Photo Gallery: From Plows to Supercars
-
Victims Bones
The Sedlec Ossuary, decorated with the bones of 40,000 plague victims.
-
Peasant Farmers
Drama reconstruction of peasant farmers before the arrival of the heavy plough.
-
Plague Spreading Rat
Josh in Prague's sewers, with a tame rat, the animals the spread the Black Death throughout Europe.
-
Plague Deaths
A reconstruction of the effects of the black death.
-
Bubonic Plague Prosthetics
Josh made up with prosthetics to simulate the physical symptoms of the Black death.
-
Medieval Labor
Josh with a medieval heavy plough and oxen.
-
Microlight Ready
Josh about to board a microlight to view the field patterns created by the heavy plough in medieval England.
-
Land Yacht Navigation
Josh piloting a land yacht. The first land yacht was designed by Dutchman Simon Stevin.
-
Supersized Propeller
Josh by the screw propeller of Brunel's ship SS Great Britain.
-
Indoor Flight
Josh tries out indoor skydiving to feel the real power of a propeller.
-
Sky High Turbine
Josh standing on top of a wind turbine.
-
Ready to Race
Josh about to take a spin in a 2 seater Indy Car.
-
Backseat Driver
Josh about to take a spin in a 2 seater Indy Car. He awaits in the rear seat while strapped in.
-
New York City Sights
Josh takes a taxi ride around the multicultural areas of New York.
-
Johannes Gutenberg
Drama reconstruction of Johannes Gutenberg embarking on a business venture to make mirrors for visiting pilgrims.
-
The Gutenberg Bible
Josh with curator of rare books, Mark Dimunation with the Gutenberg Bible.
-
German Decoder
The Bombe. The device used to decode German messages during World War II and a forerunner of the modern computer.
-
Encoded Messages
Drama reconstruction of Nazi radio operator transmitting a message encoded by enigma.
-
An Enigma Encoder
Josh at Bletchley Park with an original Enigma encoding machine.
-
Tabulator Invention
Drama reconstruction of Hollerith, the inventor of the tabulator. The story goes that the idea for the punch card tabulator came to him on the train.
-
The Smallest Computer
Josh holds the world's smallest computer in his hand.
