Exhibits ARchives | Kotsanas Museum

The mobile automaton of Heron of Alexandria (1st c. A.D.)- The self-navigating car-puppet theatre of the ancient Greeks

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A precise reconstruction of Heron's mobile automatic
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The automatic tripods of Hephaestus

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They were programmed automotive tripods which, according
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The hydraulic telegraph of Aeneas (4th c. B.C.) – The first telecommunication device worldwide

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It was an ingenious method through which
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Fire signals and beacons (2nd c. B.C.) – The first coded letter by letter telegraphy

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It was an ingenious method for visual
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The “acoustic telegraph” (4th c. B.C.)

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It consisted of a giant circularly folded
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Introduction

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Telecommunication, as history has proven, determines not

The diptych waxed plates (~10th c. B.C.)

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They were wooden plates with their inner
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Aeneas’ cryptographic disc (4th c. B.C.)

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It was a disc with 24 holes
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The cryptographic (Laconian) relay (5th c. B.C.)

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It was a thin band (3 mm)
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Introduction

The first cryptographic method recorded in history