In the latest Indiana Jones, the “Dial Of Destiny”, Indy is chasing a device called the Antikythera.
As it turns out, fiction is inpired by reality…
The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism).
Have a look at the BBC video that explains how ahead of its time it was and how experts managed to understand its secrets.
The Antikythera today:
A recreation of the Antikythera:
