Thomas Jefferson Inventor
Thomas Jefferson as an Inventor
Thomas Jefferson was both an innovator and an inventor. The late 1700's were when his inventing became recognized. During this time periods he designed and built eleven different machines and tools in order to make a better use of his time and for practicality in his world. He developed a new plow to aid in his farming and a crude copying machine so that he could make many copies quickly of the letters, which he wished to write. His inventions can be placed into four categories: office, home, farming, and time keeping.
Time keeping was very important to Jefferson, as president and secretary of state he had a very busy schedule and when he was at Monticello he needed to be able to keep track of those times. …show more content…
It is only natural that a man with his inventive mind would invent things for the office. Jefferson received a copy machine of sorts from James Watt. Thanks to the help of Jefferson, giving Watt advice on how to improve the machine Jefferson was the true innovator of this machine. Writing in bulk was very important for Jefferson, he also perfected the polygraph, which today holds a different meaning then it did in his time. Jefferson's polygraph had two pens attached to a stick so that writing with one of the pens made a duplicate copy through the other pen. For his office Jefferson also innovated on the revolving chair. He added a writing arm and a leg rest to the revolving chairs thus creating a new piece of furniture. Jefferson also created a revolving book stand for his desk that could hold up to five books and each book holder could be folded vertically to make a small box. In his service as the United States Secretary of State there was a very divisive foreign policy. To be able to communicate freely with the people he needed to about foreign policy and have no fear of the letters being intercepted Jefferson created the wheel cipher. This could scramble and unscramble messages that the code could be changed. His design was the basis for the American design of the cipher in World War
Thomas Jefferson was both an innovator and an inventor. The late 1700's were when his inventing became recognized. During this time periods he designed and built eleven different machines and tools in order to make a better use of his time and for practicality in his world. He developed a new plow to aid in his farming and a crude copying machine so that he could make many copies quickly of the letters, which he wished to write. His inventions can be placed into four categories: office, home, farming, and time keeping.
Time keeping was very important to Jefferson, as president and secretary of state he had a very busy schedule and when he was at Monticello he needed to be able to keep track of those times. …show more content…
It is only natural that a man with his inventive mind would invent things for the office. Jefferson received a copy machine of sorts from James Watt. Thanks to the help of Jefferson, giving Watt advice on how to improve the machine Jefferson was the true innovator of this machine. Writing in bulk was very important for Jefferson, he also perfected the polygraph, which today holds a different meaning then it did in his time. Jefferson's polygraph had two pens attached to a stick so that writing with one of the pens made a duplicate copy through the other pen. For his office Jefferson also innovated on the revolving chair. He added a writing arm and a leg rest to the revolving chairs thus creating a new piece of furniture. Jefferson also created a revolving book stand for his desk that could hold up to five books and each book holder could be folded vertically to make a small box. In his service as the United States Secretary of State there was a very divisive foreign policy. To be able to communicate freely with the people he needed to about foreign policy and have no fear of the letters being intercepted Jefferson created the wheel cipher. This could scramble and unscramble messages that the code could be changed. His design was the basis for the American design of the cipher in World War