Thompson surname disambiguation

We have:

Inventors

• Norman Thompson, an individual on whom we have very little, other than in connexion with White and Thompson becoming Norman Thompson Flight Co., that last page name being necessitated strictly in the interests of disambiguation ; the company apparently went under the simple name of the individual.
• Herbert H. Thompson
• Norman Arthur Thompson ; see below in Companies.
• George Washington Thompson, likely the same as George W. Thompson
• Robert M. Thompson
• Robert W. Thompson
• Milton D. Thompson, an American inventor associated with propellers, seemingly the founder of the Thompson Propeller Company
• Joel N. Thompson, the inventor of Patent US-1911-1031597
• George E. Thompson, the inventor of Patent US-1910-1032868
• John Thompson, Canadian, the inventor of Patent US-1880-225306
• John Edward Thompson, also Canadian
• Frederick Arthur Thompson, British, the inventor of Patent GB-1912-21424, in collaboration with Rupert Edward James
• Frederick Thompson, also British, the inventor of the apparently non-aero Patent US-1880-252298
• Oscar E. Thompson, the inventor of the non-aero propulsion Patent US-1915-1225287
• Edward P. Thompson, whom we have as the inventor of Patent US-1887-366353, though we also have him as the patent agent of Patent US-1886-336984 ; there are wildcards in the data entry protocols when it comes to source material on patents this old.
• Guy M. Thompson ; this inventor may be entirely non-aero, possibly having gotten in via a previous and erroneous Espacenet association of one of his patents with CPC B64C13/06.
• Nelson W. Thompson, the inventor of the apparently non-aero Patent US-1901-700102
• Henry Walter Thompson, the inventor of Patent GB-1909-24658
• William Phillips Thompson, inventor and patent agent and author of Thompson, Handbook of Patent Law in All Countries
• Frank M. Thompson, 1/2 assignee of Patent US-1906-867570, to which James H. Clark is the assignor

Companies

• White and Thompson becomes Norman Thompson Flight Co., as a firm, with a Norman Thompson, Cambridge graduate having been a founder of the earlier firm ; this may or may not be the inventor Norman Arthur Thompson above. H. Williams was a boatbuilder who built fuselages and hulls for these firms.
• Thompson Propeller Company, perhaps a minor firm, coming to us via Milton D. Thompson

Patent agents

• W. P. Thompson & Co.‎
• John J. Thompson

Authors

• Gustave R. Thompson, the author of Thompson, 1910, Recent patented inventions
• M. Thompson, the author of Thompson, 1900, Faculty of flight
• Aviator De Lloyd Thompson or Delloyd Thompson or DeLloyd Thompson, the author of Thompson, 1916, Thompson makes speed record and Thompson, 1915, Thompson loops the loop with Mrs. Barney Oldfield
• Mrs. Cora Thompson, the author of Thompson, 1908, My initial trip to the clouds

Publications

• Publication B2p1325e20, 1911, Thompson goes 20 miles cross-country
• Publication B2p1325e21, 1914, Thompson sets new American altitude mark
• Publication B2p1326e01, 1914, De Lloyd Thompson makes new altitude record
• Publication B2p0827e13, 1913, Macy stabilizer successfully tested
• Publication 471, 1903, Airship problems and universal free trade

Organizational officers

• Julian F. Thompson, one of the initial officers of the Princeton University Aero Club
• Eben F. Thompson, a 1908 Secretary-Treasurer of the Aero Club of Worcester

Other

• Jefferson De Mont Thompson, the Police Colonel associated with the Aerial Police for New York City, 1919, Municipal Journal
• William Boyce Thompson, a stockholder in the Wright Company
• Edward H. Thompson, a Baltimore banker in honor of whom the Baltimore Aero Club held a dinner
• Correspondence from the Aerial League of America in 1917 is in the Elihu Thompson Papers
• Col. R. M. Thompson mentioned in Aero Club of America
• Professor Silvanus P. Thompson, to whom Berget, 1909, Conquest of the Air is dedicated
• A "Mrs. Thompson" comes up in the patenting phenomena covered in Swanson, 2017