aside from bringing us law , wars , serenity , hanging chads , lobbies , sex scandals , First Ladies and Rough Riders , there have been presidents and launch Fathers who have brought us all sort of gadgets and inventions . Jump to see the best tech that the fearless leaders of the free world had to offer us .
Thomas Jefferson , the human race who pen the Declaration of Independence , also bring us the automatic door , pivot chair and plan the first ever macaroni car . Ben Franklin , while never Chief Executive , is definitely the geek ’ choice for the valet who never was but should have been — I mean , faced with he or Al Gore , who would you vote for?—was even more prolific . Blame him for bifocals , lightning rod , chicken feed harmonicas and the milometer , that little riposte that racks up your car ’s mileage , although Franklin ’s reading was designed for carriages .
Finally , we have President Lincoln , the only US President to have receive a patent , for a equipment to lift boats over schoals , after a span of incidents when travel by sauceboat , first in 1831 , and then in 1848 , while travel home from Congress . The patent diligence translate : “ Be it experience that I , Abraham Lincoln , of Springfield , in the county of Sangamon , in the state of Illinois , have cook up a novel and improved manner of combining adjustable perky zephyr chambers with a steam boat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draft of water to be readily lessened to enable them to run over saloon , or through shallow water , without discharging their lading . ” Babraham ’s design never saw the ignitor of solar day , however . [ Wikipedia ]
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