[time-nuts] Greek clocks - planets rather than seconds

[Hal Murray]

Michael Wright talking about the Antikythera
  http://www.the-eg.com/videos/michael-wright-antikythera-resurrector-eg8

The video is 1/2 hour.  I thought it was good.  He's a colorful speaker.

Anybody know how they made gears back then?  Or machinery in general?  What 
did they use for a file?  How did they make files?


The Computer History Museum is having an event:

May 13, 2015  10:30 AM
Secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism
  http://www.computerhistory.org/events/upcoming/

 In 1900, sponge divers off the coast of the tiny Greek island of Antikythera 
made an astonishing discovery: the wreck of an ancient Roman ship lay 200 
feet beneath the water, its dazzling cargo spread out over the ocean floor. 
Among the life-size statues and amphorae was an encrusted piece of metal, 
which after nearly a century of investigation, is finally revealing its 
secrets....


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