18 Jun
2009
18 Jun
'09
12:50 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
The Antikythera mechanism would seem a pertinent
example of that. If people had
attempted to dismantle it back when it was discovered, rather than leaving it
alone, I think it unlikely we would have learned what we have since, through
the modern nuclear-imaging techniques that have been applied to it.
I beg to differ, in that I suspect the corrosion could have been reversed
using electric methods. Ben.