In his own eyes, Thomas Jefferson considered himself first and always a man of the land. Though people considered Thomas Jefferson as an inventor, he is more described as an innovator. Rather than creating more ideas he improved on things that already existed. For example; while in Europe he observed European plow designs and found them to be too deficient. So deficient in 1788, he resigned the plow by redesigning its moldboard. It was made of wood, and the moldboard is the part of the plow that lifts up and turns over the sod cut by the iron share and coulter. Six years later, farmers were actually using it and it was seemed to be efficient. Thomas Jefferson became the third president of the United States in 1801, and during his presidency