Ticker tape
（重定向自Ticker tape machine）
![Watching the ticker tape, 1918](/Images/godic/202502/16/Women_in_Waldorf-Astoria2201.jpg")
![Edison gold & stock ticker](/Images/godic/202502/16/Edison_Stock_Telegraph_Ticker2201.jpg")
![Hughes telegraph (1866-1914), first telegraph printing text on a paper tape. Manufactured by Siemens & Halske, Germany; range: 300-400 km](/Images/godic/202502/16/Hughes_telegraph2201.jpg")
![Ticker tape parade in New York City for presidential candidate Richard Nixon in 1960. The long streamers are entire spools of ticker tape.](/Images/godic/202502/16/NixonTickerTapeParadeNYC19602201.jpg")
Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970. It consisted of a paper strip that ran through a machine called a stock ticker, which printed abbreviated company names as alphabetic symbols followed by numeric stock transaction price and volume information. The term "ticker" came from the sound made by the machine as it printed.