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NN5I
04-19-2014, 09:40 AM
OK, guys, what's this? First pic is front panel, then rear panel.

24 hour rule.

NN5I
04-19-2014, 05:24 PM
Hint: it took 100 years of analysis to figure out what it is, and it's more than 2000 years old. The photos are computer regenerations of what it once looked like.

NN5I
04-21-2014, 06:22 AM
I guess this'n was boring. Oh, well. It is the oldest complex mechanism ever found, called the Antikythera Mechanism after the Greek island near which it was found.

Here's a link: Antikythera Mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism)

Radio
04-22-2014, 10:47 AM
I've been gone a few days with Easter stuff going on, but if I were to guess I'd say it was a computer to calculate the positions of planets in the sky.

Now I'll have a peek to see if I'm right. :)