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.

Several technologies rely on storing massive amounts of mechanical energy to work ... It's like a slinky toy that never ...

Researchers from the National University of Mar del Plata in Argentina now theorize that it was more of a toy than a working computer ... is that the so-called Antikythera Mechanism functioned as a ...

[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 ...

Instead, it was essentially “just a toy prone to constant ... simulation showed that the mechanical errors Edmunds identified would have caused the Antikythera mechanism to fail.

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.