A Personal Library Like No Other

Jay Walker has possibly the most amazing personal library in the world. So much cool stuff in this article, go and read about it.

And yes, that is a Sputnik hanging from the ceiling.  Other artifacts include: a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II, an Enigma code machine, an original copy of the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle, the first illustrated history book, the 1535 Coverdale Bible (the first completely translated into modern English), I could go on and on and on…

The best part? Jay Walker doesn’t keep it all to himself.  Even though it is part of his home, he often lets tours of schoolchildren in to browse the one-of-a-kind artifacts.