Possible Clues:

• Thomas —, US?inventor
• Famous inventor written about in odes
• Eponymous New Jersey township
• Stock ticker's inventor
• Town near Metuchen, N.J.
• His first patent was for an "Electrographic Vote Recorder"
• Subject of a 1940 biopic starring Spencer Tracy
• Sounds as if the editor is willing to be inventive
• Ohio-born acquirer of well over 1,000 patents
• The editor is willing to be an inventor