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That “impossible” Greek computer is real, and its secrets keep spilling out
The Antikythera mechanism has long been treated as a one-off marvel, a relic so far ahead of its time that some doubted ...
More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...
In 1901, divers recovered a shoebox-size, gear-filled box from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Ever since, the enigmatic box—known as the Antikythera Mechanism—has ...
New research suggests that a “primitive lifting machine” was in use around 150 years prior to the appearance of cranes 2,500 years ago. This early lifting machine was capable of lifting ashlar blocks ...
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