The Dial of Destiny is Actually a Real Device Image via Lucasfilm The artifact Indiana Jones is tracking this time around is the Antikythera, a device created during the age of the Roman Empire by Greek mathematician Archimedes. In Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Dr. Voller finds ...
The tradition of making such mechanisms could be much older. Cicero wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. AndJames Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, thinks that the eclipse cycle represented is Babylonian in...
The US has found that the only real growth area is in intangibke information it’s this that is behind the likes of TTIP and other Obama initiatives to tie the world up in a way that gives an advantage to the US in this area (see US Patent system, and Interstate Dispute Resolution c...