 15, 1867.
The first stock
ticker was presented
in New York City.
The stock ticker got its
name from the sound made
by the machine's printer.
Using the telegraph technology
of the day, Edward Calahan
configured the machine to print
stock information on ticker tape.
The ticker tape used by
Calahan was the same used
for the "ticker tape parades" of the day.
Investors now had a way
to get up-to-the-minute
information from the
New York Stock Exchange.
Eventually replaced by
computer technology,
the last mechanical ticker
was presented in 1960