The story of Ahmed Mohamed tugged at the heartstrings of minorities and misunderstood nerds everywhere.
He said he brought the homemade clock, an assemblage of a circuit board and some wiring, to school to impress his teachers. Instead he was handcuffed and taken to a juvenile detention centre, where he was fingerprinted before being released to his parents.
Both President Barack Obama and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg invited the teen to meet them. But one of the best responses came from Omar Ghabra, a medical student at the University of Washington, who tweeted: "An Arab-looking man of Syrian descent in a garage w/his accomplice building what appears to be a bomb. Arrest them."
The photos show Steve Jobs with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and an early prototype of the personal computer that made them rich and famous.
