More information: Esteban Guillermo Szigety y Gustavo Francisco Arenas, The Impact of Triangular-Toothed Gears on the Functionality of the Antikythera Mechanism, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.

Credit: Guillermo Carvajal / labrujulaverde.com The Antikythera Mechanism is a complex system of bronze gears that functioned like an astronomical clock. Although only fragments remain, previous ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient shoebox-sized device ... "It was a mechanical computer of bronze gears that used ground-breaking technology to make astronomical predictions, by mechanizing ...

It consists of a hand crank with multiple interlocking gears and triangle-shaped teeth. The Antikythera mechanism was built around 2,200 years ago. It was found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the ...

But then the brick cracked open, revealing a set of tiny precision gears. Thus began the unraveling of the mystery of the Antikythera mechanism. What was the purpose of these tiny gears?

The Antikythera mechanism, found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera in 1901, was created around 2,200 years ago. The device, which contains bronze gears, has sometimes been ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient mechanical analog ... The device uses a differential gear, previously believed to have been invented in the 16th century, and is remarkable for the level ...

Over the past two decades researchers have been analyzing this component to calculate how well the Antikythera mechanism functioned. Two major problems with the gear train have emerged.

The Antikythera mechanism was similar in size to a mantel ... it modeled epicycles with trains of small gears riding around larger ones. Though some experts have dismissed this as beyond the ...

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analog device ... The mechanism is composed of a complex system of bronze gears and dials housed in a wooden case. It has 30 gears, which is an ...

Unfortunately, the Antikythera Mechanism spent more than two millennia buried at the bottom of the sea, and an unknown amount of time functioning before that. Its gears are highly corroded ...