* 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.

* February 27 – In West Orange, New Jersey, Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge, who proposes a scheme for sound film.

* June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates ' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (" Delaware ") at Mulberry Island.

* May 29 – Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Archbishop Richard le Scrope of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home and then imprisons them.

Meanwhile, Brian meets and begins a romantic relationship with Faith Thomas ( Camille Coduri ), a short sighted aspiring psychology student.

* 1888 Thomas Edison meets with Eadweard Muybridge to discuss adding sound to moving pictures.

He meets his nephew, the young Edward V, who is en route to London for his coronation accompanied by relatives of Edward's widow ( Lord Rivers, Lord Grey, and Sir Thomas Vaughan ).

* Thomas Quinn Curtiss meets Klaus Mann.

* Thomas Hardy meets his first wife, Emma.

* Thomas Overbury meets Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, and they become firm friends.

United States: While isolated American gymnasts, including Kurt Thomas and Cathy Rigby, won medals in World Championship meets in the 1970s, the United States team was largely considered a " second power " until the mid to late 1980s, when American gymnasts began medaling consistently in major, fully attended competitions.

Fisher meets with NSA informant Thomas Gurgenidze, who he finds in a warehouse engulfed in flames.

She meets Peter Donahue ( Thomas Jane ) who confronts Christina for her methods before disappearing for the night.

In the morning, Duchess meets an alley cat named Thomas O ' Malley, who offers to guide her and the kittens to Paris.

* St Martin's Chapel No. 27 of the Commemorative Order of St Thomas of Acon, which meets on the 3rd Friday in June, and the 2nd Friday in February & October

Burnett's granddaughter Lily visits him, and meets C. Junior, Mr. Conductor's good-natured but lazy cousin, who takes her to Sodor and introduces her to the talking engines who live there, including Thomas.

Bergen meets Chief Scout Thomas Corbett, 2nd Baron Rowallan | Lord Rowallan ( center ) in Gilwell Park, 1950.

Alex leaves Thomas in the hospital and meets the Sin Eater, William Eden, at St. Peter's Cathedral who explains that he has been a Sin Eater for centuries, taking over for an earlier Sin Eater ( a Carolingian priest ) who ate the sins of Eden's brother.

At Mumby, it meets the B1449 as Station Road and passes the St Thomas of Canterbury church and Red Lion, with a left turn for Cumberworth.

* In Thomas Wolfe's short story " Only the Dead Know Brooklyn ", the narrator, Wolfe himself, rides the subway at night and is warned by someone he meets to not walk around in Red Hook.

Unlike the book, he is a friend of Thomas Hutter ( the film's version of Jonathan Harker ) before he meets Count Orlok ( a renamed Count Dracula ) and never meets the vampire face to face.

Pretending to take Phileas to a convention with Thomas Edison, Passepartout leads him to an art school where Phileas meets Monique La Roche, a would-be impressionist.

In the cemetery, Johnny meets Alderman Thomas Bowler ( one of the dead ).

She meets the monks who also work at the school, including principal Father Maurice, math teacher Father Ignatius, grouchy Latin teacher Father Thomas, and the cook Father Wolfgang.

Fresh from his adventures with Lawrence in Arabia, Thomas ( played by Evan Richards ) meets up with young Indy ( Sean Patrick Flanery ) and the novelist Edith Wharton ( Clare Higgins ).