printing-telegraph love

printing-telegraph

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Any form of automatic self-recording telegraph, as the “ticker” of a stock-reporting telegraph. See telegraph.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word printing-telegraph.

Examples

  • The printing-telegraph men warned him that he must either quit or be driven out.

    The History of the Telephone 1910

  • Thomas B. Doolittle had one in Bridgeport, using telegraph instruments Thomas B.A. David had one in Pittsburg, using printing-telegraph machines, which required little skill to operate.

    The History of the Telephone 1910

  • Mr.E. A. Callahan, an ingenious printing-telegraph operator, saw that there were unexhausted possibilities in the idea, and his foresight and inventiveness made him the father of the ` ` ticker, '' in connection with which he was thus, like Laws, one of the first to grasp and exploit the underlying principle of the ` ` central station '' as a universal source of supply.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions, vol. 1 1910

  • Thomas B. Doolittle had one in B.idgeport, using telegraph instruments Thomas B.A. David had one in Pittsburg, using printing-telegraph machines, which required little skill to operate.

    The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson 1910

  • The printing-telegraph men warned him that he must either quit or be driven out.

    The History of the Telephone Herbert Newton Casson 1910

  • In 1871 he came to New York, and having attracted the attention of the Stock Exchange by some ingenious suggestions put forth while busied in repairing the machine that recorded quotations, he was made Superintendent of the Gold and Stock Company, and brought out his invention of the printing-telegraph, by which the fluctuations of the stock-market in any part of the country are instantly recorded on narrow strips of paper.

    Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

  • Mr.E. A. Callahan, an ingenious printing-telegraph operator, saw that there were unexhausted possibilities in the idea, and his foresight and inventiveness made him the father of the "ticker," in connection with which he was thus, like Laws, one of the first to grasp and exploit the underlying principle of the "central station" as a universal source of supply.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.