Inside, it was made of bronze gear wheels, and there was a big dial on the front ... about another device he said was constructed by Archimedes, the legendary mathematician and inventor.

The real-life “dial of destiny,” which is usually referred ... In Dial of Destiny, it is a foregone conclusion that the ancient polymath Archimedes, who lived in the original city of Syracuse ...

the titular dial of Archimedes known as the Antikythera. But was that device merely a Hollywood’s creation? Or was it based on an actual machine? The story of the real antique that inspired the ...

CHANG: Tony Freeth of University College London is an expert on the real device ... wanted to travel back to Archimedes' day, there was no need for a magic dial. FREETH: You need a DeLorean ...

Is the 'Dial of Destiny,' aka the Antikythera mechanism, real? The Antikythera mechanism ... that famed Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes created the Antikythera mechanism.

The movie refers to the dial, inspired by the real-life Antikythera mechanism, as the Dial of Archimedes, or Archimedes Dial. A central historical character in the film is Archimedes, who the film ...

One, Indy and Voller once duked it out over the mysterious Archimedes’s Dial. Two, Indy was besties ... The one singular moment of real audacity in the whole film is when the plane ferrying ...

In real life, that's when Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier. Things go differently for him in the movie, though, as it's revealed that he built the Dial specifically to bring help from the ...

Impressive, yes, but plainly not real. We sit there thinking ... so instead Indy leaves with the Archimedes Dial, or Antikythera, an ancient Greek device the Nazis believe can “predict fissures ...

One left-field choice is the Archimedes Dial (based on the real-life Antikythera mechanism) as this movie's prize MacGuffin, which lacks the cultural significance of the Ark of the Covenant or ...