dc.contributor.advisor	Sullivan, Dennis
dc.contributor.author	Locke, John
dc.contributor.department	Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership (TLPL)	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2016-02-16T17:23:27Z
dc.date.available	2016-02-16T17:23:27Z
dc.date.issued	2016-02-15
dc.description.abstract	Discovered in 1900 in an ancient Greek shipwreck, the Antikythera mechanism was supposedly capable of tracking the solar, lunar, eclipse, constellation, and planetary orbital calendars, in addition to the major athletic games in Greece (such as the Olympics). The device contained more than thirty gears that controlled all of these functions, and is considered to be the world's first functioning computer. One of the most complex and fascinating artifacts recovered to date from the ancient world, the Antikythera is simultaneously one of the most continuously studied and the most enigmatic devices ever to be constructed. The device was truly ahead of its time, and proves that the Greeks were capable of a technological prowess not witnessed again until the end of the Medieval Ages, nearly one and a half millennia after its invention.	en_US
dc.identifier	https://doi.org/10.13016/M2D72J
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1903/17429
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
dc.relation.isAvailableAt	University of Maryland (College Park, Md)
dc.subject	Antikythera	en_US
dc.subject	Ancient Greece
dc.subject	Ancient Artifacts
dc.subject	Underwater Excavation
dc.subject	Orrery Devices
dc.subject	Solar Calendar
dc.subject	Lunar Calendar
dc.subject	Planetary Orbits
dc.subject	Constellations
dc.subject	Eclipses
dc.subject	Astronomy
dc.subject	Horology
dc.subject	Pan-Hellenic Games
dc.subject	Olympic Games
dc.title	The Antikythera Mechanism: Timepiece of the Ancient World	en_US
dc.type	Research Paper	en_US

The Antikythera Mechanism: Timepiece of the Ancient World

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