More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would not be matched for centuries. Hidden inside a corroded lump recovered from ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

In 1901, divers recovered a shoebox-size, gear-filled box from a 2,000-year-old shipwreck on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Ever since, the enigmatic box—known as the Antikythera Mechanism—has ...

Heron of Alexandria was an important ancient Greek inventor of mechanical devices whose inventions included the first steam ...

New research suggests that a “primitive lifting machine” was in use around 150 years prior to the appearance of cranes 2,500 years ago. This early lifting machine was capable of lifting ashlar blocks ...