The main action of the movie takes place a quarter ... A hand-powered orrery, or model of the solar system, the Antikythera mechanism has been described as the oldest example of an analog computer.

A device called the Antikythera mechanism is the true-life basis for ... “It’s essentially a pocket universe, like a model of the cosmos.” This is the most sophisticated example we have ...

CHANG: Tony Freeth of University College London is an expert on the real device, and he says the movie did bend the truth a little bit. FREETH: It's described as Archimedes' Antikythera mechanism.

The mysterious Antikythera ... the Mechanism is, as that would help resolve its intended purpose. If it wasn't very accurate, for example, then it might have been a toy or an educational model.

the Antikythera mechanism was an ingenious device for predicting celestial events. Over the next decades, additional research led to a detailed working model that included the likely functions of ...

Since its discovery off the Greek island of Antikythera in ... that would arise from the mechanism's gears being spaced unevenly apart and included an accurate model of its triangle-shaped teeth ...

In 1901, researchers discovered what's now known as the Antikythera mechanism in a sunken shipwreck ... and one of 365 holes is not plausible, given our model assumptions," their paper reads.

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera ... comprehensive simulated model of the device. Whereas previously there had been some indications that the mechanism may not have been ...

It wasn’t until 2006 that the Antikythera ... the back (model shown) is for eclipses. Losmi Chobi / AP Images Experts have been working to decipher inscriptions hidden inside the mechanism ...

Image The back of an early model of the Antikythera mechanism at the National Archaeological ... of destiny” in the latest Indiana Jones movie. For decades, researchers have viewed the calendar ...

The inspiration for the titular device in last year's blockbuster, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, was an actual archaeological artifact: the Antikythera mechanism, a 2,200-year-old bronze ...

Here’s how it works. The 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that carried the Antikythera Mechanism — a precise mechanical model of the sun, moon and planets — is giving up new treasures ...