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Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda (virginia.edu)
schwit1 writes: An ongoing two-year renovation of the University of Virginia's Rotunda has revealed a chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson that dates from the 19th century. Workers uncovered the early science classroom behind a wall on Monday, according to the university. The room was sealed in one of the lower-floor walls of the iconic Rotunda in the mid-1840s and protected from a fire in 1895 that destroyed much of the building's interior. The chemical hearth inside was originally built as a semi-circular niche in the Rotunda, with two fireboxes that provided heat. Brick tunnels underneath the building led fresh air to fireboxes and workstations, while ducts carried away the fumes and smoke. Students at the time worked at five workstations cut into stone countertops.
He was a truly well-rounded gentleman. Politician, Philosopher, Scientist, Slave-Owner, Rapist.. The list goes on.
jefferson was a racist ideologist, a slave owner , a rapist, and a genocidal land/resource grabber. not much different from a typical modern "American politician". you are free to respect such people, and admire a history of nation led by such people, if you want. but if you do so you are a contemptible person imo.