ticker

• It will be remembered that upon the cylinder there are as many pins as there are characters on the type-wheels of the ticker, and one of the segmental wheels, W, has a like number of metallic segments, while upon the other wheel, W', there are only one-half that number. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
• In a rear room there was a telegraphic ticker, an operator, and some newspaper boys who at intervals would take an especially interesting bulletin in to Mr. Wilson, who would glance at it casually, make some brief comment, and then return to his book. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
• The room began to steady around me but it reeled sharply again when I saw what lay before the ticker, the tape looping down about him —face down on the floor, blood still crawling from the bullet hole in his back Williams never saw who got him. —  August, 1947
• From where I was, it almost looked like a ticker-tape parade, only with celebrity hostages instead of sports or war heroes. —  Step on a Crack by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge
• Given Mike's failure to change his diet to save his ticker, the doctor warned him that he would have to remain absolutely faithful in taking his heart pills and would likely still need to have surgery within the year to remove his blood mud. —  AnalogSFF,March2008

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