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"I am not afraid of new inventions or improvements..."
Thomas Jefferson, 1810
Monticello was a laboratory for Jefferson's innovative adaptation of technology and design.
"Nobody wishes more than I do that ingenuity should receive liberal encouragement" --Thomas Jefferson, 1807
"Nobody wishes more than I do that ingenuity should receive liberal encouragement" --Thomas Jefferson, 1807
Jefferson's writings reveal his lifelong promotion of invention and innovation, driven by his Age of Enlightenment belief that that the human condition could be continually improved. While Secretary of State, Jefferson granted the first American patent and his basic principles for granting copyrights remain in effect today.
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