Also new to the Obama bookshelves are three mechanical devices on loan from the National Museum of American History's patent collection: models for Samuel Morse's 1849 telegraph register, John Peer's 1874 gear-cutting machine and Henry Williams' 1877 feathering paddlewheel for steamboats.
It kind of speaks to his technocrat roots. Too bad the White House has been so boneheaded when it has come to technology as all the mistakes on the Recovery.gov site showed. It is kind of cool that he keeps fresh apples at the ready as well:
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