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Building The World's First Computer - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets - Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1

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Chris from Clickspring introduces his project to reconstruct the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism, the world's first known analog computer, using traditional methods.

The #Antikythera Mechanism Episode 1 - Greeks, Clocks and Rockets, by Clickspring. In this first episode of the Antikythera Mechanism project, I lay out the plan for how I intend to proceed with the reproduction. Join YouTube Channel Memberships here: youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA/join Become a Clickspring Patron here: patreon.com/clickspring/membership ________________________________________________________ A very special thank you to Patrons: Mitchell Collins Sinking Valley Woodworks (sinkingvalleywoodworks.com) Florian Ragwitz Matthew Middleton Daniel Cohen Larry Pardi Sean Kuyper Samuel Irons Dan Keen ________________________________________________________ You can also help me make these videos by purchasing via the following Amazon Affiliate links: Cameras: Panasonic GH5 - amzn.to/2rEzhh2 Panasonic X920 - amzn.to/2wzxxdT Tools & Shop Products: "Solidworks 2013 Bible": amzn.to/2FObS1D "Gears From The Greeks", Derek de Solla Price: amzn.to/2pii4ZD "A Portable Cosmos: Revealing the Antikythera Mechanism, Scientific Wonder of the Ancient World" amzn.to/2NoLgIR Dykem 80300 Steel Blue Layout Fluid, Brush-in-Cap (4oz): amzn.to/2HGPaJJ Dormer A190202 Jobber Drill Set, 1.0 mm - 6.0 mm x 0.1 mm Size: amzn.to/2DR5fdb Dormer A190203 Jobber Drill Set, 6.0 mm - 10.0 mm x 0.1 mm Size: amzn.to/2ITfeTa YG1 NC Spotting Drill 8% Cobalt HSS 1/8 to 1/2" 120 Degree 5 Pc Set CNC Machine: amzn.to/2G7ylv6 Heavy Duty Arbor Press: amzn.to/2G4gog7 Other Videos to Watch: How To Make A Clock In The Home Machine Shop - Part 1 - Making The Frames: youtu.be/B8Y146v8HxE Abbreviated Transcript: In his famous research paper "Gears From The Greeks" historian Derek De Solla Price put forward a stunning theory regarding the device known as the Antikythera Mechanism. That the origins of our modern day engineering achievements, what he called our "recent age of High Technology", could be found in this ancient device. He theorised that the profession of clock and instrument making had acted as a silent "carrier" of a larger, and much older technology tradition. Clockmakers, he said, had played a crucial role in the emergence of our modern world, and that the clockmaking tradition itself, was part of a distinguished main line of technology that could be directly traced all of the way back to the Antikythera Mechanism. The Ancient Greeks had written the original language of the mechanical engineer, and had left behind a record of it in this incredible device. A calculating machine, that used complex mathematics and precise engineering to model the Ancient Greek understanding of the Cosmos. The phase of the moon, retrograde motion of the planets, and even barely observable details like the precession of the lunar orbit, were all modelled according to Ancient Greek astronomical theory. Now I should point out t

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7 people recommend this

What people say. Highly recommended as a fascinating and meticulously detailed reconstruction of the ancient analog computer using period-accurate machining techniques.

btownon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Missing Piece of Antikythera Mechanism Found on Aegean Seabed”

Non-paywall link: link This reminds me of one of my favorite YouTube channels, Clickspring: an inspiring clockmaker and machinist who's currently documenting a full reproduction of the Antikythera Mechanism: link to this video . Highly recommend for anyone who is fascinated by the care that goes into handmade mechanical devices.

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If you want some archaeological engineering theories that aren't obviously wrong, I highly recommend this youtube series about how the Antikythera mechanism could have been made. link to this video It's the complete antithesis of this pig fat hogwash.

gus_massaon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Antikythera Mechanism Episode 11 – Inscribing the Back Plate – Part 1”

This is a new episode after more than a year. :) I highly recommend this serie of videos about building a reconstruction of the The Antikythera Mechanism with tool similar to the ancient tools. Warning: It's a huge time sink Complete playlist: link to this video

neatzeon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Scientists solve another piece of the puzzling Antikythera mechanism”

Any one interested, see Clickspring1, he actually attempts to use ancient tools and methods to build Antikythera Mechanism. 1 link to this video

mattbillensteinon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Scientists Have Unlocked the Secrets of the Ancient 'Antikythera Mechanism'”

A watchmaker has made a video series on youtube about reconstructing the mechanism using some traditional techniques: link to this video

wincyon Hacker News • Recommends

On “YouTube and Patreon Still Aren’t Paying the Rent for Most Creatives”

If deep domain knowledge paid off on Youtube people like Ben Eater would be a millionaire from Youtube at this point0, his videos are so cool and great at explaining computing. Or Clickspring, the guy who made the Antikythera Mechanism 1. But honestly even for me being a software engineer and someone who considers himself interested in this sort of stuff, I look at these pages sometimes out of wonder but I often end up watching comedy videos and stuff like that on Youtube. The algorithm recommends it, and I watch. 0 link 1 link to this video

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On “Earliest Carpenters: 476,000-year-old log structure discovered in Zambia”

In case anyone here hasn't seen it, I want to share this very cool youtube series of an Australian clock maker creating a replica of the Antikythera device using only tools believed to be available to the ancient Greeks: link to this video

u/mr_jim_laheyin r/compsci • Mentions

On “The Antikythera mechanism is a 2,000 year old analog computer.”

Fascinating Youtube series about trying to reconstruct it: link to this video

qohenon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Building a Computer in Jesus's Time”

Perhaps not exactly what you have in mind, but there is the Antikythera mechanism 01, the first known analog computer, dating back to about 100-200 BCE which exhibits gear-work that one doesn't see for another 1500 years or so. The device calculates the phases of the moon and the motion of the known planets and more for any date over a 76 year cycle. It takes into account the retrograde motion of Mars, can calculate the dates of eclipses, etc. There are videos on YouTube showing how it is supposed to have worked, e.g. 2. 0 link 1 link 2 link to this video

jdefeliceon Hacker News • Mentions

On “A Model of the Cosmos in the Ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism”

Clickspring has been recreating the Antikythera1 and findings2 went into a research paper.3 1 Playlist: link to this video 2 link 3 link

floxyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Antikythera mechanism – 254:19 ratio”

Does anyone know if Clickspring ever finished making a copy of the mechanism? Seems like the last update was from ~2 years ago. link to this video link