Thomas Commerford Martin

Thomas Commerford Martin (1856–1924) was an English-born American electrical engineer and editor. He came to the United States in 1877, worked for a time in Thomas Edison's laboratory at Menlo Park, and then turned to technical journalism, editing The Electrical Engineer and later the Electrical World. In 1894 he published The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla, the first collection of Tesla's work, and in 1910, with Frank Lewis Dyer, the authorized biography Edison: His Life and Inventions. He was president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and for many years secretary of the National Electric Light Association.