If you've used a vending machine lately, you've probably noticed that they're pretty high-tech now, but this invention was ...

Discovered in a Mediterranean shipwreck in 1901, the Antikythera Mechanism stunned historians with its intricate system of interlocking bronze gears dating back to around 100 BC. X-ray imaging later ...

More than 2,000 years ago, Greek artisans built a compact machine of interlocking gears that could track the heavens with a precision that still unsettles modern engineers. The corroded fragments of ...

Ancient Greek thinker Archytas built one of the first flying machines long before Leonardo da Vinci sketched his own and drones soared.

CARBONDALE — Ancient Romans and Greeks used many machines to build their societies. Students and faculty will demonstrate a working replica of one of these machines — a chain-type contraption that ...