Ancient device: Found in 1901, a gear was soon discovered inside the mechanism (Image: GETTY) Trending. Following his investigation, Prof Freeth noted how the Antikythera has completely displaced ...

Indeed, the gear arrangements couldn’t be arbitrarily large, as the hypothesized components needed to fit inside the device, including spaces no larger than 25 millimeters deep.

Made towards the end of the second century BC, it contains 30 bronze gear wheels and many astronomical inscriptions. The mechanism is technically more complex than any known device for at least a ...

The Antikythera Mechanism, salvaged 100 years ago from an ancient shipwreck, was long known to be some sort of mechanical calendar. But modern analysis is only now revealing just how sophisticated ...

This 38-tooth gear drives (via some other gears) a 127-tooth gear (half of 254; the full number would require too large a gear). It seems that the device could be used to predict the positions of ...

Scientists are fascinated by a 2000-year-old device, called the Antikythera mechanism that is also known as "the first computer." BGR reports that the ancient astronomical calendar found in an ...

After a century of study, scientists have unlocked the secrets of a mysterious 2,100-year-old device, known as the Antikythera mechanism, ... Ancient device tracked sun, moon ...

Ancient device was used to predict Olympic dates. Science Editor, Steve Connor. Thursday 31 July 2008 00:00 BST. Comments. Your support helps us to tell the story. Read more. Support Now.