Was the Antikythera Mechanism just a toy? Find out what a recent study by the University of Mar del Plata really shows.

[Nguyen Duc Thang]’s epic 2100 Animated Mechanical Mechanisms is one of the best YouTube channels we’ve ever seen. A retired mechanical engineer, [Nguyen Duc Thang] has taken on an immense ...

Or to put in more simple terms, how to make a functioning toy blaster gun small enough ... but also the spring mechanism that stores the mechanical energy and the trigger mechanism.

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

The mysterious Antikythera Mechanism is 2,000 years old and has long puzzled scientists. New research into its triangle-shaped teeth may finally reveal its intended purpose.

The Antikythera Mechanism is a bronze gear mechanism from ancient Greece that was discovered in a sunken ship near the Mediterranean island of Antikythera in 1901. New research suggests that the ...

One of the more obscure toys of the ‘80s was a line of digital watches from Japan’s Takara called the Kronoform that could ...

One possibility is that the Antikythera Mechanism was a fancy toy that was never intended ... to reset it after a few turns — much like a mechanical watch whose mainspring must be occasionally ...

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