Ah, the good ol' Greek Clockwork Calculator, stock filler piece for 1970s "Believe or Not" type shows narrated by Leonard Nimoy and Arthur C. Clarke. People used to say it was a hoax, because they'd always talk about it at the same time as the Crystal Skull (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_skull#Mitchell-Hedges_skull), but I'm willing to bed the Greeks had a bunch of these calculator things.
"I'm willing to bet the Greeks had a bunch of these calculator things."
Maybe, maybe not. This might have been the first one of its kind, lost in a storm. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more of these, but I think it's more likely that it was either being taken to a buyer, and that the money from the sale would have financed the second through fourth of these.
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Date: 2006-12-04 05:59 pm (UTC)Maybe, maybe not. This might have been the first one of its kind, lost in a storm. I wouldn't be surprised if there were more of these, but I think it's more likely that it was either being taken to a buyer, and that the money from the sale would have financed the second through fourth of these.