Awdry is known for Thomas the Tank Engine ( 1946 ).

* The Diesel ( aka D261 ), a character in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

Peter Orton, working at T. I. E., developed the Muppet Show and a couple of decades later Thomas the Tank Engine and Bob the Builder.

The advertisements feature plastic cars with expressive faces ( similar to Thomas the Tank Engine ).

* James the Red Engine, a character in Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends

* Daisy ( Thomas the Tank Engine ), railway engine in the television series

The dome was successfully adopted for specialized uses, such as the 21 Distant Early Warning Line domes built in Canada in 1956, the 1958 Union Tank Car Company dome near Baton Rouge, Louisiana designed by Thomas C. Howard of Synergetics, Inc. and specialty buildings like the Kaiser Aluminum domes ( constructed in numerous locations across the US, e. g., Virginia Beach, VA ), auditoriums, weather observatories, and storage facilities.

* Thomas The Tank Engine

The exhibition also includes a model railway based on Thomas the Tank Engine, which was opened by Christopher Awdry.

Midland's Scout program is one of the few in the country to offer a railroading merit badge and Midland has hosted a Thomas the Tank Engine attraction the last few years.

* The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry, creator of Thomas the Tank Engine

* Edward the Blue Engine, a character from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

W. Awdrey ( June 15, 1911-March 21, 1997 )( the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine was Vicar of Emneth, 1953-65.

* Episode 4 Batman, Thomas The Tank Engine

* Clearwater Features, a production company which did Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends and TUGS

They terminated licenses with Thomas the Tank Engine, The Wiggles, Tony Hawk, Evel Knievel, and Terminator.

Wilbert Awdry, an early volunteer on the Talyllyn Railway and best known for his series of railway books such as “ Thomas the Tank Engine .”

* Skarloey Railway, a fictional railway in both The Railway Series and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends by W. V.

* Dawson, in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends

* Spencer, a railway engine in Thomas the Tank Engine

Books include The Disney Studio Story and Mickey Mouse: His Life and Times ( with Richard Holliss ); The Land of Narnia, illustrated by Pauline Baynes ; The Treasury of Narnia ( with Alison Sage ); Shadowlands: The True Story of C. S. Lewis and Joy Davidman ; The Book of Guinness Advertising ; a biography of Wilbert Vere Awdry, entitled The Thomas the Tank Engine Man ; A Christmas Carol: The Unsung Story ; Cracking Animation: The Aardman book of 3-D Film-making, ( with Peter Lord ); Chicken Run: Hatching the Movie ; Three Cheers for Pooh ; and The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earth with artist John Howe.

“ Ballet, Farmyard, Circus, Hospital, and much later on Thomas the Tank Engine, Noddy, and My Little Pony were released to inspirechild ’ s picture-making ” abilities.

The railway used to have special Thomas The Tank Engine themed events, until the cost of running these became prohibitive, and other special services.

* In the series Thomas the Tank Engine, the Fat Controller's mother is known as Dowager Hatt.

Claims that his brakes " really suck ", a possible reference to The Yard, a fan-made parody of the popular British kid's show " Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends ".

The 1698 Savery Engine – the world's first commercially useful steam engine: built by Thomas Savery

* 1712: The Steam Engine invented by Thomas Newcomen

* Thomas Newcomen ( 1663 – 1729 ) Steam Engine Pioneer ( exact site of burial unknown )

An example of the Lowthers ' interest in technology could be seen at Stone Pitt when one of the world's earliest steam engines, Engine No. 5 built by Thomas Newcomen and John Calley in 1715 was installed, to help in drainage and haulage.

* Inge, M. Thomas, " Li ' l Abner, Snuffy and Friends " from Comics and the U. S. South, pp. 3 – 27 ( 2012 ) Univ.

* Peter Hemingray, John Thomas, His Friends and His Faith ( Canton, Michigan: The Christadelphian Tidings, 2003 ISBN 81-7887-012-6 ).

Margaret became a Quaker and, although Thomas did not convert, his familiarity with the Friends proved influential when Fox was arrested for blasphemy in October.

* January 29 – Thomas and Friends television show begins in U. S.

In Thomas & Friends, an episode focuses around Percy saving a calliope from the scrapyard.

Among the better-known graduates are screenwriters for the television show Friends David Crane and Marta Kauffman, political activists Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis, journalist Thomas Friedman, Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, physicist Edward Witten, novelist Ha Jin, political theorist Michael Walzer, actress Debra Messing, philosopher Michael Sandel, Olympic Silver Medalist fencer Timothy Morehouse, social and psychoanalytic theorist Nancy Chodorow, and author Mitch Albom.

William Booth began his Christian Revival Society, preaching the gospel in a tent, erected in the Friends Burial Ground, Thomas Street, Whitechapel, in 1865.

* Hiro, a Japanese steam engine character from the Thomas and Friends special " Hero of the Rails "

* Thomas Muir of Huntershill, ( 1765 – 1799 ), political reformer, leader of the Scottish " Friends of the People Society "

* Thomas & Friends: The Great Festival Adventure — Windows

* Thomas & Friends: Trouble on the Tracks — Windows

* Thomas & Friends

* Thomas & Friends: The Great Discovery

* Thomas & Friends: Calling All Engines

The cemetery of the Wilmington Friends House is the burial site of the abolitionist Thomas Garrett and John Dickinson, signer of the U. S. Constitution.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places at Rising Sun are: the Jeremiah Brown House and Mill Site, East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse, Joshua Lowe House, Thomas Richards House, and West Nottingham Meetinghouse.

On one weekend in October there is a Day out with Thomas from the children's television series Thomas and Friends.

The visitation turned into a long association as Fox persuaded Thomas and Margaret Fell and the inhabitants of the nearby village of Fenmore of Friendly, and Swarthmoor was used for the first Friends ' meetings.

* Bailey, J. E. ( 1874 ) The Life of Thomas Fuller, with Notices of his Books, his Kinsmen and his Friends.

* " Double Trouble " ( Thomas and Friends )

The story of the 1895 accident was referenced in the television series Thomas and Friends in " A Better View For Gordon ".