Listen "Thomas Jefferson's Polygraph"
Episode Synopsis
Monticello guide Kyle Chattleton shares the story of one of the most memorable original objects found at Monticello, the polygraph. A copy machine from the early nineteenth century, Thomas Jefferson called it, “the finest invention of the present age,” and used it to write thousands of letters during the last twenty years of his life.
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