Ticker Tape - The Telegraph Learns to Print Prices The stock ticker turned telegraph signals into a printed river of prices, and in doing so invented financial data. Its ancestor is the Morse register; its descendants are on every trading screen. Edison's improvements Young Thomas Edison made his early reputation improving stock tickers and telegraph printers in Boston and New York - the wire's printing children funded the inventor who would give Morse a voice with the phonograph. A city papered in data Ticker tape poured out of offices by the mile. When New York threw its first tape parade in 1886, the confetti was shredded market data - proof the coded wire had become the city's heartbeat. Translate any text to Morse code, play it as sound and download the audio free at: https://morsecodeworks.com/