The Antikythera Mechanism

[GnuBee]

thebraketester said:

Search YouTube for "click spring" guy on there is building one from scratch

Here's the link to his YouTube page - even if you're not into machining his discussion around how the mechanism was made is interesting and the production values of his videos are superb.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-Bn...

[Simpo Two]

This is pretty impressive for 2000 years ago:



You wonder what the Greeks might have invented if the Romans hadn't duffed them up. Internal combustion engine and flight by 500AD? Indeed Mars might be a Greek colony by now!

[Halb]

It probably goes back further than the Greeks.

[FourWheelDrift]

More found - http://www.nature.com/news/antikythera-shipwreck-y...

Bronze statue arm, more believed to be there and a bronze disc.