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 ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack. The triangular shape of the gear teeth wasn’t the issue, according to new simulations ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...

Over the past two decades researchers have been analyzing this component to calculate how well the Antikythera mechanism functioned. Two major problems with the gear train have emerged.

Divers found the Antikythera mechanism in a shipwreck in ... 82 corroded fragments, including 30 gear wheels. Experts think these gears predicted the positions of the sun, moon and some planets ...