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021 - The Antikythera Mechanism and Shipwreck

No Dumb Questions

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What if This Device Is an Application?

i really wanted to know if it had involute curvature on the gears, but i couldn't find that in the amount of time i allocated to study this. But the really fascinating thing is that there's a crank. And the crank is just like the side of the box is lik o ye. Here's where you crank it. Now, what we don't know is we don't known what the inputs were to this device. A lot of people like o ye, you would just crank it to whatever latitude de you were and what the month and the day it was. Yes.

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