Mechanical engineering in antiquity

rotting bones · Post by **rotting bones** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 2:52 pm

Is there an Almean equivalent of the Antikythera mechanism? (any place and any time before modernity will suffice; Skouras, maybe?)

Post by **zompist** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 3:08 pm

Skouras was definitely the place for such things— see the Almeopedia article on Steam for a few examples. The Skourenes had weight-based clocks, looms with foot pedals, windmills, and spinning machines, so they were the most advanced with machinery in the ancient world.

rotting bones · Post by **rotting bones** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:45 pm

Thanks! Any info about the history of computation on Almea?

Sorry if I'm asking too many annoying questions.