Antikythera Mechanism

[RPMiller]

Oh sweet! That is pretty cool considering its age and the assumed technology of the time period. That would be awesome to find more stuff like that from that time period... assuming there was more.

[Midgardsormr]

There would almost have to be. A device like that is surely too complex to have been the first of its kind. I'm imagining some tortured clockwork genius locked away in a tiny room in Alexandria building intricate gear-driven machines.

And of course, there were the inventions Archimedes and Hero of Alexandria. Come to think of it, it wouldn't surprise me if Archimedes was responsible for the Antikythera device, at least in part.