Description: Bird in Hand is a lively town of eight hundred with a large Amish and broader Mennonite population. Legend has it that the name comes from two surveyors discussing whether to stay the night in the village or return to Lancaster. One used the famous saying to suggest staying there. This is the continuation of the poking of fun at T-Shirts with big city names on them.
Description: Bird in Hand is a lively town of eight hundred with a large Amish and broader Mennonite population. Legend has it that the name comes from two surveyors discussing whether to stay the night in the village or return to Lancaster. One used the famous saying to suggest staying there. This is the continuation of the poking of fun at T-Shirts with big city names on them.
Description: Seventeen Seventy is one of the very few towns named for a number. It was named for Captain Cook's landing at that location in 1770. Today it is a small tourist town in the north of Queensland. This shirt makes mockery of the many shirts sporting the name of a famous city. The centre image comes from a map drawn by Cook showing the approximate location.
Description: Seventeen Seventy is one of the very few towns named for a number. It was named for Captain Cook's landing at that location in 1770. Today it is a small tourist town in the north of Queensland. This shirt makes mockery of the many shirts sporting the name of a famous city. The centre image comes from a map drawn by Cook showing the approximate location.
Description: In World War 2, the Germans used a scrambling system called Enigma. This machine simulates a number of Enigma machines to do a brute force attack on the 456,976 solutions of a single order of the four Enigma encoding wheels. This attack took about 20 minutes. Other machines were tasked with the other wheel orders.
Description: Babbage with the help of Ada, Countess of Lovelace built an early analog computer. For any computer history buff it is a key milestone in the evolution of computers. Ada, called by some the first computer programmer, recently had a programming language named after her. The term "Big Iron" comes from big computers as opposed to small computers.
Description: Babbage with the help of Ada, Countess of Lovelace built an early analog computer. For any computer history buff it is a key milestone in the evolution of computers. Ada, called by some the first computer programmer, recently had a programming language named after her. The term "Big Iron" comes from big computers as opposed to small computers.
Description: This device dates back to 150 - 100 BC. It was found in a wreck near the island of Antikythera. It was used to track planets, the calendar and four yearly athletic games. Considered by many to be the first analogue computer. There is some suggestion that it was invented and built by Aristotle.
