The History of the Antikythera Mechanism

Ancient Mechanism with gears aproximately 2000 years old...

send Send to a friend
Login to rate this video.

You can place this video on your website by inserting the (X)HTML code below:

Options:
pixels
pixels
Embed code: 
<iframe src="https://www.snotr.com/embed/5929" width="400" height="330" frameborder="0"></iframe>

You can email this video to your friends by entering their addresses below:

Your information:
Recipients:

add Add another recipient

Human verification:

People who liked this video also liked

1087 Days in Just 15 Minutes - Growing Plant Time Lapse COMPILATION
Colored balls elevator. Particle fluid. Music. Molecular Script. Video 4K
2019 Tasmanian Tiger Photo
Budgie Balancing Trick
Margaret Thatcher Climbs Over A House
Birds & Squirrel Sharing Seeds

Comments

17 comments posted so far. Login to add a comment.

Expand all comments

Picture of mothali27 achievements

+47 1. mothali commented 13 years ago

I don't think we are the first civilized humans to exist.... I think human history could perhaps go back 100's of thousands of years >:)
Picture of gazh40 achievements

+43 2. gazh commented 13 years ago

nearly as amazing as the flux capacitor :D
Picture of Kendiana29 achievements

+39 3. Kendiana commented 13 years ago

WOW!!! The first known computer. Very fascinating indeed. Next up, Al Gore providing the internet for us all to enjoy.
Picture of Thunderknight32 achievements

+42 4. Thunderknight commented 13 years ago

One very advanced piece of mechanery. :O The reverse engineering is amazing. :D
Not a chance that one can bodge up a piece like this in a hurry. :P
*taking of my hat and making a deep bow*
Picture of mwak48 achievements

+33 5. mwak commented 13 years ago

Wow ! someone knows from which documentary this video was takken ?
Picture of favas23 achievements

+35 6. favas commented 13 years ago

#1 u might have a point on that.too many unexplained things
Picture of Reaperdaddy39 achievements

+35 7. Reaperdaddy commented 13 years ago

i think it was brought in the past by the same person that we see in this charlie chaplin movie holding a mobile phone ;)
Picture of xamerremax19 achievements

+29 8. xamerremax commented 13 years ago

great respect to ancient people.
Picture of freeyourmind18 achievements

+25 9. freeyourmind commented 13 years ago

awesome vid. lost knowledge?
Picture of BarraMacAnna29 achievements

+26 10. BarraMacAnna commented 13 years ago

I was in that museum, although I was drunk on Oizo.. that's really interesting! At the time, all i was thinking was "I just want to go back to the bar"..Ah well thanks to Snotr!
Picture of prankphonecall44 achievements

+12 11. prankphonecall commented 13 years ago

What's the go with all the thumbs up...? Never seen so many - Top 10 comments with 184 Thumbs Up at an average of 18.4.

Have people on SNOTR started playing nice?

Cool device.
Picture of dragonon38 achievements

+33 12. dragonon commented 13 years ago

#11, coz the top 10 express all we have to ask and tell...!
Picture of Eddie8747 achievements

+10 13. Eddie87 commented 13 years ago

night at the museum >:)
Picture of ringmaster54 achievements

+28 14. ringmaster commented 13 years ago

What a coincidence these two videos follow each others. The majority of the human race must have slept for some 1500 years.
Picture of mothali27 achievements

0 15. mothali commented 13 years ago

#14 I like to think of it as pupating.......
Picture of c2quad30 achievements

+2 16. c2quad commented 13 years ago

It is not shocking at all, The people before us also had an organ named Brain
Picture of makbeth36 achievements

+1 17. makbeth commented 13 years ago

The greeks of course were marvelous thinkers. They invented hoplites and phalanx warefare when the norm was to frantically charge. Possibly the first sign of an organised military tactic. They are also credited with coined currency, central heating, thermometers, the study of science and the alphabet.
The most interesting thing is the way that the gears resemble current technology. Though they would have had an understanding of geometry, its strange that they would use a similar implementation to modern mechanisms.

Also, how was it powered?