Lost in storage

And it was found … in a cave! The patent was apparently misplaced back in 1980 or so, and its absence was noted in 2000. The reason? Millions of pieces of paper at the National Archives; stuff gets misplaced. A “sleuthing archivist” found the patent on March 22, according to the Post, “in a special records storage cave in Lenexa, Kan., where it was sent at some point.”

Several remarkable things come to mind: The patent is back! Sleuthing still matters. And … the National Archives has a thing called “storage caves.” Wow.