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Thomas Jefferson on Banking

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coldplugs said:
Ok - I might have made up the part about the Model A but the quote is legit.
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Oddly enough, he and Washington just might have been able to drive about the countryside:

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A steam-powered amphibious vehicle was purported to have been built by Oliver Evans, one of America's foremost inventors from that era. He built the first fully mechanized factory (a mill) with lots of innovative elements in it. No feedback mechanisms though, so it could really be said to be automatic, but it was pretty radical, and labor saving....
 
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