Antikythera rebuilt and rebooted

The 2150 year old Antikythera mechanism is a strange clockwork of meshed cogs that was discovered over a century ago in the cargo of an ancient Greek shipwreck near the island of Antikythera. Jo Marchant's Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer is the story of the scientists and engineers who fell under its spell in the last century. It is, says one reviewer,"a gripping tale of scientific obsession, rivalry and skulduggery." Now, the mechanism has been reconstructed and its purposes interpreted by Michael Wright, a former curator at London's Science Museum. Here, Wright demonstrates his working model of the original:
James Randerson,"Antikythera: A 2,000-year-old Greek computer comes back to life," Guardian: Science Blog, 11 December; Jo Marchant,"Archimedes and the 2000-year-old computer," New Scientist, 12 December; Charlie Sorrel,"World's First Computer Rebuilt, Rebooted After 2,000 Years," Wired, 16 December; and John Cox,"Reproduction of 2,100-year-old calculator deepens mystery," Network World, 17 December.