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This statesman, scholar and inventor, an early President of the United States, invented the swivel chair, the spherical sundial, the mouldboard plough and the cipher wheel. Who was he?

  • A.George Washington
  • B.Alexander Hamilton
  • C.John Adams
  • D.Thomas Jefferson

Answer: D

He was Thomas Jefferson.

The third President invented a swivel chair, on which he is said to have drafted the Declaration of Independence, a spherical sundial, an improved mouldboard plough and a wheel cipher. He never patented anything, holding that ideas should be free.

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