* 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 ".

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.

The American Thomas Jefferson was a representative agrarian who built Jeffersonian Democracy around the notion that farmers are “ the most valuable citizens ” and the truest republicans.

Hidenoshin Koyama, who built Thomas Blake Glover's House in Glover Garden, came from this island.

Browne Willis built a mansion in 1711, but this was pulled down by Thomas Harrison, who had acquired the property in 1793.

In Swansea's maritime quarter are the Dylan Thomas Theatre, home of the Swansea Little Theatre of which Thomas was once a member, and the former Guildhall built in 1825 and now occupied by the Dylan Thomas Centre, a literature centre, where exhibitions and lectures are held and setting for the annual Dylan Thomas Festival.

The theory was popularized in the 1840s by Scottish writer Thomas Carlyle, and in 1860 Herbert Spencer formulated a counter-argument that has remained influential throughout the 20th century to the present ; Spencer said that such great men are the products of their societies, and that their actions would be impossible without the social conditions built before their lifetimes.

Thomas Telford | Telford's Clachan Bridge between the mainland and Seil, also known as the " Bridge across the Atlantic ", was built in 1792.

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

New engineered roads were built by John Metcalf, Thomas Telford and most notably John McAdam, with the first ' macadamised ' stretch of road being Marsh Road at Ashton Gate, Bristol in 1816.

Thomas built the first great hall at the castle from 1314 to 1317 and constructed the Water Tower along the outer bailey, as well as increasing the size of the chase.

The hotel was built by Sir Thomas Morgan, during the reign of Charles I. Cardiff Arms Park was named after this hotel.

Newman lost no time in establishing the renowned Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory at the University and recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer based on Turing's ideas.

* Cycloped, built by Thomas Shaw Brandreth.

The Bills had built their lead off of running back Thurman Thomas ' 4-yard touchdown run.

In 1891, Thomas Edison built a Kinetoscope, or peep-hole viewer.

In 1885, Thomas Edison bought property in Fort Myers, Florida, and built what was later called Seminole Lodge as a winter retreat.

Nevertheless, in 1697, based on Papin's designs, engineer Thomas Savery built the first engine, followed by Thomas Newcomen in 1712.

* January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.

* January 19 – The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires begins service in Roselle, New Jersey ( it was built by Thomas Edison ).

* January 30, 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.