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by MWil 1114 days ago
While the Antikythera mechanism (earliest known computer) is housed at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, there is a smaller museum in Athens called the Museum of Ancient Greek Technology, with replicas of the mechanism as well as various greek inventions over the millenia that I knew little to nothing about prior. Lots of times I thought "they never taught me that in any class..."

Highly recommend you add a visit during the busy periods of the more well known tourist attractions in Athens. The personal guide was very engaging, very informative, and I think it was like 5 bucks per person.

http://kotsanas.com/gb/index.php https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

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Dr Nick Andronis' replica is currently on display at the WA Museum in Perth, Australia. https://visit.museum.wa.gov.au/boolabardip/reconstructing-an...
I haven't kept up with the channel lately, but Clickspring on YouTube has been building a replica.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA

thank you for sharing, the few i've had time to watch were very entertaining. would you have time to share anything else in the same area, broadly
Not knowing exactly the limits of broad, I'd say that the content that gets posted here is in the same genre:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ArtisanVideos/

A couple of top picks would be

Project Binky - Retrofitting the drive train from a Toyota Celica GT4 into an Austin Mini:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGSOZAHg1yQHU1tc_3Y5M...

Rebuilding a 1910 English sailing yacht called Tally Ho:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB00JHoTw1TeX82Qw8hoF...

Thanks!