Jaywalkers, Library of the History of Human Imagination, Richfield, Connecticut.

Tens of thousands of books and millions of other things.

You're going to see some of jaywalkers.

Library is absolutely unique.

So I asked Jay, could he take my son's around and show them just a little bit of what he had collected?

Who's Jay Walker?

He's a serial entrepreneur.

He founded Priceline.

Lots of other companies.

Yes, I think 850 patents, and he's an obsessive collector.

He knows exactly what he's looking for, and you're going to see a bit of that in this film.

Stay with it, because at the end, I'll tell you a bit more about Jay Walker on the Library of the History of Human Imagination.

We're gonna pretend room start.

Okay.

Watch was just pretending.

Wake up, wake up Wake.

So the library wakes up to music because in each of the glass panels is an invention like a puzzle.

This is a syringe that was invented by a friend of mine that you can only use once.

So once you use that you can't use it again.

Now, why would you invent a syringe that could only be used once?

It must be some kind of problem.

It turns out that many places in the world used syringes the same one many, many, many times because they don't want to buy another one, but they don't have enough money to buy another one.

What happens if I put a syringe in a sick person and then I refill it up and I put it in a well, person, make the other person sing, right?

So you don't want to use syringes over and over again.

And yet, in a large part of the world, a single syringe could be used 50 different times, right?

Syringes kill millions of people.

A friend of yours invented.

Yeah.

Invented this in the UK You guys ever played the game of Monopoly?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Here's the first minute.

That's the very first, which is made by hand by the guy who essentially invented the game.

Charles Darrow.

He typed up the rules, typed up the cards, the community chest, a chance, currents, typed up deeds.

I bought some plain money.

He invented this, actually stole it.

That's pretty close.

Did you remember when the plane was forced to land in the Hudson River?

Do you remember that?

So not long ago, a couple years ago, a plane took off from LaGuardia, where you were and if the engine got sucked in a bunch of birds and so it stopped the engine on the plane only had one engine, and the other engine also had some birds, and it suddenly came out.

And what was happening?

That that plane was over New York City and both engines stopped.

So they said Ruff row.

So they turned the plane around while it was sinking.

And he landed the plane right in the Hudson River by the George Washington Bridge and all the people on the water and survived everybody.

They landed on the water as if it were a runway.

They were lucky that day.

See, the water was pretty smooth, and they landed the plane on the water, and then ferry boats came from New Jersey and New York to pick up the passengers before the plane sank.

Okay, in the river.

Now one of the white habit.

Here's why.

I have it here.

One of my friends was on the point.

Ik I don't like that.

And he tells the story of what it was like to be on a plane that you thought you were going to crash and die.

So the luggage is at the bottom of the Hudson River.

So what does the airline do?

Well, they send a check to each person for $10,000.

Eh?

We're really sorry to crash the plane.

Here's $10,000 for your luggage.

Now, most people are so happy to have lived through the plane crash.

They really don't care.

And my friend Rick decided he wasn't going to cash the check.

So this place is a good place to see the whole library because you can see the staircase is right and you can see that it's much more than books.

Isn't?

Yeah, that's right.

It's more than books.

It's got model ships and it's got dinosaur.

Stop that huge rocket chips.

Why would I have more than books?

Collect stuff?

I like to collect stuff.

So this guy makes up a book.

He pretends that he landed on an alien world that was a really intelligent people.

And then he pretends he found an encyclopedia on that world, and the encyclopedia has writing.

He can't understand on every page.

He makes up this totally fake encyclopedia, right, Including the words including all these fake words that don't translate.

And he made this book and they printed 1000 copies.

And that was it.

Never sold.

Nobody wanted to buy this silly book except me and a few other people.

Take a look at this book cover.

Do you see the three dimensions of it?

You see the way you see how it makes up.

All right, well, here's the surprise.

If you're very careful and don't use your nail, you can touch it.

The book is flat, but there is no there is no three dimensions.

Your brain isn't so hard to fool, isn't good.

That's from World War Two.

That's money that the Nazis printed up in World War 22 and put in areas where the Jews were to try to convince the world that they were treating the Jews well.

So this is fake money that they put into the ghettos.

And so whenever visitors came, they showed them this money and said, Oh no, The Jews have their own money, but they were just lying.

This is a fossil.

You guys know what a fossil is, right?

But this is a fossil of one fish eating another cool, so it's very rare.

So what happened is the moment one fish gobbled another something happened and killed both of fish.

Probably some mud slid on top of them and exactly that moment froze them in exactly that position and maybe 20 million.

35 million years ago.

This happened.

So this is a star atlas and the most beautiful of all the star atlases.

And it was produced in 1800.

And each of the pages are hand painted and these are the constellations to a Imagine we're in the sky.

They imagined that there was a dog and the Gemini twins were in the sky Because Orion Bay anything that the stars formed patterns in the sky.

And so each stars in the right position There, 12 1000 stars in this atlas and each one is exactly in the right position.

Sito painted with gold.

This was right at the beginning of the world of science.

So they decided that there were other things in this guy's toe Look here they put a printing tray in the sky.

They said, Oh, that must be a printing tray in the sky, too.

So what's the biggest animal that's ever lived?

Any idea what the biggest animal that has ever lived on the earth is?

Here's a surprise.

It's the Blue Whale alive today.

Big, bigger than any dinosaur.

What do you think that might be?

A code?

A code?

Dakota.

That's what it is.

Good guess it's encoding decoder device.

It's designed to send coded transmissions and decode them.

It's a mechanical one, which means it doesn't use any electronics at all.

Just uses wheels, and it's the last one made.

It's made it on 1962.

After that point, they no longer use mechanical wheels.

They goto electronics.

So here you can see sort of one of the earliest radios in the world.

That's one of the very first radio turns out.

Radio was a big deal when it was invented, and that's one of the earliest radios.

This is one of the very earliest photographs in the world where the records are cylinders.

They're not, they're around and they go like this, and this would be the wreck.

That's like a CD, all right, like a CD music is on here.

Only its physical, not digital.

This would be a model of Edison's model is a copy of Edison's first label.

That's what it looked like and it Edison didn't invent the lightbulb.

Okay, Even though people think he did, he didn't invent the lightbulb.

What Edison invented was the filament, the little piece of wire that goes in the center that lets the bold last about 20 hours before Edison.

My moves only lasted 10 minutes or so because they burned out.

This is Ali's boxing world heavyweight champion, and this was his personal boxing glove.

This was a glad that was carried to the moon and back on Apollo 11 the first trip to the moon.

The astronauts carry little flags with them in their pockets.

When they came back, they gave the flex to their teachers and friends.

See, a dollar wasn't always a dollar well, so in 17 76 when they printed up money where the beginning of the country, when they needed less than a dollar, they printed up a fraction of a dollar.

So how much of a dollar is this 2/3 of a dollar.

He's like a giant piece of metal.

Exactly, is what it is.

It's a giant piece of metal iron on our planet.

We are mostly iron.

The whole center of the planet is liquid iron.

So iron, which is a very heavy metal, is the largest element on planet Earth.

We just don't happen to see much of it because it's all in the middle.

So these are really special rocks.

I mean, we're talking really special, all right, in the whole world.

There on Lee are about 50 to 60 of these rocks.

No, now that makes it a 1,000,000 times rarer than diamonds.

What are these rocks?

These rocks are little pieces of Mars, the planet that's more valuable than the diamond.

You as much more valuable than a time.

And you can hold releases of Mars.

How did they find pieces of Mars?

Well, first thing it has to happen is an asteroid has to hit Mars.

Then the next thing that has to happen is rocks from the Martian service have to be thrown into space because the asteroid hits.

It's so hard.

Then the rock in the atmosphere has to guess Cape Mars's gravity travel through space, and then it has to somehow randomly hit the earth.

But not just the earth.

It has to come through our atmosphere, not burn up.

Most rocks burn up when they come through the atmosphere, right, because they're moving too fast and they burn up from the friction on.

Then it has the land in Antarctica on the snow.

And then people have to be walking around Antarctica and see Iraq and go, Well, there's no rocks on the snow, so it must have come from space.

They gotta pick it up.

Then they got to take it back to a laboratory, and they gotta put it under a special kind of machine called a spectroscope.

And they've got a basically figured out the chemical signature of the rock.

And then they got to decide to sell it, okay, and then they gotta find somebody willing to buy it, okay, And then I got to get here.

So this is the world's biggest and stupidest Swiss army knife.

Oh, God.

What a cool about this Swiss Army knife is it has every night that they make in one night.

Now holy most sells for over $1000.

But you see, what can anybody use this?

You use this How it shows.

Any tells an interesting story.

You see, if you make a knife that has everything in it, it really has nothing.

They sold, you know, like 2 300 of them, Two crazies like me who have to have them and him.

Would you buy that way to join the crazy club?

It's a place like no other in the world.

So people come from all over the world to visit this room just because it's on unusual place to see in one room somebody trying not succeeding, but trying to put imagination together in one room.

Would you guys like to have a library?

David would like to have a library like this.

Linnaeus.

Like this?

Yeah.

Where?

Everything.

You picked yourself Because you are a collector.

I am a collector.

Jay is a collector.

Are you a collector?

Not a collector.

You'll seem weird to me.

I really appreciate J giving my sons that tour.

You know, I asked him what makes you you what causes this?

Now you're going to save money.

But I was a collector too.

I had a whole garage filled with stuff and I wasn't rich and still not.

And I still have a garage filled with stuff right next door.

So Jay said.