TY - GEN
T1 - Historical development of reconstruction designs of Antikythera mechanism
AU - Lin, Jian Liang
AU - Yan, Hong Sen
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greece machine excavated in 1900. The damaged remains and ingenious mechanical structure resulted in man's thirst to decode this mechanism. This paper reviews the historical development regarding reconstruction designs of Antikythera mechanism. The origin, the recovering process and the related historical records are introduced first. Available reconstruction designs, which are classified into the orientation of mechanism, the decoding of modern technology including the appearance, the functions of the exterior dials and the interior structure, other research and the authors' work are presented. Then, based on the viewpoint of mechanisms, the mechanism analysis of one feasible reconstruction design with the complete interior structure, by the authors, is presented. This new design to generate all known output functions also provides a possible embryo of Antikythera mechanism.
AB - Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greece machine excavated in 1900. The damaged remains and ingenious mechanical structure resulted in man's thirst to decode this mechanism. This paper reviews the historical development regarding reconstruction designs of Antikythera mechanism. The origin, the recovering process and the related historical records are introduced first. Available reconstruction designs, which are classified into the orientation of mechanism, the decoding of modern technology including the appearance, the functions of the exterior dials and the interior structure, other research and the authors' work are presented. Then, based on the viewpoint of mechanisms, the mechanism analysis of one feasible reconstruction design with the complete interior structure, by the authors, is presented. This new design to generate all known output functions also provides a possible embryo of Antikythera mechanism.
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U2 - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.163.1
DO - 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.163.1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860138145
SN - 9783037854013
T3 - Applied Mechanics and Materials
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - History of Mechanical Technology and Mechanical Design 2012
T2 - 9th International Conference on History of Mechanical Technology and Mechanical Design, ICHMTMD 2012
Y2 - 23 March 2012 through 25 March 2012
ER -