Researchers simulated the device's ancient gear system to find out whether the contraption actually worked. Apparently, it did not.

and follows a decimal design in which the rotation of a gear with ten teeth represents the numbers 0 to 9. We’re taken through the mechanical processes behind addition, subtraction ...

A pair of physicists at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, in Argentina, have created a computer simulation of the famed ...

Mechanical devices can change one form of ... The driven gear has 60 teeth and the drive gear has 15 teeth. Gear ratio = 60 ÷ 15 = 4 For each rotation of the drive gear, the driven gear would ...

Crucially, unlike previous efforts to recreate the Mechanism, the researchers also included an accurate model of the ...