antikythera mechanism

These user-created lists contain the word ‘antikythera mechanism’.

• Public List: Calculating Devices

  Some interesting pre-electronic number crunchers.

  difference engine, lebombo bone, ishango bone, abacus, antikythera mecha..., napier's bones, calculating clock, pascaline, stepped reckoner, jacquard loom, arithmometer, arithmetique and 11 more...

• Summer Olympics - Beijing 2008

  All things to do with the modern Summer Olympics

  free tibet, flame, torch relay, host city, five rings, medal, delegate, official, athlete, team, contingent, sport and 72 more...

• Potpourri

  eponymous, aa, pulchritude, gizmo, macabre, sui generis, solecism, solipsism, eldritch, samizdat, queue, obsequious and 469 more...

• Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary

  Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.

  adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...

• In the News

  johnstown flood tax, beige plague, antikythera mecha..., hyena-like vandals, sticker of shame, wombat leave, dutchy, grease infractions, thread count sett..., inherent vice, biobigotry, tank plinking and 98 more...

• Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer

  Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.

  phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...

• Daydream Believer

  Concepts that are just fun to think about. I could spend hours musing over this stuff, but I'm just weird that way.

  time travel, butterfly effect, brain in a vat, solipsism, cryonics, rube goldberg, cloning, teleportation, antikythera mecha..., mind transfer, robot rights, quantum computing and 15 more...