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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:04:45 -0800 (PST)
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 18:56:30 -0800 (PST)
From: billb@ftldesign.com Bill Burns
Dead medium: Undead Media - The Edison Stock Ticker
Source(s): http://www.stocktickercompany.com/index.html

The Stock Ticker Company is reproducing the 1870s era Universal Stock Ticker, with an Internet connection to print current stock quotes. http://www.stocktickercompany.com/index.html

>From their introduction: "The Heartbeat of Wall Street Returns Old meets new in one of the most ingenious ideas to celebrate our financial and innovative heritage--a handcrafted, working, museum-quality reproduction of the original Universal Stock Ticker. The Universal connects to the Internet to print your live stock quotes, and personal messages."

The site also has a good history page on the origin and development of the stock ticker: http://www.stocktickercompany.com/history.html