* 1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

Another prominent member was Thomas A. Edison.

* 1876 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

* 1897 – Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

A more reliable and controllable method of producing cathode rays was investigated by Hittorf and Goldstein, and rediscovered by Thomas Edison in 1880.

Thomas Edison independently rediscovered the principle on February 13, 1880.

* 1877 – Thomas Edison, using his new phonograph, makes one of the earliest recordings of a human voice, reciting " Mary Had a Little Lamb ".

Thomas Edison built the world's first large-scale electrical supply network.

Through such people as Nikola Tesla, Galileo Ferraris, Oliver Heaviside, Thomas Edison, Ottó Bláthy, Ányos Jedlik, Sir Charles Parsons, Joseph Swan, George Westinghouse, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Alexander Graham Bell and Lord Kelvin, electricity was turned from a scientific curiosity into an essential tool for modern life, becoming a driving force for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Football authority and College Football Hall of Fame coach David M. Nelson wrote that " E. B. Cochems is to forward passing what the Wright brothers are to aviation and Thomas Edison is to the electric light.

On 18 March, Friese-Greene sent a clipping of the story to Thomas Edison, whose laboratory had been developing a motion picture system known as the Kinetoscope.

As a result of the work of Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge, many researchers in the late 19th century realized that films as they are known today were a practical possibility, but the first to design a fully successful apparatus was W. K. L. Dickson, working under the direction of Thomas Alva Edison.

In 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair, Thomas Edison introduced to the public two pioneering inventions based on this innovation ; the Kinetograph – the first practical moving picture camera – and the Kinetoscope.

Up to 1913, most American film production was still carried out around New York, but because of the monopoly of Thomas Edison's film patents, many filmmakers had moved to Southern California, hoping to escape the litany of lawsuits that the Edison Company had been bringing to protect its monopoly.

The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896.

* 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.

* 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

* 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.

* 1847 – Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor ( d. 1931 )

* 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.

* 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.

* 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.

* 1883 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.

In 1889, one Theo Wangemann, a representative of American inventor Thomas Edison, visited the composer in Vienna and invited him to make an experimental recording.

* In the 12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas ' detailed report on the Mound Builders demolishes the earlier theory that ancient mounds in the United States were built by a " lost race ", and shows they were built by the ancestors of modern Native Americans.

In the years following America's independence, Thomas Apthorpe Cooper, the young nation's leading tragedian, performed Hamlet among other plays at the Chestnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and at the Park Theatre in New York.

Since the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, America's policy had been to allow Native Americans to remain east of the Mississippi as long as they became assimilated or " civilized ".

* In Maryland, the Jesuits Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase arrived with Lord Leonard Calvert on March 25, 1634, and in that year established an institution of higher learning at St. Mary's which later became known as Georgetown University, North America's oldest university.

* Cox, Thomas R. The Lumberman's Frontier: Three Centuries of Land Use, Society, and Change in America's Forests ( Oregon State University Press, 2010 ); 560 pages ; examines successive frontier regions prized for lumber rather than farming, beginning with northern New England in the 17th century

Another native son was Dr. Thomas Stewart, perhaps America's first free black 18th-century rural physician.

* Thomas Conway, soldier in America's Revolutionary War

Six of the top 10 buildings in the American Institute of Architects ' 2007 ranking of " America's Favorite Architecture " are in the District of Columbia: the White House ; the Washington National Cathedral ; the Thomas Jefferson Memorial ; the United States Capitol ; the Lincoln Memorial ; and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

* A reproduction of " America's First Movie Studio ", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed

* May-A reproduction of " America's First Movie Studio ", Thomas Edison's Black Maria, is constructed.

* Thomas Edison closes " America's First Movie Studio ", the Black Maria.

* Monument To Washington, a marble and bronze tribute to America's first president, created by sculptor Thomas Ball.

* Thomas H. Ackerman, FBI Careers: The Ultimate Guide To Landing A Job As One Of America's Finest ( 2004 ) ISBN 1-56370-890-6

Franklin Pierce ( 1826 ) was America's fourteenth President ; Melville Weston Fuller ( 1853 ) served as Chief Justice of the United States ; Thomas Brackett Reed ( 1860 ) was twice elected Speaker of the House of Representatives ; and Wallace H. White, Jr. ( 1899 ) and George J. Mitchell ( 1954 ) both served as Majority Leader of the United States Senate.

* July 4, 1826: Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on the 50th Anniversary of America's Independence

Smith Journal of Australia has described America's Thomas Blacke as one of the top pickpockets in the world.

* Sir Thomas Lipton ( 1848 – 1931 ), grocery mogul, perennial America's Cup contender and founder of Lipton's Tea.

* Samuel J. Thomas, " Mugwump Cartoonists, the Papacy, and Tammany Hall in America's Gilded Age " Religion and American Culture Summer 2004, Vol.

Thomas King, CM ( born 24 April 1943 ) is a noted novelist and broadcaster who most often writes about North America's First Nations.

* Rainwater, Thomas, Tom Pop, Octavio Cal, Steve Platt and Rick Hudson ( 2010 ) " Catalyzing Conservation in Belize for Central America's Imperiled River Turtle ," Turtle Survival Alliance Magazine, August 2010, pp. 79 – 82.

As chairman of the National Parks Subcommittee, Thomas authored legislation to provide funding and management reforms to protect America's national parks into the 21st century.

Captain Boyton's was the first amusement park to rely solely on mechanical attractions — specifically, America's first major Shoot the Chute ride. Paul Boyton and Thomas Polk built another example in 1895 for Sea Lion Park at Coney Island.

This 90-minute variety program was hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and featured a rotating cast that included some of America's and the world's greatest entertainers, including Fred Allen, Groucho Marx, Jimmy Durante, Joan Davis, Bob Hope, Louis Armstrong, George Jessel, Ethel Merman, José Ferrer, Ed Wynn, Lauritz Melchior, Ezio Pinza, Édith Piaf, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Barrymore, Phil Silvers, Benny Goodman, and Danny Thomas.

That changed in 1857 when Thomas W. Valentine, president of the New York State Teachers Association, issued a nation-wide invitation to teachers to unite behind a common voice for America's growing public school system.

In 1992 Thomas tried his hand at reality TV and co-executive produced ABC's America's Funniest People with Vin Di Bona.