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I always enjoy seeing news about the Antikythera Mechanism.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/12/scientists-move-closer-to-solving-mystery-of-antikythera-mechanism
It's still one of the most fascinating things ever found. I'm sure that many inventions like this were made. One reason for their lack of proliferation, apart from the obvious difficulty in making them, would have been that they were jealously guarded because they conveyed advantages, such as military or strategic ones, or simply advantages for trade, for instance in planning voyages.
Reconstructing it must be a completely absorbing task. I couldn't even imagine how to begin it.