Poor spacing between gear teeth could cause blockages, rendering the mechanism unfit for scientific use, simulations indicate ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an ...

Historians think the 2,000-year-old device was used to predict the positions of celestial bodies. A new digital simulation ...

The original mechanism involved 37 gear-wheels held together by a complex pin-and-slot system, the researchers report in the Nov. 30 Nature. One section of the instrument's gear systems predicted ...

The mechanism to do this is fascinating, consisting of a sector gear with racks on either side. The racks are alternately engaged by the sector gear, moving a PTFE filament guide tube back and ...

It took Andrew Carol 30 days to build a working model of the Antikythera Mechanism—the ancient Greek world's most ...