* 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.

Thomas Newcomen, the inventor of the atmospheric engine – the first successful steam-powered pumping engine – was born in Dartmouth in 1663.

* 1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

The British schoolmaster Thomas Wright Hill is credited as inventor of the single transferable vote, the use of which he described in 1821 for application in elections at his school.

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

Thomas Alva Edison ( February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931 ) was an American inventor and businessman.

Thomas Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him notice was the phonograph in 1877.

One very early experiment in electrical telegraphy was an electrochemical telegraph created by the German physician, anatomist and inventor Samuel Thomas von Sömmering in 1809, based on an earlier, less robust design of 1804 by Spanish-Catalan polymath and scientist Francisco Salva Campillo.

French-born Scot inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison ( post-dating the work of Louis Le Prince ).

In 1888, American inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Alva Edison conceived of a device that would do " for the Eye what the phonograph does for the Ear ".

Allen's statue stood in the National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol until, after a statewide poll run by the Ohio Historical Society, the Ohio National Statuary Committee voted August 26, 2010 to replace him with the statute of inventor Thomas A. Edison.

* October 18 – Thomas Edison, American inventor ( b. 1847 )

* May 18 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and inventor ( d. 1944 )

* February 1 – Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor ( b. 1850 )

* February 11 – Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor ( d. 1931 )

* September 26 – Thomas Crapper, plumber, inventor ( d. 1910 )

* Thomas Davenport, the inventor of the first American DC electrical motor, installs his motor in a small model car, creating one of the first electric cars.

* August 5 – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor ( b. 1663 )

* February 24 ( baptized ) – Thomas Newcomen, English inventor ( d. 1729 )

Dolomite is used when the phosphorus content is high in the alkaline Bessemer ( limestone or magnesite linings are also sometimes used instead of dolomite )— this is also known as a Gilchrist-Thomas converter, named after its inventor, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas.

After it was decided to create such an award, there was still a question of what to call it ; one working title was the Eddie, to honor the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison.

* Humphrey Gainsborough ( 1718 – 1776 ), brother of the artist Thomas Gainsborough, was a pastor and inventor who lived in Henley.

Amy is taken back to her new home in Ontario by her inventor father Thomas Alden ( Jeff Daniels ), who later introduces her to his girlfriend, Susan ( Dana Delany ).

Dickson, the Scottish-French inventor credited with the invention of the motion picture camera under the employ of Thomas Edison.