Antikythera Astronomical Device, the oldest calculator with multiple-functions, is driven by gear trains with five subsystems. The authors synthesized four feasible 1-DOF designs of the lost ...

Starting with the new Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute before moving onto the Antikythera itself, one of my favourite scientific mysteries. Antikythera program at the Berggruen Institute ...

The Antikythera mechanism was thought to have been used by the ancient Greeks to calculate the movements of the Sun, Moon, and other planets, as well as eclipses. Only a fragment of it survived, but ...

Vellum Wallpaper app is an iPhone exclusive, coming to Android soon. It not only presents you with a plethora of options for choosing your favorite background, but the manner in which wallpapers ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, once hailed as the world’s first computer, is once again at the center of debate among scientists and researchers. A recent study published in “arXiv” sheds new light on ...

New research adds a twist to the story of this famous device, suggesting the Antikythera Mechanism may never have worked as intended, that it was just a fancy knickknack. The triangular shape of ...

That device, once housed in a wooden case the size of a dictionary or shoe box, after surviving a tortuous path, became part of Western technological culture. Price described the differential gear of ...

The Antikythera Mechanism Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 2,000-year-old Greek astronomical computer, one of the most important discoveries in marine archaeology.

A speck of land between the islands of Kythera and Crete, Antikythera, like many rural regions in Greece, has suffered steady depopulation. When the last national census was held in 2021, it had ...

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 ...

The Antikythera mechanism is a multi-component device recovered from a shipwreck close to the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901. It is believed to be the remains of a complex mechanical calculator ...

Researchers think they've solved the 2,200-year-old mystery of the Antikythera mechanism. The ancient device, found in a shipwreck, likely followed a Greek lunar calendar.