As a Mechanical Engineer, I thought it would be a fun challenge to design and build my own gear-driven clock. Because clocks have obviously been invented, I wouldn’t be starting from scratch ...

Many have cranks, gears and axles, all also made of wood. It’s like you stepped back into the 1800s and you’re a steampunk apprentice. The best part is that while it’s a blast to put one of ...

But these machines were by no means the first calculators, and [What Will Makes] shows us in detail the workings of a mechanical calculator. His machine is beautifully made with gears hand-cut ...

These 82 bronze fragments of the original mechanism were found in a Roman shipwreck by sponge divers in 1900. Copyright of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project ...

The most sophisticated mechanical device of ancient ... What they found was a hunk of calcified bronze gears and other fragments, along with a decayed wooden box that had housed the mechanism.