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On arriving in San Francisco on January 7 , 1887 , Thomas Stevens finishes the first around-the-world tour by bicycle , almost three years after departing . Under Secretary for Rural Development Thomas Dorr also attended the event . Using the example of Thomas Edison , Hughes comments on invention as a response to need . Bierds profiles a pantheon of ur-profilers , each an analogous assistant in a campaign to capture the face of death : Etienne de Silhouette , Rembrandt van Rijn , Antony Van Leewenhoek , John Lavater , Louis Daguerre , Julia Margaret Cameron , Thomas Edison , Samuel Morse , the cave painters of Altamira and herself , often veiled as Brady 's anonymous aide . Thomas Edison had a season in the sun , and nothing has been the same since , for any of us . " My colleague on the panel , Thomas Cahill , author of Gifts of the Jews , answered tongue-in-cheek , " Forty-seven point nine percent . The next Thomas Edison or an innovative Isaac Newton ? In the case of electrification , competing camps initially argued over what technology to use — direct current ( DC ) , favored by Thomas Edison , or alternating current ( AC ) . Dublin-born artist Thomas Frye ( 1710 - 1762 ) published two remarkable series of mezzotints - ' Fancy Heads ' - highly original life-size images of men and women , notable for their striking poses , enigmatic expressions , fashionable and exotic costume .