* 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.

* 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 1923 chemists Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted and Thomas Martin Lowry independently recognized that acid-base reactions involve the transfer of a proton.

The flaw was independently discovered and publicly disclosed in October 1994 by Professor Thomas R. Nicely at Lynchburg College, Virginia, USA.

The Thomas – Fermi model was developed independently by Thomas and Fermi in 1927.

Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey ( 1704 – 1749 ), a glazier in Philadelphia.

The film was independently produced by noted British producer Jeremy Thomas, who became Bertolucci's preferred producer.

Early electric power systems, such as those installed by George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison, prior to the turn of the century were isolated central stations which served small pockets of customers independently of each other.

They were discovered independently in 1983 by Ernst Hafen, Michael Levine, and William McGinnis working in the lab of Walter Jakob Gehring at the University of Basel, Switzerland ; and by Matthew P. Scott and Amy Weiner, who were then working with Thomas Kaufman at Indiana University in Bloomington.

The lymphatic system was first described independently by Olaus Rudbeck and Thomas Bartholin.

Louise Webster and Paul Murdin, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, and Charles Thomas Bolton, working independently at the University of Toronto's David Dunlap Observatory, announced the discovery of a massive hidden companion to HDE 226868 in 1971.

Margaret was descended independently from King John and his legitimised daughter Princess Joan, King John and his son Henry III and grandson Edward I. Margaret's sister Ellen ferch Thomas was the mother of Owain Glendoŵr ( the last native " Prince of Wales ").

The film was originally released by Columbia Pictures, although they were initially reluctant, and producer Jeremy Thomas had to raise a large sum of the budget independently.

John Adams owned none ; George Washington freed his slaves in his will ( his wife independently held numerous dower slaves ); Thomas Jefferson freed five slaves in his will, and the remaining 130 were sold to settle his estate debts ; James Madison did not free his slaves but some were sold to pay off estate debts, and his wife and son retained most to work Montpelier plantation ; Benjamin Franklin freed his slaves ; Alexander Hamilton likely owned slaves and freed them, as he was an officer of the New York Manumission Society ; the society was founded by John Jay, who freed his domestic slaves in 1798, the same year as governor he signed a gradual abolition law in New York.

Some modern scholars believe that the Gospel of Thomas was written independently of the canonical gospels, and therefore is a useful guide to historical Jesus research.

It was only when De Quincey, a chronic procrastinator, failed to answer repeated letters from James Thomas Fields that the American publisher proceeded independently, reprinting the author's works from their original magazine appearances.

In 1935 and 1936, to reduce weight and thus enabling a balloon to reach higher altitudes, plastic balloon construction began independently by Max Cosyns in Belgium, Erich Regener in Germany, and Thomas H. Johnson and Jean Piccard, then at the Franklin Institute Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Histories of photography usually credit Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer with the invention of the photographic telephoto lens in 1891, though it was independently invented by others about the same time ; some credit his father John Henry Dallmeyer in 1860.

Writings by John Dee and Thomas Digges in England in 1570 and 1571, respectively ascribe the use of both reflecting and refracting telescopes to Thomas ' father Leonard Digges, and it is independently confirmed by a report by William Bourne in approximately 1580.

The British naturalist Charles Darwin, combining the biogeographical approach of Humboldt, the uniformitarian geology of Lyell, Thomas Malthus's writings on population growth, and his own morphological expertise, created a more successful evolutionary theory based on natural selection ; similar evidence led Alfred Russel Wallace to independently reach the same conclusions.

The purchase was completed on July 11, 2012 with an announcement that Thomas Nelson would operate independently given the position it has in Christian book publishing.

Such an idea has continued to be maintained by archaeologists and historians, with Charles Thomas, a specialist in Cornish history, noting in 1993 that " There simply is no independently attested connection in early Cornish folklore locating Arthur, at any age or in any capacity, at Tintagel.

Iodoform was first prepared by Georges Serrulas in 1822 ; and at much the same time independently by John Thomas Cooper.

The term biology in its modern sense appears to have been introduced independently by Thomas Beddoes ( in 1799 ), Karl Friedrich Burdach ( in 1800 ), Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus ( Biologie oder Philosophie der lebenden Natur, 1802 ) and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( Hydrogéologie, 1802 ).