Talk:Thomas L. Jennings

Confusing dates
This is confusing, as it says Jennings received the patent in 1821, but wasn't the first African American to patent an invention, going on to talk about a patent of 1857. Corrected the information.--Parkwells (talk) 19:03, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

Confusing text
The article digresses too much in talking about policy of the Patent Office that has nothing to do with Jennings. Material about Stuart, Ned and the Patent Ofc should be moved to a new article. Not wanting to research it, I put it under a different section.--Parkwells (talk) 18:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
 * In general this article is very poorly written and referenced. Run-on, sencences and random data stuck in the middle of sentences are the two worst offences.  I would copyedit it some more but I can't make heads or tails of some of it.  Nyth  63  00:00, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

About.com
Comparing (for example) this version of the article from 25 May 2007 with the about.com source (which was referenced on 2 July 2008), there appears to be a significant overlap of information as well as structure and wording. As such, given the lack of a date on the about.com article, there does not appear to be a way to verify that it is not primarily a circular reference. Hopefully the book published in 2002 contains more information, because that would definitively predate the article here. VernoWhitney (talk) 19:20, 30 June 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 08:38, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Photo is of Paul Bogle
The recently added photo has been established as being that of Paul Bogle (source article dated December 19, 2014) and used on Wikipedia as Paul Bogle since Aug 2019.

MrEguy |  &spades;&hearts;&clubs;&diams; 22:21, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Image is wrong and violates
This image is wrong, this is not Thomas Jennings. This is Jamaica’s National Hero Paul Bogle and he’s on our $50 note. Cunningbirdxm (talk) 09:06, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

Conflicting years of death
Aside from the photo being almost certainly incorrect and an image of Paul Bogle, there are two dates of death here: 1856 and 1859. There’s good reason to believe that it’s 1859 and the sources used for the 1856 date are incorrect. Original research done by this YouTuber has a picture of Jennings’s grave in NY showing 1859:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pe5-_qif_eQ Blck Blk (talk) 04:02, 27 December 2023 (UTC)


 * This source https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106005410862&seq=145&q1=jennings
 * And this source https://archive.org/details/sim_douglass-monthly_1859-03_1_10/page/37/mode/1up
 * Also demonstrably show he died on February 11, 1859. 1856 year is incorrect and the day likely was created by vandals whose edits were not fixed Wildviper121 (talk) 23:27, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

On "dry scouring"
The current sources given in this article are very new and there's insufficient information about Jennings' patent. The patent listing does not describe his process. I'm looking for a historical report on his patent that describes his process. ⲔⲖⲞⲢⲠⲒⲔⲢⲒⲚ (talk) 10:48, 8 April 2024 (UTC)