Thomas Edison High School of Technology and technical student organization, SkillsUSA. Typically, students spend half of their day at Thomas Edison, and the other half at their home school. Thomas Edison offers two sessions: the morning session from 8:05 AM to 10:35 AM, and the afternoon session from 11:20 AM to 1:50 PM. Thomas Edison is also the headquarters for the Montgomery County Students Trades Foundations Office. Thomas Edison offers nineteen programs for students to choose from. Courses take one, two or three years to complete, depending on the curriculum. For the 2016-2017 school year, Thomas Edison has a total of 576 enrolled students, 70.3% male
Thomas Parker (inventor) Thomas Parker (inventor) Thomas Parker FRSE MICE (22 December 1843 – 5 December 1915) was an English electrical engineer, inventor and industrialist. He patented improvements in lead-acid batteries and dynamos, and was a pioneer of manufacturing equipment that powered electric tramways and electric lighting. He invented the smokeless fuel Coalite. He formed the first company to distribute electricity over a wide area. He was described by Lord Kelvin as "the Edison of Europe". Parker was born at Lincoln Hill in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, son of Thomas Wheatley Parker and Ann "née" Fletcher. His father was a moulder at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks.