From that point on the government seemed to just want to get rid of the models, moving them into storage, sending some back to their owners and allowing the Smithsonian to take some important ones--Isaac Singer's sewing machine, for example, and Samuel Colt's revolver.

FORBES: Patently Obvious

Don Katz saw the way the internet would revolutionise audio distribution, and the first storage device Audible.com produced is now an exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.

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