The gears are centrally connected to nested brass ... If you’re interested in exploring the Antikythera Mechanism further, here is Hackaday’s own in-depth look at it.

"Here the gears are enormous ... this is the only large-scale and functional one," he warned. The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in 1901 by sponge divers, pioneers of underwater archaeology ...

This artefact was among wreckage retrieved from a shipwreck off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in 1901. On 17 May 1902 it was identified as containing a gear by archaeologist Valerios Stais ...

Hidden behind the white face plates of this machine are racks of gears that make up a replica of one of the oldest known mechanical computers. This is a working model of the Antikythera mechanism ...

The Antikythera Mechanism is a mysterious ancient device used to calculate lunar cycles, planet motions, and more. Over 2,000-years-old, it was far more advanced than any other technology of its time.

That is, until it broke apart, revealing gear wheels the size of coins ... the ancient world,” as Freeth – who has studied the Antikythera mechanism for more than 20 years – stressed ...