When he wasn’t busy drafting the Declaration of Independence, founding the University of Virginia, or serving as President, Thomas Jefferson liked to invent things (and, frequently, improve upon other people’s inventions). He never took out a patent, owing to his belief that every invention should benefit all of society. Just a few of his numerous inventions (or innovations) include:

1. dumbwaiters for wine bottles

2. the Great Clock

3. the hideaway bed

4. macaroni and cheese, not to mention

5. a macaroni extruding device

6. the pedometer

7. the plow moldboard of least resistance

8. the polygraph (not a lie detector, but a copying machine)

9. a revolving bookstand

10. the spherical sundial

11. an improved swivel chair

12. the wheel cipher

the Great Clock

the hideaway bed

macaroni and cheese, not to mention

a macaroni extruding device

the pedometer

the plow moldboard of least resistance

the polygraph (not a lie detector, but a copying machine)

a revolving bookstand

the spherical sundial

an improved swivel chair

the wheel cipher

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