History’s Greatest Gadgets
It’s not all about circuits, silicon and stock options: mankind’s been making technology since the dawn of time. Here’s ten of the most wonderful gadgets from centuries—and millenia—past. No “ThyPhone” jokes, if you please!
It’s not all about circuits, silicon and stock options: mankind’s been making technology since the dawn of time. Here’s ten of the most wonderful gadgets from centuries—and millenia—past. No “ThyPhone” jokes, if you please!
Antikythera Personal
c. 1st Century B.C.
It took scientists a century—and the help of a $500,000 x-ray tomography system—to finally unravel the Antikythera Mechanism’s mysteries. Discovered in 1900 amid the remains of an ancient shipwreck, the device survived only as a heavily corroded mechanism and countless scattered lumps of metal. At first, it played second fiddle to the classical statues found alongside it. With the discovery that it contained a differential gear—thought to be an 18th-century
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