Antikythera Mechanism

[sputnick21]

THIS SONG is over use in youtube......make all more drammatic LOL

[ELLIVIOSS]

it still is not built correct. in 1911 germany finished a working model with a fanning system for greece. it was labeled pre-historic computer and is suppose to have 3300 letter inscriptions on it and also work at the speed of attleast 500rpm

[SidarthurSoluna]

You need to understand that the concept of this Antikythera Mechanism device being inspired by advanced alien UFO technology is completely overruled by narrow-minded science. So, no matter what conclusion they may come to it was most definitely NOT inspired by advanced UFO aliens. Thus their evaluation of the device is EXTREMELY prejudiced. That is a very important factor to consider in their evaluation of the device.

[babybearkill]

For the idiots!!!

Precision complex gearing was not believed to exist at this time in this level . taken into consideration the astronomical research that took centuries to compile then translating it into a working representation of the Greek universe was an enormous challenge. i would suggest not looking at this with such simplistic eyes.

[monkey10bobby]

a computer is a machine that manipulates data according to the set of instructions

your were sooo right all it does is tell data according to its own set of limited  instructions

[MrGibbleChip]

it wasn't a computer it was a complex calender/clock thingy, not a computer, get it right

[randysuchy]

dumb ass, a computer computes something... a calculator computes numbers.... an astrolabe computes astronomical body's positions... hence it is a COMPUTER (with no usb)

[nyxta21]

Ελλαδαρα ρεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεεε

[Nereka123]

What is this music?! It is so goddamn familiar...

[333BusterBlock]

@Nereka123 the song is requiem for a dream

[koloevreoi]

anakataskevastike prosfata apo ton mathimatiko Kriara...

[vagpaps]

Greece should have not displayed this Antikythera Mechanism to the world and keept it a secret

[asd399der1]

Ellhniko myalo.. Kataplhktikoi oi episthmones ths epoxhs. Oxi san ta axyra pou exoun sto kefali tous oi politikoi ths xwras mas..

[nixter888]

There is more technology in GREECE!!HIDDEN FROM THE WORLD!!!EVERYTHING, LITTLE BY LITTLE, COMES TO LIFE!!!Megalh einai h doksa ths ELLADOS!

[BVargas78]

We meet again Nixter, hehe we've had our arguments on another page but i agree with you here, the antikythera mechanism is by no means the only mechanism made by the greeks. pappus of alexandria is said to have had a book on how to make them which was lost, other than a few fragments and references to the book by other greek (and roman) authors. Archimedes is also said to have made a particularly impressive mechanical planetarium.

[nixter888]

This is not the only one!!!The secret technology lies inside of the mountains of Asterousia CRETE!!IF YOU ONLY KNEW!!!

[BVargas78]

yeah, the greeks learned a lot from Egypt, especially in the areas of maths and architecture. The greek-egyptian connection goes back as far as the myceneans and minoans.

[nixter888]

First widespread amalgamation of geographical maps developed by Anaximander,600 b.c.

ca. 600 BC The 6 to 8.5 km long Diolkos represented a rudimentary form of railway.

[nixter888]

6th c. BC Earliest example found in the Giglio wreck near the Italian coast. The wooden piece already featured one fixed and a movable jaw.

[nixter888]

ca. 5th c. BC The tumbler lock, as well as other varieties, was introduced to Greece in the 5th century BC.

Gears ca. 5th c. BC Developed further than in prehistoric times for a variety of practical purposes.

[nixter888]

Plumbing ca. 5th c. BC Excavations at Olympus as well as Athens have revealed extensive plumbing systems for baths and fountains as well as for personal use.

4th c. BC A shower room for female athletes with plumbed-in water is depicted on an Athenian vase. A whole complex of shower-baths was also found in a 2nd century BC gymnasium at Pergamum.

[nixter888]

heating ca. 350 BC Great Temple of Ephesus was warmed by heated air that was circulated through flues laid in the floor.

ca. 3rd c. BC The Lighthouse of Alexandria was designed by Sostratus of Cnidus.

[nixter888]

BC The use of water power was pioneered by the Greeks: The earliest mention of a water mill in history occurs in Philo's Pneumatics, previously been regarded as a later Arabic interpolation, but according to recent research to be of authentic Greek origin.

[nixter888]

3rd c. BC The inventor Philo of Byzantium (280-220 BC) described an eight-sided ink pot with an opening on each side, which can be turned so that any face is on top, dip in a pen and ink it-yet the ink never runs out through the holes of the sid

[nixter888]

Dry dock ca. 200 BC Invented in Ptolemaic Egypt some time after the death of Ptolemy IV Philopator (reigned 221-204 BC) as recorded by Athenaeus of Naucratis.

[nixter888]

ca. 2nd c. BC Ctesibius and various other Greeks of Alexandria of the period developed and put to practical use various air and water pumps which served a variety of purposes, such as a water organ.

[nixter888]

a. 1st c. BC Hero of Alexandria, a first century BC Greek inventor from Alexandria, Egypt, created automatic doors for a temple with the aid of steam power.

[nixter888]

50 BC The Tower of the Winds on the Roman agora in Athens featured atop a wind vane in the form of a bronze Triton holding a rod in his outstretched hand rotating to the wind blowing.

[nixter888]

50 BC Apart from a wind vane the Tower of the Winds also featured eight sundials arranged around the top of the polygonal structure.

[nixter888]

Who said that the robots, the automatic doors and the locomotive are technological advances of the second millennium? Definitely not! The pieces of information that keep surfacing prove what has been, for some decades, common knowledge among researchers: in Ancient Greece, people like Daedalus and Gods like Hephaestus developed techniques and operated inventions that a lot of inventors of our days would have been prou

[nixter888]

Talos

The famous Talos (in the ancient Cretan dialect it means sun), was a fully operational robot, built by Hephaestus as a gift for Minos, King of Crete. Talos was made of copper and was huge. It protected Crete from her enemies and supervised the application of laws. It could move very fast and was capable of touring Crete 3 times in a single day (medium speed 250 km/h!)......

[nixter888]

It had the power to throw enormous rocks against his opponents or to burn them with his boiling hot breath! In this way it drove back the hostile boats, protecting the island.

[nixter888]

Heronas steam engine

Heronas of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician, engineer and inventor of the first century BC. He initially worked as shoemaker but he eventually decided to explore his ideas. He is better known as an engineer for his hydraulic mechanisms, simple machines and automations, but he was also an important mathematician of his time.

[nixter888]

Some messages must be sent with adequate security and PGP was not available then.

So they had to use other methods to achieve it. Some of them seem very simple today but other methods remain unbreakable! In ancient Sparta a message was written on a thin ribbon of leather winded around a cylinder. Then the cylinder was removed and the ribbon was sent to a person who had an identical cylinder.

[nixter888]

Stenography was also used and could be read from anyone who knew the code but I don't know if it can be classified as cryptography. A type of stenography was used also in communications in order to transfer shorter messages.

[nixter888]

Democritus describing the structure of the matter came to the conclusion that the smallest element was the atom. Atom in Greek means that it can't be cut, or divided more. Describing the centre of the atom named it 'pirin'. The meaning in Greek comes from two words pyr (fire) and ein (is)! He found a very interesting way to describe what could be found inside the atom if anyone dares to divide it!

[nixter888]

The colours that we can see on many ancient paintings have unfading colours. Today we can't make it as good. (Remember how many old red cars you have seen with fading spots...) The wall paintings at Thyra Greece are a good example for imitation!

[nixter888]

The black shining surface of the vessels found at the Minoan Crete has a well-kept secret of how this colour could be achieved. Some of these vessels are named 'egg shelled' because the thickness of them was only one millimetre!

[nixter888]

Many ancient Greeks knew the fact that the earth has a spherical shape. They not only knew the correct shape but hey had also calculated the periphery around the earth.ORPHEUS THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO,ALSO Eratosthenes proved with experiment the statement of Aristotle about the spherical shape of earth.

[nixter888]

Daedalus was said to have made movable statues working with mercury in order to guard the Labyrinth. He also constructed movable wooden little dolls for the children of king Minos. He is probably the inventor of the wedge, the axe and the spirit level. Some Egyptian manuscripts mention a person like him to have been involved in some Egyptian designs, too.

[nixter888]

Archytas construct a flying machine at 425 B.C. He was a mathematician from Taranto that managed to make a little mechanical pigeon fly for a while. He constructed a very low weight pigeon and under it he used a balloon filled with air. As the air was blowing out of a little hole the pigeon could fly for almost 200 metres!

Can you imagine what he used instead of a rubber balloon? The cyst of a pig!

[nixter888]

Another very mysterious text that is said to have been written by him is a description of a travel around the earth in an airtight closed ball! What kind of unidentified flying object was that?! What did Archytas know and we haven't managed to find yet?