The Ekkyklema and the Exostra
- KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Robotics
- computing mechanisms
- Automation & Programming
- Telecommunication
- CRYPTOGRAPHY
- astronomy
- AUTOMOTION & AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION
- Steam mobility
- Jet Propulsion
- RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY
- “PNEUMATIC” AUTOMATA
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
- TOOLS & MACHINES
- GEODESY & CARTOGRAPHY
- timekeeping
- Gadgets
- HOISTING MACHINES
- MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
- ATHLETIC TECHNOLOGY
- Strategy & showing games
- MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
- HYDRAULIC TECHNOLOGY
- NAVAL TECHNOLOGY
- TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
- AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
- The Measurements of Man
- PULLING MACHINES
- KINEMATIC MECHANISMS
- WIND & HYDRAULIC ENERGY
- MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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They were two mechanisms that were often confused by the ancient writers. The “ekkyklima” was a low wheeled vehicle for transporting the dead, objects etc. on stage. The “exostra” was a low rotating (around an axle) platform of half-circular form for the rapid appearance and change of the interior scene, precursor of modern rotating stages on a wagon. SOURCES: “Pollax Julius, Onomastikon”, “Hesychius the Lexicographer, Lexicon”