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[remcook]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6191462.stm

Writing in Nature, the team says that the mechanism was "technically more complex than any known device for at least a millennium afterwards".

 

[Astronuc]

Hand cut bronze no less.  It would be great to find the documentation concerning its construction and how they picked the gear sizes and positions.

I like quote of Mike Edmunds, Cardiff University, "When you see it your jaw just drops and you think, 'bloody hell that's clever'."  Spoken like a true British scientist. 

[Orstio]

This really is an amazing discovery.  Hopefully there is enough left of it to recreate a working mock-up.

[vishniac]

There is a documentary about it I watched on "Planete" (the French-speaking Discovery Channel). It was one of 3 in a cycle called "Great discoveries of Ancient Times", the 2 others were medicals and warfare weapons (geeez, these Romans were crazy: talk about war machine!)

Impressive indeed!