A gear train using the 63-tooth gear could be designed to match a bearing on one of the spokes of the main drive wheel. A similar design for Mercury matches the features on the opposite spoke.

"In a single machine, the designer tried to put all the knowledge he had about astronomical phenomena." The 30-odd bronze gears and 2,000 inscribed Greek characters in the Antikythera Mechanism helped ...

Scientists have finally demystified the incredible workings of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator built by ancient Greeks. A new analysis of the Antikythera Mechanism, a clock-like machine ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator, holds the title of the world's earliest known analog computer. A new study by the UCL Antikythera Research Team, published in ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a unique Greek geared device, constructed around the end of the second century bc.It is known 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 that it calculated and displayed celestial information ...

CreepyWorld. The First Computer – The Secrets of this Ancient Greek Machine Are Now Revealed. Posted: January 29, 2025 | Last updated: January 29, 2025 ...

Two thousand years ago, a Greek mechanic created a machine that predicted the motions of the celestial bodies. The device, pulled up from a shipwreck in 1901, became known as the Antikythera Mechanism ...

A Greek shipwreck holds the remains of an intricate bronze machine that turns out to be the world's first computer. (This program is no longer available for streaming.) In 1900, a storm blew a ...