Why wait for the morning edition when you can write the news in light?In the early 20th century, newspapers struggled to find faster ways than printing to relay breaking news, especially on presidential election nights. None were as famous as The New York Times’s Motograph, a 368-foot-long electric bulletin board. Better known as the “zipper,” it sparked to life on Nov. 6, 1928, to inform the crowds in Times Square that Herbert Hoover had defeated Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York.
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