#50 US Presidential Inventions (Part 2)

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🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This is Part 2! For Part 1, check the feed from yesterday!This week on the show we’re discussing the magnificent inventions invented by early US Presidents! For you we have George Washington’s threshing barn (not a pub), Thomas Jefferson’s wheelie chair (as exciting as it sounds) and Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod (not as rude as it sounds).When exactly was the golden age of parking? We can’t decide if it was the coin-based or app-based eras. If you have anything on parking, inventions or anything else, you know what to do: hello@ohwhatatime.comIf you're impatient and want both parts in one lovely go next time plus a whole lot more(!), why not treat yourself and become an Oh What A Time: FULL TIMER?In exchange for your £4.99 per month to support the show, you'll get:- two bonus episodes every month!- ad-free listening- episodes a week ahead of everyone else- And first dibs on any live show ticketsSubscriptions are available via AnotherSlice, Apple and Spotify. For all the links head to: ohwhatatime.comYou can also follow us on: X (formerly Twitter) at @ohwhatatimepodAnd Instagram at @ohwhatatimepodAaannnd if you like it, why not drop us a review in your podcast app of choice?Thank you to Dan Evans for the artwork (idrawforfood.co.uk).Chris, Elis and Tom xLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to part two of inventions by US presidents. Let's get on with the show. I'm going to tell you about Thomas Jefferson now and his
0:18.0	I'm going to tell you about Thomas Jefferson now and his invention.
0:22.0	I'm about to do something now that arguably
0:23.9	I would not be able to do without Thomas Jefferson. You ready? Watch this.
0:30.8	Yeah, do you want to explain to this?
0:32.6	I should already...
0:33.6	Yeah, it's quite a visual thing.
0:35.2	Chris is spinning in his chair.
0:37.2	Yeah.
0:38.2	Like a Bond villain.
0:39.2	Like a Bond villain, but it looks a lot of fun and looks very cool.
0:42.0	Yeah. I can't do that. I've just got a static kitchen.
0:46.0	Yeah, I'm pleasant scraping noise if I do it.
0:48.0	You are in a chair that is of a pre-Jefison age.
0:52.0	Yeah, I'm in a pre-Jefison.
0:54.1	Well, I'm living, I'm living in the post-Jefison age.
0:56.7	Well, if you stepped into Thomas Jefferson's house
0:59.1	in Montecello in Virginia, it's now a museum,
1:01.8	you'll find innovations everywhere. as befits an enlightened man
1:04.9	and a francophile who wants to be the third president of the United States.
1:09.0	Like Benjamin Franklin, as Tom just explained, Jefferson loved to design and invent things and he's a
1:14.6	veracious acquire of gadgets he which included the polygraph a multi-draw
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