Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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You don't need a college degree to do this.
He was.
He definitely loved to tinker with things.
Yes, he was always inventing, and he didn't patent things.
He said these should be free use, anyone who wants to use this.
So
um, the clock, other things, some of them, I mean, he makes up what he called a polygraph so he could make copies of his letters.
So he has a pen here and it's attached to a rod here and then there's another pen so he could make copies while he was writing.
Because one reason, by the way, we know so much about what Jefferson thought and John Adams thought is they saved everything and they made copies of everything.
They would have loved Xerox machines.
Yeah.
But,
So Jefferson has this polygraph so he can make copies as he is writing.
And really fascinated in how things work, the mechanics of things.
Oh, they did, definitely.
I mean, Franklin does when he's doing these different experiments and the other people in his circle are experimenting.
They're seeing what works, what doesn't, and it has to be able to be replicated.
Winthrop, there's an earthquake in 1755 in the late fall here.
It's about a month or so before there's a massive earthquake in Lisbon.
And he is looking at how far the bricks from the buildings at Harvard fall.
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