Possible Clues:

• Call ending a rugby match / Prolific inventor
• Thomas ____’s inventions included the microphone
• Incandescent lamp inventor
• Stock ticker inventor
• Inventor displaying lack of arrogance when given rise
• Vitascope inventor
• He held over 1,000 patents
• Thomas ____ had a research lab at Menlo Park, New Jersey
• US inventor of the incandescent electric lamp
• US inventor of the phonograph