Thomas Edmondson (1792-1851)
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- Name (English)
- Thomas Edmondson
- Short name
- Thomas Edmondson
- Year of birth
- 1792
- Year of death
- 1851
- Short Description
- "Thomas Edmondson (30 June 1792 in Lancaster, England – 22 June 1851 in Manchester, England) is the inventor of the Edmondson railway ticket.
He was a member of the Religious Society of Friends and originally worked in the Lancaster cabinet making business of Gillow.
While working as a station master at Milton (later Brampton) on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway he devised the idea of a new type of railway ticket: a small piece of cardboard, pre-printed with journey details (as opposed to the then current hand-written paper bill). The tickets would be numbered by hand, and validated by a separate date-stamping press when purchased. He also invented and built a foot-operated version of the latter device." - (en.wikipedia.org 30.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
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Fahrkarte
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Object information
Image: DampfLand Leute - Museum Eslohe - CC BY-NC-SA
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