It’s no surprise then that he’s interested in the Antikythera Mechanism—a small ... all the modern theories of the device’s gear train. The entire system is made out of 6mm birch plywood ...

This artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. On 17 May 1902 it was identified as containing a gear by archaeologist Valerios Stais ...

In 1901 divers working off the isle of Antikythera found the remains of a clocklike mechanism 2,000 years old. The mechanism now appears to have been a device for calculating the motions of stars ...

This is a working model of the Antikythera mechanism made from Lego ... Each mechanical unit takes advantage of gear ratio combinations to perform numerous levels of mathematical functions in ...

Mexican scientists and teachers from the University of Sonora in northwestern Mexico have successfully recreated the Antikythera mechanism, the oldest mechanical computer in humanity. The replica ...

From the time it was fished out from the colossal depths of the seas near Antikythera island in Greece back in 1900 to 1901, it has triggered many theories and research work among scientists who ...