It’s on TCM right now.
I believe the comic Alley Oop had him travel; to contemporary times. As I recall, it wasn’t much of a culture shock, he didn’t see much that was different in people and motivations.
Edgar Allen Poe had a group of crazy scientists reanimate a mummy with electricity. Conversing in Greek, he was likewise unimpressed with technological advancements of Poe’s time.
I sometimes do a thought experiment where I’m trying to explain the technology of the modern day to someone from the past, and the idea came from Bewitched, and their very bad explanations (which, of course, made it easier to get by with just using magic).
In an interesting variation on the theme, Futurama has the preserved heads of current(ish) celebrities kept around so they can interact with the show’s characters in the third millenium setting.
Richard Nixon is president of Earth and the cast of Star Trek show up in one episode too.
I sometimes wonder if you showed a current ad that has web sites printed in it to someone from, say, 1985 what they would think the strange characters mean. They might guess it had something to do with computers but past that…?
Oooh I watched that movie a couple of months ago. Low key but fascinating story.
Actually it’s not inexplicable. He works it out.
The skills required to fly a helicopter and the skills required to fly a fixed-wing aeroplane (even a Sopwith Camel) are not necessarily rapidly interchangeable.
And the process of “figuring out” the differences are likely to result in a fiery crash several times more quickly than in understanding.
Indeed, some things are opposite.
Poor Welshy!
Well played 
Time After Time has been remade as a series, which will be airing sometime next season on ABC.
While in prison, Lex Luthor once contemplated building a time machine.
Not the kind of time machine where he could disappear from the present and pop back out in the past or the future; that’s just crazy talk. I mean, how would he even get his hands on the parts for something like that? All he has to work with is, what, some aspirin, plus maybe the sunlight that slants in through the bars of his window, and whatever else a guy can acquire while locked up?
So, yeah, cue the solar-powered time machine that brings Hercules to the modern world, where he’ll smash his way out of confinement and then clash with Superman. That pretty much went without saying, right?
One of my favorite episodes.
“Worked it out” not “figured out”
A sadly unsuccessful by me to riff on one of the books http://www.biggles.info/Details/40/
Anubis Gates had a society of back and forthers. Although most of the story takes place in the back and not the forth.
There’s also Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler From 1909.