A few months ago, we shared with you the Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,100 year old computer that was found at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Greece. The device was actually found in 1902, but only with the advent of modern imaging techniques have scientists finally been able to piece together its purpose and how it functioned.
Back in July, we reported that researchers had just decoded the heavily worn inscriptions that revealed the Antikythera Mechanism, which functioned as a complex calendar, tracking the movement of the planets, the phases of the moon and even the occurrence of the Olympic games. But it took an amateur, Michael Wright, a curator at a museum in London, to piece together how the machine actually worked.
Check out the video above to see how this complex collection of wheels and gears works to measure time and astronomical phenomenon such as eclipses.
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