38080
Accession Number
2160
Title Of Article Chaper
Gears from the Greeks. The Antikythera mechanism - a calendar com-puter from ca. 80 B.C
Title Of Journal Book
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
Volume
64
Issue
7
Pages
25569
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The appendix contains the results of qualitative tests on a sample of patina from this mechanism by E.R. Caley and reports by C.S. Smith of the results of a spectrographic analysis and a metallographic examination of small fragments of metal. This was found to be a simple tin bronze that had been subjected to intensive cold work. The appendix also contains a note by C. Karakalos on the details of the procedure employed in studying the details of this mechanism by radiography. -- AATA
pub_id
38080