Thomas Jefferson's Geeky Gadget-filled House

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2009/07/monticello/

by Readmore • 17 years ago

32 5 17 years ago

bcl• 17 years ago

This article isn't filled with as much detail as I had hoped. It is a photo-essay and doesn't really cover much in the way of the gadgets he invented and used.

jgrahamc• 17 years ago

Here's something Jefferson and geeky. He came up with the term 'catenary' as in a catenary curve. The Gateway Arch in St. Louis (located in the Jefferson National Expansion Park) is a catenary and you can see its equation in the visitor center at the base.

proee2• 17 years ago

I remember reading that he invented duct work used for heating and cooling.

proee2• 17 years ago

I was trying to google around to verify this. Could not find any hard data but it appears he did incorporate duct work in his house to pass the heating from his fireplaces around to various rooms. This was probably not very common at the time.

vijayr• 17 years ago

Thomas Jefferson's Geeky Gadget-filled House

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