Lab Designed by Thomas Jefferson Discovered at University of Virginia
Renovations unearthed a chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson.
From Fox News:
Chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson discovered in University of Virginia Rotunda
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.
Chemical lab designed by Thomas Jefferson discovered in University of Virginia Rotunda (Fox News)
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Better destroy all evidence of it. He was a racist you know.
Discovered?
The topic of “lost knowledge” is fascinating — especially if you live in Europe and visit ruins and artifacts that are thousands of years old — the grave enormous passage graves in the Boyne Valley in Ireland come to mind, or similar enormous Etruscan grave sites near Rome. Who on earth “lost” these things in this first place?
There has to be some record in existence about Jefferson’s lab — the building is only a couple of hundred years old, not a couple of thousand. Strange. I lived in northern Germany for a time, and remember a project near Cologne to build an underground parking garage, but it had to be stopped because the “discovered” a church — how on earth can you “lose” or lose track of a church? The city has been permanently inhabited since the church was built, and there are tons of records of the city.