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Reconstruction of the Tea-Serving Automaton in the Ancient Japanese Book “Karakuri Zui”
This research aims to trace back the historical origin of the ancient Japanese automaton tea-serving doll and clarify its operation method. By analyzing the original records in the book “Karakuri Zui”, the mec...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Exhibit of Industrial Robots Based on Concepts of Technology Education: Take “Smart Manufacturing Experience Zone” at National Science and Technology Museum as an Example
One of the museum’s missions is education. Based on the orientation of the National Science and Technology Museum, science and technology knowledge is essential. The exhibition of science and technology is the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Introduction to the Reconstruction Model of Antikythera Mechanism
Antikythera mechanism is known as the oldest astronomical calculator in ancient Greece. With the development of modern science and technology, the inscriptions, functions and exterior appearance are decoded fr...
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Amazing Discovery of Archaeology
In the year of 1900, an unscheduled diving work accidentally resulted in a startling discovery of archaeological research, the —Antikythera mechanism. This device survived in the ancient Greece and dates abou...
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Reconstruction Designs of the Moon Phase Display Device
There is a black-and-white ball over the front dial of the Antikythera device. This ball seems to be inlaid into a bronze disk. The device, including the disk and the ball, has been regarded as the moon phase ...
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Reconstruction Designs of the Planetary Subsystem
The planetary subsystem of Antikythera device can demonstrate completely the planetary pointers on the front zodiac dial, including Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Several studies, based on the conc...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Introduction to the Ancient Mechanical Wind-Instrument Automata
Mechanical music-playing automata have been made to play music or simulate animal sounds for several thousand years, the combined products of music and technology. This study introduces the musical elements an...
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Reconstruction Designs of the Calendrical Subsystem
Although a reasonable design of the calendrical subsystem by Freeth et al. [1–3] was presented, the weak surviving evidence cannot support this design completely. Indeed, only two gears, respectively, with 15 and...
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Assembly Work and Models
Chapters 6–9 introduce the reconstruction work of the incomplete calendrical subsystem, the lunar subsystem with the unexplained feature, ...
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A Sketch of Ancient Western Astronomy
Long time ago, the cyclic motions of the Sun, the Moon, and several moving heavenly bodies were found. Many attentions were paid to these astronomical phenomena for making careful observations and kee** reco...
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Reconstruction Design Methodology
Reconstruction of a lost ancient mechanism is a difficult task owing to its insufficient historical records (words or pictures) or excavations that were lost, incomplete, unclear, or damaged. Such a work is us...
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Reconstruction Designs of the Lunar Subsystem
The lunar subsystem is a special and complicated mechanism in the surviving evidence. Various reconstruction designs were presented in the past years. The decoding of this subsystem started from the discovery ...
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Ancient Astronomical Instruments
With the developments of ancient astronomy, ancient astronomical mechanical instruments were extensively used for measurements, computation, and demonstration. These instruments represented the combinational a...
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Modern Reconstruction Research
All decoded information of the Antikythera device has been studied through hard investigations for a long time. Scholars in the time of the discovery failed to explain how this device can be operated. It was r...
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Reconstruction Designs of the Solar Subsystem
This chapter targets the reconstruction work of the interior mechanism of the lost solar subsystem. The input sources of the lost structures are analyzed according to the surviving structure. The identificatio...
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Article
Decoding the moon phase display device over the front dial of the Antikythera mechanism
The Antikythera mechanism is the most famous ancient astronomical calculator. The damaged excavation is a critical constraint for decoding the mechanism completely. By the systematic reconstruction design meth...
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Pressureless sintered 3Y-TZP/20%Al2O3 composite ceramic
Nanometer 3Y-TZP/20%Al2O3 (mass fraction) composite powders prepared by the chemical coprecipitation method were pressureless sintered at 1550 °C for 2 h. Effects of calcining temperatures at 800 °C, 1 000 °C, an...
