Hackaday1 年
World’s First Precision Lathe: Indispensable When Constructing The Antikythera Mechanism
As [Chris] over at the Clickspring YouTube channel demonstrates in a recent video, small precision lathes were exceedingly common in the Ancient ... of the Antikythera Mechanism, which [Chris ...
Hackaday8 年
Wooden Antikythera Mechanism Is Geared For Greatness
built partly to predict the positions of celestial bodies in the solar system as it was understood in ancient Greece. [Dave] decided to build a wooden version of the Antikythera Mechanism as a ...
Gorgeous Greek island with turquoise waters will pay Brits £15k to move there
The tiny Greek island of Antikythera is offering incentives to families and skilled workers who want to relocate there, ...
Scientists recreate sunken Antikythera mechanism, the oldest mechanical computer in humanity
Julio Saucedo Morales explained the differences between the Antikythera mechanism ... correspond to the Greek lunar calendar ...
BBC3 年
Scientists unlock mysteries of world's oldest 'computer'
The Antikythera Mechanism has baffled experts since it was found on a Roman-era shipwreck in Greece in 1901. The hand-powered Ancient Greek device is thought to have been used to predict eclipses ...
PBS12 年
Ancient Computer
In 1900, a storm blew a boatload of sponge divers off course and forced them to take shelter by the tiny Mediterranean island of Antikythera ... behind the amazing ancient Greek computer.